Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’, book says  — Remark shocked John Kelly, author Michael Bender reports  — Book details former president's ‘stunning disregard for history’  —  On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war …

Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home  —  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence early Wednesday, according to a statement from the country's interim prime minister, who called the killing a …

Scoop: Trump to sue Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey  —  Former President Donald Trump, who has complained about censorship by social media giants, plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, sources tell Axios.

A Planned Biden Order Aims to Tilt the Job Market Toward Workers  —  Noncompete clauses, licensing requirements and corporate mergers have tended to strengthen the hand of business.  —  According to an increasingly influential school of thought in left-of-center economic circles …

‘A Place That Was Built For Us’: How Howard U. Landed Nikole Hannah-Jones  —  In mid-May, the fraught fight over Nikole Hannah-Jones's tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spilled into public view.  Shortly after that, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist …

QAnon' new ‘plan’?  Run for school board  —  Drake Wuertz came to the school board meeting in Seminole County, Florida, in late June with a message familiar to those who had heard him speak at previous meetings: America's children are at risk of systemic abuse.  —  And the way to stop it is to run for local office.

Americans' Life Ratings Reach Record High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of Americans who evaluate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving” on Gallup's Live Evaluation Index reached 59.2% in June, the highest in over 13 years of ongoing measurement and exceeding the previous high of 57.3% from September 2017.

Max Solomon Lewis, 20, killed by stray bullet in Chicago  —  Max Solomon Lewis, a 20-year-old University of Chicago student, was commuting home from his summer internship last Thursday evening when a stray bullet pierced the window of his train car and hit him in the back of the neck.

Tucker Carlson Wants Body Cameras for Teachers to Stop Critical Race Theory  —  “How widespread is it?  Well, we can't really be sure until we finally get cameras in the classroom, as we put them on the chests of police officers.”  —  PB  —  Tucker Carlson thinks the renegade teaching …

Samuel Alito's Boundless Contempt for Democracy … I spent my Fourth of July holiday this year like most others did: spending time with friends and family, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, and setting off fireworks.  It's one of my favorite holidays—partly because of my affection for this country …

Riot Leader Had ‘Fully Constructed U.S. Capitol Lego Set’ at Home, FBI Says  —  PLAYING SOLDIER  —  Federal investigators seized an unusual piece of evidence from a Pennsylvania man indicted last month for his role in the Capitol riot—a Lego replica of the building he allegedly stormed.

All Marylanders who died of covid in June were unvaccinated, data shows  —  Unvaccinated people made up all of Maryland's reported coronavirus deaths last month, as well as the vast majority of new cases and hospitalizations, the state reported Tuesday — data that public health officials say demonstrates the effectiveness of vaccines.

What New York City Taught Us About Ranked Choice Voting and the Democratic Party  —  The Eric Adams victory has lessons for how candidates can win under the system.  Hint: Running in tandem with others is overrated.  —  After two weeks of jarring uncertainty and speculative mathematical permutations …

Weeks after Holocaust Museum visit, Rep. Greene makes new Nazi-era comparison in opposing vaccination push  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday used a Nazi-era comparison in opposing the Biden administration's push to encourage all Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus …

Pa. GOP lawmaker — and Trump ally — Mastriano initiates ‘forensic investigation’ into state elections  —  (*This story was updated at 11:26 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. on Wednesday, 7/7/21 to include the text of the letter that Sen. Doug Mastriano sent to county officials, and updating who had received the letter.)

Toyota vies to become Official Car of Insurrectionists.  Will Oath Keepers swear their brand loyalty?  —  Oh, what a feeling!  (And it isn't a good one.)  —  Approaching Tuesday's six-month anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, the liberal watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics …

Trump's Election Lies Are Taking Over Republican Senate Races  —  Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox?  Sign up here.  —  As President Trump wailed that the 2020 election was being stolen from him last winter, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt sprang into action to back up his wild claims.

Air Force Found Largely Responsible for Texas Church Shooting  —  Military branch failed to enter the gunman's criminal history into federal background check database used for gun purchases, judge finds  —  A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Air Force bears most of the responsibility …

FBI infiltrates group whose members wanted to test homemade bombs, surveil Capitol, secede from US, court records show  —  Dramatic Capitol riot videos used in court tell a harrowing story  —  (CNN)The FBI has infiltrated a “Bible study” group in Virginia that after the January 6 riot …

A Generation of Afghan Professionals Flees Ahead of Taliban Advance  —  Many of Afghanistan's most successful men and women in careers that flourished under the protection of the U.S. military see their lives in peril  —  KABUL—Afghanistan's professional class of men and women …

Code in huge ransomware attack written to avoid computers that use Russian, says new report  —  WASHINGTON — The computer code behind the massive ransomware attack by the Russian-speaking hacking ring REvil was written so that the malware avoids systems that primarily use Russian or related languages …

Putin may veto Biden's post-Afghanistan plans  —  It's understandable that the Biden administration couldn't release all of the details of our plans to pull out of Afghanistan to the public in advance.  It would be far too easy for the terrorists and our other adversaries to take advantage …

Biden's Covid vaccine push crashes into reality  —  CHICAGO — Buzzing razors collided with roaring laughter that collectively rose and fell as James Brown screeched in the backdrop.  It's so loud at the “It's Official Barbershop” that it's hard to hear the reply from Mark Harmon …