The US Tried Permanent Daylight Saving Time in the '70s.  People Hated It  —  The sun rose at 8:27 AM on January 7, 1974.  Children in the Washington area had left for school in the dark that morning, thanks to a new national experiment during a wrenching energy crisis …

Herschel Walker Skeptical Of Evolution: ‘Why Are There Still Apes?  Think About It’  —  The former NFL player, who is now running for Senate in Georgia, gets some basic facts wrong.  —  Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks …

Sarah Bloom Raskin Withdraws Her Nomination to the Federal Reserve Board  —  Biden's nominee had publicly encouraged measures to mitigate climate change, including a transition to cleaner energy, which triggered a backlash from America's powerful oil, gas, and coal industries.

Jan. 6 panel obtains riot footage from film crew that trailed Proud Boys  —  The Jan. 6 select committee has obtained footage from a documentary film company that captured crucial moments during the run up to the assault on the Capitol — including snippets of an encounter between leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

Russia hits Biden, Blinken and other top U.S. officials with sanctions  —  Washington — The Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday it is imposing sanctions on more than a dozen Americans, including President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin …

The Next 10 Days Will Decide This War  —  Russia's effort to conquer Ukraine may culminate within the next 10 days.  —  The Russians are in trouble, and they know it.  That's why they have reached out to China for help and why they are now recruiting Syrians.

No to Trump in 2024  —  The GOP does not lack for better options.  So why should we put ourselves through all that again?  —  onald Trump hasn't said for sure whether he will run in 2024," reports NPR. “  But he's having a hell of a lot of fun teasing it.  Donald Trump?  In 2024?

Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales  —  Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington  —  Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …

Russia business deals muddy GOP US Senate primary in Ohio  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Several Republicans competing for the party's nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Ohio are facing scrutiny for their ties to Russia as the country intensifies its war against Ukraine.

Biden Blames the Jews for His Ukraine Policy  —  The president and his people try to seal a new Iran deal by hanging their appeasement of Putin on Israel  —  Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine was precipitated by assurances from China, Germany, and the United States that each …

Health Agency Under Cuomo ‘Misled the Public’ on Nursing Home Deaths  —  The New York State Health Department presented nursing home data that concealed the deaths of 4,100 people, according to an audit by the state comptroller.  —  ALBANY, N.Y. — The administration of former …

Another Jan. 6 mystery revealed: Pence's second script rewrite  —  It turns out Mike Pence made more than one major change to the vice presidential script for presiding over the Jan. 6 counting of electoral votes.  —  Pence's decision to craft and employ his own unprecedented language …

Inside Chernobyl, 200 Exhausted Staff Toil Round the Clock at Russian Gunpoint  —  Trapped since their shift 3 weeks ago, the Ukrainians keeping the abandoned nuclear plant safe from meltdown are ill-fed, stressed and desperate for relief  —  It was 10 a.m., 16 days into Russia's war on Ukraine …

A Fox News crew was attacked in Ukraine, leaving two journalists dead.  —  A Fox News cameraman and a Ukrainian journalist traveling with him were killed on Monday in Ukraine when their vehicle came under fire outside Kyiv, according to the network and Ukrainian authorities.

'I'm Not Scared of Anything': Death and Defiance in a Besieged Ukrainian City  —  The port city of Mykolaiv is being shelled by Russian forces every day.  Bodies are piled at the morgue.  But residents refuse to succumb.  —  By Michael SchwirtzPhotographs by Tyler Hicks

Everything that Tulsi Gabbard said about biolabs in Ukraine is true  —  Tucker Carlson addresses claims the US is funding biolabs in Ukraine  —  Tucker: This has unleashed something dark in the US  —  Here's something we just saw.  (We) wish we brought it to you earlier.

Why Is David Leonhardt So Happy?  —  I have been reading David Leonhardt's New York Times newsletter, The Morning, for the better part of the last year, and I cannot for the life of me decide if he is Dr. Pangloss or if he is Candide—the relentless crackpot optimist or the disappointed student …

Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say  —  A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …

Republican in Ohio Senate Primary Spoke Offensively About Asians  —  Mike Gibbons, a leading contender to succeed Senator Rob Portman, made the comments in a 2013 podcast on doing business in China.  —  The leading Republican candidate in the Ohio Senate primary employed offensive stereotypes …

Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil  —  Jonathan and Diana Toebbe pleaded guilty last month in the espionage case, but until now the identity of the nation they had approached had remained publicly undisclosed.  —  WASHINGTON — In 2020, a United States naval engineer …

Gov. Reeves Claims Critical Race Theory ‘Humiliates’ White People At Bill Signing  —  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a victory today as he signed a bill into law that he and other Republican lawmakers have falsely claimed would ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in the state's public schools and community colleges.

Biden to Announce $1 Billion in New Military Aid to Ukraine  —  The additional assistance comes as Ukrainian President Zelensky prepares to make an appeal to Congress  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden is expected to announce more than $1 billion in new military assistance to the Ukraine government …

Trump is so clearly running for president that people are complaining to the FEC about it  —  Here are the clips that prompted American Bridge to accuse Trump of violating the law.  —  For the better part of a year, Donald Trump has been traveling the country telling anybody who will listen that he plans to run for president in 2024.

Think of Trump as one of Putin's ‘oligarchs.’ It just makes sense  —  Practical gangsterism is the key to understanding.  —  The former president keeps telling on himself.  During an appearance Sunday on Jeanine Pirro's radio show on WABC, Donald Trump expressed, yet again, his sympathy for Russia's reigning kleptocrat.

Desperate and Dangerous: Managing Putin  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime is showing a growing desperation as its war against Ukraine falls further into disarray.  —  Putin knows he is losing, and is doubling down on aggressive actions even as his strategic position weakens.

Yes, it's Republicans' fault Congress is so polarized  —  (CNN)The technical term is “asymmetric polarization.”  —  It means that one political party is getting more partisan (or polarized) than the other — or that one side is moving closer to its ideological pole than the other.