President Biden's COVID-19 Plan  —  President Biden is implementing a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy that employs the same science-based approach that was used to successfully combat previous variants of COVID-19 earlier this year.  This plan will ensure that we are using every available tool …

Progressives Want Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire.  His Response?  Not Yet  —  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has said he will retire on his own terms amid calls from progressives for him to step down from the court so President Biden can name a younger liberal to take his place.

Andrew Yang to launch a third party  —  Former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is set to launch a third party next month, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  Yang is expected to start the party in conjunction with the Oct. 5 release of his new book …

FBI Seizes Oath Keeper Lawyer's Phone in “Seditious Conspiracy” Investigation  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  The FBI is investigating “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol …

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district  —  All children 12 and older in Los Angeles public schools must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January to enter campus under an order approved Thursday by the Board of Education …

Usher, Priyanka Chopra & Julianne Hough Set For ‘The Activist’, CBS Competition Series From Global Citizen  —  Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough are set to co-host the Global Citizen competition series from CBS, The Activist.  The five-week reality series premieres Friday …

Police suspected pro-Trump ‘proxies’ were ‘planning trouble’ on Jan. 6 — but top officials granted permits anyway: New documents  —  The chief of Capitol police and the department's top intelligence officer personally signed off on permits for six demonstrations ringing the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 …

The American Aristocracy Tries to Fight Racism.  It's Not Working.  —  Mackenzie Scott's gift to Whittier College represents less than a third of one percent of all the money she gave last year.  But it has transformed the school.  And not for the better.

Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume  —  In the days and weeks before the U.S. military's hectic departure from Afghanistan, two former interpreters for the American military already resettled in the United States — one a naturalized U.S. citizen …

Ex-Marines in neo-Nazi terror cell planned to attack power grid as precursor to assassination campaign: government  —  A neo-Nazi terror cell enmeshed in the US Marine Corps made plans to attack the power grid last fall, hoping the could set the stage to carry out assassinations in their quest …

Georgia's rural Trump-supporting turf drags down state's COVID vaccination rank  —  When Grantville Councilman Jim Sells started feeling sick this summer, he tried to tough it out.  —  He described himself as a hardcore conservative and a skeptic of masks, vaccines and other COVID-19 precautions.

Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb.  Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try.  —  The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last Saturday, after a three-mile hike through the Presidio …

The Best Holocaust Movie You Haven't Been Able to See—Yet  —  When Barry Levinson, the veteran film and television director, was about 5 years old, a man appeared at his family's home in Baltimore.  Levinson was told that this fellow was his grandmother's brother, Symcha Skurnick.

Exclusive-Proud Boys leader urged group not to ‘turn on each other’ in riot probe  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As four of his fellow Proud Boy leaders sat in jail this summer, charged with conspiracy in the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the group's chairman, Enrique Tarrio …

Statement from the President on Withdrawal of David Chipman's Nomination to Lead ATF  —  David Chipman spent 25 years in distinguished service to our country as an ATF agent.  He's a gun owner himself, and someone who has the backing of law enforcement groups.

The Off-Mic Moment That Changed My View of Larry Elder  —  Larry Elder, the surprising front-running candidate to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in next week's California recall election, has had quite a summer.  Mostly, it's because of the peculiarity of the recall itself: If less than half …

Vaccination Mandates Are an American Tradition.  So Is the Backlash.  —  The roots of U.S. vaccine mandates predate both the U.S. and vaccines.  —  As disease and death reigned around them, some Americans declared that they would never get vaccinated and raged at government efforts to compel them.

Vaccinating the Unvaccinated  —  Since January, the Administration has taken actions to make vaccination conveniently available to all.  COVID vaccines have been available to every individual age 16 and older since April 19th and to those age 12 and older since May. The Administration took steps …

Pennsylvania Republicans' Attempts At A 2020 Election “Audit” Are Off To An Awkward Start  —  Pennsylvania's Senate Republicans kicked off their own so-called “audit” of the 2020 election with a hearing Thursday, becoming the third state legislature to do so ten months after voters rejected former president Donald Trump.