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.

GOP hands Trump the party  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  “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.”  —  This morning's must-read piece comes from Meridith McGraw …

Trump Asked His Top Intelligence Official to Explore Insane Conspiracy Theory That Chinese Thermostats Changed Votes in the 2020 Election: New Book  —  A new book reports that former President Donald Trump asked his top intelligence official to investigate an absurd conspiracy theory …

Educator's Black Lives Matter Email Upends Her District  —  A Black superintendent's email to parents after the killing of George Floyd engulfed a small, predominantly white Maryland community in a yearlong firestorm.  —  CENTREVILLE, Md. — When Andrea Kane sat down to write a letter …

BBC describes Alfred Dreyfus as ‘notorious Jewish spy’  —  Alfred Dreyfus, subject of the antisemitic Dreyfus Affair that inspired Zionist founding father Theodor Herzl, was described in a BBC drama summary as a “Jewish spy” despite being exonerated.  —  The BBC described Alfred Dreyfus …

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.

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 …

Moscow's EU envoy urges Europe to fix ties to avoid gas shortages  —  Supply crisis would be resolved more quickly if bloc stopped treating Russia as ‘adversary’, says ambassador  —  The Kremlin's ambassador to the EU has called on Europe to mend ties with Moscow in order to avoid future gas shortages …

Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different  —  Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.  —  About the author: Yascha Mounk is a contributing writer at The Atlantic …

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 …

Biden administration competency doubts increase  —  One quality Joe Biden brought to the presidency was competency, certainly compared to his predecessor, a low bar.  More than a few Republicans concurred.  —  That's why the most alarming number in the Quinnipiac poll this past week was …

Fiona Hill says January 6 was a “dress rehearsal” for future political violence  —  Foreign affairs and national security expert Fiona Hill warned that the U.S. is in a “dangerous moment” and has already reached a constitutional crisis as political actors try to undermine elections and call for violence.

Nobel Peace Prize for Maria Ressa, Dmitry Muratov also a warning to U.S. journalists: Do better  —  Journalists have not had a lot to celebrate in the 21st century.  The economic model for news has mostly collapsed, the birth of social media has meant competing too often with misinformation …

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 …

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 …

Steven Mnuchin Stepped In to Prevent Ivanka Trump World Bank Appointment … In January 2019, Jim Yong Kim threw the global financial development sector into a state of disarray: The former academic and health official announced he would be stepping down the following month from his role …

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill in WashingtonCredit: Stefani Reynolds,AP  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has often proved to be a gift that keeps giving for Democrats and a thorn in the side of fellow Republicans.

Fauci warns vaccinated people to wear masks OUTSIDE this winter even though Covid deaths are decreasing down at same fast rate as hospitalizations  — Anthony Fauci 'strongly suspects that you're going to start seeing the deaths go down similar to the hospitalizations'