CNN Drops Rick Santorum After Racist Comments About Native Americans  —  The former GOP senator lost his contract with the network after claiming there was “nothing” in America before white colonizers arrived.  —  CNN has terminated its contract with senior political commentator Rick Santorum after racist …

The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict  —  An eviction in East Jerusalem lies at the center of a conflict that led to war between Israel and Hamas.  But for millions of Palestinians, the routine indignities of occupation are part of daily life.  —  JERUSALEM — Muhammad Sandouka built …

Ted Cruz roundly criticized after sharing Russian propaganda  —  GOP Sen. Ted Cruz received a lot of criticism after sharing a Russian propaganda video on Twitter in an apparent attempt to criticize the idea of a ‘woke, emasculated’ U.S. military.  MSNBC's Brian Williams has the details.  —  Read More

U.S. seizes $90,000 from man who sold footage of U.S. Capitol riot  —  U.S. authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.

Biden Will Allow Haitian Immigrants In The US To Obtain Temporary Protected Status  —  The Biden administration will grant more than 100,000 Haitians in the US the opportunity to gain Temporary Protected Status, shielding them from deportation and allowing them to obtain work permits …

PolitiFact retracts Wuhan lab theory ‘fact-check’  —  An awful lot of people in the press were eager last year, maybe a little too eager, to dismiss the theory suggesting the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.  —  It was foolish then to reject the theory outright without any conclusive evidence.

For Colleges, Vaccine Mandates Often Depend on Which Party Is in Power  —  Hoping for a return to normal, more than 400 colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated for Covid-19.  Almost all are in states that voted for President Biden.

Patrick Leahy signals he'll run for ninth Senate term  —  The Senate's longest-serving Democrat, long assumed to be on the cusp of retirement, is leaning toward giving it another go.  —  Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who has served since 1975 and is in the line of presidential succession …

A Biden-friendly economist is creating a big headache for president's spending plans  —  The White House and congressional Democrats have argued for weeks that the lack of child care services poses a major obstacle to the economic recovery, pressing for a massive and immediate investment to get parents back to work.

Masks are off — which means men will start telling women to ‘Smile!’ again  —  The photographer at CVS told Quintana Carter to make a “neutral face.”  Not smiling, not frowning, just expressionless.  This was, after all, a photo for a new passport, just in case she decides to leave Boston on her first post-pandemic vacation.

We Don't Need a Commission to Investigate the Capitol Riot  —  This Democrat-driven project would be hopelessly politicized.  —  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE  —  W  —  hy do we need a commission for this?  —  That's one of the questions Rich Lowry and I batted around on The McCarthy Report podcast a couple of Fridays ago.

Support for Black Lives Matter Surged Last Year.  Did It Last?  —  This article is part of a special section on George Floyd  —  and America, a year after his death.  Read more about this project  —  in a note from deputy Opinion editor Patrick Healy in our Opinion Today newsletter.

‘You Can Feel the Tension’: A Windfall for Minority Farmers Divides Rural America  —  A $4 billion federal fund meant to confront how racial injustice has shaped American farming has angered white farmers who say they are being unfairly excluded.  —  LaGRANGE, Mo. — Shade Lewis had just come …

China positions itself as peace broker in Israel-Gaza crisis  —  Beijing's offer to host talks between Israelis and Palestinians is also a chance to seize moral high ground from the US, observers say But the Middle East is not likely to become another arena for US-China rivalries Beijing's offer …

Coronavirus infections drop below 30,000 daily in continuing sign of recovery  —  For the first time in 11 months, the daily average of new coronavirus infections in the United States has fallen below 30,000 amid continuing signs that most communities across the nation are emerging from the worst of the pandemic.

EXCLUSIVE In tactical shift, Iran grows new, loyal elite from among Iraqi militias  —  Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS  —  Iran has hand picked hundreds of trusted fighters from among the cadres of its most powerful militia allies in Iraq, forming smaller …

Maskhole!  Chris Cuomo wears face covering alone in convertible  —  If only he played it this safe with his journalism ethics ...  Fully vaccinated CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has taken mask-wearing to absurd heights — covering his face as he cruised alone in a convertible with the top down amid the latest scandal to hit his family.

If Donald Trump faces criminal charges, few think it will hurt him with his base in 2024  —  WASHINGTON - When Republicans talk about whether Donald Trump will run for president again in 2024, many hasten to add it may depend on what is now a big unknown: His legal troubles.

Risk of Nuclear War Over Taiwan in 1958 Said to Be Greater Than Publicly Known  —  The famed source of the Pentagon Papers, Daniel Ellsberg, has made another unauthorized disclosure — and wants to be prosecuted for it.  —  WASHINGTON — When Communist Chinese forces began shelling islands controlled …

In echo of Arizona, Georgia state judge orders Fulton County to allow local voters to inspect mailed ballots cast last fall  —  A Georgia state judge on Friday ordered Fulton County to allow a group of local voters to inspect all 147,000 mail-in ballots cast in the 2020 election in response …

Biden's first 100 days: President kept promises to liberals with aggressive climate actions  —  President Joe Biden has largely delivered on his campaign promise to make curbing climate change a top priority, delighting liberals but irking Republicans who expected a more centrist course given …