Gaetz investigation complicated by overture to his father about ex-FBI agent who went missing  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican known for his fierce allegiance to former president Donald Trump, had been under Justice Department investigation for months for a possible sex crime …

The Pandemic's Wrongest Man  —  The pandemic has made fools of many forecasters.  Just about all of the predictions whiffed.  Anthony Fauci was wrong about masks.  California was wrong about the outdoors.  New York was wrong about the subways.  I was wrong about the necessary cost of pandemic relief.

Biden's Election-Reform Deception  —  He has his facts wrong on Iowa and Georgia and applies standards inconsistently.  —  In last week's press conference, President Biden labeled Republican efforts to reform state election laws in Georgia and Iowa as “un-American” and “sick.”

Biden is transforming the nation's political assumptions  —  Although he may not have planned it, President Biden picked an auspicious date for unveiling his big infrastructure program.  Exactly 34 years ago Wednesday — March 31, 1987 — the House voted overwhelmingly across party lines …

Republican senators line up against Biden's massive $2.2T spending bill: ‘Far cry’ from infrastructure  —  Path looking more narrow for Biden spending bill, Dems likely forced to use budget reconciliation  —  Mulvaney: Democrats' tax and spending plans aren't linked

Johnson & Johnson's vaccine is delayed by a U.S. factory mixup.  —  Workers at a plant in Baltimore manufacturing two coronavirus vaccines accidentally conflated the ingredients several weeks ago, contaminating up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine and forcing regulators …

As Cuomo Sought $4 Million Book Deal, Aides Hid Damaging Death Toll  —  Gov. Andrew Cuomo boasted, “I am not a superhero,” in early versions of his book, drafted as his aides scrubbed a politically damaging Health Department report.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — As the coronavirus subsided in New York last year …

Obama Cabinet official took undisclosed foreign cash  —  Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood took $50,000 from an associate of a Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire at the center of a sprawling scheme of illegal foreign campaign contributions, federal prosecutors revealed Wednesday.

N.Y. Seeks Trump Insider's Records, in Apparent Bid to Gain Cooperation  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed the personal bank records of the Trump Organization's longtime C.F.O. and are scrutinizing gifts he received from the former president.  —  State prosecutors …

Biden endorses moving MLB All-Star Game out of Georgia  —  President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he would “strongly support” moving the Major League Baseball All-Star Game out of Atlanta in response to Georgia's newly passed voting law that critics say restricts voting access.

4 killed, including child, in mass shooting at Orange office complex  —  Four people, including a child, were killed Wednesday evening and a fifth person was injured in a mass shooting at an Orange office complex.  —  It marks the third mass shooting in the United States in two weeks …

Sarah Palin Reveals COVID Diagnosis and ‘Bizarre’ Symptoms, Urges Others to Continue Wearing Masks  —  “My case is perhaps one of those that proves anyone can catch this,” Palin tells PEOPLE  —  Sarah Palin has tested positive for COVID-19, and she's urging others to continue taking the pandemic seriously.

New York authorities file hate-crime charges in attack on Asian American woman  —  NEW YORK — Local authorities said Wednesday they have filed three felony hate-crime charges against 38-year-old Brandon Elliot in the brutal stomping of an elderly Asian American woman …

‘My God’: Former White House lawyer says ‘Donald Trump is in serious trouble’ with new lawsuit  —  Former acting White House Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace that the new lawsuit in Washington, D.C. court saying former President Donald Trump is to blame …

Pfizer says Covid-19 vaccine protection lasts at least six months, protects against variants  —  Take an exclusive look inside a busy Covid-19 vaccine facility  —  (CNN)The ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of Pfizer/BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine confirms its protection lasts at least six months …

Supreme Court justices grill NCAA, calling arguments ‘entirely circular’ and ‘somewhat disturbing’  —  The Supreme Court's justices on Wednesday expressed significant questions about the NCAA's athlete-compensation limits, but they also showed concerns that a case challenging those limits …

Exclusive: Apple's Tim Cook says voting “ought to be easier than ever”  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook, an Alabama native with a lifelong interest in civil rights, joins condemnations of Georgia's new voting law, in a statement provided first to Axios.  —  What he's saying: “The right to vote is fundamental in a democracy.

Is OBAMA now cancelled?  Latino activists oppose Chicago suburb naming school after Barack and Michelle because ex-president was ‘the deporter-in-chief’  — Waukegan, Illinois board mulls renaming Thomas Jefferson Middle School  — Latino activists on Tuesday demanded school not be renamed after the Obamas

The Bogus Rap on Deborah Birx  —  Her critics think she lied for Trump while Fauci stood up to him.  The truth is way more complicated.  —  Deborah Birx, the former response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, is widely hated.  According to her critics …

Texas officials circulated climate skeptic's talking points on power failures during storm  —  WASHINGTON — As millions of Texans went without power for days during February's devastating storm, Texas oil and gas regulators were circulating talking points from a noted climate skeptic blaming system failures …