Biden makes Harris the point person on immigration issues amid border surge  —  Vice President Kamala Harris will be the White House's point person on immigration issues at the nation's southern border, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday, tasking her with stemming the rising tide of migrants …

Officer Brian Sicknick Died After the Capitol Riot.  New Videos Show How He Was Attacked. … New videos obtained by The New York Times show publicly for the first time how the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died after facing off with rioters on Jan. 6 was attacked with chemical spray.

Biden's New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly  —  President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.

Suez Canal Snarled by Giant Ship Choking Key Trade Route  — Oil prices rise on concern waterway could be blocked for days  — Incident has caused congestion for tankers, ships in the area  —  A giant ship could be stuck in the Suez Canal for days, blocking one of the world's busiest …

Manchin calls for ‘enormous’ infrastructure package paid for with new taxes  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin said Wednesday that he favors a large infrastructure package that would be paid for in part by raising tax revenues — a point of contention between the two parties.

Bad News Bias  —  The U.S. media is offering a different picture of Covid-19 from science journals or the international media, a study finds.  —  Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS.

POLITICO Playbook PM: The public option and the push for earmarks: Nuggets from our latest poll  —  A few interesting nuggets from our latest POLITICO/Morning Consult poll out today:  — Support for a health public option is very high: 68% of respondents said they strongly …

Hundreds Of Far-Right Militias Are Still Organizing, Recruiting, And Promoting Violence On Facebook  —  When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces Congress on Thursday, to testify about extremism online, he will do so as hundreds of far-right militias, including some whose members were charged …

What happens to the filibuster depends on how Republicans play their hand  —  Opinion by Angus King  —  Angus S. King Jr., an independent, represents Maine in the U.S. Senate.  —  I first came to the Senate eight years ago, at the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term and when the Democrats were in the majority.

Sidney Powell Speaks ‘Her Truth’  —  The Trumpist propagandist has been forced to admit that her “facts” aren't “true.”  —  The Big Lie is starting to unravel.  One of Trump's disinformation stars, Sidney Powell, is backing down.  But while we're considering the matter of truth and lies …

We didn't help get Kyrsten Sinema elected so she could ensure Senate gridlock  —  Opinion: We asked voters to support Kyrsten Sinema so she could make progress on big issues, not stand in the way of it by supporting the filibuster.  —  View Comments  —  Arizonans accomplished something truly historic …

Daniel Snyder to Buy Out Other Owners of Washington NFL Team  —  The league is expected to approve a measure that will allow Daniel Snyder to buy total control of the team.  —  Seeking to move past a year of tumult over the team's former name and a sexual harassment investigation of its front office …

Moncef Slaoui, former Operation Warp Speed science chief, fired by drugmaker GSK for sexual harassment  —  Moncef Slaoui, former scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, the government's COVID-19 vaccine development effort, has been fired by GlaxoSmithKline after an internal investigation found …

Republicans Fear Flawed Candidates Could Imperil Key Senate Seats  —  Races in Missouri and Alabama, with others to come, reflect the potential risks for a party in which loyalty to Donald Trump is the main criterion for securing nominations.  —  The entry of two hard-right candidates …

Videos show ally of Marjorie Taylor Greene among mob inside Capitol during January 6 riot  —  These are the key moments from the US Capitol riot  —  (CNN)Footage from the January 6 riot at the US Capitol shows a close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene inside the building.

How Trump is exposing the ugly truth about the GOP plan to retake power  —  Opinion by  —  The Republican strategy for retaking power depends in no small part on undertaking maximum voter suppression and other anti-majoritarian efforts all over the country — while piously pretending …

The Biden presidency — already transformative for the worse  —  President Biden is using his entire administration to impose “woke” precepts about race, class, and gender on a public that recognizes them as mostly pseudo-intellectual rubbish masking intolerance.

Newsom won't pick Schiff as California AG  —  Rep. Adam Schiff will not become California's next attorney general, sources familiar with the talks told POLITICO.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided against appointing the Los Angeles area congressman to lead the state's law enforcement agency …

Biden Isn't Talking for a Reason  —  Joe Biden is hardly in hiding.  Barely a week passes when he doesn't tour a factory or host a meeting in the Oval Office.  He gives interviews and takes questions from time to time as he moves through his calendar.  What he has yet to do is hold a formal news conference.

Housing Boss Who Was Accused of Sexual Abuse Now Faces Bribery Charges  —  Prosecutors accused Victor Rivera of enriching himself through kickbacks as he led one of the largest homeless shelter operations in New York City.  —  The former head of one of the largest homeless shelter networks in New York …

Man Says He Found Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch  —  Crave those crazy ... shrimp tails?  —  Cereal is a staple of the American breakfast table, consumed by millions of people every day and tied, for many, with memories of childhood.  So when a story began circulating this week …

N.Y. Pot Legalization Gets Fast Track on Cuomo-Lawmaker Deal  — Legislature will vote on making pot legal for age 21 and up  — Compromise plan has the OK of legislative leaders, Cuomo  —  New York is ready to legalize recreational marijuana.  The state would impose special pot taxes …

Unlike Obama, Biden Doesn't Even Pretend to Care about Tackling Our Historic Debt  —  The new president is gambling that our extraordinary deficits will never matter.  —  n the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden proudly ran as an “Obama-Biden Democrat.”  —  But there is already one important …

Wealthy Republican Conspiracy Theorist Settles Lawsuit Over Seth Rich Claims  —  END OF THE ROAD  —  The brother of a murdered Democratic staffer who was the focus of pro-Trump conspiracy theories has settled a lawsuit against a wealthy conservative who pushed the smears.

The GOP's Long-Game Plan to Thwart Biden's Agenda Is Already in Action  —  Last week, Ohio's Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the Treasury Department challenging the landmark recovery legislation just passed by Congress, the American Rescue Plan (ARP).

‘Sitting on their hands’: Biden transition officials say Trump officials delayed action on child migrant surge … WASHINGTON — In early December, the Biden transition team and career government officials began sounding the alarm on the need to increase shelter space for migrant children …

Zuckerberg calls for changes to tech's Section 230 protections  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will propose this week that Congress make revisions to federal internet regulations that would require platforms to have systems in place for identifying and removing unlawful content.

Designation of Bible as state book to hit House floor following years of failed legislative attempts  —  A resolution designating the Bible as the state book cleared a House committee Tuesday morning despite constitutional concerns from several lawmakers.  —  HJR150, carried by Rep. Jerry Sexton …