‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

The whistleblower came to advocate for humans over algorithms  —  Facebook needs to be less “twitchy.”  This digital monster that has taught the culture how to overreact and fly off the handle needs to be tamed.  Regulate it.  Open it up.  Slow it down and make it more human.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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?

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    

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 …

The Myth of Asian American Identity  —  We're the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S. But when it comes to the nation's racial and ethnic divisions, where do we fit in?  —  During the first days of the Trump administration, when my attention was split between the endless scroll …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Border Officials Seize Ivermectin Pills and Fake Vaccine Cards  —  Anti-vaxxers are still ordering fake vaccine cards and horse paste from China in an attempt to skirt vaccine mandates and prevent COVID-19 infections.  —  Customs and Border Protection officials in Chicago seized multiple shipments …

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 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.

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.

‘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.

Biden's new health challenge: Find another Francis Collins  —  National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins was that rare Washington figure whose clout transcended presidential administrations and frequent power shifts in Congress — more so during a public health crisis.