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.

‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley, A Capitol Riot ‘Flag-Bearer,’ Sentenced To Prison  —  Jacob Chansley, whom prosecutors called “the public face of the Capitol riot,” received one of the harshest sentences of any Jan. 6 defendant to date.  —  Jacob Chansley, the man federal prosecutors called …

2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later  —  The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader.  —  Two of the men found guilty of the assassination …

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 …

100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 12 months during the pandemic  —  The U.S. drug epidemic reached another terrible milestone Wednesday when the government announced that more than 100,000 people had died of overdoses between April 2020 and April 2021.

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 …

House poised to censure Gosar, eject him from committees over violent video depicting slaying of Ocasio-Cortez  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned the “outrageous” silence of House Republican leaders Wednesday ahead of an expected vote to censure Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) …

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 …

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.

Catholic Bishops Drop Effort to Ban Communion for Politicians Who Support Abortion Rights  —  The vote was the culmination of a debate that has exposed deep ideological divisions between U.S. bishops and Rome  —  BALTIMORE—The Catholic bishops of the U.S. ended a nearly yearlong debate Wednesday …

What Happened at Carmine's  —  A confrontation between a host and dining patrons slid neatly into every outrage narrative of 2021.  Maybe a bit too neatly.  —  A few hours before his workplace went viral, Matt, a server at Carmine's on the Upper West Side, was sitting in a pre-shift meeting, taking notes on the dinner specials.

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 …

Fox News proved a #MeToo lawsuit against them had “seemingly undisputed” allegations of sexual harassment  —  A #MeToo lawsuit against Fox News targeting its most popular nighttime opinion hosts, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, was just dismissed with prejudice over legal technicalities.

‘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.

DeSantis Spokesperson Blames Vaccine Passport on the Rothschilds … The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a forgery written by the czarist secret police more than a century ago, purporting to reveal a lurid international Jewish plot.  The Rothschild family played an outsize role in the imagined conspiracy …

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 …

Trump's thirst for revenge is causing chaos in the Georgia governor's race  —  (CNN)A simmering war within the Georgia Republican Party is about — what else?  — Donald Trump.  —  The former President — still angry over how Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp responded to the 2020 election results in his state …

Scoop: U.S. floats interim Iran nuclear deal  —  National security adviser Jake Sullivan raised with his Israeli counterpart the idea of an interim agreement with Iran to buy more time for nuclear negotiations, three Israeli and U.S. sources tell me.  —  Why it matters: The idea is only preliminary …

Prosecutors in the Kenosha shooter trial withheld evidence from the defense that was ‘at the center of their case,’ only sharing the high-definition drone video footage (pictured) on which they have hung their prosecution after the trial had concluded  —  Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger played …

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 …

Kyle Rittenhouse Isn't a Villain and There Is Nothing Wrong with Open Carry  —  I've known David French for a few years and there are things we agree on and things we do not agree on and this is most definitely the latter.  I feel compelled to respond to this. … Open carry is “menacing?”