Engineer Warned of ‘Major Structural Damage’ at Florida Condo Complex  —  A consultant in 2018 urged the managers to repair cracked columns and crumbling concrete.  The work was finally about to get underway when the building collapsed.  —  Three years before the deadly collapse …

WHO urges fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks as delta Covid variant spreads  — The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe.

The Cruel Logic of the Republican Party, Before and After Trump  —  Mr. Serwer is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the forthcoming “The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America.”  —  Donald Trump has claimed credit for any number of things …

In Arizona, G.O.P. Lawmakers Strip Power From a Democrat  —  The State Legislature shifted legal authority from the secretary of state to a Republican attorney general, and enacted election measures it said would stop fraud.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican-controlled State Legislature …

Officer Injured in Capitol Riot Asks McCarthy to Disavow Lies About It  —  Officer Michael Fanone, who was seriously injured by the pro-Trump mob, said he came away disappointed from his meeting with the top House Republican.  —  WASHINGTON — For weeks, Michael Fanone …

White House scrambles to manage fallout of Biden's ‘tandem’ remarks  —  Joe Biden said the quiet part out loud and paid a price for it.  —  Reveling in his bipartisan win on infrastructure Thursday, the president declared that he would not sign the deal he'd just endorsed unless …

Trump kicks off revenge tour with eyes on one Ohio Republican  —  Cleveland (CNN)Donald Trump on Saturday will kick off his revenge tour against Republicans who defied him in the aftermath of the 2020 election and January 6 insurrection, hoping to convince his supporters to fire Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez.

How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People  —  Older Americans, a critical source of political donations, often fall victim to aggressive and misleading digital practices.  A broad Times analysis points to the scope of the problem.  —  William W. Vaughan Jr …

A legendary Chicago newspaper columnist bids farewell — and wonders who will be left to tell her city's tale  —  In 29 years as a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Mary Schmich was often adored and occasionally reviled by readers, as are all good newspaper columnists.

Harvard Poll: 80% see border disaster, want Trump closure restored, reject teaching Critical Race Theory  —  The Biden administration is failing big time with its inability to control illegal immigration, adding it to one of several issues that could doom Democrats if left unchecked.

House Dems head off retirement crisis — for now  —  Rep. Stephanie Murphy was hiring staff for an all-but-declared Senate bid in Florida.  Rep. Madeleine Dean consulted with Democratic leaders about a potential statewide run in her home state of Pennsylvania.

Jamaal Bowman requested special police protection for his Yonkers home  —  Defund for thee, but not for me.  —  Freshman U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman — a champion of defunding cops who claims policing is rife with “white supremacy” — asked for and received a special police detail to guard …

The Will to Kneel  —  Our intellectual elite would break us by demanding our assent to the absurd.  —  Opponents of “Wokeness” devote much more energy to cataloguing its specific lunacies than to understanding its underlying psychology.  What links (for instance) a belief that the major threat faced …

Canadian Forces have right to know if they got COVID at the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan  —  Two members told the Post they fell sick with symptoms  —  This week, lawmakers in the United States called for an investigation into whether the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan …

IT IS JUST HYPE TO CALL ELECTISM A RELIGION?  —  Some think it's just that I don't like religion and haven't studied it.  And they're right.  But that doesn't mean we haven't watched a religion emerge since last year.  —  13 hr ago  —  I am flattered to see that a person …

TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance  — Former TikTok employees say there is cause for concern when it comes to the popular social media app's Chinese parent company.  — They say ByteDance has access to TikTok's American user data …

The remarkably unremarkable White House Pride ceremony  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  Standing at a podium adorned with the presidential seal in the East Room of the White House, a transgender activist announced his pronouns before introducing the president.

No ET, no answers: Intel report is inconclusive about UFOs  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.  —  Investigators did not find extraterrestrial links in reviewing 144 sightings …