Select Committee Issues Subpoenas Related to January 6th Stop the Steal Rally at U.S. Capitol  —  Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued additional subpoenas seeking testimony and records related to the “Stop the Steal” …

Report Cites New Details of Trump Pressure on Justice Dept. Over Election  —  A Senate panel fleshed out how Donald Trump pursued his plan to install a loyalist as acting attorney general to pursue unfounded reports of fraud.  —  WASHINGTON — Even by the standards of President Donald J. Trump …

U.S. Troops Have Been Deployed in Taiwan for at Least a Year  —  Small presence of Americans secretly training local forces marks concern over China's yearslong military buildup and recent moves  —  WASHINGTON—A U.S. special-operations unit and a contingent of Marines have been secretly operating …

UPDATED: Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea  —  This post has been updated with additional details on the injuries to the crew of USS Connecticut and the location of the collision.  —  Almost a dozen sailors have been injured …

Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content  —  Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.  —  Why it matters: It's …

GOP grits its teeth as debt-limit patch comes to a vote  —  Senate Republicans emerged from a tense private conference meeting on Thursday evening still uncertain whether they could supply 10 votes to break a filibuster on a short-term debt ceiling deal.  —  Summoned by Senate Minority …

The Democrats' Hispanic Voter Problem: More Evidence from the 2020 Pew Validated Voter Survey  —  It's a Sobering Picture  —  Joe Biden in 2020 characterized Donald Trump as, among other things, an unapologetic racist who particularly detested immigrants.  This strand of Biden's campaign …

“I Sleep Well at Night”: Suzanne Scott on Running Fox News  —  Twenty-five years after its founding, a sit-down with the CEO of America's most watched and most polarizing network, whose employees laud her for cleaning up a toxic workplace even as critics assail the channel for spreading misinformation and undermining democracy.

Fines Prevent Too Many From Voting in Florida  —  Mr. Winter is a staff photographer on assignment in Opinion.  Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board.  —  Twenty years ago, Judy Bolden served 18 months in a Florida prison.  She has been free ever since, but she is still barred …

GOP lawmakers threaten forcible entry into Durham elections office  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of Republican House members announced Thursday that they are launching a fraud investigation into North Carolina elections and said they would start by inspecting voting machines in Durham County …

How Michael P. Farris Tried to Block 2020 Election Outcome  —  Drafts of a lawsuit filed with Supreme Court by Texas' attorney general in December had been circulated by the leader of an anti-abortion group.  —  WASHINGTON — One of the nation's most prominent religious conservative lawyers played …

Guilford GOP school board campaign manager says helping children of color feel like they belong hurts white children  —  GUILFORD, CT.  (WFSB) - Mary Beeman, the campaign manager for the Guilford republican school board candidates, commented, “helping kids of color to feel they belong …

Woody Harrelson involved in altercation at Watergate Hotel, police say  —  Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in a physical altercation Wednesday night and struck a man who lunged at him at the rooftop bar of the Watergate Hotel, a D.C. police spokesman said.

Paul Kirgis steps down as dean of UM School of Law; Sally Weaver also to resign as associate dean  —  Paul Kirgis stepped down late Wednesday afternoon as dean of the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana.  —  “I have come to the conclusion that the School of Law …

Welcome to Slack Tide  —  Konnichiwa.  Or as my English-speaking readers prefer, “hello.”  I'm Matt Labash, and welcome to Slack Tide, my brand spanking-new Substack.  Just saying those words makes me feel like a honking cliché.  Not the Matt Labash part.  There aren't many of us.

Giants vs. Dodgers NLDS is happening, and Kamala Harris has chosen her side  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Abraham Lincoln once said, “a house divided against itself cannot stand.”  Of course, he was talking about democracy.  But Vice President Kamala Harris this week will have to face …

Neal Sher, Nazi hunter and former AIPAC director, dies at 74  —  (JTA) — Neal Sher, who as the U.S.'s chief Nazi hunter established the formula that led to the deportation of dozens of Nazis, has died at 74.  —  Sher, who led the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations …

Cuomo aides sought post for Hochul in Biden administration before the N.Y. governor was engulfed in sexual harassment crisis  —  Top aides to then-New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo sought a job in the Biden administration for then-Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul so they could remove her from the gubernatorial ticket ahead …

Biggs Clings To Big Lie During Cyber Ninjas Hearing: 'We Don't Know' Who Won Arizona  —  Trump diehard Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) clutched onto ex-President Donald Trump's lies about the 2020 election on Thursday during an Oversight Committee hearing on Cyber Ninjas' shambolic “audit” of the election results in Maricopa County, Arizona.

We need to talk about your gas stove, your health and climate change  —  Americans love their gas stoves.  It's a romance fueled by a decades-old “cooking with gas” campaign from utilities that includes vintage advertisements, a cringeworthy 1980s rap video and, more recently, social media personalities.

Identity Fraud  —  Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, maybe in the middle of some stupid argument with a stranger on the internet, the thought briefly crosses my mind: I should just say that whoever is currently driving me up the wall is racist.  Or sexist.  Or, myself being a non-white woman, a combination of the two.

The foul-mouthed farmer sticking his neck out for Democrats' agenda  —  When Jon Tester returned from a White House meeting last month, Amy Klobuchar congratulated him for his “nice quote” about the debt ceiling.  —  As Klobuchar read back Tester's expletive-infused words, he recalled protesting: “'Come on.

Gov. Cox, Lt. Governor Henderson, Attorney General Reyes, President Adams and Speaker Wilson express disappointment in Biden administration's decision to expand Utah monuments  —  SALT LAKE CITY (Oct. 7, 2021) - Gov. Spencer J. Cox, Lt. Gov. Deidre M. Henderson, Attorney General Sean Reyes …

Congressman promotes Holocaust denial website  —  Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona tweeted a link to The Unz Review, a website that traffics in Holocaust denial and neo-Nazism.  —  Congressman Paul Gosar tweeted a link on Wednesday to a website that routinely publishes the work of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and Holocaust deniers.

America Is Running Out of Everything  —  Is it just me, or does it feel like America is running out of everything?  —  I visited CVS last week to pick up some at-home COVID-19 tests.  They'd been sold out for a week, an employee told me.  So I asked about paper towels.  “We're out of those too,” he said.

Dispute Over Claim That Proud Boys Leader Urged Attack at Capitol  —  An accused rioter has told the F.B.I. that Joseph Biggs, a leader of the far-right Proud Boys, directed him to challenge the police at a key moment on Jan. 6.  Mr. Biggs's lawyer denied the allegation.

Former officials Nuñez, Boxer and Villaraigosa lead exodus from powerful lobbying firm  —  Former prominent Democratic elected officials Fabian Nuñez, Barbara Boxer and Antonio Villaraigosa led the mass resignations from one of the state's most powerful lobbying firms, Mercury Public Affairs.

Video footage amid unrest after George Floyd's death captures Minneapolis police discussing ‘hunting people’  —  A few days after George Floyd was killed last year, sparking wide-scale protests, a police officer responding to the unrest in Minneapolis remarked to another officer: “You guys are out hunting people.”