EXCLUSIVE Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's infrastructure and social spending legislation will not add to inflationary pressures in the U.S. economy, economists and analysts in leading rating agencies told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sinema speaks up — and shakes off her critics  —  Watch the Senate floor enough and you'll notice Sen. Kyrsten Sinema regularly chatting with Mitch McConnell and his top deputy John Thune.  Republicans have even tried to recruit her to their conference, and throw the Senate to the GOP.

Democrats Shouldn't Panic.  They Should Go Into Shock.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  The rise of inflation, supply chain shortages, a surge in illegal border crossings, the persistence of Covid …

The Steele Dossier and the End of Shame In American Politics  —  The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.”  The problem with shame is that it requires a sense of guilt over one's actions.  In the age of rage …

FBI raids home of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in election data breach investigation  —  Federal, state and local authorities searched the homes of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and three of her associates on Tuesday as part of an investigation into accusations the elected official was involved …

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  —  I know I'm two months late here.  Everyone's already made up their mind and moved on to other things.  —  But here's my pitch: this is one of the most carefully-pored-over scientific issues of our time.  Dozens of teams published studies saying ivermectin definitely worked.

RED SHIFT: How Trump's attempt to let COVID-19 destroy Blue America reversed itself, animated  —  Back in July 2020, Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban wrote a shocking expose  —  which exposed the depths of callousness and cold-hearted political calculation which the Trump Administration used …

Judge questions why Justice reversed course on Trump taxes  —  A federal judge poised to rule on former President Donald Trump's effort to block Congress from obtaining his tax returns expressed skepticism Tuesday about the Justice Department's abrupt reversal in the case after Trump left office.

Liberal ‘dark-money’ behemoth funneled more than $400M in 2020  —  A left-leaning, secret-money group doled out a whopping $410 million in 2020, aiding Democratic efforts to unseat then-President Donald Trump and win back control of the Senate.  —  The group, the Sixteen Thirty Fund …

Poll: Voters' doubts rising about Biden's health, mental fitness  —  Voters have increasing doubts about the health and mental fitness of President Joe Biden, the oldest man ever sworn into the White House, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Only 40 percent of voters surveyed agreed …

Biden administration will invest billions to expand coronavirus vaccine manufacturing  —  The Biden administration is planning to invest billions of dollars to expand U.S. manufacturing capabilities of coronavirus vaccines to increase the supply of doses for poorer nations, the White House said Wednesday.

Biden Sells Infrastructure Improvements as a Way to Counter China  —  Spending on roads, broadband internet and more will help revitalize U.S. competitiveness against its top economic adversary, the president says.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday began selling …

D.C. will no longer require masks in many public settings, Bowser announces  —  Washington's local mask mandate, one of the strictest in the nation since late July, will relax greatly beginning Monday, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) announced Tuesday.  —  The District had required residents …

PolitiFact doubles down on widely mocked ‘fact-check’ claiming Rittenhouse's possession of weapon wasn't legal  —  ‘Our fact-check remains unchanged,’ a lengthy editor's note concludes  —  PolitiFact doubled down on Tuesday after being roasted for a poorly aged “fact-check” …

Unlikely coalition wants women to register for military draft  —  America's young women are on the cusp of a rite of passage that's been reserved for men until now: registering with the Selective Service when they turn 18.  —  Driving the news: Whether allowing women to serve in combat …

‘This experience broke a lot of people’: Inside State amid the Afghanistan withdrawal  —  In the days after the Taliban took Kabul in August, a desperate Afghan father pleaded over the phone with a State Department official to help get his family out of harm's way.

Who's Afraid of Saule Omarova? … When she was a child in western Kazakhstan, Saule Omarova fantasized about visiting America.  Her wish was shaped in part by her father, who used to play old records for her.  “There was one — Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and they sang ‘Hello, Dolly!’”

Sherrilyn Ifill stepping down from NAACP Legal Defense Fund  —  Longtime second-in-command Janai Nelson will take over one of the country's top civil rights groups this spring, but no official transition date has been set  —  Sherrilyn Ifill was 10 years old when a New York City police officer shot …

House to vote to censure Gosar, remove him from committees over violent anime video depicting Ocasio-Cortez's killing  —  The House will vote Wednesday on a resolution that both censures Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) and removes him from his committee assignments, more than one week …

Clark County man pleads guilty to voting more than once in 2020 election  —  A Clark County man prominently featured by local and national Republicans as having evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 election pleaded guilty on Tuesday to voting more than once during the same election …

Did the Justice Department overreach in raiding James O'Keefe's home?  —  The FBI on Nov. 6 searched the Mamaroneck, N.Y., home of James O'Keefe, the founder of the video-sting group Project Veritas.  As reported by the New York Times, authorities also searched the homes of two O'Keefe associates.

The N.Y. Governor's Race Is Wide Open, and Democrats Are Rushing In  —  Jumaane Williams, the New York City public advocate, became the latest Democrat to enter the 2022 race for governor.  —  On a weekend swing through Southern California, Letitia James, New York's attorney general …

Racist CRT Lessons in Public School Classrooms  —  How leftist race-baiters are violating public school children's constitutional rights.  —  PEN America claims it is committed “to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide.”  But PEN has taken a radical left turn in defending …

How a Cure for Gerrymandering Left U.S. Politics Ailing in New Ways  —  Independent commissions to oversee the redrawing of electoral maps were thought to be the solution to an age-old problem.  Instead, they have become bogged down in political trench warfare.

HHS memo shows department moving to undo Trump-era action aimed at better protecting religious liberty  —  HHS' internal memo rolling back Trump-era religious liberty protections is expected to be rolled out this week  —  Unvaccinated Marine awaits religious exemption response: I am ‘caught in the crosshairs’

House Democrats have a new strategy to engage voters of color in the midterm elections  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is launching a new, multimillion-dollar effort to engage and mobilize voters of color ahead of the midterm elections, including investments in local organizing …

‘The View’ erupts during segment with unvaccinated former co-host, providing a teachable moment  —  Video  —  “The View” is not the first place I would go for nuanced political or public health discussions.  But Tuesday's episode did at least provide a teachable moment when it comes to vaccine skepticism.

Beto rejects Trump as foil  —  Democrat Beto O'Rourke, sprinting through his second day on the campaign trail with stops in San Antonio and Laredo, signaled he'll avoid the playbook that failed Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, telling Axios, “Trump doesn't live in Texas.  Biden doesn't live in Texas.