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” …

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 …

Arsonist heroically agrees not to light deadly fire?  Let me rewrite that for you.  —  Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is getting exactly the kind of coverage he had hoped for — and had every reason to expect — from a press corps that is incapable of holding the Republican Party accountable for anything.

Today's deep question: Why does Biden use a stage set instead of the White House?  —  The “fake set” question first came up a week ago, when a few critics speculated that Joe Biden's booster shot was as staged as the environs.  There's not a shred of evidence that Biden didn't get his third dose …

Thank Goodness Merrick Garland's Not on the Supreme Court  —  Mitch McConnell is not always the most popular guy among conservatives or Republicans in general.  Just today he's taking incoming for caving on the short-term debt ceiling.  —  But we can certainly score one solid A+ for him during his tenure.

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 …

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 …

Michael Gableman, the GOP attorney reviewing Wisconsin's 2020 election, is backing off on the subpoenas to cities days after issuing them  —  MADISON - In a dramatic turnaround, an attorney reviewing the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans on Thursday canceled interviews with mayors …

Reality Winner's mom calls on President Biden to grant her daughter clemency  —  Scott speaks with Billie Jean Winner-Davis, whose daughter Reality spent years in federal prison for revealing Russia's cyberattack on America's elections in 2016.  Reality's mom shared some of her frustrations …

Trump-Loving Cousins IDed By Online Sleuths Are Arrested For Attacking Cops At Capitol  —  #MississippiFlagGuy and #KingstonAsh were identified by online sleuths back in February.  —  The FBI has arrested two cousins who attacked police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and were identified …

The Trailer: Andrew Yang's got a new political party — and he wants to change how we vote  —  In this edition: Andrew Yang joins the third-party movement, ballot measure advocates mobilize in the states, and conservatives double down on the schools issue in Virginia.

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 …

Facebook Will Not Fix Itself  —  McNamee began his Silicon Valley investing career in 1982.  He was an early investor in Facebook and an advisor to Mark Zuckerberg.  He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook Catastrophe.

Biden to expand Bears Ears and other national monuments, reversing Trump cuts, White House says  —  The decision will restore full protections to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah and reinstate fishing restrictions in a marine monument off New England

NIH's Francis Collins, on covid, science and faith: ‘There is such a thing as truth’  —  It seems like my last memory from a previous life — a life of human interaction without constant precaution.  On the first day of March 2020, I was seated at lunch next to the director of the National Institutes …

Global energy crunch spurs inflation and scares green lobby  —  Environmentalists are terrified.  Not that polar bears will soon go the way of the dodo or that melting ice caps will submerge Iceland in the near future (or is it Greenland?).  —  No, the green lobby is very …

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 …

What's Delaying Vaccine Mandates?  —  President Biden is making another push for companies to require workers to be inoculated against the coronavirus.  —  The White House makes its vaccine pitch  —  President Biden is headed to Chicago today, where he will make another push for companies to announce coronavirus vaccine mandates.

“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.

The US right's love affair with Hungary's Orban  —  Budapest's policies offer Republicans a blueprint for illiberal government  —  Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, once described Hungary's Viktor Orban as “the most significant guy on the scene right now”.

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 …

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.