House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate  —  House Democrats appear poised to miss a second vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, highlighting the stubborn stalemate over the larger social benefits package at the core of President Biden's agenda.

Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces  —  Congress racing to prevent government shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown.

AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate  —  A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden's plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it.

Yes, Virginia parents should tell schools what to teach  —  Rarely are the differences between two candidates for public office perfectly crystallized into a single minute of debate.  But such a minute transpired Tuesday night in Alexandria, Virginia, during the gubernatorial debate between …

Ex-President Sarkozy Convicted for Campaign Spending Violations  —  Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegally financing his 2012 presidential bid by exceeding France's strict electoral rules and sentenced to a year of house arrest.  He said he would appeal.

Scoop: Milley's blunt private blame for the State Department  —  In a classified briefing with senators on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley directly blamed the State Department for a botched evacuation from Afghanistan, saying officials “waited too long” to order the operation …

Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim  —  The move came after a donor to former President Donald J. Trump said that Mr. Lewandowski had made unwanted sexual advances and touched her inappropriately.  —  Corey Lewandowski, a longtime political adviser to Donald J. Trump …

Facebook's Documents About Instagram and Teens, Published  —  The Senate holds a hearing Thursday about the social network's impact, prompted by The Wall Street Journal's coverage  —  Facebook Inc. is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing on Thursday about its products' effects on young people's mental health.

The Right to Health  —  Immunization mandates aren't new.  One helped win the American Revolution.  —  The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate.  —  In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.

President Biden Names Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees  —  The President is announcing fourteen judicial nominees, including ten new candidates for the federal bench.  All of the nominees are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.

New York AG Letitia James teases run for governor, bashes Cuomo as 2022 race takes shape  —  New York State Attorney General Letitia James strongly hinted she plans to run for governor next year during a speech delivered Wednesday to a group of influential political players.

Former Nazi camp secretary in German trial, 96, on the run  —  BERLIN (AP) — A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant Thursday after skipping the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said.

January 6 committee targets organizers of Stop the Steal rally in latest batch of subpoenas  —  (CNN)The select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has issued its second round of subpoenas, this time targeting individuals involved in the planning and organization of the …

Idaho Secretary of State refutes Mike Lindell's statewide election manipulation claims  —  BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Staff from the Idaho Secretary of State's office visited two Idaho counties last week following receipt of information that alleged statewide manipulation of Idaho's election results.

How Florida fell so far behind California in battling the coronavirus  —  Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, California and Florida have stood as polar opposites in how government has responded to the coronavirus.  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom last year backed sweeping stay-at-home orders in California …

There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data  —  A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements  —  Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone.

My Father and the Birth of Modern Conservatism  —  The inspiration for the 1964 “Extremism in the defense of liberty” speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater.  —  On July 16, 1964 Barry Goldwater strode to the podium at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California and accepted the Republican party's nomination for president.

Black student is revealed to have written N-word graffiti that called for death of black people and led to walk-out at Missouri high school  — A black student scrawled racist graffiti featuring the N-word that led to walk-outs at Parkway Central High School in Missouri, school officials said Tuesday

Big Pharma Fights Back  —  The Democrats have proposed paying for part of President Biden's Build Back Better plan with $500 billion in savings on what the government will pay prescription drug companies through Medicare and other public programs over the next decade.

The Biden objectors who hold the 2022 election in their hands  —  A sizable share of Americans are souring on Joe Biden as president — but they don't completely hate him, either.  Where they land on that question over the next year could decide the 2022 midterm elections.

COVID-19 Vaccination for Pregnant People to Prevent Serious Illness, Deaths, and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes from COVID-19  —  Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends urgent action to increase Coronavirus Disease 2019 …

“Trust No One”: Anti-Vax Meeting Devolves Into Paranoia  —  The public call included warnings that the Chinese Communist Party controls Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and suspicion that others in the meeting were infiltrators  —  A meeting hosted by anti-vax group Stand Up Massachusetts …

Four more Republican members of Congress appear to have violated a federal law designed to combat insider trading and conflicts of interest  — Reps. John Rutherford, Rick Allen, Victoria Spartz, and Mike Kelly submitted seemingly tardy stock trade disclosures.  — They could face fines or other congressional ethics scrutiny.

U.S. Covid Recovery Spreads as Prospects Improve in 47 States  —  The U.S. recovery from the latest Covid-19 wave is taking hold across the country, with cases dropping or poised to start falling in the vast majority of states.  —  In 47 states plus the nation's capital …

Attorney general candidate admits removing old podcasts; missing episodes feature Trump critics  —  MADISON — Four episodes of a podcast hosted by Ryan Owens — some of them featuring critics of former President Donald Trump — have disappeared from the internet as the Republican candidate for attorney general ramps up his campaign.

Next border surge  —  Panama foreign minister Erika Mouynes expressed frustration to Axios that the Biden administration seemed caught off guard by the Haitian migrant crisis because “we sounded the alarm when we should have.”  —  Why it matters: The worst may still be coming.

A Trump lawyer wrote an instruction manual for a coup.  Why haven't you seen it on the news?  —  In a normal world, the “Eastman memo” would be infamous by now, the way “Access Hollywood” became the popular shorthand in 2016 for the damning recording of Donald Trump's bragging about groping women.

My favorite Covid counterfactuals  —  Ross Douthat published a couple of speculative columns on Covid Counterfactuals.  As someone who loves alternate history as a genre and also took a whole very serious philosophy class about the importance of counterfactual analysis for thinking about history, I like this type of column.