Ginni Thomas Texts Expose Rift in House Jan. 6 Panel  —  There is debate within the committee investigating the assault on the Capitol over whether to seek testimony from the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas about her efforts to overturn the 2020 election.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden DID help secure millions in funding for US contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research, laptop emails reveal, raising more questions about the disgraced son of then vice president  — The Russian government held a press conference Thursday claiming …

Russian general Yakov Rezantsev killed in Ukraine  —  Ukraine's defence ministry says another Russian general, Lt Gen Yakov Rezantsev, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Kherson.  —  Rezantsev was the commander of Russia's 49th combined army.

Utah bans transgender athletes in girls sports despite veto  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — GOP lawmakers in Utah pushed through a ban on transgender youth athletes playing on girls teams Friday, overriding a veto and joining 11 other states with similar laws amid a nationwide culture war.

Forget advise and consent.  This is smear and degrade.  —  The pretense is gone — the pretense that Supreme Court confirmation hearings are about determining nominees' fitness for office, gleaning a sense of their legal acumen and approach to judging, and gathering the information necessary to exercise a solemn senatorial power.

Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee ‘Locked In’ on Proud Boys  —  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building has been examining the role far-right militant groups played in efforts to overturn President Trump's election loss and the violence that erupted that day.

Trump backers push election change that would make counting slower, costlier and less accurate  —  Trump supporters are pushing to prohibit machine counting of ballots in future elections around the country, which election officials say could make vote-counting slower, more expensive and — most importantly — less accurate.

Hawley attacked Ketanji Brown Jackson's ‘alarming’ record on sex offenders.  He agreed to an abuser getting only probation  —  The former Missouri attorney general faced criticism for his own handling of sex abuse cases  —  Ketanji Brown Jackson vows to serve ‘without fear or favour’ at first Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Trump and his 2 eldest sons are scheduled to be deposed for a lawsuit accusing them of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme  — Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to sit for another deposition.  — It's for a case where he's accused of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

Putin lifts conservative media talking points to bemoan ‘cancel culture’ … Vladimir Putin had a very pointed way of summing up the international efforts to sanction his country for its invasion of Ukraine.  It's all an attempt, he said Friday, to “cancel” Russia.

Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up  —  After fraught discussions, officials decided that another shot might save thousands of lives if a new coronavirus wave hit before the fall.  The F.D.A. could authorize the boosters next week.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Where Have All the Artist-Addicts Gone?  —  For much of the 20th century, before the dawn of our own wellness-focused era, madness and substance abuse were often considered prerequisites for great art.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  By M. H. MillerPhotographs by Duane Michals

What a Single Metric Tells Us About the Pandemic  —  Live long enough in a pandemic and you will see the entire narrative landscape shift, even flip, sometimes more than once.  —  As recently as a month ago, Americans of a certain cast of mind could have still looked to China …

The Nixon White House plotted to assassinate a journalist 50 years ago  —  The poisoning plot seemed right out of a Russian playbook.  An unhinged and vengeful chief of state, obsessed with historic grievances and destroying enemies.  Obsequious apparatchiks slavishly devoted to following orders.

Trump returns to Georgia confronting test of his grip on GOP  —  The former president has issued highly-coveted endorsements in races ranging from governor to state insurance commissioner.  His backing of football legend Herschel Walker essentially cleared a path to the party's nomination for a critical U.S. Senate seat.

A month of Putin's war: Ukrainians deserve not just to survive, but to win  —  Almost exactly eight years ago, my op-ed on Putin was titled “Stop this man.”  Putin was not stopped and, as I've often said of dictators, they do not stop until they are stopped.

Exclusive: China's Sinopec pauses Russia projects, Beijing wary of sanctions  —  China's state-run Sinopec Group has suspended talks for a major petrochemical investment and a gas marketing venture in Russia, sources told Reuters, heeding a government call for caution as sanctions mount over the invasion of Ukraine.