Statement by President Joe Biden on Texas Law SB8  —  Today, Texas law SB8 went into effect.  This extreme Texas law blatantly violates the constitutional right established under Roe v. Wade and upheld as precedent for nearly half a century.  —  The Texas law will significantly impair women's access …

Joe Rogan, A Podcasting Giant Who Has Been Dismissive of Vaccination, Has Covid  —  Joe Rogan, the host of the hugely popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” said on Wednesday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus after he returned from a series of shows in Florida, where the virus is rampant.

Another Trump Organization executive to appear before NY grand jury as prosecutors probe former President's business  —  Toobin: Trump Organization can try to pretend this is Weisselberg problem  —  (CNN)The Trump Organization's corporate director of security is expected to appear …

McConnell: 'There isn't going to be an impeachment' of Biden  —  Don Lemon: GOP hypocrisy is off the charts and sickening  —  (CNN)Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday that “there isn't going to be an impeachment” of President Joe Biden over the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan …

How anti-California propaganda and racism are driving the recall  —  In the summer of 2019, as early efforts to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom foundered, right-wing commentators launched a smear campaign against California to discredit its progressive policies and stoke anger at its leaders.

Kevin McCarthy keeps revealing how ugly a GOP House would be  —  Mark this down: If Republicans win the House in the 2022 elections, one of their very first acts in the majority will be to impeach President Biden for the offense of having won the 2020 election.  —  Okay, that's a joke.  But only partly.

Purdue Pharma Is Dissolved and Sacklers Pay $4.5 Billion to Settle Opioid Claims  —  The ruling in bankruptcy court caps a long legal battle over the fate of a company accused of fueling the opioid epidemic and the family that owns it.  —  Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive painkiller OxyContin …

AP sources: Intel shows extremists to attend Capitol rally  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Far right extremist groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are planning to attend a rally later this month at the U.S. Capitol that is designed to demand “justice” for the hundreds of people who have been charged …

White supremacist praise of the Taliban takeover concerns US officials  —  Video reportedly shows Taliban celebrating with military parade  —  (CNN)As the United States-backed government in Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and US troops raced to leave the country, White supremacist …

Massive randomized study is proof that surgical masks limit coronavirus spread, authors say  —  The authors of a study based on an enormous randomized research project in Bangladesh say their results offer the best evidence yet that widespread wearing of surgical masks can limit the spread of the coronavirus in communities.

Judge Dismisses Hunter Biden Laptop Guy's Defamation Lawsuit with Prejudice, Forces Him to Pay Twitter's Attorneys' Fees Under Anti-SLAPP Law  —  A federal court in Florida has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed against Twitter by the Delaware computer repairman who briefly captured national attention during …

The Legal Minds Who Tried to Overturn the Election for Trump Are Being Welcomed Back Into Polite Society  —  Though it hasn't received the attention it deserves, courage from Republican election officials and leaders helped save this country from a total election meltdown in 2020 based on lies …

Giuliani Records Cameo Endorsing Case Against His Own Client  —  Freedom of speech and freedom from compelled speech are protected rights in America, but nothing can protect Rudy Giuliani from himself.  —  In a video obtained by New York, the former mayor stars in an inadvertent public-service announcement …

McDonald's McFlurry Machine Is Broken (Again).  Now the FTC Is On It.  —  The frequently malfunctioning equipment leads to a lawsuit and gets the federal antitrust agency involved  —  Can the FTC help get you your McFlurry?  —  As many customers of McDonald's know all too well …

Sweetgreen CEO: Vaccines and Masks Will Not Save Us, But Salads Might  —  The pricey salad chain CEO took to LinkedIn to espouse his views on the pandemic, such as that Americans who got seriously ill were too fat.  —  EO  —  On Tuesday, the CEO of Sweetgreen, a restaurant chain …

Mueller Scrutinized an Unidentified Member of News Media in Russia Inquiry  —  The scrutiny was one of several new disclosures the Justice Department made about investigative actions involving the news media during the Trump years.  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel who investigated …

Exclusive: Government can't reach one-in-three released migrant kids  —  The U.S. government has lost contact with thousands of migrant children released from its custody, according to data obtained by Axios through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

Photos show black slick in water near Gulf oil rig after Ida  —  PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Photos show what appears to be a miles-long oil slick near an offshore rig in the Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida, according to aerial survey imagery released Wednesday by the National Oceanic …

Top U.S. diplomat during Kabul evacuation tests positive for Covid  —  Ross Wilson, who was the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, recently tested positive for Covid-19, according to three people familiar with the matter.  He currently only has very mild, cold-like symptoms, one of the people said.

Far-Right Propagandist Turns up in Moscow After Jan. 6  —  Russia Insider founder Charles Bausman traveled from his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and advanced as far as the Capitol's balustrades after Trump's speech, he said.  Soon after, he left the country for Moscow.

‘Everybody screwed up’: Blame game begins over turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A week into the evacuation from Kabul, the U.S. military was forced to take a drastic step: stop all flights from Hamid Karzai International Airport for seven hours because there was nowhere for the evacuees to go.

Republicans Flip-Flop on Support for Afghanistan Withdrawal  —  Eager to denounce President Biden, some Republicans have flip-flopped on bringing U.S. troops home — making it difficult to discern what they actually believe.  —  WASHINGTON — Early last year, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California …

Don't Parole Sirhan Sirhan, My Father's Assassin  —  Ms. Kennedy is a documentary filmmaker.  She is the youngest child of Robert Kennedy, the New York senator and presidential candidate assassinated in June 1968.  —  I never met my father.  When Sirhan Sirhan murdered him in the kitchen hallway …

Amtrak might add more than 50 new routes.  But they still won't be faster than a car  —  Washington, DC (CNN)The $1 trillion infrastructure bill appears set to give passenger and freight rail $66 billion, an infusion that will likely expand where service is offered but does little to increase the speed of train travel in the US.

An Open Letter to Tucker Carlson from a Hungarian Conservative  —  Viktor Orbán isn't building the Christian conservative Disneyland in Hungary you think he is, but a Chinese and Russian Trojan Horse in the EU and NATO.  —  Editor's note: Earlier this month, Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson visited Hungary.

Hurricane Ida Destroyed This Town.  Residents Hope Help Arrives Soon.  —  LaPlace sits outside the New Orleans levees; now it waits for power, food and cell service after 'worst destruction we've ever seen'  —  LAPLACE, La.—Residents waited for four hours in a half-mile-long line at the one working gas station.

Majority of Interpreters, Other U.S. Visa Applicants Were Left Behind in Afghanistan, Official Says  —  Many Afghan allies had applied for visas to escape reprisal from the Taliban

Will Biden Make a Historic Mistake at the Fed?  —  The past 30 years should have taught Democrats to put their own economic policy priorities before symbolic gestures of “bipartisanship.”  If US President Joe Biden does not replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell with Lael Brainard, he will almost certainly regret it.