Women detail drug use, sex and payments after late-night parties with Gaetz and others  —  ‘Bombastic, antagonistic, unapologetic’: A look at Gaetz's political career  —  Orlando, FL (CNN)The first thing some of the women were asked to do when they got to the house parties in the gated community …

Capitol Police Told to Hold Back on Riot Response on Jan. 6, Report Finds  —  Despite being tipped that “Congress itself is the target” on Jan. 6, Capitol Police were ordered not to use their most powerful crowd-control weapons, according to a scathing new watchdog report.

POLITICO Playbook: ‘A gaslighting chamber of insanity’: Moderate Republicans seethe at Biden  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  “It's a f—ing nightmare.”  —  That was the lament of a staffer working for one of the members of the so-called G-10, the group of 10 Republican senators who insist they're itching …

Hundreds of Companies Unite to Oppose Voting Limits, but Others Abstain  —  Amazon, Google, G.M. and Starbucks were among those joining the biggest show of solidarity by businesses over legislation in numerous states.  —  Amazon, BlackRock, Google, Warren Buffett and hundreds of other companies …

Vaccine passports?  We'll pass  —  Sometimes, it seems that under liberal Democratic governments, everything is either illegal or mandatory.  So even as the federal government is halting the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and slow-walking approval of the AstraZeneca and Novavax vaccines …

Going grifting via Black Lives Matter  —  Co-opting a serious social issue, leftist groups exact virtue-signal payments — but don't tell Twitter  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  “How to Become Rich Using Marxism, For Dummies” could have been the alternative title for Karl Marx's famous screed …

All US states ranked from best to worst, according to Americans  —  There are endless rankings of the US states: whether they are the best places to live, the best places to do business, how much fun they are.  Such judgements are made by economists, companies, and journalists - but what do Americans themselves think?

DeSantis wants voters' signatures to match.  Would his pass the test?  —  If the Florida governor gets his way, mail-in ballot signatures would have to match the most recent signature on file with the state.  His own signature history shows how autographs evolve.  —  Updated Just now

Get Ready to Rumble With Big Business  —  Woke corporations aren't our friends and we should stop acting like they are.  If they want to play games with our rights, we should beat them like rented mules when it comes to their bottom line.  —  Serious question: Who died …

Bad news for journalists: The public doesn't share our values.  But there's hope.  —  Ask almost any group of journalists to name the core values of their profession, and they'll probably deliver a list like this:  —  Oversight.  We're the watchdogs keeping an eye on government officials and other powerful people and institutions.

Trump didn't bring White working-class voters to the Republican Party.  The data suggest he kept them away.  —  White working-class voters had been moving to the Republican Party for years.  Trump stopped the trend.  —  Republican leaders have been hailing a class realignment of the parties.

“I Felt Hate More Than Anything”: How an Active Duty Airman Tried to Start a Civil War  —  Steven Carrillo's path to the Boogaloo Bois shows the hate group is far more organized and dangerous than previously known. … Co-published with FRONTLINE.  —  The Insurrection  —  The Effort to Overturn the Election

The Soul of Bravo A year of national reckonings on race and inequality has tested how real the Housewives should be.  —  In 2020, Leva Bonaparte considered a job opportunity.  Bravo had been pursuing the hospitality executive for years in an attempt to get her to join the cast of Southern Charm.

There's no vaccine for hypocrisy  —  The latest battle in the COVID-19 culture wars involves “vaccine passports,” with some Republican leaders taking a surprisingly anti-business and pro-regulation stance.  Despite the term's ubiquity, there is no one official vaccine passport …

FBI Accesses Computers Around Country to Delete Microsoft Exchange Hacks  —  The FBI obtained court approval to access vulnerable computers across the United States.  —  Joseph Cox  —  On Tuesday the Department of Justice announced the FBI was given approval to access hundreds of computers across …

Biden rolls back Trump's anti-abortion curbs on family planning funds  —  The proposed overhaul erases restrictions on abortion providers that Democrats derided as a “gag rule.”  —  The move stems from a pledge Biden made as a candidate, followed by an executive order he signed shortly …

Caron Nazario saw Eric Garner, his ‘uncle,’ die in police hands.  Then officers assaulted him six years later.  —  For a moment, as the video played on his cellphone, Charles Welch thought he was about to watch a White police officer kill one of his family members for the second time.

Biden's White House communications strategy is driving Republicans insane  —  In the words of one House Republican campaign operative, 'It's a nightmare'  —  If there's a cliché that summed up Joe Biden's defeat of an extremely progressive Democratic primary field, it's the pithy maxim that Twitter is not real life.

Biden moves to leverage corporate America's falling out with GOP  —  The business community doesn't dislike President Joe Biden's proposal to hike corporate taxes to pay for a massive $2 trillion-plus infrastructure plan.  They detest it.  —  But there are some reasons to think corporate leaders …

Welcome to the New Progressive Era  —  Washington in the first days of the Biden administration is a place for double takes: A president associated with the politics of austerity is spending money with focused gusto, a crisis isn't going to waste, and Senator Bernie Sanders is happy.

What Was America Doing in Afghanistan?  —  The soldiers living in the concrete maze of Combat Outpost (COP) Michigan treated the Taliban fire that poured in from the mountains as though it were weather: Bursts of machine-gun bullets were akin to drizzle, volleys of rocket-propelled grenades more like heavy rain.

New Target for New York's Ascendant Left: Rep. Carolyn Maloney  —  Justice Democrats, a left-wing group that fueled the rise of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is backing Rana Abdelhamid's primary bid.  —  Nearly three years ago, a little-known left-wing organization helped engineer …

Democrats Propose Permanent Boost To Unemployment Benefits  —  With COVID-19 relief for jobless Americans set to expire soon, two Democratic senators propose new national standards for compensation.  —  While extra federal jobless benefits are set to expire in September …

Court Vindicates Black Officer Fired for Stopping Colleague's Chokehold  —  Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force.  Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wrong.  —  It was a cold November day in Buffalo when Officer Cariol Horne responded …

Natanz attack hit 50 meters underground, destroyed most of the facility  —  The attack was reportedly carried out through a remotely detonated device smuggled into the facility.  —  The alleged Israeli attack on Iran's Natanz nuclear facility targeted an electrical substation located 40 …

Why some of the most liberal Democrats in Congress want to bring back a tax break for the rich  —  Democrats want to raise taxes.  So why are they debating cutting them for some well-off taxpayers?  —  Democrats are trying to figure out how to pay for President Joe Biden's infrastructure plan …