“Axios on HBO” exclusive: Christie taunts Trump for losing  —  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, lacing up for a possible presidential run in 2024, told “Axios on HBO” he won't back down from a fight with former President Donald Trump, taunting his longtime friend for losing the last election.

Trump launches last-ditch effort to stop Jan. 6 committee from obtaining White House records on Friday  —  Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records …

Lawsuit Threats, Empty Seats, and a “COVID Mobile”: Trump's Disastrous Tulsa Rally Was Even More of a Train Wreck Than Originally Thought  —  The rally made headlines for its empty seats, but things were even worse behind the scenes, writes Jonathan Karl.  The president feuded with advisers …

Michigan's AG got drunk before a football game and wrote about it on Facebook  —  Two Bloody Marys on an empty stomach, it turns out, was a bit too much for Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.  —  In a post on her personal Facebook page Wednesday, the state's top prosecutor acknowledged drinking …

Why inflation is a political nightmare for Biden  —  (CNN)Joe Biden's next political nightmare is inflation, a force that can destroy family budgets and political careers and is being driven by domestic and global factors tough for a president to quickly fix.

Iran-Backed Militants Storm US Embassy in Yemen, Seize Hostages and Equipment  —  The State Department is working to secure the release of several kidnapped hostages taken by Iran-backed terrorists just a day after the militant group stormed the U.S. embassy facility in Sana'a, Yemen …

Sen. Joe Manchin, speaking at Toyota event in W.Va., calls union-built EV tax credit ‘wrong’  —  The news arrives as the state's senior senator holds a deciding vote on the Build Back Better Act, which includes a tax credit for union-made battery-electric vehicles that Toyota opposes.

How Likely Is a Democratic Comeback Next Year?  —  Mr. Kondik is the author of a new book about the history of the House of Representatives.  —  The election results from last week reconfirmed a basic reality about American politics: For either party, holding the White House comes with significant power …

BLM leader says there will be ‘bloodshed’ after spat with Eric Adams over police reform  —  A Black Lives Matter leader said there will be “bloodshed” after debating police reform with Mayor-elect Eric Adams during a contentious sit-down with the incoming Democrat at Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday.

San Francisco police officer dies of covid while on leave for failing to meet vaccination requirement  —  When San Francisco police officer Jack Nyce missed the city's Nov. 1 deadline to submit his coronavirus vaccination record, he was placed on a month of paid administrative leave, the San Francisco Chronicle first reported.

Sinema: Households Earning $9 Million a Year Are Too Poor to Pay More Tax Finally, a senator looking out for the high-seven-figure-income class.  —  Joe Biden campaigned on a package of well-crafted reforms to restore fairness to the tax code, only to watch his handiwork eaten alive by a handful …

Shelby of Alabama is said to plan $5 million campaign to boost former aide as Senate replacement over Trump-endorsed candidate  —  Retiring Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) has said he plans to spend $5 million of his campaign funds to help his former chief of staff in the Republican primary to replace him …

Trump Allies Help Bolsonaro Sow Doubt in Brazil's Elections  —  With his poll numbers falling, President Jair Bolsonaro is already questioning the legitimacy of next year's election.  He has help from the United States.  —  BRASÍLIA — The conference hall was packed …

Biden calls Satchel Paige ‘the great negro’ in latest gaffe  —  Paige played in the so-called ‘Negro leagues’ before moving on to MLB in the late 1940s  —  Concha: Biden, media cannot spin this inflation catastrophe  —  President Biden referred to the late baseball player Satchel Paige as …

Embattled GOP Senator Says a Staffer Messed Up His Campaign Reports and Vanished.  We Found Him in Minutes.  —  Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) is accused of a number of major campaign-finance violations.  The campaign blames it on one particular staffer who it says “vanished.”  Not quite.

London's River Thames, now home to sharks, seals and seahorses, is no longer ‘biologically dead’  —  Some 60 years ago, parts of the River Thames were declared biologically dead.  But the famous waterway that cuts through London has been revived and it is now home to hundreds of wildlife species, such as seahorses and sharks.

Have Democrats reached the limits of White appeasement politics?  —  There is a flip side to the White grievance of the right — and it's one of the most important but under-discussed aspects of American politics.  —  In the decades since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts in the 1960s …

Bolduc: I Drove ‘Communist Sympathizer’ Sununu Out of Senate Race  —  During a conspiracy-spinning interview with radio host Jack Heath Tuesday retired Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc called fellow Republican Chris Sununu a “Chinese Communist sympathizer” whose family business “supports terrorism …

America's Real ‘Wokeness’ Divide  —  Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language.  If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you've probably heard some version of this complaint.  The Democratic patriarch James Carville …

Perfecting the New York Street An achievable, replicable plan for a city that's embracing public space as never before.  —  When automobiles first appeared on the streets of New York, quickly and decisively transforming the city into an early center of car culture, those streets bent to their needs.

Gene Simmons rips anti-vaxxers: 'If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy'  —  Gene Simmons is blasting COVID-19 deniers and unvaccinated Americans, calling them the “enemy.”  —  “If you're willing to walk among us unvaccinated, you are an enemy,” …

Facebook's Vast Wasteland  —  Infinite channels but nothing on. … I've been thinking a lot lately about programming dead zones on TV.  I distinctly remember being sick and home from school in the early aughts and lying on the couch aimlessly trying to find something, anything, to watch on TV.

‘We Are On the Way to a Right-wing Coup,’ the CIA Director Privately Warned  —  In this daily series, Newsweek explores the steps that led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.  —  It was the president's first public appearance since the election—apart from his golf outings.

ABC News documentary challenges Pentagon's claims of rogue Green Berets  —  “3212 UN-REDACTED” probes the mystery behind the deaths of four Green Berets.  —  Four Americans gunned down in a withering, four-hour firefight in the Sahara — part of a 10-man Green Beret team said to have gone rogue …

Contract lawyers face a growing invasion of surveillance programs that monitor their work  —  The attorneys worry that if law firms, traditionally the defenders of workers' rights, are turning to the programs, why wouldn't every other business?  —  Camille Anidi, an attorney on Long Island …

Jim Jordan talks Trump, TV, frustration with GOP  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump had been president for about a month when Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan says he made an important discovery: He could communicate directly with the leader of the free world through television appearances.

Facebook Employees Found a Simple Way To Tackle Misinformation.  They ‘Deprioritized’ It After Meeting With Mark Zuckerberg, Documents Show  —  In May 2019, a video purporting to show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi inebriated, slurring her words as she gave a speech at a public event, went viral on Facebook.

Voting for Black People Is Racist If They're Republicans  —  White people are always racist except when they disagree with black Republicans  —  If you're a white person in America, that means you're a racist.  We all know this by now.  And because you're white, and therefore a racist by birth …

Youngkin's wins in key congressional districts underline tough reelection bids for vulnerable Va. Democrats  —  The second reelection campaigns for Virginia Democratic Reps. Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria were already promising to be nail-biters, regardless of who was in the Virginia governor's mansion.

Democrats, leave the Supreme Court alone  —  Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is the Senate minority leader.  —  “We find ourselves in a moment of democratic reckoning.”  That's what Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a Latin American audience in October.  His remarks specifically named …