Evidence in Capitol Attack Most Likely Supports Sedition Charges, Prosecutor Says  —  “I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements,” said Michael Sherwin, who had led the Justice Department's inquiry into the riot.

Assaulting the Truth, Ron Johnson Helps Erode Confidence in Government  —  Pushing false theories on the virus, the vaccine and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Mr. Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin, has absorbed his party's transformation under Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is creating his own social media network that will go live in a few months  —  New York (CNN Business)Former President Donald Trump is coming back to social media — but this time with his own network, a Trump spokesperson told Fox News on Sunday.

iPresident Biden's ‘mistake’ at U.S. southern border isn't what clueless pundits, GOP think it is  —  As a political leader whose defining moment has been the mass shooting of 20 kindergartners and first graders in his home state in 2012, and his aggressive push for stricter gun laws ever since …

He Redefined ‘Racist.’ Now He's Trying to Build a Newsroom.  —  The author Ibram Kendi and The Boston Globe team up to cover racism, inspired by Boston's 19th century abolitionist newspapers.  —  BOSTON — Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman met last summer when their big Boston institutions …

Scoop: McCarthy hires top Trump official to run political operation  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has hired former President Trump's White House political director, Brian Jack, to lead his own political operation, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: The move to bring …

Rep. Tom Reed Says He Won't Run for Re-election in 2022  —  After allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct, the New York lawmaker said he wouldn't run for governor either  —  WASHINGTON— Rep. Tom Reed (R., N.Y.) said in a statement Sunday night he would not run for re-election or for governor in 2022 …

High-Income Tax Avoidance Far Larger Than Thought, New Paper Estimates  —  The very top sliver of high-income Americans may underreport their income at levels far beyond what was suggested by prior IRS research, according to a new paper  —  WASHINGTON—The top sliver of high-income Americans …

Senior Teen Vogue staffer who supported ouster of new editor used N-word in tweets a decade ago... so will her woke colleagues now turn on her?  — Christine Davitt wrote tweets in 2009 using the N-word in comments to a friend and other posts  — The Teen Vogue senior social media manager criticized …

Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World  —  Despite warnings, American and European officials gave up leverage that could have guaranteed access for billions of people.  That risks prolonging the pandemic.  —  In the coming days, a patent will finally be issued …

The Smearing of Kristen Clarke  —  Last Thursday evening, Tucker Carlson Tonight devoted another segment — at least its fifth since January — to the civil rights attorney Kristen Clarke, who has been nominated by Joe Biden to serve as assistant attorney general for civil rights.

China might be right about America.  But what are its leaders so afraid of?  —  In a testy exchange kicking off the first high-level talks between Chinese Communist officials and the Biden administration, China's delegation warned the United States not to go all high-and-mighty.

Covid-19 Vaccine Manufacturing in U.S. Races Ahead  —  Vaccine makers are expected to produce 132 million doses this month, nearly tripling last month's figure, boosting vaccination drive  —  Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are ramping up production, churning out far more doses a week …

The far right's global retreat  —  There's a long-standing habit among Americans of reading our own politics as a signal for where the whole democratic world is moving.  Sometimes it's justified.  Ronald Reagan's election was clearly part of a broad movement toward the free-market right in the 1980s.

AP sources: Iran threatens US Army base and top general  —  Iran has made threats against Fort McNair, an Army base in the nation's capital, and against the Army's vice chief of staff, two senior U.S. intelligence officials said.  —  They said communications intercepted by the National Security Agency …

The High Cost of Georgia's Restrictive Voting Bills  —  Racist policies are bad for business, as the state's own history can attest.  —  The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, which opened, to great fanfare, in June of 2014, is housed in an austere wood-fibre-and-glass structure in downtown Atlanta.

Some Schools Have Been Open for Months.  Here's What They Learned.  —  Principals favor air cleaners and lunchtime restrictions over deep cleaning and temperature checks; teachers likely are prime spreaders  —  Parents, cities and teachers in many places continue to wrangle over how to reopen their schools safely.

‘A nightmare scenario’: Extremists in police ranks spark growing concern after Capitol riot  —  Racially biased policing was already a concern.  Now, charges against officers in the Capitol riot inflame fears of extremists infiltrating law enforcement.  —  WASHINGTON - Charges against police officers …

Biden's global, muscular liberalism is an indefensible foreign policy in 2021  —  Opinion by Elbridge Colby … The central theme of President Biden's foreign policy is a global, muscular liberalism.  Ensuring that democracy “will and must prevail,” Biden told the Munich Security Conference, is “our galvanizing mission.”

Paris Mayor Signals She Wants to Be Left-Wing Candidate in 2022  —  Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she aims to rally left-wing allies to run against President Emmanuel Macron in the 2022 presidential election.  —  “I am laying the foundations of a movement that I want to gather people …

There's a five-alarm crisis on the border — and Team Biden imposes a media blackout  —  “Our entire administration will always be honest and transparent with the good news and the bad.  We'll level with you when we make a mistake.  We'll straight up say what happened.”

Covid cases are rising in 21 states as health officials warn against reopening too quickly  — Even as the pace of vaccinations accelerates in the U.S., Covid-19 cases are increasing in 21 states and highly infectious variants are spreading even as governors begin to relax restrictions on businesses.

How to Collect $1.4 Trillion in Unpaid Taxes  —  Wealthy Americans are concealing large amounts of income from the I.R.S. There is a straightforward corrective.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.