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

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.

Utah Legislature Overrides Governor's Veto of Transgender Athlete Bill  —  The measure bars transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports.  Lawmakers expect it to be challenged in courts.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  The Utah State Legislature voted on Friday …

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 …

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.

Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Investigation ‘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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Biden's most effective climate warrior faces potential doom in the Senate  —  President Joe Biden's efforts to deliver on his ambitious climate agenda are getting a big boost from the leader of one often overlooked agency who has used his position to home in on the energy industry's greenhouse gas impact.

Adams Says Encampments of Homeless People Will Be Cleared  —  Mayor Eric Adams said his administration was pursuing a citywide effort to remove hundreds of makeshift campsites from streets and parks.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Mayor Eric Adams said on Friday …

Russia says new ‘phase’ of Ukraine offensive to focus on Donbas  —  Statement made by high-ranking Russian army official met with caution by Kyiv and its western allies  —  Russia said it was refocusing its month-long military offensive in Ukraine on the country's eastern Donbas region …

Ivy League Republicans' phony rebellion against the ‘elites’  —  Sen. Tom Cotton is what you might call a counterfeit commoner.  —  The dour Arkansas Republican announced with indignation at this week's Supreme Court confirmation hearings that he doesn't want a justice who follows the “views of the legal elite.”

Trump accidentally proves that the Clinton campaign wasn't the driving force of the Russia probe  —  What stopped me in my tracks in the new lawsuit filed on behalf of former president Donald Trump was a reference to internal discussions at the Democratic National Committee that, the suit alleges …