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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Biden to join NATO leaders in Brussels and attend European Council summit next week amid Ukraine war  —  (CNN)President Joe Biden is set to travel to Europe next week for meetings with allies in a show of US support for Ukraine, the White House has confirmed.  —  Biden will join NATO world leaders in person in Brussels on March 24.

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 …

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.

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 …

The Biggest Lie About Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill Erases One Crucial Word  —  In the week since Florida lawmakers passed H.B. 1557, dubbed the “Don't Say Gay” bill, the law's most prominent supporters have refused to publicly tell the truth about what the measure actually says.

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 …

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 …

Film Crew Recorded Illicit Pre-Insurrection Meeting Between Proud Boys and Oath Keepers: Court Document  —  A documentary team picked up audio of attendees of the extremist meetup discussing the Capitol, per a new court filing  —  A documentary film crew attended an illicit …

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 …

Ukrainian Special Forces Have Plans for an Insurgency Against Russia  —  “Ukraine has a long history of national resistance against occupation,” a special forces soldier told VICE World News.  —  Ben Makuch  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Even if Russia succeeds in its invasion of Ukraine and achieves …

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 …

Former Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn enters Oklahoma Senate race to succeed GOP's Inhofe … Former Oklahoma Democratic congresswoman Kendra Horn is mounting a bid for the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. James M. Inhofe.  —  Horn's candidacy, first reported by the Oklahoman newspaper …

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

He's American, He Oversees Papa John's in Russia and He's Staying  —  Christopher Wynne's company controls the franchise agreements for the 190 Papa John's locations in the country.  “At the end of the day, they appreciate a good pizza,” he said.  —  Papa John's International said last week …

How Progressives Won the School Culture War—in New Hampshire!  —  An upset victory last week in a red state suggests that the Republican Party's game plan for attacking public education may not be a winning strategy.  —  It wasn't supposed to turn out this way.

Marco Rubio isn't posing as a gay ally anymore  —  The Florida Republican is defending his party's harmful 'Don't Say Gay' legislation.  —  In 2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) advised his fellow Christian conservatives to show tolerance toward LGBTQ people.  Six years later …

Veteran Fox News cameraman and Ukrainian journalist killed while reporting  —  New York (CNN Business)Two journalists were killed while reporting in Ukraine on Monday, including Pierre Zakrzewski, a longtime Fox News photojournalist.  —  Zakrzewski's death was announced on Tuesday …

U.S. sanctions Belarus president, more Russian officials  —  The Treasury Department on Tuesday announced additional sanctions targeting the president of Belarus, his wife and a number of Russian officials, the latest in a package of penalties intended to punish the Kremlin and its allies for Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. Diplomats, Some in War Zones, Struggle to Get Paid  —  New State Department accounting system has resulted in missing payments for Foreign Service employees  —  WASHINGTON—A new payroll system at the State Department introduced last year is causing thousands of U.S. diplomats …

CBP Releases February 2022 Monthly Operational Update  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) today released operational statistics for February 2022, which can be viewed online here.  —  “CBP's February Monthly Operational Update reflects the continued economic rebound …

Pfizer and BioNTech to seek authorization of second coronavirus booster shot for people 65 and older … Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, will seek emergency authorization for a second booster shot of their coronavirus vaccine for people 65 and older …

A key concession: Zelensky says Ukraine understands that it can never join NATO  —  Formal neutrality by Ukraine towards NATO was one of the demands made by Russia eight days ago, after it stepped back from Putin's pledge to settle for nothing less than “denazification” and demilitarization of the country.

Russia Deploys a Mystery Munition in Ukraine  —  Iskander-M short-range ballistic missiles are releasing a previously unknown decoy designed to evade air-defense systems, an American official said.  —  American intelligence officials have discovered that the barrage of ballistic missiles Russia …

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 …