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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Biden backs exception to filibuster for voting rights bills  —  President Biden says he supports creating an exception to the legislative filibuster in the Senate in order to pass voting rights legislation over Republican opposition.  —  Biden told ABC News' David Muir in a portion …

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.

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 …

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 …

Please—Stop the Coup Porn  —  Military officers should quit all their coup porn talk—either to remove a president they don't like, or to project their own reckless, insurrectionary behavior onto their political opponents.  —  In a recent Washington Post op-ed, three retired generals …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Additional Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19 in Certain Adults  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Merck's molnupiravir for the treatment of mild …

The problem with performative centrism  —  In basically every major institution in America, there are powerful figures who I doubt voted for Donald Trump but nonetheless play down the radicalism of the Republican Party, belittle those who speak honestly about it or otherwise act in ways that make it harder to combat that radicalism.

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 …

Trump's Defeat a Year Ago Was Dunkirk, Not D-Day  —  As 2021 ends, the forces of democracy remain beleaguered and the forces of sanity on the defensive.  —  Where do we stand, as year 2021 of the common era and year one of the Biden presidency comes to an end?  —  We're much better off than we might have been.

‘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 …

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.