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 …

Why Joe Manchin Sank Sarah Bloom Raskin's Nomination  —  On Friday, an energetic Joe Manchin spoke to a room full of oil and gas executives in Houston.  The following Monday, after long declining to state his position publicly, he came out against Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin …

Timeline: How two extremist groups planned for Jan. 6  —  One of the more remarkable aspects of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is that it was apparently exacerbated by planned attacks from not just one but two far-right extremist organizations.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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?

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wisconsin Elections Commission won't sanction Republicans who posed as presidential electors in 2020  —  MADISON - The state Elections Commission unanimously decided not to sanction 10 Republicans — including one of the commissioners — for falsely claiming to be presidential electors in 2020, according to a letter released Tuesday.

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 …