Inside William Barr's Breakup With Trump  —  Donald Trump is a man consumed with grievance against people he believes have betrayed him, but few betrayals have enraged him more than what his attorney general did to him.  To Trump, the unkindest cut of all was when William Barr stepped forward …

Eric Adams' promise: The likely next mayor has tremendous skills and some troubling tendencies  —  Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams' speech Tuesday night — with ranked-choice voting in play, we can't call it a victory speech until the computers work their magic — was a good precursor of an Adams mayoralty.

‘They were on their balconies, screaming:’ The final minutes at Champlain Towers South … SURFSIDE, Fla. — From her fourth-floor balcony, Cassondra Stratton felt a tremor and saw the swimming pool cave in.  She immediately called her husband, Michael, in Denver, 2,000 miles away.

Audit leader Doug Logan appears in conspiracy theorist election film  —  The CEO of a Florida-based firm chosen to conduct the review of Maricopa County's election results appeared in a conspiracy theorist film riddled with falsehoods about the 2020 election and directed by a man whose previous work claimed aliens were behind 9/11.

‘Castrate, kill, remove voting rights’: Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say  —  When FBI agents in San Diego seized the cell phone of a suspected white supremacist last year, they discovered text messages with a Georgia sheriff's deputy boasting of racial violence and preparations for a civil war.

USAA Urged to Pull Fox News Advertisements After Tucker Carlson's Mark Milley Comments  —  There are calls for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) to stop advertising with Fox News following controversy over the comments by its anchor Tucker Carlson about the country's highest-ranking military officer.

Trump dishes the red meat but keeps revenge on ice  —  WELLINGTON, Ohio — Donald Trump's first MAGA rally since leaving the White House was billed as a takedown of one of the 10 Republicans who voted for the then-president's impeachment following the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riots.

Royal Drama Unfolds in Court, but a Prince at the Center of It Is Absent  —  Two prominent figures are on trial in Jordan accused of plotting to destabilize the kingdom.  One is an adviser to Saudi Arabia's leader, and the Saudis have been trying to disrupt the trial.

As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them  —  Most medical consent laws require parental permission for minors to get a vaccine.  Now some places are easing restrictions for Covid shots while others are proposing new ones.  —  Teenagers keep all sorts of secrets from their parents.

A grandmother didn't answer her phone during a class.  She was sent back to prison.  —  In the year she was out of prison, Gwen Levi, 76, was thriving.  —  After serving 16 years in different federal facilities for dealing heroin, Levi was allowed to leave last June and finish her 24-year sentence …

GOP Candidate Bankrolled Jan. 6 Riot Trip With Campaign Cash  —  Derrick Van Orden barely lost his race to be a Congressman.  But then he used campaign funds to get to D.C. for the Jan. 6 riot.  Now he's running again.  —  Two months after Republican congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden lost …

GOP lawmaker won't come to CNN, so Jim Acosta went to him.  See what happened  —  CNN's Jim Acosta talks with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and tries to speak with Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) about the January 6th insurrection and conspiracy theories surrounding it.  Source: CNN

Johnson & Johnson to Pay New York $230 Million to Settle Opioid Case  —  The settlement agreement came just days before opening arguments in a sweeping trial of several defendants, including the company.  —  Johnson & Johnson will pay New York State more than $230 million in a settlement …

Inside the shady world of influencers promoting cryptocurrency  —  From FaZe Clan to Tana Mongeau, why are so many influencers shilling altcoins?  —  Everyone knows Kim Kardashian, the influencer and reality TV show star, but do you know Kim Kardashian, the cryptocurrency advocate?

It's OK to cause some internet drama if you get cut from cheer squad  —  In pop culture, America's most famous pedagogic tool for teaching everyone how the world could work, there are two opposing models for law and order in the high school cheerleading system.

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 …

Fewer than half of nursing home staff are vaccinated in more than a dozen states  —  Less than half of nursing home staffers across 15 states have been fully vaccinated despite the disproportionate level of harm that COVID-19 imposes on seniors, a trend that elder care advocates fear could put the most vulnerable populations at risk.