McConnell calls Jan. 6 a ‘violent insurrection,’ breaking with RNC  —  McConnell: January 6 was ‘violent insurrection’ after a legitimate election  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell disagreed Tuesday with the Republican National Committee's recent censure of two GOP lawmakers …

More Unreleased Stacey Abrams Maskless School Photos  —  Stacey Abrams' recent visit to an elementary school is more cringeworthy than we thought.  —  OutKick has obtained more photos from Abrams' visit to Glennwood Elementary School last week, showing how Abrams spent the entire day maskless while the children remained masked up.

A Woman Accused Of A $4.5 Billion Cryptocurrency Laundering Scheme Has Moonlighted As A Rapper And Forbes Writer  —  A husband and wife were arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency.  In an announcement, the Department …

Doug Emhoff, husband of vice president, evacuated from D.C. school after bomb threat  —  Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Harris, was evacuated from a D.C. public school on Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat, officials said.  —  A Secret Service agent told Emhoff “we have to go” …

Male economists are freaking out over a NYT profile  —  A handful of prominent male economists, including former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, are freaking out — mostly on Twitter — about a weekend New York Times profile of economist Stephanie Kelton, known for her work on Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT.

Dear White Staffers: It's Time We Listened  —  The Instagram account that shines a light on why working on Capitol Hill can be so disheartening.  —  (SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Judged by the demographics of the senators and representatives, the 117th Congress may be the most diverse in our nation's history.

New York's Cafe Habana removes info about Che and Fidel from website  —  HOME THINGS TO DO FOOD CLUB + BARS MORE  —  A Mexican hangout where the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Che Guevara plotted the Cuban revolution is the inspiration behind a New York City restaurant opening a location soon in downtown Miami.

Why Didn't Vanity Fair Break the Jeffrey Epstein Story?  —  The former editor Graydon Carter and a journalist, Vicky Ward, give conflicting accounts of why the magazine didn't publish sexual-abuse allegations in 2003.  —  “Ghislaine Maxwell is arguably the most hated woman in the world.

EXCLUSIVE FBI probes pre-Capitol riot meeting of far-right groups … The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a meeting in a downtown DC garage the day before the January 6 Capitol Hill riot between the then-leader of the Proud Boys extremist group, the now-indicted leader …

Documents detail U.S. military's frustration with White House, diplomats over Afghanistan evacuation  —  Senior White House and State Department officials failed to grasp the Taliban's steady advance on Afghanistan's capital and resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation …

FBI arrests Trump supporter who stormed Capitol while on bail for attempted murder  —  WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter who stormed the Capitol while he was out on bail for attempted first-degree murder was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was first identified by online sleuths.

New York joins several other U.S. states in rolling back mask mandates as infections fall.  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul will drop New York's stringent indoor mask mandate on Wednesday, ending a requirement that businesses ask customers for proof of full vaccination or require mask-wearing at all times …

We must do everything possible to avoid an enormously destructive war in Ukraine  —  I'm concerned when I hear familiar drumbeats in Washington demanding we ‘show strength’, when we're faced with what could be the worst European war in 75 years  —  ars have unintended consequences.

Oregon GOP gubernatorial candidate admits he and wife belonged to swingers group  —  A top candidate in the Republican primary for Oregon governor has admitted that he and his wife had explored a swinging lifestyle before deciding that swapping partners wasn't for them, according to a report.

The New USPS Trucks Would Probably Be Illegal If They Weighed One Pound Less  —  Manufacturer Oshkosh Defense is exploiting a long-standing loophole that incentivizes bigger, heavier vehicles that can pollute more.  —  Aaron Gordon  —  The USPS has defended the purchase of up to 165,000 …

Palin trial exposes the allure of ‘both sides’ journalism  —  When then-New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet revised the June 2017 editorial that prompted Sarah Palin's lawsuit now playing out in a Manhattan federal court, he had a specific goal in mind.

In this next phase of the pandemic, beware of the extremes  —  Once again, the United States is at a turning point in the covid-19 pandemic.  As infections fall, local and state officials are lifting mask mandates, and a bipartisan group of governors is calling on President Biden to “move away” …

Jaw-dropping gender gap in jobs  —  The super tight labor market pushed lots of men back to work in January, but women were held back by Omicron.  —  Driving the news: More than 1 million men surged into the job market last month, coming off the sidelines and either looking for a job or getting a job …

Chuck Schumer says he supports banning lawmakers from trading stocks: ‘I would like to see it done’  — Schumer made his support for banning lawmakers from trading stocks public, telling Insider “I would like to see it done.”  — Insider reported on Friday that Schumer convened a group of senators to hammer out an agreement.

Rep. Joyce Beatty asked Rep. Harold Rogers to put on a mask.  She says he insulted her instead.  —  Reps. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) and Harold Rogers (R-Ky.) got into an apparent spat Tuesday after Beatty said she asked Rogers to put on a face mask before boarding the U.S. Capitol's subway system.

House Passes Bill to Shore Up Postal Service, Working to Avert Insolvency  —  Supporters say the legislation, which has bipartisan support, would address the agency's financial woes while requiring it maintain a delivery standard of at least six days a week.

GOP candidates add a repulsive new twist to Trump's ‘big lie’  —  It's hardly surprising to hear that Republican Senate candidates are campaigning on the “big lie” that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud.  This has become so routine that it's no longer treated as newsworthy …

Supreme Court's Alabama travesty and its worn-out ‘shadow docket’ defense  —  Supreme Court conservatives help Alabama GOP keep biased map for next election  —  Shortly after 5 p.m. on Monday, the Supreme Court put back into effect Alabama's proposed district maps for the 2022 congressional election cycle …