Ukraine and Russia explore neutrality plan in peace talks  —  Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato ambitions in return for security guarantees  —  Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative peace plan including a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal …

Trump says Pence partnership over as ex-president eyes 2024 comeback bid  —  EXCLUSIVE — Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination.

Federal Reserve approves first interest rate hike in more than three years, sees six more ahead  — The Fed approved a 0.25 percentage point rate hike, the first increase since December 2018.  — Officials indicated an aggressive path ahead, with rate rises coming at each of the remaining six meetings in 2022.

Inside Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns' new Biden book  —  President Biden confessed in private that he didn't understand Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who helped stymie his biggest legislative dreams, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in the first major book …

‘Right in the trash’: Texas ballot rejections soar, AP finds  —  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas threw out mail votes at an abnormally high rate during the nation's first primary of 2022, rejecting nearly 23,000 ballots outright under tougher voting rules that are part of a broad campaign …

This Week In the Mayonnaise Clinic: Actually, Changing the Clocks Is Good  —  Plus, why Los Angeles is awesome.  —  Dear readers,  —  As you may have seen, the US Senate agreed by unanimous consent on Tuesday to abolish standard time and keep clocks on daylight saving time all year.

Judge orders DOJ to produce documents related to decision to prosecute Steve Bannon  —  A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce internal records related to its decision to prosecute Steve Bannon, a win for the former Trump adviser, who maintains that he had a sound legal basis …

Ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo considers running against Kathy Hochul despite opposition from his own party  — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been fielding calls from supporters about a possible campaign against his replacement and fellow Democrat, Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Idaho's New Anti-Abortion Law Offers Cash Bounties to Rapists' Family Members  —  The slow impending death of Roe v. Wade at the hands of the Supreme Court has encouraged red states to experiment with different approaches to tormenting abortion patients.  In the months since it became clear …

Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Invested At Least $1.3 Billion With US Financiers, Secret Records Show  —  European governments have frozen the Russian oligarch's assets, including mansions and a soccer team.  But how much he poured into the US has stayed secret.  —  Copy

Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor on “Stone Age” Indigenous people, South Asian immigrants, “rootless cosmopolitans,” and more  —  Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a frequent Fox News guest, has denigrated South Asian immigrants as insufficiently patriotic, described Indigenous Americans displaced …

Founder of Violence in Boston and husband charged with fraud in federal indictment  —  Prosecutors alleged they pocketed money intended for the needy  —  In a June 2019 ceremony at the Suffolk district attorney's office, Monica Cannon-Grant was handed a check for $6,000, a grant awarded to her nonprofit …

Four Russian Generals Killed in Three Weeks Show Moscow's Vulnerabilities in Ukraine  —  Russia's fighting style and troubled communications are leading to deaths of high-ranking officers on the front lines  —  Four Russian brigadier generals have died in three weeks on the battlefield in Ukraine …

Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall safely out of Ukraine after suffering serious injuries  —  Bill Hemmer told viewers, ‘Ben is alert and said to be in good spirits’  —  Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was injured this week while covering the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine …

GOP senator gives trucker protesters a Capitol tour  —  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) gave truckers in the so-called “People's Convoy” a tour of the Capitol last week — even as the building remains mostly closed to the public.  —  A senior congressional aide alerted the Department of Justice …

The evidence is clear: it's time to prosecute Donald Trump  —  On the supposedly difficult question of ‘criminal intent’, prosecutors should have no trouble convincing a jury.  Full speed ahead is the only proper course  —  n 8 March, a jury took three hours to render a guilty verdict against Guy Reffitt, a January 6 insurrectionist.

Why I should have listened to Garry Kasparov about Putin … A few years ago, the exalted Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov came to dinner at my house in New York.  It was a memorably intense evening.  As we dug into our desserts, Kasparov regaled the assembled group of American policymakers …

Justice Department accuses Chinese agents of trying to intimidate critics in the U.S.  —  Justice Department to charge Chinese agents with intimidating critics in the U.S.  —  The Justice Department planned to unseal criminal charges Wednesday involving three separate efforts …

George Conway: Claiming to Be ‘Completely Insane and Stupid’ May Be Trump's Best Defense  —  But “he's never going to bring himself to do that.” … Mona Charen: You see this among the Trump defenders.  They'll say, If he had a good-faith belief that the election was stolen …

Majority Approve Of NATO Decision Not To Enforce No-Fly Zone, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Public Figures In U.S. Praising Putin Are Viewed Negatively  — mail_outline  —  As NATO holds steadfast in refusing to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine, explaining …