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.

Scoop: Inside a crowded border patrol tent in Donna, Texas  —  Exclusive photos from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary overflow facility in Donna, Texas, reveal the crowded, makeshift conditions at the border as the government's longer-term child shelters and family detention centers fill up.

Anti-Tax Lobby Seeks to Purge Democracy Supporters From the Republican Party  —  The Club for Growth bills itself as “the leading free-enterprise advocacy group in the nation,” whose mission is to “exert maximum pressure on lawmakers to vote like free-market, limited government conservatives.”

The Real Reason Republicans Couldn't Kill Obamacare  —  Adapted from The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage, St. Martin's Press 2021.  —  The Affordable Care Act, the health-care law also known as Obamacare, turns 11 years old this week.

AZD1222 US Phase III trial met primary efficacy endpoint in preventing COVID-19 at interim analysis  —  79% vaccine efficacy at preventing symptomatic COVID-19  —  100% efficacy against severe or critical disease and hospitalisation  —  Comparable efficacy result across ethnicity and age,

Trump: Ending the filibuster would be ‘catastrophic’ for Republican Party  —  Former President Trump is warning Republicans that any effort to abolish the Senate filibuster would cause irreparable damage to the party.  —  During an interview on the podcast “The Truth with Lisa Boothe,” …

Supreme Court agrees to hear death penalty case against Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  —  WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a government appeal to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, granting review of a lower court's ruling …

The filibuster is Kentucky's veto.  It stops radical ambitions like Yarmuth's  —  Congressman John Yarmuth likes to pretend he knows me.  He talks to reporters and writes in these pages as if he's some sort of “McConnell-whisperer.”  That's a full day's drive from reality.

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Announces Sanctions on Relevant EU Entities and Personnel  —  The European Union (EU) imposed unilateral sanctions on relevant Chinese individuals and entity on March 22, citing the so-called human rights issues in Xinjiang.  This move, based on nothing but lies …

Trump looks to take down Raffensperger in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump on Monday endorsed Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year's Republican primary, saying that “unlike” the incumbent, “Jody leads out front with integrity.”

Stop Fueling Panic About China  —  In The Best and The Brightest, David Halberstam tells the story of a lunch between two Kennedy administration officials and the sociologist David Riesman in 1961.  The Kennedy men boasted that their administration was both escalating and regulating the cold war.

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

Survey Finds Republican Voters' Views On Democratic “Fragility” May Contribute to Rise in Radicalism Within Party-Increased Support of Anti-Democratic Attitudes/Policies.  —  Data Suggests Dark Days Ahead For American Democracy.  —  The closing months of the 2020 election and the fiasco …

‘He cut my underwear.  Then he did what he did’  —  Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) — Sergei stood on a small sheet of ice in the Dnieper River and breathed in the icy air hard.  He had escaped, but that relief was overwhelmed by both the pain of leaving his homeland and the fear he might not survive the rest of his perilous journey.

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 …

Trump predicted news ratings would 'tank if I'm not there.' He wasn't wrong.  —  Of all Donald Trump's prophecies and predictions — that Mexico would pay for a border wall, that coronavirus would spontaneously disappear, that he would be easily reelected — at least one wasn't entirely wrong.

Could an accident have caused COVID-19?  Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory shouldn't be dismissed  —  I have reported on safety lapses at elite U.S. labs.  There is no reason to believe they aren't happening at labs in other countries as well. … On a warm summer evening in July 2014 …

Colorado prepares to lift its COVID mask mandate  —  Colorado will lift its statewide mask mandate April 4 and ease coronavirus protocols even as experts say it's not yet safe to do so.  —  Driving the news: Gov. Jared Polis' administration released a draft plan that takes a two-pronged approach …

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 …

N.J. Will Pause Further Reopenings as Covid Case Counts Rise  —  New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy said the state will pause further rollbacks of pandemic restrictions as its case count surges to the highest in the nation.  —  Capacity at New Jersey's restaurants, gyms, salons …

How Biden quietly created a huge social program  —  Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) tapped out the longest text messages he'd ever written one night last January, urging Susan Rice, a top Biden aide and a friend, to include a full-scale anti-child poverty measure in the coronavirus rescue plan to be unveiled within days.