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.

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 …

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.

Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to year of house arrest over illegal campaign funding  —  PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced Thursday for knowingly exceeding spending limits during his failed 2012 presidential campaign.  —  The former conservative president was sentenced …

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 …

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.

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 …

Officer-Involved Delusions  —  Cops lie to us.  We should be even more worried when they lie to themselves.  —  The latest episode of The Politics of Everything is about police and fentanyl.  Specifically, it's about what exactly is happening when police officers “overdose” …

Democrats worry a loss in Virginia could set off a cascade of election troubles  —  President Biden's slumping approval ratings and gridlock on Capitol Hill have raised the risk that Democrats could lose the Virginia governor's race, according to party insiders who fear a defeat …

How the phrase ‘natural immunity’ misleads us about real risks and dangers  —  Antibodies to the coronavirus are not better just because they are ‘natural.’  —  What began as a viral TikTok hashtag has infected every social media platform: Many of the proudly unvaccinated now identify themselves as #Pureblood.

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.

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.

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 quarter of those down on Biden's job performance say they “somewhat disapprove,” helping his numbers slide — but also leaving Biden an opening.  —  In new POLITICO/Morning Consult and Pew Research Center polls over the past week …

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

We're Already Barreling Toward the Next Pandemic  —  A year after the United States bombed its pandemic performance in front of the world, the Delta variant opened the stage for a face-saving encore.  If the U.S. had learned from its mishandling of the original SARS-CoV-2 virus …

Mississippi abortion clinic braces for Supreme Court showdown over Roe v. Wade  —  Jackson Women's Health is on the front line of a battle over abortion rights.  —  JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi's last remaining abortion clinic is a survivor of decades of protests, vandalism and legal challenges to curtail a woman's right to choose.

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.

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 …

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 …

Congresswomen share personal stories of abortion in hopes of bringing change to policy conversation  —  Three congresswomen who will testify at a House oversight hearing on reproductive rights shared their deeply personal experiences about abortion.  They are hoping their stories can change …

Antisemitic mailer in Virginia legislative race follows a recent GOP pattern  —  Antisemitic stereotypes, tropes and imagery, centuries old, recur episodically in American politics, and not only on the ideological fringes.  Days ago, in a tightly contested Northern Virginia state legislative race …

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.

Leader of ‘Atomwaffen’ hate group convicted of five federal felonies for conspiracy to threaten journalists and Anti-Defamation League employees  —  Defendant created threatening posters sent to homes in three states  —  Seattle - The leader of a Neo-Nazi hate group ‘Atomwaffen’ was convicted today …