US House candidate Bouchard says he impregnated 14-year-old when he was 18  —  U.S. House candidate Anthony Bouchard had a relationship with and impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, he told the Star-Tribune late Thursday, hours after he disclosed the relationship in a Facebook Live video to his supporters.

An interview with Emily Wilder, recent Stanford grad fired from AP job over criticisms of Israel  —  Emily Wilder, a journalist and 2020 graduate of Stanford University, started a new job as an Associated Press news associate based in Maricopa County, Arizona, on May 3.

GOP Senators Dig In Against January 6 Commission  —  Many say they still haven't read the legislation.  But they have problems with it.  —  Good morning.  I know some of you are tired of January 6 coverage.  But we think this is a critical moment for congressional Republicans.

Trump administration secretly obtained CNN reporter's phone and email records  —  Washington (CNN)The Trump administration secretly sought and obtained the 2017 phone and email records of a CNN correspondent, the latest instance where federal prosecutors have taken aggressive steps targeting journalists in leak investigations.

Inside Biden's ‘quiet,’ ‘relentless’ diplomatic scramble on Gaza … WASHINGTON — As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy.  And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party.

What We Believe About U.F.O.s  —  We still don't know what they are — but we may be close to finding out.  —  Mr. Reid is a former senator.  —  This personal reflection is part of a series called The Big Ideas, in which writers respond to a single question: What do we believe?

Glenn Greenwald may have quit the Intercept, but he can't quit the feud  —  It all ended badly last October when Glenn Greenwald, the pugnacious, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, quit the investigative news site he had co-founded six years earlier.  Greenwald left the Intercept with a parting shot …

Since leaving office, Trump has charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 to use space at Mar-a-Lago  —  Former president Donald Trump charged the Secret Service more than $40,000 this spring for rooms that Trump's own protective detail used while guarding him at his Mar-a-Lago Club, according to federal spending records.

Sen. Ted Cruz insulted a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. Army ad.  Angry veterans fired back.  —  The first half of the TikTok video shows a muscular Russian man with a shaved head doing push-ups, jumping out of a plane, and staring down the scope of a rifle.  The second half shows …

Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won't Say Why  —  The vehicle is linked to a private security company which describes itself as a “subscription law enforcement service.”  —  Joseph Cox  —  Citizen, a widely popular app that sends alerts to local residents …

‘Not tolerating this nonsense’: Seventh noose found at Amazon construction site in Connecticut  —  Amazon is shutting down a construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, after a seventh noose was found there, the Connecticut NAACP and the company said Thursday.

Los Angeles Mayor Calls Attack on Diners ‘Anti-Semitic’  —  The attack came amid escalating violence in Israel and Gaza that has sparked protests in the United States.  —  Local officials and Jewish leaders in Los Angeles on Thursday condemned an attack against Jewish diners outside …

Tulsi Gabbard demands Lori Lightfoot's resignation after she granted interviews only to journalists of color  —  Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard slammed Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday and demanded her resignation after she instituted …

Kindergartners' questions helped get them off hijacked school bus, driver says: ‘Enough already’  —  The hijacker forced his way onto the school bus with a rifle and commands to “Get out of town, now!”  It was “one of the scariest” scenarios possible, law enforcement said later …

Covid on the Run  —  The pandemic may now be in permanent retreat in the U.S.  —  I want to end this week by showing you two Covid-19 charts.  They contain the same message: The pandemic is in retreat.  —  In the United States, there is now an excellent chance that the retreat is permanent.

The Texas Mask Mystery  —  In early March, Texas became the first state to abolish its mask mandate and lift capacity constraints for all businesses.  Conservatives hailed Governor Greg Abbott's decision, while liberals predicted doom and death and President Joe Biden disparaged it as “Neanderthal thinking.”

The threat of violence now infuses GOP politics.  We should all be afraid.  —  American politics is being conducted under the threat of violence.  —  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who has a talent for constructive bluntness, describes a political atmosphere within the GOP heavy with fear.

Florida investigating Sidney Powell's Defending The Republic fundraising campaign  —  Nobody knows how many millions the former Trump lawyer has raised or where the money has gone.  —  1 hr ago  —  Investigators for the state of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services …

‘Vulture’ Fund Alden Global, Known For Slashing Newsrooms, Buys Tribune Papers  —  The New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital - known for slashing its newspapers' budgets to extract escalated profits - won shareholder approval Friday for its $633 million bid to acquire the Tribune Publishing newspaper chain.

David Brooks Interviews Joe Biden  —  What happened to Joe Biden?  Many people thought he was a moderate incrementalist, but now he's promoting whopping big legislative packages that make many on the progressive left extremely happy.  —  I asked him that when I spoke on the phone with him this week.

Bitcoin Miners Are Giving New Life to Old Fossil-Fuel Power Plants  —  The lofty prices of cryptocurrencies have investors sinking money into electricity generation, risking a backlash  —  Across America, older fossil-fuel power plants are shutting down in favor of renewable energy.

Alabama Lifts Its Ban on Yoga in Schools  —  For the first time in three decades, yoga can be taught, but the law will still bar teachers from using Sanskrit names for poses.  —  For the first time in nearly three decades, Alabama will allow yoga to be taught in its public schools …

Boko Haram Leader, Responsible for Chibok Schoolgirl Kidnappings, Dies  —  Death of Abubakar Shekau removes one the world's most brutal and effective terrorists  —  Abubakar Shekau, the fundamentalist warlord who turned Boko Haram from an obscure radical sect into a jihadist army whose war …

Few plea bargains in U.S. Capitol riot cases as prosecutors stand firm  —  Nearly four months after the U.S. Capitol attack, just one of more than 440 people charged has pleaded guilty, a sign of tough conditions set by prosecutors for plea deals and resistance by defense lawyers to their demands.

The Trump criminal probe's heating up.  Here's why the Trump children might want to lawyer up.  —  This week, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed that her civil law inquiry into the corporate entity known as the Trump Organization has become a criminal investigation.

After more than a year of separation and isolation, Americans are reuniting.  —  We are hugging, laughing, dancing and crying.  —  We are mourning — the lost time, the lost people.  And many of us are still feeling anxious.  —  But we are doing it together — over champagne and sonatas …