‘I Was Part of Something Unusually Evil’ In Kansas with Stephanie Grisham, who does not believe she will be redeemed.  —  Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That's Larry!”  She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch …

Trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted at the last minute  —  A trillion-dollar platinum coin could be minted “within hours of the Treasury Secretary's decision to do so,” Philip Diehl, former director of the United States Mint, tells Axios.  —  Why it matters: Congressional solutions …

Taylor Swift fans are getting caught up in the Virginia gubernatorial race  —  Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin was involved in the controversial sale of Swift's master recordings  —  Weeks before Virginia's gubernatorial election, the campaign for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe …

Donald Trump Falls Off The Forbes 400 For First Time In 25 Years  —  Donald Trump is worth an estimated $2.5 billion, leaving him $400 million short of the cutoff to make this year's Forbes 400 list of America's richest people.  The real estate mogul is just as wealthy as he was a year ago …

FBI raids NYPD sergeants union Manhattan headquarters  —  Federal investigators descended Tuesday on the Lower Manhattan headquarters of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, the union headed by fiery and controversial president Ed Mullins, the Daily News has learned.

The Cocooning of Kyrsten Sinema  —  The Arizona senator has undergone a political metamorphosis.  —  In February 2018, I went to Arizona to report on what progressive Democrats there thought about Kyrsten Sinema, the centrist whose Senate vote is key in the fight over President Biden's agenda and political prospects.

Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor  —  “Whistleblower” Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse.  —  Much is revealed by who is bestowed hero status by the corporate media.

Law School Student Famous For Saying ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Now Has Prestigious Federal Clerkship  —  Hate doesn't seem to be slowing down her career prospects.  —  I'd say Crystal Clanton just keeps failing upwards, but given that outrage is currency in right-wing circles …

MIT Abandons Its Mission.  And Me.  —  Let's make sure my cancellation is the last.  That begins by standing up and saying no to the mob.  —  I am a professor who just had a prestigious public science lecture at MIT cancelled because of an outrage mob on Twitter.  My crime?

Former Hogan chief of staff indicted on charges of secretly recording governor on phone calls, embezzling funds  —  Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's former top aide, Roy McGrath, faces dozens of federal and state criminal charges that he misled officials into paying him a six-figure severance …

Democratic Spending Bills Retain Majority Support, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Democrats In Congress Lose Ground  — mail_outline  —  A majority of Americans support the two spending bills being debated on Capitol Hill that are key to President Biden's economic agenda …

Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell is seeking a gag order against his wife and her attorney as their dispute spills into the campaign  —  Republican Senate candidate Sean Parnell has asked a judge to seal records in his ongoing custody case and to ban his wife and her attorney …

Victor Davis Hanson: Why I Left National Review  —  Victor Davis Hanson, author of “The Dying Citizen,” speaks with FNC's Tucker Carlson about why he no longer writes for the National Review.  —  VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: I didn't know much about Donald Trump, I wasn't a supporter of his in the primaries, but I knew he was going to win.

Democrats Lost the Most in Midwestern ‘Factory Towns,’ Report Says  —  The party's struggles in communities that saw declines in manufacturing and union jobs, and health care, could more than offset its gains in metropolitan areas.  —  WASHINGTON — The share of the Democratic presidential vote …

ESPN Anchor Sage Steele Removed From Air  — Sage Steele expected to be off the air at ESPN for at least a week due to Covid-19 and recent controversy.  — Steele is under fire for her resistance to mandated vaccine shot — and comments about Barack Obama.  —  SHARE    

Senate Democrats are making a fresh push to strengthen the Voting Rights Act  —  Senate Democrats introduced legislation aimed at restoring the power of the Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, reinvigorating their push to protect voting rights against a slew of voting restrictions enacted in Republican-led states.

Who Is the Bad Art Friend?  —  Art often draws inspiration from life — but what happens when it's your life?  Inside the curious case of Dawn Dorland v. Sonya Larson.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

What WaPo Writers Keep Getting Wrong about 2020  —  No, Trump didn't come close to overturning the election, and it's alright to say so.  —  elling people to take a deep breath and calm down, as the headline-writer for my latest column advised, does not always achieve its intended effect.

The Supreme Court Can't Deliver Justice for William Wooden  —  The Court's preoccupation with the precise definition of “occasion” obscures a multitude of deeper failures of the criminal legal system.  —  It was around 1:00 AM on a November night when William Wooden heard someone knocking on his door.

US deaths from virus in 2021 surpass 2020 total; Johnson & Johnson seeks FDA clearance for booster shots: COVID updates  —  Jorge L. Ortiz Ryan W. Miller Grace HauckUSA TODAY  —  In the history of the pandemic in the U.S., 2020 will be remembered as the most disruptive year …

The Piranhas Come for Kyrsten Sinema  —  On the menu today: Like a school of piranhas, the progressive left attacks Kyrsten Sinema for the cardinal sin of not letting it have what it wants; Dr. Anthony Fauci pulls an Emily Litella; and a new report indicates that in the summer of 2019 …

Former FDA chief Gottlieb expects Delta to be last big pandemic wave in U.S.  —  The summer spike in cases fueled by the Delta variant of the coronavirus is likely the last big COVID-19 wave in the United States, but the pandemic is far from over globally, former U.S. Food …

Criminal inquiry into Trump's Georgia election interference gathers steam  —  The disgraced former president faces a range of possible charges - including conspiracy and election fraud  —  Donald Trump is facing increasing legal scrutiny in the crucial battleground state of Georgia …

‘Everyone here hated the Americans’: Rural Afghans live with the Taliban and a painful U.S. legacy  —  SINZAI, Afghanistan — The white flags flutter in the apple orchards of this serene hamlet ringed by oatmeal-colored mountains.  They mark the precise spots where U.S. airstrikes killed Afghans.

Fox smears DOJ effort to stop criminal threats against educators as a war on its viewers  —  Fox News has spent months featuring incendiary and nonsensical coverage of “critical race theory” that stoked anger against school board members and educators.  Now that the Justice Department …

Manchin opens door to deal in range of $1.9T to $2.2T  —  Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday signaled he is open to a budget reconciliation bill in the ballpark of $1.9 trillion to $2.2 trillion, above the limit he set just last week of $1.5 trillion.

What Joe Manchin wants, decoded  —  Liberal Democrats saw a small victory last week on top of delaying the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure plan: They drew out one of the holdouts on a separate spending bill — the one they most want and that will require only Democratic votes — to declare his top-line figure on the cost.