Ahead of Jan. 6, Willard hotel in downtown D.C. was a Trump team ‘command center’ for effort to deny Biden the presidency  —  They called it the “command center,” a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump's …

National School Boards Association disavows letter that led to FBI parent crackdown  —  The National School Boards Association board of directors repudiated a letter its two top officials sent to President Biden that precipitated Attorney General Merrick Garland's order the FBI to investigate complaints …

Biden postpones release of JFK assassination files, citing pandemic-related delays  —  President Biden has further postponed the release of secret government files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, citing delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

As Sen. Joe Manchin's Star Rose in West Virginia, the FBI and IRS Probed His Closest Allies … In June 2010, the body of Sen. Robert Byrd lay in repose on the floor of the U.S. Senate, offering his colleagues a final opportunity to pay their respects.  For years, Byrd had lorded …

Biden's critics hurl increasingly vulgar taunts  —  BOISE — On a quiet street south of downtown Boise, Michael Dick has festooned his front yard with homemade signs, including a large yellow placard that facetiously thanks President Biden for a growing list of grievances — $4-a-gallon gas, inflation, Afghanistan, covid-19.

Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on ‘cruel’ puppy experiments  —  “Our investigators show that Fauci's NIH division shipped part of a $375,800 grant to a lab in Tunisia to drug beagles and lock their heads in mesh cages filled with hungry sand flies so that the insects could eat them alive,” White Coat Waste said.

What Kind of Mayor Might Eric Adams Be?  No One Seems to Know.  —  The vegan, meditating ex-police officer is on the cusp of becoming New York's new mayor.  Which version of him would show up at City Hall?  —  Eric Adams could not resist the story.  —  In a 2019 commencement address …

Biden remarks on Taiwan leave administration scrambling  —  President Biden's public remarks Thursday that the United States would come to Taiwan's defense if it were attacked by China left White House officials scrambling to explain it did not represent a shift in U.S. policy.

Surgeon General asked to leave Tina Polsky's office after refusing to wear mask  —  Polsky will begin radiation therapy treatment for cancer next week.  —  Florida's top public health official was asked to leave a state Senator's office this week after refusing to don a mask in her office.

NIH grantee in Wuhan faces questions, deadline for more information  —  A U.S. partner of the Wuhan Institute of Virology manipulated a coronavirus to generate up to 10,000 times the viral load, violating provisions of its National Institutes of Health contract that forbade unregulated research …

The Pessimistic Electorate Behind Biden's Approval Ratings  —  In the era of modern polling, only Donald J. Trump has had a lower approval rating than President Biden's at this early stage of his term.  —  What's dragging down President Biden's approval rating?  —  Everyone.  —  And everything.

Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — As supporters of Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, battling police and forcing lawmakers into hiding, an insurrection of a different kind was taking place inside the world's largest social media company.

Sinema's silence on spending bill vexes many Democrats while she digs in on talks out of public view  —  Senate Democrats left their weekly lunch on Tuesday proclaiming that every person in the room — from Vermont's Bernie Sanders to West Virginia's Joe Manchin III — was unified on the urgency …

‘New Democrats’ Break With Their Anti-Welfare Past And Back Biden's Agenda  —  Rep. Suzan DelBene of Washington state is the centrist Democrat at the center of everything.  —  WASHINGTON ― When a small group of Democrats held up a procedural vote on President Joe Biden's policy agenda in August …

Anti-abortion activists' Supreme Court dreams are coming true  —  This is the moment the conservative legal movement has been building toward for decades: The solidly conservative Supreme Court is about to hear two major abortion cases within a month of each other.

Rep. Banks: ‘Twitter has suspended my official account’ … FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA21) - Rep. Jim Banks says his official congressional account has been suspended by Twitter.  —  In a tweet from his personal account — which the Republican from Columbia City also uses frequently …

How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall  —  The field's future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.  —  There was a time, at the start of the 20th century, when the field of public health was stronger and more ambitious.

Minnesota politician backs fundraiser for alleged Capitol attackers  —  Republican state senator Mark Koran encourages donations to family after four members charged in 6 January riot  —  A Minnesota politician has promoted a fundraiser for several constituents who are charged with participation …

The Unlikely Outsiders Who Won the Race for a Covid-19 Vaccine  —  Uğur Şahin and Stéphane Bancel were long underestimated by investors and scientists.  But when Covid-19 threatened the globe, these two unknowns had a solution.  —  It was early October 2019 and Uğ …

Turkey to expel U.S. envoy and nine others, Erdogan says  —  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries for demanding the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala.

License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind.  Instead they tore the neighborhood apart.  —  A battle among homeowners in the Colorado mountains shows how a new generation of surveillance technology is reshaping American neighborhoods  —  The Paradise Hills neighborhood sits …

January 6 defendant spoke at far-right rally attended by Proud Boys, despite court order against associating with the group  —  (CNN)An Arizona political commentator charged in the US Capitol riot spoke at a small right-wing rally in Phoenix last month that was attended by over a dozen Proud Boys …

Virginia's gubernatorial race tests the fear-of-Trump factor as a political motivator  —  Terry McAuliffe has never been accused of understatement, and as he kicked off a bus tour Friday morning in Arlington, the former governor described the importance to Democrats of his race …