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 …

Tucker Carlson doubles down on NSA spy claim after agency denial  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday again insisted that he is being spied on by the federal government despite the nation's leading intelligence agency refuting his claim earlier the same day.  —  “Did the Biden administration read my personal emails?

Error mars vote count in NYC mayoral primary  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was thrown into a state of confusion Tuesday when election officials retracted their latest report on the vote count after realizing it had been corrupted by test data never cleared from a computer system.

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.

POLITICO Playbook: Nutso in New York  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  POLITICO New York's Joe Anuta and David Giambusso, in a story that posted at 11:31 p.m.: “Tallies released Tuesday afternoon indicated that KATHRYN GARCIA had come within 2.2 points of leading Democratic candidate ERIC ADAMS after ranked-choice tabulations were processed.

NY prosecutors examining cash bonuses at Trump Organization, sources say  —  New York (CNN)New York prosecutors investigating the Trump Organization are scrutinizing cash bonuses as part of their focus on whether the company failed to pay taxes on benefits provided to some of its employees, people familiar with the matter say.

The Internet Is Rotting  —  Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization—fits Clarke's observation well.

Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe  —  Democrats wanted a panel of outside experts to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.  Instead they might have to deal with the Trump wing of the House GOP.  —  The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a new committee …

Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory  —  Proponents of Critical Race Theory are resorting to semantic gaslighting to defend a dogma that most Americans instinctively abhor.  —  Some pundits claim that CRT is exclusively a school of thought taught in legal academia.

Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse  —  Your browser does not support the video element.  —  A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …

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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 …

Rep. Paul Gosar keeps hanging out with white nationalists, and GOP leaders don't do a thing about it  — Republican Rep. Paul Gosar appeared with white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes in February, and is cagey about whether he'll be doing another fundraiser with him.

Russia Targets Fox News Fans in Bid to Become the World's Anti-Woke Capital  —  GREENER GRASS  —  The Kremlin and its staunchest loyalists are touting Russia as a politically incorrect utopia—something they think Western conservatives can't resist.  —  Galvanized by the results …

Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea UK incident  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week's Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation” to test Moscow's response.

‘Something inside me said run’: Surfside survivor describes escaping as building came down  —  SURFSIDE, Fla. - It's an unbelievable story of survival.  —  For 64-year-old Iliana Monteagudo it's as if a supernatural force she said woke her up and guided her from her sixth floor unit at Champlain Towers South.

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.