Dems hustle for year-end deal as child tax credit cliff looms  —  “It's as important a thing as there is” in the party's social spending bill, as one senator put it.  And it's expiring any day now.  —  Democrats are hoping a year-end cliff with 35 million families on the line can finally shake …

Chris Wallace bolts Tucker Carlson's Fox News  —  The Sunday morning farewell announcement from “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace had a narrow feel to it.  “After 18 years, this is my final ‘Fox News Sunday.’ It is the last time — and I say this with real sadness — we will meet like this.

Meadows Jan. 5 email indicated Guard on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,’ investigators say  —  Mark Meadows indicated in a Jan. 5 email that the National Guard was on standby to “protect pro Trump people,” according to documents obtained by the House committee investigating the Capitol riot …

Pelosi will stay around to lead House Democrats through the next election — and perhaps beyond  —  (CNN)Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.

The curious case of a map and a disappearing Taiwan minister at U.S. democracy summit  —  A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own.

A Comedy Nails the Media Apocalypse  —  With “Don't Look Up,” Adam McKay makes a star-studded allegorical satire that shows the news media whistling past the climate-change graveyard.  —  After the president, a former nude model, tries to cover up a major discovery, two astronomers leak …

Satellite Images Show Russian Military Forces Keep Massing Near Ukraine's Border  —  KYIV — Tanks and other menacing self-propelled artillery.  A Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system like the one that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.  Thousands more troops.

Marshall: ‘I still remain concerned’ Biden didn't win 2020 election fair and square  —  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) responds to Bob Dole's final interview about President Trump and says that while he “absolutely” believes he won his own 2020 election fair and square, he “remains concerned” that President Biden did not.

'The president doesn't like you guys now': The inside story of Trump's rage against Netanyahu  —  A new Hebrew book published on Sunday by Israeli journalist Barak Ravid gives a behind-the-scenes look at what is now being revealed as a rocky U.S.-Israel relationship during the Trump administration …

Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Puts Spotlight on Phone Ban  — Online retailer is returning to a cell phone ban in warehouses  — Workers say they want access to weather alerts, communication  —  An Amazon.com Inc. warehouse collapse on Friday night that killed at least six people …

Student-loan forgiveness would mean everything to Latinx students stuck in a debt cycle  —  The amount of student loan debt in the United States is $1.8 trillion dollars — and counting.  The price to get an education has never been more expensive.  —  The student loan crisis has affected …

‘Absurdity’ of police logging rapists as women  —  Police have been criticised for saying they will record rapes by offenders with male genitalia as being committed by a woman if the attacker “identifies as a female”.  —  Police Scotland said that they would log rapes as being carried …

Nothing is more important than Team Trump's January PowerPoint urging a full-blown coup  —  In 1971, the brilliant musician Gil Scott-Heron warned America that “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.”  So far that's been true, but who knew that in 2021 the counterrevolution …