How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …

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 …

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 …

Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)  —  It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.  —  After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …

Russia says it received guarantees from US on Iran nuclear deal  —  MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Moscow has received guarantees from the US on its ability to trade with Tehran as part of ongoing talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.  —  “We received written guarantees.

SF is now boycotting most of the United States  —  Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.  Well, okay then.  In reality, he's actually ripping off a line from Jefferson Airplane's Paul [...]  —  SF is now boycotting most of the United States

How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools  —  Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge  —  The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …

Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record  —  Republicans looking to run in 2024 once lived in fear of crossing former President Donald Trump.  —  That's starting to change.  —  Over the past few weeks, three would-be presidential candidates who hail …

Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid  —  Russian state media has shut down last week's minor dissent and now demands an end to sanctions and even reparations for affected Russians.  Or else.

Sept. 11 Prosecutors Are in Plea Talks That Could Avert a Death-Penalty Trial  —  Pentagon prosecutors have struggled for more than a decade to hold the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accused accomplices in the attacks.  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Prosecutors have opened talks …

Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings  —  New details from evidence cited in the indictment of Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys, reveal a plan with similarities to what unfolded at the Capitol.  —  A document found by federal prosecutors …

In private speech, Romney warns of “extraordinary challenge” to preserve American democracy  —  McLean, Virginia — Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.

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 …

Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election … U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms …

How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night?  —  Republicans are killing us.  —  No, really.  —  Until now, we've known that covid-19 death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, and also higher in counties that went for Donald Trump, whose supporters were more likely to resist vaccinations, masks and other pandemic precautions.

Poll: Americans warm to Biden's approach on Russia and Ukraine  —  President Biden's approval rating for his handling of Russia and Ukraine has risen 5 percentage points since the start of the war in Eastern Europe more than two weeks ago, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll …

Putin Killed Trump's ‘America First’ Movement  —  In 2016, Trump wooed disaffected Republicans by bashing Bush's wars.  But Russia's bombardment of Ukraine has changed things. … In political campaigns, we are always fighting the last war.  —  Donald Trump's election in 2016 was …

Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows  —  The president says he is planning for another campaign; some fellow Democrats worry about his age and energy level  —  President Biden enters this year's midterm elections with roughly half of Americans doubting …

NY Woman Punched 125 Times, Foot-Stomped in Brutal Hate Crime Beating: Police  —  A 42-year-old Yonkers man has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the vicious caught-on-camera beating of a 67-year-old Asian woman who was attacked as she returned home last week, police said Monday.

From 15 Days to Two Years  —  The date of March 16, 2020 isn't just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war.  —  On Saturday morning, my daughter in college texted me: “I got sent home two years ago today.  Feels like a dream.”

“Here Be Monsters”  —  A remedial look at American interests  —  Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the phrase “national interest” has become something of a blasphemy.  Certain thinkers in the “realist” school of foreign policy analysis have drawn social media ire …

Lawmakers push for pandemic probe modeled on 9/11 Commission ‘to fully reckon with the lessons’ … A Senate panel is set to vote Tuesday on whether to establish an independent task force to probe the U.S. pandemic response — the closest lawmakers have come to supporting such an investigation, two years into the crisis.

‘Liberal Hack Tournament’ returns, tourney all-stars compete with newcomers for viral glory  —  Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin made history last year as the first woman to win #HackMadness  —  CNN faces new turmoil amid Cuomo probe  —  One of the most viral events of the year is underway …

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.

White House to ‘stop critical COVID response efforts’ as funding stalls in Congress  —  The Biden administration has warned for weeks there was not enough money left.  —  The White House is preparing to “stop critical COVID response efforts” as additional funding for COVID-19 relief sits stalled …

Millions of vulnerable Americans likely to fall off Medicaid once the federal public health emergency ends  —  As many as 16 million low-income Americans, including millions of children, are destined to fall off Medicaid when the nation's public health emergency ends, as states face …

DeWine signs law removing training, background check, permitting requirement to conceal carry  —  Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio.  —  When the law takes effect in 90 days …

Election ‘Vigilante’ Group Posing as County Workers, Says New Mexico's State Auditor  —  One of the group's leaders gave a speech in a church about the audit where he said “I want arrests, I want prosecutions, I want firing squads.”  —  Leaders of a far-right Telegram group pledged …

MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow  —  In this week's Source Material we reveal how MSNBC almost filled Maddow's soon-to-be vacant time slot with her own former mentor—until Rachel killed the deal. … To fill its upcoming Rachel Maddow void, MSNBC almost took a time machine back to the good old days of 2011.