Navy nuclear engineer and his wife charged with trying to share submarine secrets with a foreign country  —  A Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with repeatedly trying to pass secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines to a foreign country, in an alleged espionage plot discovered by the FBI, according to court documents.

Trump holds fast to his election lies as the GOP establishment hugs him tighter  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine months ago, Republicans were questioning Donald Trump's place as the lead fixture of their party.  Saturday night provided the clearest evidence yet that they want him right there.

Fix the Senate, save America  —  It is a measure of the shattered state of the American political system that a deal proposed by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell simply to postpone by two months a dangerous confrontation over the debt ceiling — one that could result in a default …

Reporter reveals Facebook paid Eastern European troll farms and the sinister secrets behind its algorithm  —  Scott speaks with Karen Hao the senior Artificial Intelligence editor for MIT Technology Review whose groundbreaking work looking into Facebook just got validated in a massive …

In scramble for votes in Virginia, emotions flare over Trump, covid and race  —  Bruce Carlson considers himself mainly a Democrat.  He voted for Bill Clinton and Barack Obama for president and for Terry McAuliffe for governor back in 2013.  But he won't be voting to make McAuliffe Virginia's governor for a second time.

Georgia election official takes the fight to Trump  —  Donald Trump never wastes an opportunity to attack Georgia's top statewide Republican officeholders for failing to help him overturn the 2020 election results in the key swing state.  —  Brad Raffensperger is the only one who refuses to shut up and take it.

Garland Just Tipped Over the Dominos  —  Parents across the country have suddenly woken up to the wokeness haunting their schools and poisoning the minds of their children.  —  Destruction of the family has always been at the center of the collectivist project.

Raymond T. Odierno, Army general who helped devise Iraq War strategy, dies at 67  —  Raymond T. Odierno, a four-star Army general who was a key architect of the “surge” in U.S. forces during the Iraq War that was credited with reducing violence and increasing stability in the country …

A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back  —  The abrupt reversals have come in response to rising levels of crime, the exodus of officers and political pressures.  —  DALLAS — The demonstrators came at night, chanting and blowing whistles outside the home of Mayor Eric Johnson …

Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops have not yet complied with vaccine mandate as deadlines near  —  Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near …

What's in Democrats' Build Back Better plan?  A lot of Americans don't know - CBS News poll  —  While congressional Democrats negotiate within their ranks over the “Build Back Better” plan, the public is more likely to have heard about what it would cost than about the specific policies that would be in it.

Past is prologue for New York mayors  —  In quite the tale of two cities, Bill de Blasio talked in his first year as mayor, after the NYPD had killed Eric Garner, about how he'd “literally had to train” his then 16-year-old son Dante “to take special care in any encounter he has with the police officers who are there to protect him.”

Popularism and the Child Tax Credit  —  Ezra Klein did a piece last week about David Shor and so-called “popularism,” which was ultimately defined this way: … I thought Ezra did a good job with the piece and I left the piece mostly unshaken in my views about what messaging wins elections, which are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.