Leader McCarthy Condemns Comparisons to the Holocaust  —  Washington, D.C. - House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:

Tech company running Arizona ballot audit backs out: ‘They were done’  —  Jen Fifield Andrew OxfordArizona Republic  —  The Pennsylvania-based IT company that was in charge of running the hand recount of Maricopa County ballots is no longer involved in the audit.

Justice Dept. releases part of internal memo on not charging Trump in Russia probe  —  The Justice Department late Monday night released part of a key internal document used in 2019 to justify not charging President Donald Trump with obstruction, but also signaled it would fight a judge's effort to make the entire document public.

Faulty redactions in court document show federal investigators seized more info in case against Rudy Giuliani than previously disclosed  —  New details emerge about investigation into Giuliani  —  (CNN)New York federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani have seized material from a wider array …

What Biden Didn't Realize About His Presidency  —  Joe Biden had been president for less than two weeks when he told me something he'd heard from a friend after the election.  Biden was like the dog that caught the car, the friend told him—after a lifetime of dreaming of becoming president, he'd finally done it.

Bipartisan group of senators prepares new infrastructure plan as talks stall between White House and GOP  —  Romney and several others are trying to craft a deal that they hope can win support from lawmakers in both parties  —  A small bipartisan group of senators is privately sketching …

The Crisis of Anti-Semitic Violence  —  Violence between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East is often accompanied by spikes in anti-Semitic activity in the United States, but what's happened over the last week or so has been different.  —  As Jonathan Greenblatt, the national director …

How Libs Can Stop Owning Themselves Online  —  The Right has mastered trolling as a political communications strategy and Dems have to stop falling for it  —  In the last few weeks, Senator Ted Cruz, no stranger to Twitter controversy, has  — Retweeted a Russian propaganda video while calling the U.S. military “emasculated.”

Kathryn Garcia leads field in new poll, 4 weeks ahead of Election Day  —  Former city sanitation commissioner Kathryn Garcia is leading the Democratic field of mayoral contenders, with Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams hot on her trail, according to a new poll four weeks ahead of Election Day.

Trump claims ‘absolute immunity’ from Swalwell lawsuit over Jan. 6 riot  —  Former President Trump on Monday argued that he possesses “absolute immunity” from a lawsuit filed against him by Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) over his role in the Jan. 6 riot.  —  In a 49-page court filing …

Democrats nervous and GOP hopeful that New Mexico election is 2022 bellwether  —  ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — New Mexico's 1st Congressional District special election will test whether warnings over a left-wing approach to policing and crime work without former President Donald Trump topping the ballot.

We Are Critics of Nikole Hannah-Jones.  Her Tenure Denial Is a Travesty.  —  Political intervention in hiring will badly damage higher ed.  —  Today's rampant political polarization has led to alarming interference in academic affairs, threatening basic principles of openness and faculty authority …

Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible  —  The source of the coronavirus that has left more than 3 million people dead around the world remains a mystery.  But in recent months the idea that it emerged from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) …

Secretary of State Katie Hobbs stripped of roles by Appropriations Committee  —  PHOENIX — Political score-settling is not supposed to be part of the budgeting process, but you will have a hard time convincing Democratic members of the House Appropriations Committee of that.

The End IS Near.  No, Seriously.  —  The tone of some recent writing about this pandemic has seemed — to me, anyway — strangely defeatist.  —  Friends keep asking me questions like: “Is what I'm hearing true?  We'll never reach herd immunity?”  —  The subtext is we'll never really be safe …

WWE's Cena apologises to China after Taiwan country reference  —  John Cena says on Taiwanese TV that it would be ‘the first country to watch the film’ American quickly backtracked on Weibo, saying he made ‘one mistake’ after doing ‘a lot of interviews’ John Cena backtracks comments …

U.S. wants to reopen Jerusalem consulate, Blinken tells Netanyahu  —  Secretary of State Tony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in their meeting on Tuesday that the Biden administration wants to reopen the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem as soon as possible, Israeli officials tell me.

Axios-Ipsos poll: Re-emerging without trust  —  Americans are taking off their masks and re-engaging publicly at levels not seen since the start of the pandemic, with the most dramatic shifts in people over 50 and those who've been vaccinated, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.

Scoop: New York Times in talks to buy The Athletic  —  The New York Times is looking into a potential acquisition of The Athletic, three sources familiar with the matter tell Axios.  —  Driving the news: Sources say The Times approached The Athletic following a report about a potential deal between The Athletic and Axios in March.

Mysterious air base being built on volcanic island off Yemen  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.

One father's stand against critical race theory: We're indoctrinating our children  —  A month ago, I mailed a letter to all the parents of my daughter's New York City private school, Brearley, asking them to speak up against the school administration's illiberal and indoctrinating antiracism initiatives …

Majority Leader Hoyer Pressured Rep. Gottheimer to Vote ‘No’ on Israel Security Funding  —  Democratic House majority leader Steny Hoyer (Md.) pressured Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.) to vote against last week's Republican-led effort to provide Israel with emergency funding …

How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right  —  One of the strange things about the last year in Western political debate is how rarely the name of the departed philosopher Michel Foucault came up — and not for want of opportunity.  One of Foucault's key concepts, “biopolitics,” …

Who Didn't See This Coming?  —  This headline in the New York Times tells you everything you need to know about the progressive mindset, “A Year After George Floyd: Pressure to Add Police Amid Rising Crime.”  Who didn't know that demonizing police, cutting their funding …

Moment of silence marks year since George Floyd's death  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — George Floyd was honored Tuesday with a moment of silence in the city where he died at the hands of police, a death captured on a wrenching bystander video that galvanized the racial justice movement and continues to ripple a year later.

State Revenues Pour In, Raising Pressure on Biden to Divert Federal Aid  —  Unexpected receipts, driven in part by taxes on high earners riding a hot stock market, have prompted Republicans to push the president to spend on infrastructure instead.  —  WASHINGTON — From California to Virginia …