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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.  —  SHARE All sharing options  —  One of Justice Antonin Scalia's final acts was to strike down President Obama's plan to stave off the climate crisis.

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.

Michigan GOP leader calls top Democrats ‘witches,’ jokes about assassination of Republicans  —  The head of the Michigan GOP came under fire Friday for calling three female Democratic leaders “witches” to be burned “at the stake” and for mentioning “assassination” as an option for how to oust …

HARPERCOLLINS MOURNS THE LOSS OF BELOVED CHILDREN'S BOOK AUTHOR BEVERLY CLEARY  —  NEW YORK, NY: Beloved Children's book author Beverly Cleary died on March 25, 2021, in Carmel, California, where she'd lived since the 1960s.  She was 104 years old.  —  Beverly Cleary's first book …

Fast Food Giant Claims Credit For Killing $15 Minimum Wage  —  In internal company documents, a private-equity owned conglomerate is bragging to its employees about successfully blocking a boost in pay for low-wage workers.  —  2 hr ago  —  The parent company of some of America's largest fast food chains …

Biden Doesn't Need to Be FDR or LBJ to Change America  —  Two months into his presidency, Joe Biden has already enacted “the largest antipoverty effort in a generation.”  Now, with the momentum built by the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the president is poised to “reengineer America” …

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.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Aides Receive Subpoenas in Sexual-Harassment Investigation  —  Melissa DeRosa, a top official, is among those requested to produce documents as part of probe  —  The New York state attorney general's office has subpoenaed dozens of officials in the Cuomo administration …

Democrats introduce ‘DeJoy Act’ in opening salvo against USPS leader's mail-slowing plan  —  Prospects for the legislation are unclear, but the move displays deep divisions between the postmaster general and Congress  —  Democrats are swarming to block a key piece of Postmaster General Louis …