‘Precipitous decline’: J.D. Vance pollster issues warning on Ohio Senate race  —  Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance “needs a course correction ASAP” — and that's according to the well-funded super PAC supporting him.  —  A 98-page PowerPoint presentation produced by Tony Fabrizio …

How Mike Pence just doomed his 2024 chances  —  (CNN)Mike Pence just crashed his political career into Donald Trump — and the former President's ongoing claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and should have been overturned on January 6.  —  “President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to a conservative group in Florida.

Statement of Republican Leaders and Former Officials on the RNC's Censure of Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger  —  Last week the Republican National Committee (RNC) made clear that it would rather be the “Big Lie” party than the “Big Tent” party by condemning two principled elected leaders …

Supreme Court, in 5-4 Vote, Restores Alabama's Congressional Voting Map  —  A special three-judge court had ordered lawmakers to redraw the lines, saying Black voters “have less opportunity” than other Alabamians to elect their favored candidates.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court …

Trump Gives Documents Improperly Taken From White House to Archives  —  The incident raised more questions about the former president's adherence to the Presidential Records Act, which requires preservation of White House documents.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump last month handed …

France says Putin is moving towards de-escalating Ukraine crisis  —  Russia's president has agreed not to undertake new military initiatives in region, according to Paris  —  French officials said Vladimir Putin had moved towards de-escalating the Ukraine crisis by promising not to undertake any new …

U.S university reverses decision to remove Olympic protest posters  —  The president of George Washington University in D.C. has reversed his earlier decision to remove campus posters protesting the Beijing Olympics, which Chinese student groups had said “incited racial hatred and ethnic tensions.”

We Have Kyrsten Sinema's Social Security Number  —  Last month, we filed a public records request for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's divorce papers.  The request came back with many enlightening insights, such as that the Congresswoman — who wrote the book Unite and Conquer …

Kilar Comes Back for More...  After a series of off-the-rails newsroom conversations last week to address Jeff Zucker's ouster, the likely outgoing WarnerMedia C.E.O. returned to the barrel today via an emotional virtual meeting with select high-level staff.

Amy Coney Barrett's Long Game  —  The newest Supreme Court Justice isn't just another conservative—she's the product of a Christian legal movement that is intent on remaking America. … On December 1st, the Supreme Court had its day of oral argument in a landmark abortion case …

Biden's top science adviser bullied and demeaned subordinates, according to White House investigation  —  President Joe Biden's top science adviser, Eric Lander, bullied and demeaned his subordinates and violated the White House's workplace policy, an internal White House investigation recently concluded …

Jonah Goldberg Joins CNN as a Contributor After Leaving Fox News … Jonah Goldberg, one of the two conservative political analysts who resigned from Fox News Channel in colorful fashion over its coverage, is joining CNN as a contributor, the WarnerMedia network confirmed Monday.

The Case for Splitting Amazon in Two  —  Cloud-computing division AWS subsidizes Prime, harming consumers in the long run.  —  If the price of a service seems too good to be true, it probably is.  —  Amazon's most recent earnings report sent the stock price soaring, up nearly 14% …

Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in church shooting  —  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims' families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying …

NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He Legally Owned … The first gun control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom.

Trump SPAC stock Digital World Acquisition Corp. plunges after news spreads of delayed app launch  — The stock price of the blank-check company that has partnered with ex-President Donald Trump's social media app firm plunged as news of the delay in the app's launch spread on Twitter.

Child Custody's Gender Gauntlet  —  Transgender ideology has already achieved a powerful hold on our court system—and parents and children are paying the price.  —  The Social Order  —  Politics and law  —  Before she decided to strip him of all custody over his son, Drew* …

Andrew Cuomo Says He's Been ‘Vindicated,’ Won't Rule Out Run  —  Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn't ruling out another run for public office.  He insists it's too soon to talk about it.

Saving evangelicalism?  —  New York Times columnist David Brooks  —  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The New York Times is very concerned about saving evangelicalism.  Yesterday, the nation's newspaper of record devoted three entire print pages of its “Review” section to a massive essay …

Banker gets gets 1 year in prison in Manafort loan scheme  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A Chicago banker was sentenced on Monday to a year in prison for his conviction in a scheme to make $16 million in loans to Paul Manafort to gain influence in the Trump administration.

N.J. Governor to End School Mask Mandate in Move to ‘Normalcy’  —  For the first time since the start of the pandemic, New Jersey districts will be permitted to allow students and teachers to stop wearing masks.  —  Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who has imposed …

Biden officials trying to recalculate U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations  —  The Biden administration is working on recalculating the number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the U.S., according to two senior officials familiar with the matter.  —  A task force comprised of scientists …

Why Americans Are Slow to Get Booster Shots  —  Why are Americans slow to get booster shots?  —  The United States has a vaccination problem.  And it is not just about the relatively large share of Americans who have refused to get a shot.  The U.S. also trails many other countries …