“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.

Pressure builds on Meadows to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee as White House rejects his executive privilege claims  —  The House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the White House are ramping up the pressure on former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Too dumb to check: Biden to improve standing with voters by hiring ...  ... the man who just alienated so many that a state that Joe Biden won by ten points flipped to the GOP?  Punchbowl News reports this morning that the White House will look for room to hire Terry McAuliffe …

Retiring Alabama Sen. Shelby said to plan $5 million campaign to boost former aide as 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 …

Speier and Congressional Colleagues to Introduce Resolution Calling for Censure of Rep Gosar  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), co-chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus (DWC), and Representatives Jim Cooper (TN-5); Brenda Lawrence (MI-14), co-chair of the DWC …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

Man accused of setting fire to Austin synagogue on Halloween arrested  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Arson investigators with the Austin Fire Department arrested a man Wednesday who is accused of intentionally setting fire to an Austin synagogue on Halloween night.  —  Franklin Barrett Sechriest …

Steady Support for Vax Mandates  —  Majority give Biden good marks on pandemic  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Despite intense protests at board of education meetings, Covid vaccine and mask mandates in the nation's schools remain popular with a majority of Americans.

A veteran helped spread viral 9/11 conspiracy theories.  Can he start over?  —  Nearly 20 years after shipping off to war, a soldier who helped make the ‘Loose Change’ video wrestles with the power stories have to heal and to destroy.  —  Korey Rowe was always trying to salvage something …

Good riddance to Brian Williams  —  After 28 long years, disgraced former NBC News anchor Brian Williams is leaving the Peacock network.  —  Thus falls another overpaid anchor of little talent in an industry replete with overpaid anchors of little talent.  —  Williams, who was demoted …