Election Results in Virginia Prove Things Can Get Worse for Democrats  —  Republicans ran up the margins in rural Virginia counties, the latest sign that Democrats, as one lawmaker put it, “continue to tank in small-town America.”  —  HOT SPRINGS, Va. — The increasingly liberal politics …

The infrastructure Republicans  —  Some of the swing-district House Republicans who crossed party lines to help Democrats pass the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill told Axios they believe they can survive the political fallout from their own party — and that their vote strengthens …

F.B.I. Searches James O'Keefe's Home in Ashley Biden Diary Theft Inquiry  —  Authorities carried out a court-ordered search at the New York apartment of the Project Veritas founder two days after searching the homes of his associates.  —  Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O'Keefe …

Iraqi Prime Minister survives exploding drone assassination attempt  —  Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi  —  Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi escaped an assassination attempt on Sunday after an explosive-laden drone targeted his residence, the country's military said.

GOP-appointed judges freeze Biden vaccine requirement after federal lawsuit  —  The federal appeals court in New Orleans is giving the Biden administration until Monday to respond to a lawsuit filed by GOP-led states and businesses.  —  A federal appeals court suspended the Biden administration's …

Georgia Grand Jury Looms in Trump Inquiry  —  An Atlanta D.A. is said to be likely to impanel a special grand jury in her criminal investigation of election interference by the former president and his allies.  —  As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot fights …

'It's a walkout!' … BRADFORD, Pa. — Dustin Snyder was tired of the low wages, the 60-hour workweeks and the impossible-to-please customers, and so in early September the assistant general manager at a McDonald's here drafted a petition that laid bare months of building anger and frustration.

The Congressional Black Caucus Was Key to the Infrastructure Vote  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the chairwoman of the caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, to announce a key deal, understanding that the lawmaker had more influence at that point than she did.

Joe Biden or the new Mr Trump?  Camilla 'hasn't stopped talking about' hearing the President ‘break wind’ during chat at Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow  — President Joe Biden met Duchess of Cornwall during reception on Monday  — They made polite small talk and Camilla was shocked to hear Biden break wind

House 6 January panel to issue new round of subpoenas for Trump allies  — Focus on events at Willard hotel ‘command center’  — John Eastman among about 20 individuals in committee's sights  —  The House select committee investigating the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January …

Americans Are Flush With Cash and Jobs.  They Also Think the Economy Is Awful.  —  The psychological effects of inflation seem to have the upper hand.  —  Americans are, by many measures, in a better financial position than they have been in many years.  They also believe the economy is in terrible shape.

Generation Climate: How the crisis made young people the adults in the room  —  (CNN)Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018.  She didn't consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings …

Wokeness Derails the Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — In Shakespeare, when characters want to fulfill their desires, they escape to what's been called the Green World.  —  And that's what Democrats promised voters: that they could leave behind the vitriol and aggravation of Donald Trump's America …

Russia Faces $2T in Stranded Hydrocarbon Assets in Net Zero World  —  Researchers say more than half of Russia's oil and gas infrastructure could be worthless within the next 15 years.  —  Russia could be left with almost $2 trillion in worthless hydrocarbon assets if major economies hit …

What Collective Narcissism Does to Society  —  In 2005, the psychologist Agnieszka Golec de Zavala was researching extremist groups, trying to understand what leads people to commit acts of terrorist violence.  She began to notice something that looked a lot like what the 20th-century scholars Theodor Adorno …

Aaron Rodgers lashes out against NFL, ‘woke mob’ in defense of vaccination status  —  Decrying the “woke mob,” “cancel culture” and what he described as a “witch hunt” against him, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers vigorously defended his decision not to be vaccinated …