Biden and Manchin speak  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and President Joe Biden spoke Sunday night after a major blowup in negotiations around the president's domestic agenda, three people familiar with the call told POLITICO.  —  The conversation ended with a sense that negotiations would …

Trump Sues New York A.G. in Attempt to Stop Inquiry Into His Business  —  The attorney general, Letitia James, is seeking to question the former president under oath next month as part of a long-running investigation.  —  Donald J. Trump filed a lawsuit on Monday against the New York State attorney general …

Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of US COVID-19 cases  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.

House Jan. 6 committee seeks information from GOP Rep. Perry about communications with Trump White House officials  —  The House select committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 sent a letter on Monday to Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) requesting he provide information …

Donald Trump Reveals He Got Vaccine Booster Shot, Gets Booed by Tour Crowd  —  Donald Trump was met with boos when he revealed he had received a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine on Sunday.  Trump made the revelation after telling a mostly unmasked crowd at the American Airlines Center …

Biden's Economic Performance Has Proved Unbeatable  —  No first-year president going back to Carter comes close to matching the current White House occupant's No. 1 or No. 2 ranking in each of 10 key measures.  —  U.S. financial markets are outperforming the world by the biggest margin in the 21st century …

J.D. Vance Is Now Pushing False Conspiracy Theories About “Quarantine Camps”  —  Seems a little crazy!  —  It should be generally assumed when somebody starts talking about concentration or internment camps, outside of the historical context (Nazis, Japanese internment) …

Fanone resigns from D.C. police force 11 months after battling insurrectionist mob at Capitol  —  Michael Fanone, the D.C. police officer who was dragged into a mob and beaten during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and later publicly excoriated lawmakers and others who downplayed the attack …

Journalist, Dallas Morning News politics reporter, author Wayne Slater killed in car crash  —  Slater, who chronicled two Texas governors' rise to national prominence and co-wrote two books about George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, was 74.  —  AUSTIN — Retired Dallas Morning News Austin bureau chief …

My Traumatizing Years With Bryan Singer … I turned 18 in March of 2009.  Just days after my birthday, my life would change forever.  —  I was working in New York as an assistant scenic designer when I was introduced to Bryan Singer.  Bryan had heard about me through Gary Goddard …

Powerful House Democratic appropriator not seeking reelection  —  Longtime Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the powerful chair of an Appropriations subcommittee overseeing immigration issues, will not seek reelection in 2022, two sources familiar with her decision told The Hill on Monday.

Millions of Angry, Armed Americans Stand Ready to Seize Power If Trump Loses in 2024  —  Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service.  That disability doesn't keep Nieznany from making …

It's official: Durham is investigating the Clinton Campaign.  —  Enter the Clinton Campaign Lawyers  —  The latest filings by Special Counsel John Durham reveal that lawyers for the Hillary Clinton Campaign now represent Christopher Steele primary subsource Igor Danchenko.

QAnon cultists are now drinking bleach compound from communal bowl: ‘Immediately evokes images of Jonestown’  —  QAnon cultists gathered in Dallas have started drinking an industrial disinfectant mixed into a chemical cocktail.  —  Family members of a Delaware woman who left her husband …

DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’  —  Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise  —  A staff member at a Washington DC school has been suspended …

My Name Is Brandon  —  My name is Brandon.  Brandon Brown, to be specific.  Yes, that Brandon.  —  I am Brandon, the NASCAR driver and unlikely meme.  A 28-year-old who now finds himself in the middle of the American political conversation.  As a pro driver, I never expected to be in the passenger seat of my own viral moment.

The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries  —  Some Texas residents are asking for greater say in what titles appear on public library shelves.  —  Copy link  —  When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won't be for the holidays.

Revealed: the Florida power company pushing legislation to slow rooftop solar  —  Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker.  Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers  —  Mary Ellen Klas for the Miami Herald and Mario Alejandro Ariza for Floodlight

Conservative Florida pundit awaiting trial for allegedly funneling Russian money to Trump campaign dies  —  A longtime conservative political commentator and author under federal indictment for conspiring to illegally funnel Russian money to the Trump campaign in 2016 has died.