Scoop: GOP leaders threaten Cheney ouster  —  Top Republicans are turning on Rep. Liz Cheney, the party's highest-ranking woman in Congress, with one conservative leader suggesting she could be ousted from her GOP post within a month.  —  Why it matters: The comments by Reps. Steve Scalise …

Details Of A Fateful Call Between Rudy Giuliani And The Ukrainians Have Been Secret For Years.  Here's The Full Transcript.  —  The infamous call in which former president Donald Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a “favor” and investigate Hunter Biden and the origins …

Oregon lawmaker who let far-right demonstrators into Capitol charged with criminal misconduct  —  Video shot from multiple angles reveals more of how Rep. Mike Nearman enabled demonstrators to illegally enter the Oregon Capitol.  —  An Oregon lawmaker who let violent far-right demonstrators …

Andrew Yang Promised to Create 100,000 Jobs.  He Ended Up With 150.  —  Mr. Yang is running for mayor of New York City as a bold thinker and entrepreneur.  But his results have been uneven.  —  The idea was as simple as it was ambitious: help struggling American cities …

How a brutal assault led a woman to one of the CIA's most valuable Russian spies  —  On a warm day in late September nearly 10 years ago, Lisa Sales was in the basement of her Virginia home, going through files belonging to her former tenant, a man who had just been arrested and would later plead guilty to assaulting her.

Republican state lawmakers look to empower partisan poll watchers, setting off alarms about potential voter intimidation  —  (CNN)Voting rights activists are sounding alarms about Republican efforts in key states to empower partisan poll watchers and expand voter challenges …

Newsmax Issues Retraction And Apology To Dominion Employee Over Election Stories … The far-right media outlet Newsmax, which amplified former President Donald Trump's false allegations of election rigging and widespread voter fraud, said on Friday there is no evidence that Dominion Voting Systems …

Ex-State Rep. Anthony Kern, Who Was at Capitol Riot, Seen Counting Ballots in Arizona Audit  —  Former Republican Arizona state Representative Anthony Kern, who was present at the January 6 Capitol riot and advocated the baseless “Stop the Steal” movement, has been seen taking part …

Chris Christie Says He'd Give Trump an ‘A’ Grade: What Happened at End of His Presidency ‘Clouded His Accomplishments’  —  Chris Christie said on Fox News Friday night he would give Donald Trump's presidency an A grade.  —  Christie repeatedly called out Trump over his false and completely ridiculous claims about the 2020 election.

Kathryn Garcia Doesn't Want Andrew Yang's Praise  —  The city-government veteran and mayoral hopeful talks about management, wastewater, and the viability trap.  —  In the world of New York politics, it is easy to find people who admire Kathryn Garcia, the city's former commissioner of sanitation.

Charlie Crist sets May 4 for ‘major announcement’  —  U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist is set to unveil a “major announcement” this Tuesday in St. Petersburg.  —  Crist emailed supporters this morning inviting them to RSVP for the “special event.”  —  It's unknown just what this announcement may be …

Democrats signal they're open to concessions on infrastructure  —  President Biden and top Democrats are signaling privately they are willing to make concessions over Biden's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, or break it into chunks, if that will attract even a handful of Republican votes …

Disney Got Itself A ‘If You Own A Themepark...’ Carveout From Florida's Blatantly Unconstitutional Social Media Moderation Bill  —  from the welcome-to-GoogleLand-and-FacebookWorld dept  —  Earlier this year, we noted that a wide variety of states (mostly those controlled by angry …

The Jimmy and Joe Show  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has respect for his elders.  And there aren't that many of them.  —  Before the president's rally near Atlanta on Thursday, he and Jill went out of their way to pay respects to the 96-year-old Jimmy Carter.

Race Demagogues Are Poisoning Our Politics  —  Our racial problem is getting worse, even as we strive as a nation to marginalize racism.  —  enator Tim Scott is entirely right: “America is not a racist country.”  But America has a serious racial problem.  Not a racism problem, a racial problem.

Iraq Wants Aid, but Saudi Arabia and the UAE See Investment Opportunity  —  To help weather the coming energy transition, Gulf countries are plowing money in renewable development abroad.  —  In March and April, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi visited Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in search of financial aid.

How Georgia's Fast-Growing Voter Rolls Could Affect Redistricting  — Stephen Fowler , - David Armstrong , and - Isaiah Poritz  —  Voters wait in line at the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections during early voting in the 2020 Presidential Election.  —  While new U.S. Census data shows Georgia added …

‘SNL’ cast won't be forced to appear with controversial host Elon Musk  —  “Saturday Night Live” cast members won't be forced to appear alongside controversial billionaire Elon Musk when he hosts the show, Page Six is told.  —  “Speaking historically, if a cast member has been that unhappy, they don't have to do it,” a source told us.

EXCLUSIVE Scientists say India government ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge  —  A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters.

Eli Broad, billionaire who poured wealth into reshaping L.A., dies at 87  —  Eli Broad, a self-made billionaire, philanthropist and art collector who built two Fortune 500 companies and used his wealth to mold Los Angeles' cultural landscape, playing a central role in building such institutions …

On the Ground … The Monster Is in the Classroom  —  Schools indoctrinate children as young as eight in race and gender essentialism.  —  Education  —  The Social Order  —  Many American parents may assume that culture-war battles over critical race theory and “wokeness” …

'It's all Taliban country now': New militant checkpoints on key roadways choke off parts of Afghanistan  —  KABUL — Taliban checkpoints have proliferated across key parts of Afghanistan as U.S. forces have withdrawn over the past year, leaving Afghan towns and cities increasingly isolated …