Jim Jordan sent one of the texts revealed by January 6 committee  —  Rep. Liz Cheney reveals frantic texts from GOP lawmakers to Mark Meadows on January 6  —  (CNN)Rep. Jim Jordan forwarded a text message to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 5, outlining a legal theory …

Sinema pops Democrats' filibuster trial balloon on voting rights  —  Kyrsten Sinema supports the elections reform bill that Democrats are considering a year-end push to pass.  She doesn't support a shortcut around the filibuster to get it done.  —  The Arizona moderate is making clear …

JFK Assassination Records - 2021 Additional Documents Release  —  Have a question about JFK Assassination Records?  —  Ask it on HistoryHub!  —  The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is processing previously withheld John F. Kennedy assassination-related records to comply …

SF Mayor London Breed Announces Crime Crackdown; ‘Less Tolerant Of All The Bulls-t That Has Destroyed Our City’  —  SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Mayor London Breed launched an emergency police intervention in San Francisco's crime-ridden Tenderloin neighborhood Tuesday, targeting a pipeline …

Russian Politician Calls for Kidnapping of U.S. Congressman on Live TV  —  “This is how we should be dealing with these bastards,” the Russian lawmaker said after advocating for the abduction of Rep. Ruben Gallego over his recent comments on Ukraine.  —  With tensions between the United States …

Omicron Is About to Overwhelm Us … For all their limitations, the models right now are flashing bright red.  Over the course of the pandemic, again and again, projections based on simplistic extrapolations of current trends have missed the mark when the trajectories turned.

Expand the Supreme Court  —  I don't come to this conclusion lightly or because I disagree with a particular decision; I come to this conclusion because I believe the current court threatens the democratic foundations of our nation.  —  This month, a majority of justices …

Biden picks Caroline Kennedy, Michelle Kwan for ambassador roles  —  President Biden will nominate Caroline Kennedy and former figure skater Michelle Kwan to ambassadorships as part of a slate of diplomatic picks, the White House announced Wednesday.  —  Biden announced his intent to nominate Kennedy …

Former Houston cop who thought A/C repairman was a voter fraud mastermind indicted on felony assault charge  —  A Harris County grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Houston police captain Mark Aguirre on an assault charge after he was accused of running a man off the road and pointing to a gun …

The military-intelligence veterans who helped lead Trump's campaign of disinformation  —  After Donald Trump lost the White House, ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and three other current and former U.S. Army officers challenged the vote's legitimacy and pushed baseless conspiracy claims.

Eric Adams Names NYPD Commissioner in Front of Cop Killer Mural  —  New York City mayor-elect Eric Adams (D.) on Wednesday named the next commissioner of the New York Police Department while standing in front of a mural dedicated to a convicted cop killer and other controversial left-wing icons.

Historic wind storm slamming central U.S. with rare tornado threat in the north  —  Minnesota and northern Iowa could see their first December tornadoes on record; winds are expected to gust over 60 mph in Denver, Omaha and Des Moines.  —  Half of the Lower 48 faces a dangerous weather event Wednesday …

Does Punchbowl News Play by the Rules?  —  Where hosting a confab for lobbyists meets journalistic ethics  —  On Sunday afternoon, the Washington Football Team lost to the Dallas Cowboys, and Punchbowl News was there to see it.  The D.C.-based scoop shop, a newsletter-based online publication …

‘The Five’ blasts Swalwell, Frum for ‘despicable’ new COVID restriction ideas for unvaccinated Americans  —  Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum suggested relegating unvaccinated hospital patients to the back of the line  —  Eric Swalwell, David Frum float ‘despicable’ new coronavirus vaccine mandates

Bassholes  —  Stop culturally appropriating, or, a meditation on the importance of fishing hats  —  Whenever I'm lecturing in journalism schools, eyeing row upon row of tomorrow's Tom Wolfes and Janet Malcolms - or as editors like to call them, future listicle writers - I tell the kids, “Journalism is easy, I just make it look hard.”

Unvaccinated Covid Patients Push Hospital Systems Past the Brink  —  Data analysis and visualization by David Ingold and Paul Murray  —  In a Kentucky hospital bed at the end of November, a Covid-19 patient from the state's latest wave of infections lay alone behind the glass isolation wall.

Retailers say thefts are at crisis level.  The numbers say otherwise  —  Organized retail crime is haunting the nation this holiday season.  —  Captured on smartphones and closed-circuit cameras, thefts involving groups of people smashing windows or individuals wheeling loaded shopping …

NFL map endorses CCP's claim that Taiwan is part of China  —  The NFL appeared to endorse the Chinese Communist Party's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan on Wednesday in a map announcing the NFL's international marketing.  —  The world map shared by the NFL colored the Chinese mainland …

The lawyer behind the Trump coup memo unmasks the absurdity of the coverup  —  In their frantic efforts to disrupt the work of the House select committee examining Jan. 6, Donald Trump's co-conspirators have advanced a singular argument: The committee lacks any “legitimate legislative purpose.”

Build Back Better would make Biden's annus horribilis even worse  —  At the end of his year of Old Testament afflictions — the political equivalent of Job losing his camels and acquiring boils — President Biden might be muttering: Job was at least spared Sens. Joe Manchin III and Kyrsten Sinema.

Agency overseeing Trump's D.C. hotel lease failed to examine ethical, constitutional conflicts, report says  —  WASHINGTON — The federal agency managing the government's lease of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., failed to examine ethical conflicts and constitutional issues posed …

3rd Circuit's Ambro to take senior status, giving Biden second vacancy  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro is stepping down from active service on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a court official said Wednesday, creating a new judicial vacancy for President Joe Biden to fill on the Philadelphia-based court.