The Worst Ginni Thomas Text Wasn't From Ginni Thomas  —  Mark Meadows and the dangerous religious zeal of “Stop the Steal” … Yesterday evening, The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa broke a rather extraordinary and disturbing story.  Ginni Thomas, the wife …

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.

President Biden to unveil new minimum tax on billionaires in budget … The White House will unveil a new minimum tax targeting billionaires as part of its 2023 budget Monday, proposing a direct tax on the richest 700 Americans for the first time, according to five people with knowledge …

Biden Condemns Putin, Saying He ‘Cannot Remain In Power’  —  WARSAW — President Biden delivered a forceful denunciation of Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine, declaring “for God's sake, this man cannot remain in power” and casting the war as the “test of all time” in a decades-long battle to defend democracy.

Trump's mood ‘soured’ after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp revealed he had already decided to appoint Kelly Loeffler to the Senate before consulting with the president: book  — Trump's mood “soured” when Kemp said he had already picked Loeffler for the Senate, per a new book.

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.

Graham: Judicial confirmation process could get even more toxic … Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) looked briefly into the future and saw a calamitous confirmation process for Supreme Court justices and other federal judge nominees: a near total blockade.  —  With Republicans needing …

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 rise of the heterosexual ‘queer’  —  Why are so many straight people desperate to be recognised as something they're not?  —  I remember the surrealist comedian Spike Milligan, many years ago, asking ‘Did you hear the one about the Irish queer?’  The punchline?  ‘He slept with women.’

Natural-Gas Industry Gets Boost as Biden Shifts Stance  —  Shares of large U.S. natural-gas companies rose as Biden softened position against fossil fuels  —  President Biden's pledge to boost U.S. liquefied natural-gas exports to Europe marks a further retreat from his hard-line stance …

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 …

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 …