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.

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 …

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.

Rep. Tom Reed apologizes for sexual misconduct detailed in Post report, won't challenge Cuomo in 2022  —  Two days after a former lobbyist accused him of sexual misconduct in a Washington Post report, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) on Sunday publicly apologized, vowed not to seek reelection and abandoned …

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘We all know hate when we see it’: Warnock rejects FBI chief's view of Atlanta shootings  — FBI director: ‘it does not appear motive was racially motivated’  —  Law enforcement officials including the director of the FBI have said the shootings in Atlanta in which eight people were killed …

SF couple who ran trendy poop-testing startup charged with fraud  —  Accused Atlanta gunman was a patient at evangelical treatment center...  Asian woman shoved to ground, robbed in daytime Bay Area attack  —  Cost to vaccinate Calif soars as counties refuse Blue Shield deal

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nawal El Saadawi: Feminist firebrand who dared to write dangerously  —  “They said, ‘You are a savage and dangerous woman.’  —  “I am speaking the truth.  And the truth is savage and dangerous.”  —  So wrote Nawal El Saadawi, who has died at the age of 89, according to Egyptian media reports.

‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Win at Writers Guild Awards 2021  —  “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” and “Promising Young Woman” took top narrative film honors on Sunday at the 73rd annual Writers Guild of America Awards.  —  Kal Penn hosted the virtual presentation that cemented …

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.

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 …

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.”

Florida's DeSantis positions himself as Trump's heir to the White House  —  Ron DeSantis wouldn't be governor of Florida without Donald Trump.  —  The then-president's endorsement in 2018 turned a young congressman into the runaway winner of a Republican primary that featured a far more seasoned establishment favorite, Adam Putnam.

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 …