Biden, Back Into the Breach  —  A year after the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol, the President delivered the speech that he never wanted to give.  —  He never mentioned Donald Trump by name.  He didn't have to.  Joe Biden gave the speech of his Presidency on Thursday …

White House, USPS finalizing plans to begin shipping coronavirus test kits to U.S. households  —  The White House is finalizing details with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver 500 million coronavirus test kits to households across the country, according to four people familiar with the plans …

Capitol Police officer who suffered concussion on January 6 is latest to sue Trump seeking accountability  —  Biden tears into Trump during January 6th speech  —  (CNN)US Capitol Police Officer Briana Kirkland is suing former President Donald Trump for the physical and emotional pain she endured …

Ted Cruz Begs Tucker Carlson's Forgiveness for Being Mean to Violent Insurrectionists  —  Senator Ted Cruz has tried to cling to what has become the safest ground in the Republican Party: Denouncing the violent attack on the Capitol one year ago without criticizing either the lies that inspired …

Dick Cheney returns to the House and receives a warm welcome . . . from Democrats  —  Former vice president Richard B. Cheney visited the House floor on Thursday and patiently waited to greet more than a dozen members waiting to shake his hand.  —  They were all Democrats.

Mike Pompeo tells The Post how he lost 90 pounds in six months  —  America isn't just seeing less of Mike Pompeo because the Trump administration is no longer in the White House.  We are seeing less of the former Secretary of State because there is literally less of him — 90 pounds, to be exact.

A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life With COVID  —  Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD1; Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH2; Celine R. Gounder, MD, ScM3  —  As the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates, COVID-19 is here to stay.  In January 2021, President Biden issued the …

Mo Brooks was ‘cheering on’ Trump supporters invading the Capitol: Former Kevin McCarthy staffer  —  A former staffer for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday made an explosive claim about Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and his reaction to the January 6th Capitol riots.

Woman tied to Capitol riots was wrong-way driver in fatal crash in Franklin County  —  FRANKLIN COUNTY — A woman tied to the U.S. Capitol riots a year ago was drunk and driving the wrong way on Interstate 44 on Wednesday night when she killed a woman and seriously injured the man driving another car …

DeSantis admits, up to 1 million COVID test kits DID expire in FL  —  Quality Journalism for Critical Times  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis and Kevin Guthrie, director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management, acknowledged Thursday that 800,000 to a million COVID tests had expired in a state stockpile …

Kazakhstan president gives shoot-to-kill order against protesters, dismissing calls for negotiations  —  MOSCOW — Kazakhstan's president said Friday he had ordered his troops to “shoot to kill without warning” in an effort to quash anti-government protests that have been raging since the weekend.

The Government Says A Key Informant In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Was A “Double Agent”  —  Federal prosecutors say a key FBI informant in the alleged plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan was a “double agent” who was “working against the interests of the government” by trying to destroy evidence and prevent arrests.

The Biden Boom  —  We kept ourselves out of debt, so now we're enjoying a speedy recovery.  —  The official numbers aren't in yet, but In the 4th quarter of 2021, the United States economy is believed to have grown by about 5.5% or 6%.  That's a pretty incredible number …

There Are No More Frenemies in Congress.  Just Enemies.  —  “This is not the kind of environment that is conducive to the kind of debate over important issues that we should be having,” Rep. Andy Kim said.  —  Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) are political polar opposites …

In the nation's hospitals, this covid wave is different  —  The number of Americans hospitalized with covid-19 reached more than 126,000 this week — the highest level in a year.  But this wave of the pandemic looks different from what came before, with dueling variants on the move.