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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Program, Dies at 85  —  Starting from scratch in 1976, he acquired the technology and knowledge that allowed Pakistan to detonate its first nuclear device in 1998.  —  Abdul Qadeer Khan, a metallurgist who became known to Western intelligence services …

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.