I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book.  It's Damning.  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  Mark Meadows, call your publisher.  —  It seems that Donald Trump's final White House chief …

Trump Fraud Inquiry's Focus: Did He Mislead His Own Accountants?  —  The investigation, by the Manhattan district attorney, is zeroing in on information the former president and his company shared about the value of his assets.  —  As prosecutors in Manhattan weigh whether to charge Donald J. Trump …

Far too little vote fraud to tip election to Trump, AP finds  —  ATLANTA (AP) — An Associated Press review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump has found fewer than 475 — a number that would have made no difference in the 2020 presidential election.

Eric Adams picks Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD  —  Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the first female police commissioner of the NYPD — a stunning, close-to-home pick from a field of seasoned top women cops across …

POLITICO Playbook: A junkie's guide to the 2022 midterms  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BREAKING OVERNIGHT — The House voted 222-208 to hold MARK MEADOWS in contempt of Congress and make a criminal referral to the Department of Justice.  Just two Republicans — ADAM KINZINGER (Ill.) and LIZ CHENEY …

Judge scraps Trump lawsuit to shield tax returns from Congress  —  A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's bid to block congressional Democrats from obtaining his tax returns.  —  Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee to federal district court in Washington …

EXCLUSIVE U.S. lawmakers call for sanctions against Israel's NSO, spyware firms  —  A group of U.S. lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department and State Department to sanction Israeli spyware firm NSO Group and three other foreign surveillance companies they say helped authoritarian governments commit human rights abuses.

Biden admin, House GOP scrutinize Ilhan Omar's Islamophobia bill  —  The Biden administration has outlined several issues it has with Omar's bill  —  Rep. Boebert: Rep Omar wants public humiliation, not a public apology  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is pushing a controversial Islamophobia bill …

Gorsuch writes scathing dissent after Supreme Court rejects New York vaccine mandate challenge  —  Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a scathing dissent after the Supreme Court left in place New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.  —  Only two other Republican-appointed justices …

Scoop: Biden and Manchin deadlocked on length of BBB programs  —  President Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) are locked in a disagreement over how long programs in the Build Back Better agenda should be funded, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.

The AP Interview: UN nuke chief says view of Iran blurred  —  ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog warned Tuesday that the restrictions faced by his inspectors in Iran threaten to give the world only a “very blurred image” …

Phil Waldron, backer of Jan. 6 PowerPoint, is invited to speak to Louisiana voting panel  —  A retired Army colonel who worked with then-President Donald Trump's outside legal team to claim that the 2020 election results were rigged was an invited speaker Tuesday at a state commission charged with shaping Louisiana's voting system.

Feds scramble to assess security flaw that threatens ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices  —  “Hundreds of millions” of internet-connected devices are vulnerable to hackers because of a newly discovered security flaw in a widely used piece of computer code, a federal official said Tuesday …

Tech's Looming Radical Chic Throwdown  —  The recall election of Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's avant-garde D.A., has turned bitter, pitting tech's billionaires against one another—and forcing the city to look at itself, and its past, in the mirror.  —  Last January, I fired up my AirPods …

Biden Nominee Saule Omarova Speaks Out About The Campaign To Smear Her As ‘Soviet’  —  Omarova says Wall Street backed the successful campaign to brand her a communist.  —  Saule Omarova left her confirmation hearing feeling calm.  —  She didn't think she'd been “savaged,” as some writers would later put it.

A Real Housewife of New York Dined and Dashed at D.C.'s Sceniest Restaurant  —  Live in Washington long enough, and you'll see some naughty behavior.  This is a town that's seen three impeachments, two fake wars, one attempted coup, and too many sex scandals to count — and that's just the last four administrations.

Blumenthal Speaks at Communist Party Awards Ceremony  —  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) spoke at an awards ceremony over the weekend hosted by a Communist Party affiliate whose leaders used the event to recruit potential members to the organization.  —  Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members …

Climate change has destabilized the Earth's poles, putting the rest of the planet in peril  —  New research shows how rising temperatures have irreversibly altered both the Arctic and Antarctic.  Ripple effects will be felt around the globe.  —  The ice shelf was cracking up.

EXCLUSIVE: State regulators reveal new fine against Sidney Powell, could lead to felony charges in Florida  —  Public records requests reveal a new enforcement action and Consent Decree against former Trump 2020 campaign lawyer Sidney Powell's organization Defending the Republic Inc. of Texas …

Omicron spreading rapidly in U.S. and could bring punishing wave as soon as January, CDC warns  —  But federal and some pharmaceutical executives signal they do not currently favor revising vaccines, saying existing regimen plus boosters are effective

How Beijing Influences the Influencers  —  We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at.  —  It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.  —  Stick around when we show you around.  —  Catch you later.

Man who threatened to shoot Pelosi and brought guns and ammo to D.C. is sentenced to 28 months  —  Cleveland Meredith Jr. repeatedly texted family and friends saying he hoped to shoot Pelosi and assault the nation's capital  —  As Cleveland G. Meredith Jr., a devoted follower …

American Conservatism Is a Rotting Whale Carcass on the Beach  —  For your own reasons turn into your bosoms, As dogs upon their masters, worrying you. See you, my princes, and my noble peers,  —  These English monsters!  —Henry V  —  , Act II, Scene 2

Extraordinary image shows ‘raucous’ Xmas party thrown by Tory aides in lockdown breach  —  Our image shows 24 people crowded together in a room in the Tories' Westminster HQ for an event organised by Shaun Bailey's mayoral campaign - Mr Bailey tonight quit as chair of the London Assembly's police …

Biden pleads for Congress to act on gun control as he marks 9th anniversary of Sandy Hook shooting  —  President Biden, in a video message Tuesday, sent his sympathies to the families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn., and demanded that Congress take action on his gun-control agenda.