Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …

Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says  —  On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.

John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss  —  John Eastman, it seems, is the victim of one big misunderstanding.  —  The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for then-President Donald Trump …

Dave Chappelle's Betrayal  —  Poet Saeed Jones used to consider himself a longtime fan of the comedian.  But Chappelle's new Netflix special “The Closer,” which fixates on gay and trans people, feels like a stab in the back.  —  You ever hear the one about the famous Black comedian …

Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors  —  The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.  —  Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …

Trump's Coup Attempt Is Far From Finished  —  Trump's preparing to run in 2024, but a new Senate report detailing his sedition gives officials the evidence they need to disqualify him from completing the coup.  —  “Subverting Justice,” the 394-page report released last week …

Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.

In search for covid origins, Hubei caves and wildlife farms draw new scrutiny  —  ENSHI, China — Hundreds of caves are spread throughout the mountains of Enshi prefecture, an agricultural corner of China's Hubei province.  The most majestic, Tenglong, or “flying dragon,” …

Miami manager moves to fire police chief  —  City Manager Art Noriega moved to fire embattled Police Chief Art Acevedo Monday night, ending weeks of speculation and tumult at City Hall and after a pair of circus-like public hearings in which commissioners lashed out at the chief for everything …

Election Workers in Georgia Are Fired for Shredding Voter Registration Forms  —  A previous investigation of the Fulton County office could eventually replace the elections board with a temporary superintendent with sweeping powers to oversee the vote.  —  The elections office …

Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …

The Trump nightmare looms again  —  It is increasingly evident that the nightmare prospect of American politics — unified Republican control of the federal government in the hands of a reelected, empowered Donald Trump in 2025 — is also the likely outcome.  —  Why this is a nightmare should be clear enough.

Biden's ‘tough month’ looms over Democratic campaigns in 2021  —  (CNN)The federal headwinds against Democrats on the ballot this November have never been stronger.  —  Democrats who were once buoyant that a well-liked President Joe Biden and popular agenda moving through Congress could propel …

Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.

Southwest Airlines, union insist pilots didn't walk out to protest vaccine mandates  —  Southwest canceled more than 2,000 flights over the weekend, just days after the company told employees that they would need to be vaccinated to keep jobs.  —  Southwest Airlines and the union representing …

Biden's Proposal to Empower I.R.S. Rattles Banks and Their Customers  —  To help fund its new initiatives, the Biden administration wants banks to report more customer information.  Account holders aren't happy.  —  When the Biden administration looked for ways to pay for the president's …

Toward a Unified Theory of Blob-dom  —  “The Blob” isn't a coherent concept, according to some blobsters.  Well they would say that, wouldn't they? … The term “Blob” has arrived.  Within the past two months this recent addition to our foreign policy vocabulary has appeared in the New York Times …

KGB archives show how Chrystia Freeland drew the ire (and respect) of Soviet intelligence services  —  The Soviet Union's secret police, the infamous KGB, praised her savvy and erudition, even as she frustrated their attempts to spy on her in Cold War Ukraine.  They tagged her with the code name Frida.

Strange Quiet Arrives in Afghanistan After Decades of War  —  Residents are returning to Taliban-controlled regions after years of displacement, visiting homes and relatives they haven't seen in years  —  SANGIN, Afghanistan—Eighteen years after his bakery was destroyed in an American airstrike …

Texas Boogaloo Boy Admits In Court He Traveled to Minneapolis After George Floyd Died, Fired 13 Shots In Police Precinct Building to Sow Chaos  —  African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin  —  A Texas man pleaded guilty on Sept. 30 …

FBI raids home of Philadelphia Proud Boys' vice president to gather info about Capitol attack plans  —  The FBI raided the home of the vice president of the Proud Boys' Philadelphia chapter on Friday, seizing his computer, phone, and other electronics to gather information on the Jan. 6 attack …

Paul McCartney Doesn't Really Want to Stop the Show  —  Half a century after the Beatles broke up, he's still correcting the record—and making new ones. … Early evening in late summer, the golden hour in the village of East Hampton.  The surf is rough and pounds its regular measure on the shore.

January 6 Was No Hoax  —  Trump abused the trust of his supporters, and the result was a disgrace.  —  January 6 Committee to Issue ‘Criminal Referrals’ for Uncooperative Witnesses  —  Congress Needs to Know, but Won't Find Out, What Happened with Capitol Security on January 6  —  ELECTIONS

Stash-House Stings Carry Real Penalties for Fake Crimes  —  The undercover operations seem like entrapment, but their targets can receive long sentences—sometimes even harsher than those for genuine crimes. … Joshua Boyer's mother often had to remind him to think for himself.