Top Trump Executive, Allen Weisselberg, Surrenders to Face Charges  —  The Trump Organization and Mr. Weisselberg have been indicted in connection with a tax investigation and are expected to appear in court Thursday.  —  Donald J. Trump's long-serving chief financial officer, Allen H. Weisselberg …

Kinzinger on McCarthy's Jan. 6 investigation threat: ‘Who gives a s—?’  —  Rep. Adam Kinzinger knows GOP leaders wanted to scare him away from serving on the Democrat-led panel investigating the Capitol riot.  And he doesn't care one bit.  —  “Who gives a shit?” the Illinois Republican …

Supreme Court upholds GOP voting restrictions in Arizona  —  The Supreme Court today upheld a pair of voting restrictions in Arizona, likely paving the way for new limitations across the country.  —  Why it matters: It's the court's biggest voting rights decision in several years.

How Rumsfeld Deserves to Be Remembered  —  In 2006, soon after I returned from my fifth reporting trip to Iraq for The New Yorker, a pair of top aides in the George W. Bush White House invited me to lunch to discuss the war.  This was a first; until then, no one close to the president would talk to me …

Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs  —  The president of the board of the Florida condominium that collapsed last week resigned in 2019, partly in frustration over what she saw as the sluggish response to an engineer's report …

Judge Denies Britney Spears' Request to Remove Father From Conservatorship Again … New court documents that were filed by the Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday show that the judge has denied the request by Spears' attorney, Samuel Ingham III, to remove her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator.

Inside the Capitol Riot: An Exclusive Video Investigation  —  The Times analyzed thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building to understand how it happened — and why.  Here are some of the key findings.  —  In the six months since an angry pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol …

Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says ‘the whole town is on fire’  —  Several out-of-control wildfires burning in other parts of province after heat wave  —  A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed …

Supreme Court strikes down California donor disclosure requirement  —  The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a California donor disclosure requirement that a series of conservative groups said targeted them.  —  In a 6-3 decision, the court found that the requirement is invalid …

Federal judge blocks Florida law that would penalize social media companies  —  A federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Florida law that would penalize social media companies for blocking a politician's posts, a blow to conservatives' efforts to respond to Facebook and other websites' suspension of former President Donald Trump.

17 hurt in huge blast during LAPD detonation of explosive devices  —  A major explosion in South Los Angeles on Wednesday evening damaged homes and injured 17 people, including police officers, as a bomb squad attempted to safely detonate improvised explosive devices that had been seized …

Decency, R.I.P.  —  If manners are the small change of morality, we've gone bankrupt a few cents at a time.  —  Sen. Mitt Romney appeared on Jake Tapper's CNN show last weekend and for a few brief minutes I felt transported to a saner world.  Asked about the gross things some on the right …

Ten Things We Now Know About the Nonwhite Working Class Vote in 2020  —  Danger Signs for Democrats  —  I thought it would be useful to do a companion post to last week's post on “Ten Things We Now Know About the White Working Class Vote in 2020” focusing on the nonwhite working class vote.

‘Not a healthy environment’: Kamala Harris' office rife with dissent  —  When Vice President Kamala Harris finally made the decision to visit the Mexico border last week, people inside her own office were blindsided by the news.  —  For days, aides and outside allies had been calling …

Charles Booker makes it official, announces run for US Senate seat held by Rand Paul  —  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Almost exactly one year after his bid for U.S. Senate came up just short in the Democratic primary, Charles Booker formally launched his new candidacy for the office Thursday …

What's Keeping Biden's Chief of Staff Up at Night?  —  ‘Everything’ — except, apparently, the midterms.  —  Back to Sway  —  More episodes of  —  • 33:20  —  Guy Fieri Has a Reminder for America  —  • 35:01  —  Exercise, and Accept Your ‘Inevitable Demise’  —  • 34:36

CCP 100: Xi warns China will not be ‘oppressed’ in anniversary speech  —  China's President Xi Jinping has warned that foreign powers will “get their heads bashed” if they attempt to bully or influence the country.  —  He delivered a defiant speech at an event marking the centenary of the ruling Communist Party on Thursday.

In Video, Exxon Lobbyist Describes Efforts to Undercut Climate Action  —  On the tape, made in a Greenpeace sting, he described working with “shadow groups” to fight climate science, and detailed efforts to weaken President Biden's proposals to burn less oil.

US jobless claims fall to 364,000, a new pandemic low  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment aid fell again last week to the lowest level since the pandemic struck last year, further evidence that the job market and the broader economy are rebounding rapidly from the coronavirus recession.

College students skeptical of GOP crackdown on critical race theory  —  Nearly half of college Republicans support public schools teaching about institutional racism — and six in 10 don't think state legislatures should be able to stop it —according to a new Generation Lab/Axios poll.