Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory  —  Sources tell Guardian Trump pressed lieutenants at Willard hotel in Washington about ways to delay certification of election result  —  Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year …

Moderna chief predicts existing vaccines will struggle with Omicron  —  Stéphane Bancel foresees ‘material drop’ in current jabs' effectiveness, sending stocks and oil prices lower  —  The chief executive of Moderna has predicted that existing vaccines will be much less effective …

Expanding our private information policy to include media  —  As part of our ongoing efforts to build tools with privacy and security at the core, we're updating our existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.”  Under our existing policy …

Exclusive: Meadows reaches deal for initial cooperation with January 6 investigators  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows is cooperating with the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot and is providing records and agreeing to appear for an initial interview, CNN exclusively has learned.

The Case Against Abortion  —  A striking thing about the American abortion debate is how little abortion itself is actually debated.  The sensitivity and intimacy of the issue, the mixed feelings of so many Americans, mean that most politicians and even many pundits really don't like to talk about it.

Another video shows Lauren Boebert suggesting Ilhan Omar was terrorist  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado suggested to a crowd in September that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, whom she called “black-hearted” and “evil,” was a terrorist.

GOP resistance to preschool plan could imperil key Biden proposal in many states  —  His signature universal preschool plan would depend on the participation of states, which have had uneven approaches to implementing federal aid  —  The White House's proposal to create universal prekindergarten …

New opioids, more powerful than fentanyl, are discovered in D.C. amid deadly wave of overdoses  —  Forensic analysts have identified a new and highly potent family of synthetic opioids in the District's illicit drug supply, a worrisome discovery in a city already struggling with a wave of fatal overdoses that shows no signs of abating.

An errant op-ed: Rich Azzopardi, Gov. Cuomo and Attorney General Tish James  —  We publish lots of op-eds.  More often than we'd like, errors make it into print.  It is rare that a guest opinion essay has misstatements rooted in an author's personal recollection that we specifically sought …

Trump Never Got Another Classified Intelligence Briefing After Jan. 6  —  Donald Trump skipped his classified intelligence briefings for the holidays.  And then, after his Jan. 6 briefing didn't happen, he never got another one, a new CIA book reveals.  —  After a holiday break …

McCarthy's floor speech pays off as he becomes first House GOP leader to launch national ad blitz  —  McCarthy fundraising, new ad blitz should pay dividends in House GOP leader's push to regain majority, quest for speaker  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for November 30

Pence 2024?  —  Mike Pence spent much of his vice presidency quietly catering to the whims of President Donald Trump.  But on January 6, he broke with Trump by refusing to overturn the 2020 election results.  And now, Pence is eyeing a presidential run of his own, even though his old boss hasn't ruled out a 2024 campaign.

Tony Kushner, Oracle of the Upper West Side  —  When Steven Spielberg asked Kushner, America's most important living playwright, to take on ‘West Side Story,’ he thought, 'He's lost his mind.' But he dared.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

Space Force General: China and Russia attacking U.S. space assets ‘every day’  —  When Russia blows up a satellite in space with a missile (as it did this month), or when China tests a new hypersonic missile (as it did last month), the ongoing arms race in space leaps into the news.

Metaverse Real Estate Piles Up Record Sales in Sandbox and Other Virtual Realms  —  Firms' purchases of digital land in online worlds are bets that property values will rise as more people join in  —  The latest hot real-estate market isn't on the scenic coasts or in balmy Sunbelt cities.

Prosecutors demanded records of Sidney Powell's fundraising groups as part of criminal probe  —  A subpoena issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. sought communications and other documents related to fundraising and accounting by Defending the Republic

Red states are now paying people not to get vaccinated  —  Once upon a time, states debated whether to pay people to get vaccinated.  Now, some red states are paying people not to get vaccinated, by cutting checks to workers who quit or are fired because they refuse covid-19 shots.

Lorne Michaels still lives for Saturday night … NEW YORK — Episode 4.  Season 47.  —  “I got a lot of notes here.”  —  “Chloe, you've got to play it to camera.”  —  Fifty-three minutes to showtime.  —  “James, can we get you up in the seat?”  —  You can't see Lorne Michaels behind …

How Biden and Trump actually compare on coronavirus deaths  —  The United States passed yet another grim coronavirus milestone this month: We have now seen more deaths from the virus in 2021 than we did in all of 2020 — despite the advent of vaccines.  —  Naturally, this has led to plenty …

Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says Oklahoma National Guard members must get vaccinated  —  Members of the Oklahoma National Guard must get vaccinated against COVID-19 regardless of their duty status or personal beliefs, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Gov. Kevin Stitt on Monday.

Turkey jails founder of opposition party pending trial … A Turkish court jailed pending trial Metin Gurcan, a founder of the Turkish opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), over “political and military espionage,” a state-run news agency said on Monday.

Biden's Global Democracy Summit Raises an Awkward Question: Can Ours Endure?  —  In the past year, the prospects for improving American democracy have dimmed considerably.  —  In March, not long after Joe Biden assumed the Presidency, Freedom House, a democracy-watchdog group …

Rodney Davis Announces 2022 Re-Election Campaign to Congress in New IL-15  —  LaHood, Bost, Shimkus, 31 of the 35 Republican county chairmen in IL-15, and 14 Republican state lawmakers in IL-15 also announced their endorsement of Rodney's re-election to Congress