Capitol attack panel investigates Trump over potential criminal conspiracy  —  Messages between Mark Meadows and others suggest the Trump White House coordinated efforts to stop Joe Biden's certification  —  The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Donald Trump oversaw …

Why I Soured on the Democrats  —  Until recently, I was a loyal, left-leaning Democrat, and I had been my entire adult life.  I was the kind of partisan who registered voters before midterm elections and went to protests.  I hated Donald Trump so much that I struggled to be civil to relatives on the other side of the aisle.

Can Eric Adams really hire his brother?  —  Bernard Adams wouldn't be the first family member of a mayor to work in their administration.  —  New York City Mayor Eric Adams' brother, Bernard Adams, is getting a high level job as deputy commissioner in the New York City Police Department …

COVID Is an Emergency.  To SCOTUS's Conservatives, It's Also an Opportunity.  —  Where the liberal justices see sickness and death, the conservatives see a chance to crush government.  — A Trucker Stuck for 14-Plus Hours on a Virginia Highway Explains What It's Like—and How She's Peeing

Ted Cruz Debases Himself for the Base  —  The Texas senator tries to be all things to all people, and ends up pleasing no one.  —  hat an extraordinary disappointment Ted Cruz is.  On paper, the man should be a star.  He's intellectually gifted, he has a remarkable memory, and …

America's Omicron Wave Already Looks More Severe Than Europe's  —  From abroad, where COVID-conscious Americans now look for portents of our near-term Omicron future, nearly all the signs have been positive over the last few weeks.  In fact, case numbers aside, the U.K. and continental surges …

QAnon Star Who Said Only ‘Idiots’ Get Vax Dies of COVID  —  Cirsten Weldon told her fans not to get vaccinated and wanted Dr. Anthony Fauci executed.  She just died of COVID.  —  A leading QAnon promoter who urged both her followers and strangers she passed on the street …

Democracy is on the brink of disaster.  For voters, it's politics as usual. … It was the scariest of times, it was the stablest of times.  —  Contemporary American politics offers an unsettling study in contrasts.  On the one hand, Donald Trump's lies about a stolen presidential election …

‘The last straw’ |  After months of curfew violations and threats, DOJ wants Proud Boy locked up  —  Federal prosecutors say Joshua Pruitt has shown he won't abide by court-ordered restrictions while he awaits trial on charges related to January 6.  —  WASHINGTON — The Department …

Lani Guinier, civil rights champion and Harvard law professor, dies at 71  —  A leading voice for voting rights long before her nomination to lead the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division made her nationally known, Lani Guinier died Friday.  —  Ms. Guinier, the Bennett Boskey professor …

Biden, funerals and a bygone America  —  LAS VEGAS — He spoke at a private memorial for the former first lady of Indiana, eulogized two former Republican senators and sat in the audience to honor the life of a onetime GOP secretary of state.  —  He flew to Delaware to pay homage to the state's former governor.

Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life in prison  —  The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in Georgia were sentenced Friday to life in prison.  —  The sentences for Travis McMichael, who shot Arbery; and his father, Gregory McMichael, do not carry the possibility of parole.

Covid may raise the risk of diabetes in children, C.D.C. researchers reported.  —  Children who have recovered from Covid-19 appear to be at significantly increased risk of developing Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.

DeSantis confirms as many as 1 million Covid tests expired in state stockpile  —  Hospitals struggle amid explosion of omicron and CDC guideline confusion  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's top emergency management official confirmed Thursday that 800,000 to 1 million Covid test kits …

Drudge hits ‘mute’ on Biden  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With Allie Bice.  —  The Drudge Report made its name by making life hell for Democrats in the White House.  —  But over the past several months …

Just 1% of the 7 million US climbers are African American, study finds  —  The lack of diversity in outdoor recreation is receiving more attention.  Facing Race looks at how Washington state is pushing for more equity and inclusion outdoors.  —  SEATTLE — Locking in and taking the first step …

Steve Bannon Sought Bizarre Loan as His Jan. 6 Woes Spiraled  —  Amid mounting legal problems, Bannon seems to have tried to borrow against property linked to a nonprofit he founded with a Chinese billionaire. … Ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon appears to have recently sought a loan …

It's time for the press to take Tom Cotton seriously  —  Journalists would do themselves a huge favor if they stopped treating Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas as a right-wing nut job and consider the possibility that he is actually smarter and more reasonable than his critics say.

Biden, surveying Colorado fire damage, comforts families and promotes agenda  —  President Joe Biden traveled to Colorado to survey the damage caused by a rare winter fire that tore through a suburban neighborhood before the start of the new year.  —  In remarks at a Denver County community center …