FACT SHEET: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy … The economy is booming under President Biden's leadership.  The economy has gained more than three million jobs since the President took office—the most jobs created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.

Readout of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia … President Biden spoke today with President Putin.  The leaders commended the joint work of their respective teams following the U.S.-Russia Summit that led to the unanimous renewal …

The Biggest Threat to Democracy Is the GOP Stealing the Next Election  —  The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election.  Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, through measures that are nominally constitutional.

C.D.C. to Issue New School Guidance, With Emphasis on Full Reopening  —  The guidance acknowledges that many students have suffered from months of virtual learning.  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to release new guidance on Friday urging schools to fully reopen in the fall …

Special Report: Afghan pilots assassinated by Taliban as U.S. withdraws  —  Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling capital.

‘F— him’: Rupert Murdoch gave the go-ahead to call Arizona for Biden on election night, enraging Trump, book says  — A new book says Rupert Murdoch approved Fox News' decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden.  — “F— him,” the Fox News proprietor is said to have declared of Donald Trump at the time.

Eric Adams breaks bread with GOP heavyweights at Rao's  —  It was an offer he didn't refuse.  —  Just days after winning the Democratic nomination for mayor, Eric Adams broke bread at storied Italian eatery Rao's with billionaire Republican John Catsimatidis.

Biden taps Eric Garcetti for India ambassador post  —  President Biden plans to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India and Denise Bauer, a former ambassador to Belgium and prominent Biden donor, to serve as ambassador to France, the White House announced Friday.

There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory  —  The United States is not in the midst of a “culture war” over race and racism.  The animating force of our current conflict is not our differing values, beliefs, moral codes, or practices.  The American people aren't divided.  The American people are being divided.

GOP and Fox News rush to turn vaccine door-knockers into terrifying straw men  —  It has been three days since President Biden announced an initiative to send people door-to-door trying to get more people vaccinated, and Republicans and their conservative media allies have wasted no time turning …

New Evidence Indicates Enough Illegal Votes In Georgia To Tip 2020 Results  —  In Georgia, there was both an audit and a statewide recount confirming Biden's victory, but ignored in the process was evidence that nearly 35,000 Georgians had potentially voted illegally.

Citizens, Not the State, Will Enforce New Abortion Law in Texas  —  The measure bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.  And it effectively deputizes ordinary citizens to sue people involved in the process.  —  People across the country may soon be able to sue abortion clinics …

Former GOP Hill aide pleads guilty in child porn case  —  A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide pleaded guilty Friday to a child pornography charge and is facing 12 years or more in prison under a plea deal with prosecutors.  —  Ruben Verastigui, 27 …

Charlottesville set to remove Lee statue that sparked rally  —  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that became a rallying point for white supremacists and helped inspire their infamous 2017 rally in Charlottesville will be hoisted off its pedestal this weekend …

How a hidden Biden victory could deal a big blow to Trumpian nationalism  —  When President Biden recently announced a deal with 130 countries to combat tax avoidance by multinational corporations, you probably didn't connect the news to the poisonous impact that Donald Trump continues to wield over our politics.

The Christian Right Is in Decline, and It's Taking America With It  —  The presidency of George W. Bush may have been the high point of the modern Christian right's influence in America.  White evangelicals were the largest religious faction in the country.

It's Time to Admit It: The Left Has an Antisemitism Problem  —  In our super-charged partisan times, it is often said that every issue has become politicized, with each side of the spectrum lining up on “their” side.  This is also true of antisemitism which, like so many other issues in society …

Why corporate America can't quit the ‘sedition’ Republicans  —  caught flak for making political donations to 38 members of the “sedition caucus,” as critics refer to the  —  147 Republican members of Congress who voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

GOP lawmakers caught on undercover video gleefully thanking Manchin and Sinema for preserving Senate filibuster  —  Progressive activists erupted in anger on Friday after several Republican GOP lawmakers were caught on camera praising Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ) …

White nationalists prep for “physical” altercation with security at Dallas CPAC conference  —  “Groyper” guru and Charlottesville celeb Nick Fuentes looks to lead white nationalist invasion at CPAC gathering  —  DALLAS —White nationalist and Unite the Right attendee Nicholas Fuentes …

Chief Guantánamo Prosecutor Retiring Before Sept. 11 Trial Begins  —  Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins had held the job longest, and was for many years the public face of military commissions.  —  WASHINGTON — The Army general who has led war crimes prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay …

What Happened To You?  —  The radicalization of the American elite against liberalism  —  “What happened to you?”  —  It's a question I get a lot on Twitter.  “When did you become so far right?”  “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?”  Or, of course: “See!

American freedom is on the line  —  On the day President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law, he declared it, “one of the most monumental laws in the entire history of American freedom.”  —  That declaration has stood the test of time.  With the stroke of his pen …

Trump Organization Indictment May Spell Trouble for Trump Spawn  —  The indictment against the Trump Organization named seven specific companies within the overall business.  Guess who's connected to those companies.  —  The indictment filed last week against the Trump Organization …

AG accepts GOP lawmaker's request to investigate those peddling election lies  —  Michigan's chief law enforcement officer, along with state police, will launch an investigation into those who have allegedly peddled disinformation about the state's Nov. 3 election for their own financial gain.