Manchin proposed $1.5T top-line number to Schumer this summer  —  Joe Manchin proposed a deal to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer this summer to limit the total cost of Democrats' sweeping spending bill to $1.5 trillion, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by POLITICO.

Durham issues fresh round of subpoenas in his continuing probe of FBI investigation into Trump, Russia  —  Washington (CNN)Special Counsel John Durham has issued a new set of subpoenas, including to a law firm with close ties to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, an indication that Durham …

Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure  —  The historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum.

Live Updates: Senate Passes Spending Bill, and Manchin Calls for $2 Trillion Cut to Biden's Social Spending Plan  —  The House will now take up the short-term spending bill, which would fund the government until early December.  Senator Joe Manchin III, a key holdout on the president's social policy …

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.

A border crisis Biden is comfortable with  —  Americans are watching in horror as towns like Del Rio, Texas, continue to be overrun with a historic wave of preventable illegal immigration.  Drone images recently captured by Fox News shocked the nation as 12,000 illegal immigrants from Haiti built …

Kristi Noem cuts ties with adviser Corey Lewandowski after donor alleged unwanted sexual advances  —  South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has severed ties with political strategist Corey Lewandowski, following allegations reported by POLITICO that Lewandowski made unwanted sexual advances toward a woman at a recent fundraising event.

Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of people in urban areas  —  Unvaccinated Covid patients still overwhelming health care workers  —  Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely …

US Marine who says he rescued baby at Kabul airport investigated for appearing at Trump rally [Updated]  —  ​​A Marine who says he saved a baby in Kabul by lifting the infant over the walls outside Hamid Karzai International Airport is now under investigation for appearing on stage …

the facebook files  —  Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.  That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents …

Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. to Relocate Headquarters and Other Major Operations to Tennessee  — Leading U.S.-based firearms manufacturer will invest more than $125 million to relocate from Springfield, Massachusetts to Maryville, Tennessee

Top Republicans rub shoulders with extremists in secretive rightwing group, leak reveals  —  Wealthy entrepreneurs and media moguls also named on membership list for influential Council for National Policy  —  A leaked document has revealed the membership list of the secretive Council for National Policy …

Rep. Dan Crenshaw bypassed Capitol security, police say.  He's the latest lawmaker to be hit with a $5,000 fine.  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tex.) must pay a $5,000 fine for skipping security procedures as he entered the Republican cloakroom inside the U.S. Capitol last week …

New Initiative Explores Deep, Persistent Divides Between Biden and Trump Voters  —  The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project …

Biden's Approval Rating Recovers Some From Last Month's Low, An NPR Poll Finds  —  Since the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a month ago, President Biden's approval rating has recovered some in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.  —  Last month, just 43% of survey respondents approved …

A 2nd Cuomo Investigation Is Expected to Confirm Harassment Claims  —  The final report, expected in October, could revive calls for lawmakers to impeach Andrew Cuomo, the former governor, to prevent him from running again, though that seems unlikely.  — Read in app

A Secret State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause “Havana Syndrome”  —  Noises linked to mysterious injuries among US diplomats in Cuba were most likely caused by crickets — not microwave weapons — according to a declassified scientific review commissioned by the US State Department and obtained by BuzzFeed News.

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.

Shakira says wild boars in Barcelona attacked her and stole her purse  —  Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira says two wild boars pounced on her bag as she visited a Barcelona park with her son, running off into the forest with it.  —  In a series of videos posted to her Instagram story Wednesday …

DHS issues new arrest and deportation guidelines to immigration agents  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued broad new directives to immigration officers Thursday saying that the fact that someone is an undocumented immigrant “should not alone be the basis” …

Why I Am Suing UCLA  —  I refused to discriminate against my students.  Then the problems began.  —  Recently, I was suspended from my job for refusing to treat my black students as lesser than their non-black peers.  —  Let me back up: I teach at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, and I've been doing this for 40 years.

Pompeo: Sources for Yahoo News WikiLeaks report ‘should all be prosecuted’  —  Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News  —  for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency …

Review Analysis: Stanford students are more likely to wear masks on bicycles than helmets  —  In April of this year, I witnessed something on the Stanford campus that will be seared into my memory forever: a student on a bicycle, wearing flip-flops, AirPods in ear, going the wrong way through …

Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches Investigation  —  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said it will scrutinize NYPD ranks following a WNYC/Gothamist investigation of online records that appears to tie several …

Matthew Dowd once urged ‘White male Christians’ like himself to ‘step back,’ allow women, minorities to lead  —  'Let's put the country first and our fellow humans ahead of our own egos,' Dowd told his demographic peers  —  Liberal pundit-turned-politician Matthew Dowd once called for …

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: ‘There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount’  —  (CNN)Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned …

Bezos Wants to Create a Better Future in Space.  His Company Blue Origin Is Stuck in a Toxic Past.  —  We are a group of 21 former and current employees of Blue Origin.  Many of us have spent our careers dreaming of helping to launch a crewed rocket into space and seeing it safely touch back down on Earth.