G.O.P. Declares Jan. 6 Attack ‘Legitimate Political Discourse’  —  The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol.  —  WASHINGTON — The Republican Party on Friday officially declared …

Exclusive: Newly obtained records show Trump and Jim Jordan spoke at length on morning of January 6  —  (CNN)The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection is now in possession of White House records that provide new details about a phone call Donald Trump made to Republican …

Cyberattack on News Corp, Believed Linked to China, Targeted Emails of Journalists, Others  —  The attack, discovered on Jan. 20, affected publications including The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the company's U.K. news operation  —  News Corp was the target of a hack that accessed emails …

Why Stephanie Cutter says Dems need a new SCOTUS strategy  —  As Justice Stephen Breyer prepares to retire, the White House is racing to select his replacement.  Names of successors have been floated, the vetting-by-press has begun, members of Congress are already moving to push for their favored picks.

Biden touts stronger than expected jobs report: ‘America is back to work’  —  The White House had expected a disappointing report due to omicron.  —  After the White House braced for a disappointing January jobs report officials predicted would be skewed by the omicron variant …

The Masking Regime Is Coming Apart  —  This week, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to overturn Governor Glenn Youngkin's executive order rescinding the state's mask mandates in schools.  —  Youngkin's order does not prevent students from wearing masks.

The making of a modern Republican  —  Paths to power and winning elections inside the GOP are changing rapidly and radically, spawning a new generation of kingmakers while diminishing the clout of many who lorded over the party for years.  —  Why it matters: Fourteen of the Republican Party's top consultants …

Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion  —  Under Senator Rob Standridge's Students' Religious Belief Protection Act subjects like LGBT+ issues, evolution and the big bang theory, even birth control could be off the table

NBC talks politics, human rights in Beijing Olympics opening ceremony coverage … During the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Friday, hosts and experts on U.S. network NBC spoke in stark terms about China's alleged rights violations and Russia's conflict with Ukraine …

Lia Thomas should not be allowed in women's competitions, 16 UPenn swimmers argue  —  Transgender athlete Lia Thomas should not be allowed to compete as a woman, 16 fellow members of the University of Pennsylvania women's swimming team argue.  —  The swimmers, who currently compete alongside Thomas …

Chris Cuomo ‘to get $9m from CNN’: Fired anchor ‘will be paid half his contract to stop him filing lawsuit claiming that Jeff Zucker and Allison Gollust had ethically dubious relationship with Andrew Cuomo’  — Fired CNN anchor Chris Cuomo to receive a payout of $9million

President Biden extends solar tariffs, with major caveats.  —  The Biden administration extended tariffs on imported solar products but made changes to exempt many more products from the levies, a decision that angered some domestic producers.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden announced Friday …

Pennsylvania Senate Republican race between Oz and McCormick turns ugly early  —  Erie, Pennsylvania (CNN)In the Pennsylvania Senate race, one candidate is accusing a rival of having “dual loyalties” to the US and a foreign country.  In turn, that rival is charging his opponent with being too cozy with China.

Arizona Republican House speaker effectively dooms GOP bill to allow state legislature to reject election results  —  (CNN)A Republican bill that would have overhauled elections in Arizona — including giving the state legislature the power to reject election results — proved to be too much even for state GOP leaders this week.

We Need a 92 Percent Tax on Pandemic Profiteers  —  Let's tax billionaires—and übermillionaires— back to where they stood when Covid-19 hit.  —  Even before the Covid pandemic supercharged economic inequality, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced as a 2020 presidential candidate that “billionaires should not exist.”

Pence To Rebut Trump's ‘Could Have Overturned The Election’ Lie In Orlando Speech  —  The former vice president is expected to respond to Trump's continued attacks at a Federalist Society conference in Florida.  —  By S.V. Date  —  ORLANDO, Fla. ― Former Vice President Mike Pence …

Lone ISIS Bomber Carried Out Attack at Kabul Airport, Pentagon Says  —  The suicide bombing killed as many as 170 civilians and 13 U.S. troops in the final days of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan.  —  A single Islamic State suicide bomber carried out the attack at Kabul's international airport …

A new GOP bill would give workers an alternative to unions.  Republicans should get behind it.  —  Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Rep. Jim Banks (Ind.), the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, have been working on ways to make the GOP policy agenda align better with its increasingly working-class voters.

CNN, MSNBC, NYT, WaPo completely avoid Johns Hopkins study finding COVID lockdowns ineffective  —  ABC, CBS, NBC also ignored the anti-lockdown study  —  John Hopkins study concludes COVID lockdown policies should be rejected  —  There has been a full-on media blackout of the new study outlining …

The Talented Mr. Bernardini … Filippo Bernardini was just a high-school student when he published his first novel.  It was 2008, and Bernardini, who lived in a small town an hour north of Rome, wrote it for an independent publishing house in Milan using a thinly veiled pseudonym …