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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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.

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?

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

Iowa Senate Republicans reject first proposed Iowa redistricting maps  —  Brianne Pfannenstiel Stephen Gruber-Miller Ian RichardsonDes Moines Register  —  Iowa Republicans have rejected a set of proposed political boundaries, prolonging an already delayed process and raising the tenor …

Ozy Media is accused in a lawsuit of ‘fraudulent conduct.’  —  A fund management company that invested more than $2 million in Ozy Media filed a lawsuit on Monday claiming Ozy “engaged in fraudulent, deceptive and illegal conduct.”  —  The lawsuit, filed by LifeLine Legacy Holdings of Beverly Hills …

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 …

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 …

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.

Captured, Killed or Compromised: C.I.A. Admits to Losing Dozens of Informants  —  Counterintelligence officials said in a top secret cable to all stations and bases around the world that too many of the people it recruits from other countries to spy for the U.S. are being lost.

Kerry on Biden: He ‘Literally Had Not Been Aware of What Had Transpired’ on Submarine Deal  —  In an interview with French television, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry helpfully explains that President Biden simply had no idea that the U.S.-U.K.-Australia deal on submarines …

Will Trump Run in 2024?  There's a Reason Why He Won't Say  —  The former president's hesitance to declare his candidacy involves — you guessed it — money and skirting the law  —  A missive arrived Monday from the outer reaches of the Trump Expanded Universe heralding the formation of …

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.

Why I'm still on Facebook, even though it's dividing and inciting America for profit  —  I work hard to avoid the dark, enraged side of social media.  But I know others thrive there and sometimes plan dangerous actions like the Capitol riot.  —  After watching Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen accuse …

Biggest tax haven in U.S.?  South Dakota, says Pandora Papers investigation  —  Mention tax havens, and most people imagine small nations with balmy weather: The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Malta.  —  But South Dakota and a handful of other U.S. states are increasingly competing as landing pads …

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 …

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 …

Johnston County school board acquiesces to demands of Board of Commissioners  —  Conservative push to control how history is taught results in new policy directive  —  Satisfied with a policy revision banning Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the Johnston County Public Schools …

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.