Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls … Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes …

What if Putin Didn't Miscalculate?  —  The conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin catastrophically miscalculated.  —  He thought Russian-speaking Ukrainians would welcome his troops.  They didn't.  He thought he'd swiftly depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government.  He hasn't.  He thought he'd divide NATO.

What Is Ginni Thomas?  —  “Activist” is a euphemism for “silly woman with a powerful spouse.”  —  1. An Open Secret  —  Here is a secret no one in Washington is willing to say out loud: Ginni Thomas is an idiot.  The only reason she was texting the president's chief of staff instead …

U.S. Households Face $5,200 Inflation Tax This Year  —  Paying More  —  Inflation means the average U.S. household has to spend an extra $5,200 this year  —  Notes: This chart shows our estimate of the inflation cost for each income quintile assuming differential inflation rates facing each income group …

Senators Release Receipts Showing Direct Payments From Foreign Oligarchs To Hunter Biden  —  Shortly after The New York Times quietly admitted that Hunter Biden's laptop is legitimate even though it was smeared as “disinformation” to protect then-candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election …

Cawthorn's orgies-and-drugs comment stirs trouble within Freedom Caucus  —  Kevin McCarthy isn't the only senior Republican who wants to have a talk with Rep. Madison Cawthorn about his claim that some of his colleagues invited him to orgies and used cocaine.

Will Smith Was Wrong, but Being Thin-Skinned Is Not  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Dr. Gay, a contributing Opinion writer, is the editor of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” and the author of the memoir “Hunger,” among others.  Her book “How to Be Heard” is forthcoming.

‘Significant’ evidence suggests Trump Organization misstated asset values for more than a decade, NY AG says  — The New York Attorney General's probe of the Trump Organization “uncovered significant evidence” suggesting that the company's financial statements for more than a decade relied …

St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate  —  JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine joined the heated race for Missouri's U.S. Senate seat Monday.  —  The move triggered former state Sen. Scott Sifton, who had represented south St. Louis County …

The Future of Trumpism … In late February, as daily deaths from COVID-19 tallied in the thousands across the country, Florida governor Ron DeSantis announced his latest effort to dismantle his state's response to the coronavirus pandemic.  Private businesses, he insisted, should stop requiring their employees to wear masks at work.

Poll: Trump leads Biden, Harris in 2024 match-ups  —  Former President Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.  —  If the 2024 presidential election were held right now …

Who Fueled Donald Trump's Stolen Election Myth?  —  In partnership with:  —  In the days and weeks after the November 2020 U.S. presidential election, correspondent A.C. Thompson, who has been reporting on far-right extremism for FRONTLINE and ProPublica for years, was in Washington, D.C., covering clashes in the streets.

AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble'  —  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks President Biden got played by Senator Joe Manchin — and that the president's nostalgia for a bygone era of backroom dealmaking could prove disastrous for Democrats in the midterms.

David Perdue says he misunderstood ‘lock him up’ chants about Brian Kemp  —  Republican David Perdue said he “misunderstood” the Donald Trump supporters who chanted about imprisoning Gov. Brian Kemp when he smiled and flashed them a thumbs-up sign at the former president's rally.The former U.S. senator …

Op-Ed: CBS News giving Mick Mulvaney a paid contributor gig is an act of journalistic malpractice  —  From mid-December 2018 through early March 2020, Mick Mulvaney, a former member of Congress from South Carolina, served as President Trump's acting chief of staff.

EXCLUSIVE Two former U.S. officials help ethics probe of Trump ally Clark, source says  —  The top two U.S. Justice Department officials in the waning days of Donald Trump's presidency are cooperating with a Washington legal body's ethics probe of their former colleague Jeffrey Bossert Clark …

Manchin shoots down Biden's new billionaire tax plan  —  Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday shot down President Biden's new plan to raise $360 billion in revenue by imposing a 20 percent minimum tax on billionaires, a proposal the president formally unveiled Monday in his budget request to Congress.

An ex-college football player admitted to rape.  He was given probation.  —  Derek Nygaard wanted to go into his ex-girlfriend's Butte, Mont., home in the fall of 2020, and because he was drunk and struggling to walk, she let him in, a prosecutor said in court documents.

Now is the time to invoke the 25th Amendment  —  Tucker questions Biden's ability to regulate his emotions  —  Tucker: Biden is losing the ability to regulate his emotions  —  Joe Biden announced he was running for president again in April of 2019.  It was Biden's third or fourth attempt at the office, depending how you count.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals  —  For Immediate Release:  —  Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech …