Statement by Mo Brooks  —  It's disappointing that, just like in 2017, President Trump lets Mitch McConnell manipulate him again.  Every single negative TV ad against our campaign has come from McConnell and his allies.  I wish President Trump wouldn't fall for McConnell's ploys, but, once again, he has.

Supreme Court Nominee Jackson's Support Tied for Highest  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Initial public support for judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court ties as the highest Gallup has measured for any recent nominee.  Fifty-eight percent of Americans say the Senate should vote …

Breaking: Supreme Court, in Bizarre Unsigned Opinion, Strikes Wisconsin Legislative Maps on Voting Rights Grounds, Signalling New Hostility to the Voting Rights Act  —  In a per curiam (unsigned) opinion on the shadow docket, over the dissent of Justices Kagan and Sotomayor …

Exclusive: Inside a rare US meeting with a Russian general in Moscow  —  (CNN)A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans present believe hinted …

Russia Central Banker Wanted Out Over Ukraine, But Putin Said No  —  Russia's highly regarded central bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina sought to resign after Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine, only to be told by the president to stay, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions.

Trump aide Manafort removed from plane for revoked passport  —  MIAMI (AP) — Former Trump adviser Paul Manafort was removed from a plane at Miami International Airport before it took off for Dubai because he carried a revoked passport, officials said Wednesday.

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies  —  Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dies at 84  —  (CNN)Madeleine Albright, the first woman US secretary of state, who helped steer Western foreign policy in the aftermath of the Cold War, has died of cancer.  She was 84 years old.

NATO: Up to 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Taken Prisoner or Missing in Ukraine  —  NATO says that up to 40,000 Russian troops have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or are missing in Ukraine, said a senior military official from the alliance.  —  The North Atlantic Treaty …

Howard Stern: GOP should be called the ‘wacko party’  —  Howard Stern said Wednesday that the country no longer has a two-party system because Republicans have become the “wacko party.”  —  “I miss the old Republican Party.  It used to be nice to have a two-party system.

More than 100 House Republicans to cohost fundraiser for Cheney challenger  —  First House Republicans kicked Rep. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) out of party leadership.  Now they're trying to kick her out of Congress entirely.  —  More than 100 House Republicans have signed on to host a fundraiser …

Putin has long fantasized about a world without Ukrainians.  Now we see what that means.  —  Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University and the author of a half-dozen books on Russia and Ukraine, including “The Road to Unfreedom” and “Bloodlands.”

Debra Meadows appears to have filed at least two false voter forms  —  “What we do know is a number of times as we have mail-in ballots, if there is not a chain of custody that goes from the voter to the ballot box, mischief can happen.”  — Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows …

Pity the Zoomer Athlete  —  Why the Gen Z stars seem more easily broken  —  There are many great dialogue exchanges in Mad Men, but this is the one I keep coming back to.  In it, aging bon vivant Roger Sterling chastises the slightly younger depressive genius Don Draper over his lack of joy when drinking.

The coming bloodbath of the Democrats  —  Joe Biden's woke, green agenda will cost him dearly at the ballot box.  —  The depression-era comedian Will Rogers once famously said he did not belong to an organised political party because he was a Democrat.  Yet today the traditional factiousness …

Politico's New Administration Is Taking Office  —  Fifteen years after it broke onto the scene in an unmistakably disruptive manner, re-defining the stodgy news business with its metabolic frisky style and scoop-bazooka, Politico seems intent on entering its own Washington sinecure of sorts …

Trump privately works to keep a key cog of his political machinery intact  —  This past Friday afternoon over lunch, a group of evangelical leaders met with former President Donald Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.  —  The meeting, organized by Trump's informal spiritual adviser …

MacKenzie Scott donates a record $275 million to Planned Parenthood  —  Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $275 million to women's healthcare provider Planned Parenthood, the largest gift from a single donor in the organization's more than 100-year history, Planned Parenthood said on Wednesday.