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.

Nearly everyone missed Chuck Schumer implying this week that the filibuster's death is coming  —  The conventional wisdom is coming around to the Democrats' side.  —  1 hr ago  —  The Editorial Board, as I hope you have noticed, is not in the business of making arguments for the sake of argumentation.

Matt Gaetz's ex-girlfriend to cooperate with federal authorities in sex trafficking investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Federal authorities investigating alleged sex trafficking by GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz have secured the cooperation of the congressman's ex-girlfriend, according to people familiar with the matter.

Republican Rep. Gonzalez, who voted to impeach Trump, warns of a GOP ‘recipe for disaster’  —  CLEVELAND — Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, warned Friday that many in his party are engaged in a “losing strategy” …

White House budget plan set to leave out some health care proposals from campaign  —  A public option for health care will not be included in the budget that will be proposed next week.  —  White House officials have left key Biden campaign promises on health care out of their coming budget proposal …

New York Police Investigate Beating of Jewish Man During Pro-Palestinian March  —  NYPD officials have opened a hate-crime probe of the assault  —  The New York Police Department has opened a hate-crime investigation into the beating of a Jewish man during a pro-Palestinian demonstration …

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 …

Joe Biden, Crisis Diplomat  —  Israel was not high on the President's agenda, but a new Gaza war pulled him in anyway.  —  Early on Thursday evening, President Joe Biden made an unexpected appearance at the White House, in front of a press corps that had been hastily called back to work.

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 …

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't think white people can be terrorists  —  In the weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attack, former President George W. Bush famously declared in a joint address to Congress: “Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.”  Apparently to today's Republicans …

Hey conservatives, this is why liberals don't believe you care about free speech  —  If conservatives wonder why liberals aren't inclined to trust their supposed concern for free speech, controversies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Associated Press would be a good place to start.

Chief of staff for GOP lawmaker spoke to law enforcement after overhearing talk of storming FBI building on January 6  —  (CNN)A top aide to Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez of Florida says he spoke with both the Capitol Police and the FBI on the morning of January 6 after overhearing a man …

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.

Troops Blast Senator for Claiming US Military Has Been ‘Emasculated’  —  A Texas Republican senator is taking heat after slamming the U.S. military as being “emasculated” in light of a new recruiting ad.  —  “Holy crap,” Sen. Ted Cruz said on Twitter.  “Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea ...”

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?

Fox News Parts Ways with Fox & Friends Weekend Co-Host Jedediah Bila  —  The host, who joined Fox & Friends Weekend in 2019, says she's “really excited for what's to come”  —  Fox News and Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Jedediah Bila are parting ways, PEOPLE can exclusively announce.

Two new reasons Trump should worry about the New York legal investigations.  A lot.  —  We're now talking potential criminal intent, not negligence.  And the shift to a higher standard of proof suggests there may be evidence to meet it.  —  The legal stakes have just skyrocketed for former President Donald Trump and his business.

The mess in Maricopa  —  Votes are still being counted in Arizona.  It won't change the winner.  But it might change America.  —  PHOENIX — Something spooky has been happening here in Maricopa County.  Weird spooky, crazy spooky, this-has-never-happened-before-in- America spooky.

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 …

'You shouldn't be able to breathe,' officer tells man before he dies  —  LEWISBURG, Tenn. (WTVF) — He repeatedly told deputies he could not breathe.  —  But the deputies and police officers he struggled with taunted him until he died.  —  An exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation …

Rebekah Jones Admits She Was Never Asked to Delete COVID Deaths in Florida  —  On Twitter last night, Rebekah Jones confirmed the central case within my long piece on her deception: That she was not, in fact, asked to delete COVID deaths in the state of Florida.

FBI Employee Indicted for Illegally Removing National Security Documents, Taking Material to Her Home  —  Note: A full copy of the indictment can be viewed here.  —  WASHINGTON - An employee of the FBI's Kansas City Division has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally removing …