Trump Pushes Back on Candace Owens Undermining Vaccine: 'People Aren't Dying When They Take the Vaccine'  —  Former President Donald Trump pushed back on Candace Jones during a recent interview when the conservative commentator appeared to be undermining the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccines to hurt President Joe Biden politically.

The Obscure Charge Jan. 6 Investigators Are Looking at for Trump  —  Prosecutors have hit 240 insurrectionists with the rare charge of obstructing an official congressional proceeding.  The Jan. 6 Committee might be looking at that charge for Trump.  —  As federal prosecutors increasingly use …

Kamala Harris's Allies Express Concern: Is She an Afterthought?  —  The vice president's allies are increasingly concerned that President Biden relied on her to win but does not need her to govern.  —  WASHINGTON — The president needed the senator from West Virginia on his side …

CNN Exclusive: US intel and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now building its own ballistic missiles with help of China  —  Washington (CNN)US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China …

Five arrested in connection with carjacking of House Democrat  —  Five suspects were arrested on Wednesday in connection with “an armed carjacking incident” earlier in the day involving Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.), authorities said.  —  Delaware State Police also announced that they had located …

Axios-Ipsos poll: Lack of trust puts the unvaccinated at risk  —  Unvaccinated Americans' already low trust in the federal government plummeted over the course of 2021, exacerbating the challenges in getting the pandemic under control, according to a year's worth of data from the Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index.

Could bipartisan democracy-protection have worked?  Could it still?  —  There has been skepticism voiced by some about my suggestion that, after January 6, Democrats in Congress should have pursued a strategy of finding at least ten GOP Senators to support the kind of structural electoral reform …

Illinois State Senator Carjacked in Suburban Broadview  —  Illinois State Sen. Kimberly Lightford and her husband were the victims of a carjacking in a Chicago suburb Tuesday evening, authorities said.  —  The Broadview Police Department said three masked people driving a Durango SUV hijacked …

The Jolt: Walker's financial disclosure give us a peak into a sports icon's wealth  —  U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker's financial disclosures were posted late Wednesday, and it shows he has a number of lucrative businesses.The document shows his umbrella organization for his various business endeavors …

Jim Jordan says he has ‘real concerns’ with Jan. 6 panel after sit-down request  —  Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said on Wednesday that he has “real concerns” about the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which requested to sit down with him in a letter earlier in the day.

Rep. Madison Cawthorn Announces Divorce From Wife 8 Months After Wedding  —  CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) and his wife, Cristina Cawthorn, are divorcing after less than a year of marriage.  The North Carolina lawmaker cited his time in Congress …

Senate GOP feels another Trump effect: The rise of celeb candidates  —  The most reliable springboard to the Senate used to be House experience — before Donald Trump vaulted from reality TV to the White House.  —  Five years after Trump went from celebrity to the presidency …

The right targets  —  Introducing “Common-good conservatism: a debate.”  —  Conservatism may rarely announce itself in maxims, formulae or aims.  Its essence is inarticulate, and its expression, when compelled, sceptical.  —  A large part of this issue of The New Criterion is devoted …

Intel Apologizes After Asking Suppliers to Avoid China's Xinjiang Region  —  Chip maker is the latest Western company caught between Washington and Beijing  —  U.S. semiconductor giant Intel Corp. apologized after setting off a social-media backlash with a letter asking suppliers to avoid sourcing …

Thousands who ‘followed the rules’ are about to get covid.  They shouldn't be ashamed.  —  For two years now, Aline, a 30-something graduate student in Ohio, has diligently — desperately, even — protected herself against the coronavirus.  Vaccinated and boosted, she took a test last week ahead of holiday travel to Atlanta.

Covid-19 Marches Toward Endemic Status in U.S. as Omicron Spreads  —  With a new wave rising, people and institutions are making decisions that reflect changing attitudes toward the threat that Covid-19 represents  —  The Omicron variant's aggressive advance is the latest twist in the course …

President Biden is failing on covid-19  —  Gregg Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and associate professor (adjunct) at Yale Law School.  He is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow.  —  I've lived through two pandemics in my lifetime, first AIDS and now covid-19.

Trump Fraud Inquiry Won't Be Resolved When Vance's Term Ends Next Week  —  After leading a three-year investigation into the former president, the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., will hand it to his successor.  —  The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., has run out of time.

The clear and present danger of Trump's enduring ‘Big Lie’  —  It's been nearly a year since the United States suffered an unprecedented attack on constitutional democracy.  —  When a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the goal was to overturn the results …

Hong Kong University Pulls Down Monument to Tiananmen Massacre Victims  —  Sculptor says he is shocked by actions to remove ‘Pillar of Shame’  —  HONG KONG—The governing body of the city's oldest university ordered the removal of a statue commemorating the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre …

‘Fox News is putting a target on the back of top scientists’: Fellow medics back Fauci in Watters row  —  Fallout continues from Jesse Watters' Turning Point USA speech  —  More health experts are calling for Fox News to take some kind of action after one of its most prominent hosts …

Buttigieg doles out $241M to US ports to boost supply chain  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is awarding more than $241 million in grants to bolster U.S ports, part of the Biden administration's near-term plan to address America's clogged supply chain …