Hunting Leaks, Trump Officials Focused on Democrats in Congress  —  The Justice Department seized records from Apple for metadata of House Intelligence Committee members, their aides and family members.  —  WASHINGTON — As the Justice Department investigated who was behind leaks …

Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers  —  Election officials and their families are living with threats of hanging, firing squads, torture and bomb blasts, interviews and documents reveal.  The campaign of fear, sparked by Trump's voter-fraud falsehoods, threatens the U.S. electoral system.

Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats  —  FEC investigation failed to uncover link to Rally Forge, a firm with close ties to Turning Point USA  —  digital marketing firm closely linked to the pro-Trump youth group Turning Point USA was responsible …

Oregon legislators expel Rep. Mike Nearman, who helped armed protesters enter Capitol  —  The Oregon House voted 59-1 Thursday to expel Rep. Mike Nearman, the first time it has ejected a sitting representative.  —  Lawmakers removed Nearman because he let far-right demonstrators …

Nevada schools reckon with race, triggering polarization  —  RENO, Nev. (AP) — One year after protests over racial injustices and police violence swept the country, clashes over how to teach students about racism and its role in U.S. history are raging in school districts across Nevada and elsewhere …

The F.D.A. tells Johnson & Johnson to throw out about 60 million doses made at troubled plant.  —  WASHINGTON — After weeks of review of a troubled Baltimore factory, federal regulators have decided that about 60 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine produced there must …

G7: UK and US have an ‘indestructible relationship’, PM says  —  The alliance between the US and the UK should be known as the “indestructible relationship”, Boris Johnson has told the BBC after meeting US President Joe Biden for the first time.  —  He said he had “terrific” talks with Mr Biden …

BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize  —  BuzzFeed News won a Pulitzer Prize on Friday for a series of innovative articles that used satellite images, 3D architectural models, and daring in-person interviews to expose China's vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region.

The Geophysicist Who Stormed the Capitol  —  KITTREDGE, Colo.—  The text message showed up on John Bergman's phone in late January.  Sent to him by a former work colleague, it came with the question “Have you seen this??” and linked to an article and video from a news channel.  Bergman pressed play.

Racism didn't exist in the military before Biden, US Senator says with straight face  —  ‘Growing mistrust between the races and sexes where none existed just six months ago’  —  A White senator from the South told America's first Black defense secretary on Thursday that President Joe Biden's …

Governor Abbott: I'll build a southern border wall in Texas  —  Texas Governor Greg Abbott hosted a Border Security Summit in Del Rio on Thursday.  During the summit, he made a major announcement - Texas will build a southern border wall.  Abbott also stated his intention for local law enforcement …

‘People of Praise leaders failed me’: Christian group tied to Justice Amy Coney Barrett faces reckoning over sexual misconduct  —  EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — In December, Katie Logan called the police in this Minneapolis suburb to unearth a buried secret: Her high school physics teacher …

After her arrest, she found her explicit photos sent to a strange number.  A state trooper answered the line.  —  Minnesota State Trooper Albert Kuehne sat in his cruiser in March 2020 and scrolled through a phone belonging to a 25-year-old woman he'd just detained on suspicion of drunken driving.

Democracy Is Already Dying in the States  —  While Senator Joe Manchin is demanding that both parties agree on any further federal voting-rights legislation, a new study quantifies how completely Republicans have excluded Democrats from the passage of the restrictive voting laws proliferating in red states.

My grandparents were stolen from their families as children.  We must learn about this history.  —  Deb Haaland, the U.S. interior secretary, is the first Native American to serve as a Cabinet secretary.  —  As I read stories about an unmarked grave in Canada where the remains …

The world is horrified by the dysfunction of American democracy  —  It's official: America is no longer a “shining city upon a hill.”  —  Data released Thursday from Pew Research shows that our allies are beyond delighted that the Trump presidency has ended.  Confidence in U.S. leadership has soared.

Trumpists Are America's Jacobites  —  “He loved authority and business.  He had a high sense of his own personal dignity,” one commentator observed.  “He was not altogether destitute of a sentiment which bore some affinity to patriotism ... His second wish was to be feared and respected abroad.

A freelancer who wrote a Runner's World essay on Ahmaud Arbery's killing has won a Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing  —  The long read by Mitchell S. Jackson also won a top award by ASME just one day ago.  —  “Peoples, I invite you to ask yourself, just what is a runner's world?

Dianne Feinstein Is an Embarrassment  —  The senior California senator's defense of the filibuster is shameful—but she's not alone, and she's got more company than just Manchin and Sinema.  —  She's said it before.  Now she's said it again.  —  Senator Dianne Feinstein …

“I'm not finished”: Harris' border-czar tour flop continues  —  Something tells me this won't assuage fears from Democrats that Kamala Harris is out of her depth in dealing with the border crisis.  The Biden administration can't ask for a friendlier venue than Univision for its immigration policies …

Biden administration keeps long-sought Trump hotel documents under wraps  —  The Trump administration blocked Democrats' efforts to unearth documents related to his leased D.C. hotel.  Not much has changed under Biden.  —  For Donald Trump's entire presidency, top congressional Democrats used every tool …

Why We Can't Move On From Jan. 6  —  If you weren't appalled by what happened that day, you have given up on American democracy.  —  I started the new year with a bang, at a gathering in the Washington home of a European diplomat.  I was interested in how Europe was processing America's political scene …

Astroturfing, Dr. Evil, and N.Y.C.'s Elite Schools  —  Last week, The New York Post published an exclusive article, by investigative reporter Dana Kennedy, about 3 groups of anonymous concerned parents who “plan to troll elite NYC schools with anti-woke billboards.”

Trump struggles to find a challenger to Kemp in Georgia  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's plans to play GOP kingmaker are being disrupted by one of his most loyal supporters in Georgia.  —  In early May at Mar-a-Lago, Trump met with Georgia state Sen. Burt Jones and Jones' father, a wealthy pro-Trump donor …