‘They will be arrested.’ Gov. Abbott responds to Texas Democrats' flight to Washington, D.C.  —  The Texas Legislature's special session started on July 8.  Among the issues that lawmakers are expected to address are bail reform and “election integrity.”  —  AUSTIN, Texas …

Tennessee fires top vaccine official as COVID-19 shows signs of new spread  —  The Tennessee state government on Monday fired its top vaccination official, becoming the latest of about two dozen states to lose years of institutional knowledge about vaccines in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Maria Bartiromo's top 10 fails  —  Former President Trump failed to secure a second term in office via lawsuits contesting the Nov. 3 election, a Capitol riot by his supporters or all this whacked-out chatter about “reinstatement.”  Yet that doesn't mean that he can't still act out one of the rituals of his years in office.

Trump Organization CFO Removed as Officer of Subsidiaries, Records Show  —  The former president's company is discussing changes in its financial leadership after an indictment accused longtime Trump finance chief Allen Weisselberg of a 15-year tax-fraud, which he denies

Several tied to Haiti assassination plot were previously US law enforcement informants  —  Several of the men involved in the operation that killed Haiti's president previously worked as US law enforcement informants, according to people briefed on the matter, as US investigators grapple …

Newsmax host suggests vaccines are “against nature,” and some diseases are “supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people”  —  Rob Schmitt: “That's just kind of the way evolution goes.  Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that”

The Republican Party's top lawyer called election fraud arguments by Trump's lawyers a ‘joke’ that could mislead millions  —  The Republican Party's top lawyer warned in November against continuing to push false claims that the presidential election was stolen, calling efforts …

Lawyers retreat from pro-Trump election suit  —  The legal reckoning for attorneys who pushed former President Donald Trump's spurious claims of election fraud advanced on Monday, with a federal court in Detroit holding a hearing on whether to impose sanctions over a suit filed last year seeking …

Cubans, broken by pandemic and fueled by social media, confront their police state  —  Alfredo Martínez Ramírez was browsing his gray iPhone 6 in his Havana apartment Sunday when he saw the footage on Facebook Live.  —  Ordinary people in the country's interior had taken …

GOP support for bipartisan infrastructure deal going wobbly  —  Jerry Moran is one of 11 Republicans who endorsed the Senate's bipartisan infrastructure framework.  He also has plenty of concerns about it.  —  The Kansas Republican said the idea of using increased IRS enforcement to generate …

U.S. Officials Press Pfizer for More Evidence of Need for Booster Shot  —  After meeting with company representatives, officials said the decision would depend partly on data on infections in vaccinated people that cause serious disease or hospitalization.  —  Representatives of Pfizer met privately …

Amid Florida COVID spike, Miami hospital's virus patients are younger, unvaccinated  —  Florida's COVID epidemic is on the rise again, driven by outbreaks in the Miami area, Jacksonville and the Panhandle.  —  Several months after highly effective and safe vaccines have been made available …

Virginia Bar Association cancels debate after Youngkin chooses to skip it  —  The Virginia Bar Association has cancelled its planned gubernatorial debate after Republican Glenn Youngkin broke with recent tradition by skipping what is usually the first face-to-face matchup of the general election.

Fox Runs All-Caps Disclaimer Over Trump's Lies About Stolen Election at CPAC  —  ‘DENIED THE VARIOUS ALLEGATIONS’  —  Fox News ran a disclaimer during Donald Trump's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Sunday as the former president said yet again that the 2020 election had been “rigged.”

GOP House candidate who led disruption at Porter town hall holds extremist views  —  Republican Nick Taurus's social media feeds are full of anti-LGBTQ, white supremacist, and racist comments.  —  Nick Taurus, a Republican running for the seat in California's 45th Congressional District currently held …

Absentee Drop Box Use Soared In Democratic Areas Before Voting Law Change  — Stephen Fowler , - Mark Niesse , - Sarah Kallis , and - Isaiah Poritz  —  In this Monday, Oct. 19, 2020 file photo, a voter submits a ballot in an official drop box during early voting in Athens …

‘Potentially a death sentence’: White House goes off on vaccine fearmongers  —  The Biden administration is casting conservative opponents of its Covid-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme, adopting a more aggressive political posture in an attempt to maneuver through the public health conundrum.

Senators seek Medicaid-like plan to cover holdout states  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Three Democratic U.S. senators from states that have refused to expand Medicaid want the federal government to set up a mirror plan to provide health insurance coverage to people in those states.

Henry Parham, Who Fought in a Black Unit on D-Day, Dies at 99  —  He helped tell the story of the 320th Battalion, gaining recognition only late in his life.  “I did what I was supposed to do as an American,” he said.  —  The story of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 …

Anthony Fauci And Deborah Birx Warned Top Officials About The “Dangers” Of Scott Atlas Last Summer, Emails Show  —  It only took a few days for Scott Atlas to alarm top US health officials after he became a White House COVID-19 adviser in mid-August of last year.

Dechert may face UK lawsuit over Indian hacking claim  —  (Reuters) - An Iranian-American businessman wants to sue U.S. law firm Dechert over allegations of hacking, seeking a London court's approval to add it as a defendant in a long-simmering dispute with the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA).

Republicans prefer Trump's fantasies over truth and facts  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the leader of House Democrats, recently named Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), formerly the third-ranking Republican in the House, to a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

In abrupt turnaround, California to let school districts decide how to enforce mask rules  —  The complications of managing COVID-era education took a dramatic turn Monday, when state officials issued a rule barring unmasked students from campuses, and then, hours later, rescinded that rule …