Rep. Van Taylor apologizes for affair with ‘ISIS bride,’ abruptly drops reelection bid  —  Two-term Plano Republican concedes runoff to Keith Self after admitting ‘horrible mistake’  —  Update: Updated at 3:30 p.m. with Taylor dropping out and apologizing.

Germans Seize Russian Billionaire Alisher Usmanov's Mega-Yacht  —  Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov was sanctioned by the European Union on Monday.  Two days later, Forbes has learned from three sources in the yacht industry that one of his prized possessions—the 512-foot yacht Dilbar …

‘This is ridiculous’: DeSantis scolds students for wearing face masks during USF visit  —  You have been added to Daily News Newsletter  —  TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Gov. Ron DeSantis made his frustration with face masks known when he visited Tampa for a press conference Wednesday morning.

Bombing of Civilian Targets Intensifies  —  Russian troops seized the strategically important city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said, in a significant moment in the battle for the country's south.  Explosions struck the capital, Kyiv, and Russian troops continued to lay siege to Kharkiv.

First Jan. 6 defendant pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Capitol attack … A member of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group has become the first to admit to engaging in seditious conspiracy to keep President Biden from taking office on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jan. 6 committee expected to release new details about effort to pressure Pence to reject electors, overturn election results  —  The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol is expected to submit a court filing Wednesday laying out new details about the effort …

Elon Musk takes aim at President Biden after he fails to mention Tesla during State of the Union  — “Nobody is watching the State of the Union,” Musk said in an email to CNBC.  — The lack of a mention by Biden leading into Musk's latest comments comes after CNBC reported …

China Asked Russia to Delay Ukraine War Until After Olympics, U.S. Officials Say  —  A Western intelligence report indicates that Chinese officials had some level of direct knowledge about President Vladimir V. Putin's war plans or intentions.  —  WASHINGTON — A Western intelligence report …

A Tale of Two Speeches  —  Biden's SOTU and Trump's CPAC speeches lay out entirely different visions for America.  —  What does America stand for?  This week, the world heard two very different answers to that question.  —  The first answer was delivered on Saturday by former President Donald Trump …

Dems agonize over Manchin's wish list: Taxes, prescription drugs, climate cash  —  Joe Manchin is once again setting the agenda for Democrats and says he's willing to make a deal.  They're listening — cautiously.  —  Hours after President Joe Biden laid out what he hoped to salvage from Democrats' defunct …

Ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan indicted on federal racketeering charges alleging array of bribery schemes  —  Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, for decades the most powerful politician in the state, was indicted Wednesday on federal racketeering charges alleging …

Trump's border wall has been breached more than 3,000 times by smugglers, CBP records show  —  NACO, Arizona — Mexican smuggling gangs have sawed through new segments of border wall 3,272 times over the past three years, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintenance records obtained …

Sean Hannity proposes NATO fighter jets bomb Russian convoy “and then nobody takes credit for it, so then Putin won't know who to hit”  —  Sean Hannity calls on Joe Biden to ignore the law and assassinate Vladimir Putin  —  Fox hosts advocate appeasing Putin: “Maybe carve out the eastern provinces, recognize Crimea, something”

California law students shout down Georgetown scholar, viral video shows  —  UC Hastings says, ‘The act of silencing a speaker is fundamentally contrary to the values of this school’  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for March 2  —  Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional scholar who recently found himself …

Why Americans Might Not Rally Around Biden Over Ukraine  —  The days when voters put their partisan differences aside during a national security crisis appear to be over.  —  Few notions are as ingrained in political punditry as the idea that foreign crises unite Americans behind their president.

House passes resolution backing Ukraine; Three Republicans vote ‘no’  —  The House passed a resolution on Wednesday to declare support for Ukraine's sovereignty in the face of the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while urging an “immediate cease-fire.”

Ukrainian camera operator Yevhenii Sakun killed in Russian shelling of Kyiv TV tower  —  New York, March 2, 2022 - In response to reports that Ukrainian journalist Yevhenii Sakun was killed on Tuesday, March 1, when Russian forces shelled a television tower in Kyiv, the Committee …

'We were sent as cannon fodder.  We're killing peaceful people': Weeping Russian POWs say they had no idea they were being sent to war and were made ‘to attack people defending their territory’  — Russian troops captured by Ukrainian forces in opening days of war described themselves as ‘cannon fodder’

Lindsey Graham says Trump calling Putin genius was ‘a mistake’  —  (CNN)Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on Wednesday that he thinks it “was a mistake” for former President Donald Trump to call Russian President Vladimir Putin a genius.  —  “I think that was a mistake.

Biden science office leaks about meeting to stop leaking  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  —  Last Friday at a voluntary all-hands meeting within the White House science office, chief of staff MARC AIDINOFF …

Asian Nations' Mixed Reactions to the Ukraine Invasion  —  While most American allies in the region have fallen in line, authoritarian governments and those with weaker ties to the West have been more reluctant to act.  —  SINGAPORE — Much of the world has united against Russia in the aftermath of its incursion into Ukraine.

Trump Hotel Chief, Hired With Big Ambitions, Leaves a Shrinking Brand  —  Eric Danziger was the only outsider to lead the Trump hotel group.  His departure, for family reasons, comes as the Trumps pursue a future beyond hotels.  —  Donald J. Trump's top hotel executive is leaving the company …