I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company.  —  Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.  —  First, the SEV that took down all our services yesterday was the worst outage we've had in years.

As the U.S. Hurtles Toward a Debt Crisis, What Does McConnell Want?  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, has a long record of tying debt ceiling increases to policy demands.  But this time, he has made none.  —  WASHINGTON — In March 2006, as the government veered dangerously close …

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.

Ex-Trump staffer Max Miller files defamation lawsuit against Stephanie Grisham over abuse allegations  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Max Miller, the White House staffer under former President Donald Trump who is running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, sued former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham …

House committee investigating January 6 can't find Trump aide to serve subpoena  —  Washington (CNN)More than a week after subpoenaing former Donald Trump aide Dan Scavino to cooperate with its investigation into the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, the House select committee investigating …

An Ohio COVID patient treated with ivermectin after wife sued hospital has died  —  An Ohio man diagnosed with COVID-19 whose wife sued to force a hospital to give him the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin has died, his attorney said.  —  Jeffrey Smith, 51, died on Sept. 25, his attorney …

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 …

Yellen defends IRS rule requiring banks to report all transactions over $600  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is defending a Biden administration proposal that would require banks to report data to the Internal Revenue Service on transactions over $600, calling the collection of information …

State Department discloses number of nukes in US stockpile  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a reversal of Trump administration policy, the State Department on Tuesday disclosed the number of nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile.  It said this will aid global efforts to control the spread of such weapons.

Ed Mullins, bombastic NYPD union chief, resigns amid federal probe  —  Ed Mullins, the controversial head of the NYPD's Sergeants Benevolent Association, stepped down on Tuesday night amid a federal probe into the alleged misappropriation of union funds.  —  His resignation …

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 …

Texans asked to turn off lights after bird ‘mass mortality’ event  —  National Audubon Society calls for ‘Lights Out’ after ‘mass mortality’ event of migratory birds  —  Following the deaths of migratory of birds caused by bright city lights on the East Coast, Texas advocates call for late-night dimming in Lone Star State.

Biden says he and China's Xi agree to abide by Taiwan agreement  —  U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan agreement, as tensions have ratcheted up between Taipei and Beijing.

The Sackler Family Wants Immunity on Opioid Crisis and Here's Who's Helping Them  —  As a coalition of lawmakers tries to hold the billionaire Sackler family accountable for its role in the opioid crisis, Washington's most powerful business lobby group has now jumped into the intensifying battle …

The clear and present danger  —  Last week, a veteran, hard-working journalist was attacked by a candidate for high office in Nevada.  —  Click on the link above if you will but I am not going to mention either name here, lest it detract from the message I want to impart or be used as a bludgeon by partisans on either side.

Why Democrats See 3 Governor's Races as a Sea Wall for Fair Elections  —  Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania all have Democratic governors and G.O.P.-led legislatures.  And in all three battlegrounds, Republicans are pushing hard to rewrite election laws.

Hawley defends violent anti-mask protesters as FBI launches probe  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that responding to threats and violence against school board officials is an effort to ‘chill’ free speech.  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is up in arms after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced …

Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg Has One Defense: Gross Incompetence  —  The last time Allen Weisselberg was under a spotlight, he told New York state investigators he signed documents without reading them—and didn't realize he was a charity's director.  —  When Donald Trump's charity …

Supreme Court considers whether information widely known can be ‘state secret’  —  The Supreme Court is set to consider Wednesday whether something that most everyone knows can still be a “state secret” the government cannot be compelled to reveal.  —  The case involves a request …

How left-wing protesters are justified, but angry moms are ‘domestic terrorists’  —  When is a protester “angry and justified” and when are they a “domestic terrorist”?  It all depends on how far left they are.  —  This week, activists stalked Sen. Krysten Simena into a women's restroom …

Why Trump wants to tweet  —  Donald Trump's post-office online engagement is hitting new lows, according to exclusive data from SocialFlow provided to Axios.  It helps explain why the former president recently asked a federal judge to have Twitter restore his signature account.

New Top Federal Prosecutors in Manhattan and Brooklyn Are Confirmed  —  One of the two, Damian Williams, will be the first Black person to lead the powerful U.S. attorney's office for New York's Southern District.  —  The U.S. Senate confirmed Damian Williams late Tuesday as the new U.S. attorney …

Potential for False Positive Results with Certain Lots of Ellume COVID-19 Home Tests Due to a Manufacturing Issue: FDA Safety Communication  —  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting test users, caregivers, health care personnel, and the public of the potential …

Fox has undermined vaccines nearly every day in the last six months … As the United States has struggled to fully vaccinate its population, Fox News has aired a continued stream of coverage that has undermined the vaccine effort.  Fox pushed a claim undermining vaccines during 99% of the days …