Why I Won't Support Spending Another $3.5 Trillion  —  Amid inflation, debt and the inevitability of future crises, Congress needs to take a strategic pause.  —  The nation faces an unprecedented array of challenges and will inevitably encounter additional crises in the future.

TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site With Fake Info  —  An easy to use iOS shortcut lets non-technical users bombard the site, according to Motherboard's tests.  —  Joseph Cox  —  An activist has made a script to flood a Texas website used to solicit information …

Ex-prosecutor indicted for misconduct in Ahmaud Arbery death  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A former Georgia prosecutor was indicted Thursday on misconduct charges alleging she used her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery from being charged with crimes immediately after the shootings.

Remington Subpoenas Report Cards of Five Children Killed in Sandy Hook Shooting  —  As part of a lawsuit defense, the company that made the guns used in the Sandy Hook shooting demanded the disciplinary and attendance records of dead children.  —  Gun company Remington has subpoenaed the report cards …

Here's what made the New York City flooding so devastating  —  The intensity of rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida converged with urban sprawl, previous downpours and climate change for a flash-flood disaster  —  The remnants of Hurricane Ida unloaded a historic and catastrophic deluge …

‘QAnon Shaman’ Reaches Plea Deal, Now ‘Repudiates’ Association With ‘Q,’ Lawyer Says  —  Jacob Chansley's lawyer called for “patience and compassion” for his client, who he said has “genuine mental health issues.”  —  The man known as the “QAnon Shaman” has reached a plea deal …

Kevin McCarthy among GOP lawmakers whose phone records January 6 select committee asks to be preserved  —  (CNN)House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is among a group of GOP lawmakers whose phone records are of interest to the select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, CNN has learned.

James Simons, Robert Mercer, Others at Renaissance to Pay $7 Billion to Settle Tax Probe  —  Tax settlement that may be the largest in history  —  Executives of hedge fund Renaissance Technologies LLC will personally pay approximately $7 billion in back taxes and penalties to settle …

Trump's Plot to Steal Arizona Was Even Wilder Than We Thought  —  A massive data dump of emails, texts, and documents show Trump's allies were heavily involved in the bogus Arizona audit.  —  For months now, we all thought we knew that the bogus Arizona audit was a clown show.

Americans Don't Really Hate Density  —  They hate other Americans  —  You may have seen a recent Pew survey result making the rounds on urbanism twitter.  It is a dispiriting finding if you believe (which you should believe, because it's simply true) that many of the land use …

Exclusive: Silicon Valley investor dismissed racism, called BLM “the true racists”  —  A notable venture capitalist and board member at the public company behind iconic brands like The North Face and Timberland was dismissive of racism in the U.S. and called Black Lives Matter “the true racists,” according to emails obtained by Axios.

Heeding Steve Bannon's Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP — and Reshape America's Elections  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

Tree of Life synagogue disputes Biden's claim he visited after massacre  —  President Biden on Thursday told Jewish leaders that he spent time at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the October 2018 mass murder of 11 people there -but the synagogue told The Post he never visited.

The Effects of Increased Funding for the IRS  —  Last month, the Congressional Budget Office published An Analysis of Certain Proposals in the President's 2022 Budget.  Since then, CBO has completed its analysis of another proposal in the President's budget, an increase in spending …

Sex offending suspect claims transgender harassment in Wi Spa case  —  In June, a group of women complained that a person who identified as female exposed their penis at the Wi Spa in Los Angeles.  The incident led to months of sometimes violent protests, with media outlets declaring …

US intelligence chief intervenes to block state secrets in Saudi Crown Prince's feud with former Saudi official  —  Washington (CNN)The US Director of National Intelligence has made an extraordinary intervention in a federal court case brought against a top former Saudi intelligence official …

Biden's Approval Rating Hits A New Low After The Afghanistan Withdrawal  —  Amid the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden's approval rating slid to just 43% in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.  —  That is down 6 percentage points from a survey conducted …

“2016 on Steroids”: The Race to Inherit Trump's MAGA Base Is Already On—And the Knives Are Out  —  With the 2024 election in sight, Republican presidential contenders such as Ron DeSantis, Ted Cruz, and Mike Pompeo have begun racing each other to the bottom to claim the party's base.

The juvenile 'It's horse paste!' critique of Ivermectin  —  The Nobel Prize in medicine in 2015 went to two scientists whose experiments on a type of bacteria and subsequent modifications produced a compound that led to “a new class of drugs with extraordinary efficacy against parasitic diseases …

Ron Johnson Gets Caught Debunking the Big Lie  —  After months of amplifying Donald Trump's claims about 2020 election “fraud,” the senator is captured on tape admitting the truth: Trump lost.  —  Even before the January 6 insurrection by supporters of former President Donald Trump …

We Work at the A.C.L.U. Here's What We Think About Vaccine Mandates.  —  Mr. Cole is the national legal director of the A.C.L.U., and Mr. Mach is the director of its Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief.  —  Do vaccine mandates violate civil liberties?  Some who have refused vaccination claim as much.

Gov. DeSantis' Net Approval Rating Drops 14 Points Amid Covid Spike, Poll Finds  —  Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have seen their approval ratings dip amid an alarming rise of Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations in both states over the past two months …

The Downsides of Masking Young Students Are Real  —  Scientists have an obligation to strive for honesty.  And on the question of whether kids should wear masks in schools—particularly preschools and elementary schools—here is what I conclude: The potential educational harms …