Exclusive: Witness Claims Trump's Chief of Staff Was on Phone Call Planning Jan. 6 March on Capitol  —  Trump's team agreed it would encourage supporters to march, but try to “make it look like they went down there on their own,” Scott Johnston tells Rolling Stone

‘Hell on earth’: survivors recount Mariupol's annihilation under Russian bombs |  Free to read  —  Residents who escaped from besieged Ukrainian port depict harrowing conditions for civilians  —  In the besieged city of Mariupol, scene of the heaviest fighting in Russia's three-week war on Ukraine …

Ashley Biden's Diary Was Shown at Trump Fund-Raiser.  Weeks Later, Project Veritas Called Her.  —  The right-wing group's deceptive call to the president's daughter a month before Election Day is among the new details that show how the organization worked to expose personal information about the Biden family.

Fact Check: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson child porn sentences ‘pretty mainstream’  —  Republican Sen. Josh Hawley voted to confirm judges who gave similar sentences.  —  Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson open this week amid a flurry of misleading allegations …

In the News- Ukraine live- Zelenskyy - Israel- Kanievsky funeral- Jewish refugees- Putin - nuclear- NATO - Ukraine- Iron Dome- COVID- Dead Sea- Prehistoric skeletons  —  One Western country has the unique experience and capacity to help Ukraine protect civilian lives from Putin's bombardment: Israel.

Zelensky says Ukrainian political parties linked to Russia to be banned  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that 11 political parties in his nation that are linked to Russia will be banned, The Washington Post reported.  —  In a speech posted online …

America has a New York Times-doesn't-get-the-First Amendment problem  —  It may be the most classic bit during the nine-season run of the iconic TV sitcom Seinfeld: The time that Jerry shows up at the airport car rental place with his reservation, only to be told there aren't any cars.

Autocracy's Fatal Flaws  —  It is as true today as it's ever been that freedom is not only a moral good but also a practical one.  —  NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE  —  T  —  he lesson of the hour: Unfree societies are weak.  —  The allure of strongman nationalist government — Vladimir Putin's Russia …

Justice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says  —  He was admitted to the hospital after experiencing flu-like symptoms.  —  Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection, the Supreme Court announced in a statement.

Russian Soldiers Took Their City, Then Their Homes  —  As Russian forces pushed toward Kyiv, they stormed an apartment complex in a nearby suburb and held residents hostage.  Some of it was caught on camera.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  KYIV, Ukraine — For days …

First look: Lincoln Project sponsors pro-democracy coalition  —  The founders of The Lincoln Project are helping unite over two dozen political groups as “The Union,” aiming to mobilize tens of thousands of volunteers in legal, tech and communications capacities ahead of the midterms and 2024 election, Axios has learned.

Brutality Escalates as Strikes on Civilian Targets Intensify  —  Russia broadens Mariupol assault as signs of stalemate take shape.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Firing rockets and bombs from the land, air and — probably for the first time — from warships in the Sea of Azov, Russian forces broadened …

Pentagon's Work With Ukraine's Biological Facilities Becomes Flashpoint in Russia's Information War  —  Moscow falsely accuses U.S. of funding biowarfare in Ukraine despite Kremlin once benefiting from Pentagon program  —  On his first official visit abroad, the new senator from Illinois …

‘Mosquito in a nudist colony’: Republican Ron Johnson targets Fauci and Hunter Biden  —  Wisconsin senator says if GOP retakes control it will use committees to move against Democrats and Biden  —  Hunter Biden and Anthony Fauci will be prime targets of Senate Republicans should the party win control …