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

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.

Hunter Biden helped secure funds for US biolab contractor in Ukraine: e-mails  —  Russia's assertion that President Biden's son Hunter was “financing . . . biological laboratories in Ukraine” was based in truth, according to e-mails reviewed by The Post.  —  A trove of e-mails …

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

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

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.

Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners  —  LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A man who runs a little-known, low-budget radio station in suburban Kansas City says he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints when he airs Russian state-sponsored programming in the midst of the Ukrainian war.

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.

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.

U.S. Senate hopeful Durant says 'I don't think Joe Biden won the election'  —  Friday, on the heels of former President Donald Trump rescinding his endorsement of U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville) in the U.S. Senate Republican primary, frontrunner Mike Durant appeared on Alabama Public Television's …

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.

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.