Auto Scrap Billionaire Who Paid To Send National Guard To Southern Border Sounds Off On Why He Did It  —  The auto scrap billionaire who is funding South Dakota's deployment of national guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border told TPM in an interview that he was making the contribution because …

Josh Mandel's staff quit campaign because of toxic work environment created by staffer in relationship with Mandel, sources say  —  Laura A. Bischoff Haley BeMillerThe Columbus Dispatch  —  At least two of the three fundraisers who quit Josh Mandel's U.S. Senate campaign in recent months …

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Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Infrastructure and McConnell's Theory of Midterm Politics  —  Mitch McConnell is more afraid of a big, party line bill than a smaller, bipartisan one, Democrats should take heed  —  Mitch McConnell is the physical embodiment of everything people hate about politics — self-interested, cynical, corrupt, and dishonest.

Board of Elections ‘Discrepancy’ Puts Mayoral Primary Vote in Disarray  —  After the Board of Elections released a preliminary ranked-choice tally in the New York City mayoral race, it acknowledged an issue with its findings.  —  The New York City mayor's race plunged into chaos on Tuesday night …

The land was worth millions.  A Big Ag corporation sold it to Sonny Perdue's company for $250,000.  —  It was a curious time for Sonny Perdue to close a real estate deal.  —  In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary …

Trump rally in Mobile's Battleship Park cancelled amid concerns of ‘partisan political event’: Report  —  Plans for former President Donald Trump to return July 4th weekend to the city many credited with lending legitimacy to his 2016 campaign after USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commissioners reportedly …

Supreme Court allows eviction ban to remain in place  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled to keep the federal eviction moratorium to in place, in a 5-4 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined with liberals.  —  The decision is a blow …

Boring news cycle deals blow to partisan media  —  In the months since former President Donald Trump left office, media companies' readership numbers are plunging — and publishers that rely on partisan, ideological warfare have taken an especially big hit.  —  Why it matters …

A New Darkness Falls on the Trump Movement  —  It was 6 a.m. in Cleveland.  I had spent the night trying to sleep stretched out across three chairs in the baggage claim at the airport and was wearing the same sweaty, grass-stained sundress I'd worn at the Donald Trump rally from the night before …

McCarthy Unveils Republican Task Forces, Announces Leaders and Members  —  Washington, D.C. - Today, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) formally announced the members of the Republican Task Forces, seven issue-specific task forces designed to identify and develop policy solutions to the issues facing the American people.

No. 3 House Democrat Steps Into Ohio Race to Head Off a Sanders Acolyte  —  The decision by Representative James Clyburn to oppose an outspoken ally of Senator Bernie Sanders in a special election in Cleveland highlights the generational and ideological gulf in the Democratic Party.

Fox News Agrees to $1 Million Fine for Violating Human Rights Law  —  Fox News effectively admitted to a pattern of misconduct and has agreed to pay a civil penalty in New York. … Despite Fox News' claims to have repaired the company's toxic workplace culture since the firing of founder …

Inside the risky bat-virus engineering that links America to Wuhan  —  In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting.  Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Shi, along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology …

Biden Weighs New Executive Order Restraining Big Business  —  The action under consideration would go beyond traditional antitrust enforcement and would likely face legal challenges  —  The Biden administration is developing an executive order directing agencies to strengthen oversight …

Trump legal team expects charges against company in coming days  —  Washington — Ronald Fischetti, a lawyer representing former President Trump in his stand-off with New York prosecutors, expects the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to bring criminal charges against Mr. Trump's company …

Transgender woman captures Miss Nevada USA pageant  —  The title of Miss Nevada USA has gone to a transgender woman for the first time in the pageant's history.  —  Kataluna Enriquez was crowned the winner Sunday in the pageant at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas and will continue to compete for the title of Miss USA.

‘Right-Wing Death Squad’: Active-Duty Marine Plotted to Bomb DNC, Murder Black People, Feds Say  —  The feds investigated USMC Private First Class Travis Owens for discussing the unrealized plan with two others, including one person tied to neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen.

Arizona ballot audit shows signs of backfiring on GOP  —  When Arizona Republicans first pushed for a partisan audit of the 2020 presidential ballots cast in the Phoenix metropolitan area, they argued that they needed to know if any irregularities or fraud caused President Trump to lose this rapidly evolving swing state.

Man who jumped from a moving plane at LAX tells FBI he bought ‘a lot’ of crystal meth before the flight  —  As United Airlines Flight 5365 was readying to take off from Los Angeles International Airport on Friday evening, 33-year-old Luis Antonio Victoria Dominguez of La Paz, Mexico …

January 6 Clearinghouse  —  Welcome to this all-source, public resource for analysts, researchers, investigators, journalists, educators, and the public at large.  —  If you think the January 6 Clearinghouse is missing something, please send recommendations for additional content by email to Jan6Clearinghouse@justsecurity.org.

Pelosi's new Jan. 6 select committee is about to collide with ‘white rage’  —  For nearly a week, the far right has raged at Gen. Mark A. Milley for declaring a desire to “understand white rage.”  But Milley didn't allude to “white rage” in a vacuum.  Milley said he wants to understand …

Campus ‘Red Scare’ takes Florida back to the '50s  —  The Will Bunch Newsletter is back from its hiatus and for the rest of 2021 it's going to be bolder and better than ever.  Since you asked, the reason for the break was my 2022 book about the modern American way of college and its outsized role …

Top Oregon RNC official says he was unaware of pro-Nazi host and White national activist they discussed during YouTube chat  —  (CNN)A top Republican Party official in Oregon appeared on a YouTube show hosted by a man with a history of racist, anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi statements …