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 …

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 …

Southwest Airlines cancels 1,800 flights, blaming weather and staffing  — Southwest has cancelled more than 1,800 flights over the weekend so far.  — The Dallas-based airline blamed the disruptions on air traffic control issues, bad weather and staffing shortfalls.

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 …

Eric Clapton Isn't Just Spouting Vaccine Nonsense—He's Bankrolling It  —  Eric Clapton went from setting the standard for rock guitar to making ‘full-tilt’ racist rants to becoming an outspoken vaccine skeptic.  Did he change?  Or was he always like this?  —  Cambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

U.S. says Taliban talks in Doha were ‘candid and professional’  —  The United States said on Sunday the first face-to-face meeting between senior U.S. and Taliban officials since the hardline group retook power in Afghanistan was “candid and professional” and that the U.S. side reiterated …

Drugs, arms, and terror: A high-profile defector on Kim's North Korea  —  The old habits of secrecy haven't left Kim Kuk-song.  —  It has taken weeks of discussions to get an interview with him, and he's still worried about who might be listening.  He wears dark glasses for the camera …

Celebrate Columbus's Achievements  —  We should acknowledge his flaws, but his treatment by the left is reminiscent of communist propaganda.  —  Friends, Americans, citizens of the world, lend me your ears.  I come to bury Christopher Columbus, not to praise him.

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 …

President Joe Biden, right, and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at a meeting at the Oval Office at the White House, August 27, 2021.Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters  —  Both Israel's government and its defense establishment are increasingly disappointed by America's approach to resuming negotiations on Iran's nuclear program.

The Biden-Harris train wreck may have its savior: 2024 GOP nominee Donald Trump  —  Former President Trump recently declared he would beat Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a potential Republican primary match-up for the party's 2024 presidential nomination.  And based on current polling, he's almost certainly right.

'It's Not Sustainable': What America's Port Crisis Looks Like Up Close  —  An enduring traffic jam at the Port of Savannah reveals why the chaos in global shipping is likely to persist.  —  SAVANNAH, Ga. — Like toy blocks hurled from the heavens, nearly 80,000 shipping containers are stacked …

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 …

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 …

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.

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'

Abigail Spanberger column: The bipartisan infrastructure bill is good for Virginia: Why it needs a vote now  —  I represent 10 counties across central Virginia that are geographically, economically and politically diverse, and my constituents — no matter where they are on the political spectrum …