Former Murdoch Exec: Fox News Is Poison For America  —  The Rupert Murdoch I worked for was brilliant, courageous, optimistic, and a gentleman.  Which makes his bile-filled network all the more confounding. … Rupert Murdoch, whom I served for seven years, has many business and journalistic achievements.

You Really Need to Quit Twitter  —  I'm almost 60, and in these many decades I've seen people—some of them good friends—taken down by all kinds of things.  Alcohol and drugs, mostly.  A few years ago, I lost someone to heroin, and hundreds of us sat at his funeral in wordless communion.

Trump biographer explains Ivanka Trump ‘is in peril’ along with Allen Weisselberg  —  President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump is in about as much trouble as Allen Weisselberg is, according to biographer Michael D'Antonio.  —  Speaking to CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday …

I&I/TIPP Poll: Just 36% of Young People Are Proud To Be American  —  Editor's note: Issues & Insights gratefully acknowledges its collaboration with tippinsights on the simultaneous and exclusive release of this story.  —  Is pride in America a thing of the past?  Not if you ask Americans.

White House reaching out to Republicans about a second bipartisan infrastructure package  —  Senior White House officials are holding “informal discussions” with outside experts and congressional officials on how to split off a second, targeted bipartisan package from a larger reconciliation package expected …

Ammon Bundy seizes on housing shortage in new bid to take public lands in Idaho  —  When Ammon Bundy announced his run for governor of Idaho during a recent barbecue, he cooked up quarter-pound “Bundy burgers” made from a cow that his father unlawfully grazed on federal lands …

Trump has cut off Rudy Giuliani, and is annoyed that he asked to be paid for his work on challenging the election, book says  — Rudy Giuliani spearheaded Donald Trump's attempt to overturn his election loss until February.  — Giuliani is said to have long been asking Trump to pay his legal fees but has been ignored.

Eleven days after partial collapse, remainder of Surfside condo is demolished  —  The remaining portion of Champlain Towers South has been demolished.  —  At 10:30 Sunday night, authorities detonated charges inserted into holes drilled in the part of the 12-story Surfside condo that stood tenuously …

Facebook, Twitter, Google Threaten to Quit Hong Kong Over Proposed Data Laws  —  Industry group representing companies says proposed anti-doxing rules could put staff based locally at risk of criminal charges  —  HONG KONG— Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google …

Birthday Parties as Virus Vector  —  Just how much Covid was spreading behind closed doors last year?  Quite a lot, as a new study with a simple yet creative approach found out.  —  At the height of the pandemic, it was easy to worry that strangers would give you the virus.

West Virginia GOP Governor Issues Blunt Warning To Unvaccinated  —  “They're not thinking right,” Jim Justice said of the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in his state.  —  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) said people hesitant about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine are “not thinking right” and warned they are playing a “death lottery.”

In ramp-up to 2022 midterms, Republican candidates center pitches on Trump's false election claims  —  A candidate to be Arizona's top elections official said recently he hopes a review of 2020 ballots underway in his state will lead to the reversal of former president Donald Trump's defeat there.

How the Supreme Court eroded voting rights  —  If a law is working, if it is preventing trouble, isn't that a good reason to get rid of it?  —  In a word, that is stupid.  —  Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the former Supreme Court Justice, famously warned such stupidity amounts to …

We knew QAnon is anti-Semitic.  Now we know it's racist, too  —  In the summer of 2020, social media companies, led by Facebook, banned the hashtag #savethechildren, which had been hijacked by QAnon conspiracy theorists from the legitimate charity with the same name.

Afghanistan: Soldiers flee to Tajikistan after militant clashes  —  More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have fled to neighbouring Tajikistan after clashing with Taliban militants, officials have said.  —  The troops retreated over the border to “save their own lives”, according to a statement by Tajikistan's border guard.

We've seen this border wall show before.  Please spare us the rerun.  —  Donald Trump's visit to the border this week had a distressingly familiar ring to it.  The ex-president made the same baseless claims that other countries are sending their murderers and drug dealers to America.

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Reflect on 75 Years of Marriage  —  Their relationship has been a constant through wins and losses, reinvention and raising a family.  At 96 and 93, they have come to rely on their bond more now than ever.  —  PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter, a midshipman in the U.S. Naval Academy …

'A political Rubik's Cube': Democrats work to keep Biden's economic agenda alive … WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are performing a high-wire act to keep President Joe Biden's economic agenda alive, seeking to balance tensions inside their party with pressure from Republicans who want to derail …

Pro-Trump social media app hacked on launch day as half million sign up  —  A social media site launched on Sunday by Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former U.S. President Donald Trump, was briefly hacked, and more than 500,000 people have registered to use the site, Miller said.