Texas Republicans finalize bill that would enact stiff new voting restrictions and make it easier to overturn election results  —  The Texas legislature on Saturday moved closer to enacting dozens of new restrictions on the voting process, as Republican lawmakers reached a deal that imposes …

MPD attorney: Department used tear gas on Lafayette Park protesters in June 2020  —  Attorney Richard Sobiecki explained for the first time why MPD used tear gas against protesters fleeing federal police, though he did not say what exactly was used.  —  WASHINGTON — An attorney for DC Police …

Oklahoma's lawmakers want to whitewash its history  —  Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma has fired the latest salvo in the culture war.  On May 7, Stitt signed a law effectively banning the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 schools.  Idaho has passed a similar law, and several other states have introduced such legislation.

117 staffers sue over Houston hospital's vaccine mandate, say they don't want to be ‘guinea pigs’  —  The lawsuit could test whether employers can require vaccinations as the country navigates out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 600,000 people in the U.S.

‘Very much in love’: How Boris Johnson's relationship with Tory aide Carrie Symonds survived ‘everything thrown at them’ but they have ‘come out the other side still smiling’  —  Only their closest friends, one imagines, were privy to the birth of the Boris-Carrie love affair.

Bennett to announce he's joining opposition to form new Israeli government, oust Netanyahu  —  The leader of right-wing Yamina party Naftali Bennett could announce as early as Sunday that he is joining opposition leader Yair Lapid to form a power-sharing government in Israel, sources familiar with the issue tell Axios.

Faye Schulman Dies; Fought Nazis With a Rifle and a Camera  —  She joined the Resistance brigade after her family was executed and used her photographs as proof of German barbarity and Jews' determination to fight back.  —  On Aug. 14, 1942, a year after German troops invaded Soviet-occupied Poland …

Andy Ngo reportedly tackled, punched by Portland rioters during latest night of unrest  —  As of 5 a.m. ET Saturday, Ngo himself had not posted on Twitter about the alleged incident  —  Conservative journalist Andy Ngo, who writes frequently about Antifa, was reportedly chased and attacked …

Flagship Tulsa Race Massacre commemoration is scrapped after survivors demanded $1 million each to appear and $50 million for reparations fund  — The commission sponsoring Monday's event initially agreed to $100,000 to each of the three survivors, along with $2 million in seed money for a reparations fund

U.S. monitoring Iranian warships that may be headed to Venezuela  —  The U.S. national security community is monitoring two Iranian naval vessels whose ultimate destination may be Venezuela, according to three people familiar with the situation, in what would be a provocative move at a tense moment in U.S.-Iran relations.

The brazen arrest of a Belarusian activist has terrified dissidents all over the world  —  Viačorka: ‘No one can feel safe in Europe’  —  (CNN)The chilling story of a Belarusian dissident being plucked from the sky while traveling on a passenger jet over the country's airspace sent …

Bill Maher defends Israel, rips ‘liberal media’ and ‘Bella Hadids of the world’  —  Maher also clashes with Nicholas Kristof after NY Times writer accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’  —  Karl Rove: Anti-Israel views by far-left ‘problematic’ for Democratic Party

Arizona making plans to execute prisoners with the same gas Nazis used at Auschwitz: report  —  On Saturday, Business Insider reported that Arizona has purchased the materials needed to manufacture hydrogen cyanide gas — the same chemical the Nazis used to murder Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz …

Eager Teens Give Needed Boost to U.S. Vaccination Campaign  —  Covid-19 vaccinations among the country's newly eligible tweens and teens have given a much needed boost to the nation's campaign, at a time when vaccination rates have fallen among the oldest age groups and mostly stalled among young adults …

FBI Joins NYPD to Address Rise in Anti-Semitic Crimes in New York City  —  Federal agents are investigating as more than two dozen hate crimes against Jews were reported in May  —  Federal agents and the New York Police Department are fighting a rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes by launching …