Joe Biden Botches the Georgia Voting Law  —  His claim that the law prohibits giving water to voters standing on line is way off base.  —  Joe Biden, grasping the latest left-wing talking point pushed by Stacey Abrams and her media allies everywhere, has launched a misleading attack …

A Minnesota man can't be charged with felony rape because the woman chose to drink beforehand, court rules  —  After a 20-year-old woman took five shots of vodka and a prescription pill, she said she was standing outside a Minneapolis bar in May 2017 when a man invited her and a friend to a party.

Criminal charges filed against Kansas Senate majority leader  —  One of the Kansas Legislature's most powerful lawmakers has been charged with driving under the influence and a felony offense for trying to elude law enforcement  —  TOPEKA, Kan. — One of the Kansas Legislature's …

Trump helped the GOP raise $2 billion.  Now former aides and allies are jockeying to tap into his fundraising power.  —  One day before the Republican Party's elite donors are slated to gather for their spring retreat in Palm Beach, Fla., early next month, a nonprofit group aligned …

The New Jim Crow Laws Aren't Just About Suppressing Democratic Voters  —  They're also about shoring up the Republican base.  —  By now oceans of pixels have been spilled about the nationwide Republican efforts to suppress Democratic-leaning votes.  The most recent legislation in Georgia …

Media are falling into Stephen Miller's trap  —  Journalists who normalize Trump's former senior adviser ‘are helping him launder his white supremacist ideas into the mainstream.’  —  It was only a matter of time before Stephen Miller returned to the spotlight.

Armed White men who showed up at a Black family's home were acquitted.  Now, they want an apology  —  (CNN)An African American mother says she won't sit down to talk with two men who came armed with about 13 other White people to her North Carolina home last year looking for a missing teenage girl …

It's Official.  “Vaccine Passports” Are Required In New York  —  This happened even sooner than most people expected.  We were warned at the beginning of the month that New York State was working to implement a system of immunity passports for people who wish to reenter most “normal” aspects of society.

MN lawyer sanctioned $10,000 for filing election challenges without plaintiffs' knowledge  —  ‘To my horror, I saw that I had sued Steve Simon and Ilhan Omar,’ a plaintiff said.  — More-  —  A Minnesota attorney who filed legal challenges to the November election of five congressional Democrats …

The popularity of Congress is at its highest level in more than a decade as stimulus checks hit bank accounts  —  For the second time in the pandemic era, Congress is experiencing a burst of relative popularity, the normally reviled institution winning public support in the early days of a Democratic-run Washington.

Dozens Shot Dead in Myanmar as Military Continues Ruthless Campaign Against Civilians  —  The killings occurred days after the U.S. imposed new sanctions to pressure the generals to give up power  —  On a day when Myanmar's commander in chief, who seized power in a coup last month …

USA Today fires race and inclusion editor who falsely claimed Boulder shooter was an ‘angry white man’  —  USA Today's race and inclusion editor Hemal Jhaveri was fired this week after she claimed that “it's always an angry white man” who commits mass shootings, race-baiting in the wake of the Boulder attack.

Note to Mitch McConnell: The Senate's longest filibuster was definitely racist  —  At his first White House news conference Thursday, President Biden said he agreed with former president Barack Obama that the filibuster is “a relic of the Jim Crow era.”  This follows a Tuesday statement …

O'Rourke slams Cruz for video of border visit  —  Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas) on Friday slammed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for videos he posted from the southern border in which he claimed that smugglers were “yelling” at and taunting him.  —  In a video posted on Twitter early Friday morning …

Sharon Osbourne Is Out at ‘The Talk’  —  After the longtime panelist offered a controversial defense of friend Piers Morgan, past colleagues came out with more accusations of racist language and behavior.  —  Sharon Osbourne is out of the conversation, parting ways with The Talk in the wake …

In Washington, Policy Revolves Around Joe Manchin.  He Likes It That Way.  —  Mr. Manchin's belief in the need to keep the filibuster has set the stage for a collision between Democrats eager to use its majorities to pass sweeping legislation and a political throwback determined to restore bipartisanship.

US military has gone full woke, waging war on those who disagree with them  —  The Pentagon has turned into the Yale faculty lounge with cruise missiles  —  Tucker: Our military leadership has gone ‘woke’  —  The Pentagon's Special Operations Command recently made an announcement from its official Twitter account.

DeSantis hires top GOP operative for 2022 campaign  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has tapped a veteran national Republican political operative to help spearhead his 2022 reelection race.  —  Phil Cox, a former executive director of the Republican Governors Association, has joined the DeSantis team as a senior-level adviser.

New Suez crisis: a global economy creaking under the strain  —  Stuck container ship symbolises the problems many supply chains are facing after a year-long pandemic  —  Gamal Abdel Nasser would surely afford himself a wry smile.  Sixty-five years after the late Egyptian president nationalised …

‘Be aware’: The Pentagon's target list for extremist infiltrators — right and left  —  Flags from the left-wing Antifa movement.  Depictions of Pepe the Frog, the cartoon character that's been misappropriated by racist groups.  Iconography from the far-right Proud Boys, including the phrase …

The Supreme Court's coming war with Joe Biden, explained  —  The Supreme Court is poised to give itself a veto power over much of the Biden administration's authority.  —  One of Justice Antonin Scalia's final acts was to strike down President Obama's plan to stave off the climate crisis.

After two months in office, Kamala Harris is still living out of suitcases — and she's getting frustrated with it  —  (CNN)It has been more than two months since Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president of the United States, a historic moment for the country, as Harris is the first woman …

The Return of Mass Shootings  —  Will there be a way forward this time?  —  One of the small, rueful truths that many Americans held in the back of their minds throughout the pandemic year was that, for all of its horrors, it had at least reduced, or even eliminated, the spectacle of the gun massacre.

A Yale Psychiatrist's Tweet About Dershowitz, Her Dismissal, and a Lawsuit  —  The psychiatrist, Bandy X. Lee, said she was let go after the lawyer Alan M. Dershowitz complained to the university.  Yale said she violated ethics rules against diagnosing public figures, her lawsuit claims.

Reporters, legal observers cry foul after being caught up in LAPD's mass arrests at Echo Park protest  —  Reporters and legal observers who were detained or arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department during a mass arrest of protesters in Echo Park on Thursday night were sounding alarms Friday …

Covid-19 Clobbered Manhattan.  Lower Rents Could Seed Recovery.  —  Shutdowns and other changes brought on by the pandemic have bruised Manhattan's economy.  But because rents for storefronts, apartments and workspaces have been pushed down to their lowest levels in years, new small businesses and residents have moved in.