How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations  —  Online donors were guided into weekly recurring contributions.  Demands for refunds spiked.  Complaints to banks and credit card companies soared.  But the money helped keep Donald Trump's struggling campaign afloat.

MLB requires photo ID to pick up tickets from Will Call, but boycotts Georgia for voter ID law  —  South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace called the league out on Twitte  —  Beating Up on Georgia  —  Major League Baseball responded to calls to boycott the state of Georgia over a controversial …

Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein ‘under house arrest’  —  The former crown prince of Jordan says he has been placed under house arrest as part of a crackdown on critics.  —  In a video passed to the BBC by his lawyer, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, the half-brother of King Abdullah …

Covid-19 Live Updates: Johnson & Johnson Put in Charge of Plant That Ruined Millions of Vaccine Doses  —  The Baltimore contract plant ruined millions of doses of another vaccine.  The U.S. is averaging over 3 million vaccine doses a day for the first time.  —  RIGHT NOW For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.

Two Korean Americans in Congress pull endorsements of Sery Kim over her comments on Chinese immigrants  —  Kim, a GOP candidate to replace Ron Wright in in Texas' 6th Congressional District, says she'll continue to speak the truth about the Chinese government.

We Have All Hit a Wall  —  Confronting late-stage pandemic burnout, with everything from edibles to Exodus.  —  Like many of us, the writer Susan Orlean is having a hard time concentrating these days.  “Good morning to everyone,” she tweeted recently, “but especially to the sentence I just rewrote for the tenth time.”

533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online  — The personal data of over 500 million Facebook users has been posted online in a low-level hacking forum.  — The data includes phone numbers, full names, location, email address, and biographical information.

One Republican's Lonely Fight Against a Flood of Disinformation  —  After losing an ugly congressional race last year, Denver Riggleman is leading a charge against the conspiracy-mongering coursing through his party.  He doesn't have many allies.  —  AFTON, Va. — Denver Riggleman stood virtually alone.

Mike Huckabee Posts Anti-Asian Tweet Amid Spike in Racist Attacks  —  'AIN'T AMERICA GREAT?'  —  Mike Huckabee joked on Saturday that he would now “identify” as Chinese, mocking both LGBTQ people and Asian-Americans simultaneously.  The Fox News contributor wrote, “I've decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese.

How Joe Biden tamed the left — at least for now  —  Joe Biden launched the early months of his presidency with a one-two combination that's gone a long way toward taming the party's restive left wing: Listen a lot, and back many of the policies that activists have long wanted.

Georgia's Election Law, and Why Turnout Isn't Easy to Turn Off  —  Making voting convenient doesn't necessarily translate into more votes, research shows.  —  There's nothing unusual about exaggeration in politics.  But when it comes to the debate over voting rights, something more than exaggeration is going on.

Derek Chauvin's Lawyer Said “Angry” Bystanders Were A Threat To Cops.  Here's What The Videos Actually Show.  —  Eric Nelson has characterized the people who witnessed George Floyd's death, including three teens and a 9-year-old girl, as a threat to officers.  But videos from the scene tell a different story.

Looking for a Party?  Head to Your Vaccine Site  —  Cheerleaders, dancers and stand-up comedians are leading the celebrations as people get Covid-19 shots; ‘I was totally digging the pompoms!’  —  CHULA VISTA, Calif.—Serena and Francisco Cortez, a married couple, recently went …

Rep. Anna Eskamani on voicemail from Matt Gaetz, Joel Greenberg: ‘Another day as a woman in politics’  —  Regarding a voicemail from Matt Gaetz and Joel Greenberg, Rep. Anna Eskamani says she ‘absolutely got the feeling that it was very much an attempt at an intimate conversation.’ Eskamani also says …

The shameless revisionism of the Capitol attack cannot be allowed to take root  —  Come Tuesday, it will be three months since supporters of Donald Trump staged a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.  —  Not much time at all, really.  But the former president and his enablers have been hard …

Supersonic travel is about to make a comeback  —  In a few years, it might be possible to fly from Washington, D.C., to Paris in four hours — instead of eight — or from San Francisco to Tokyo in just six hours aboard a new crop of supersonic jets.  —  Why it matters: High-speed air travel promises …

DMX's Prognosis ‘Not Looking Good,’ Little Brain Activity After OD  —  7:25 PM PT — We just got an official statement from DMX's rep ... “Last night Earl ‘DMX’ Simmons was rushed to the hospital after collapsing at home.  At this time he remains in ICU in critical condition.

'The Narrative Is, “You Can't Get Ahead"'  —  In Evanston, Illinois, a Black parent and school-board candidate takes on a curriculum meant to combat racism.  —  Staff writer at The Atlantic  —  Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter …

Inside a stealth ‘persuasion machine’ promising Republican victories in 2022  —  A Facebook page shows a child scampering down a school corridor, alerting Ohio families to a scholarship program.  —  Chatter fills the same page with news ranging from a state anti-corruption bill to the vibrant local real estate market.