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 …

Trump brazenly asks Putin to release dirt about Biden's family  —  When asked about Ukraine, Trump ranted about windmills  —  Washington (CNN)In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information …

Will Smith Carefully Edited His Image For Years.  It Has All Come Undone Now.  —  For whatever it's worth, I think The Slap was unnecessary and wrong, and shouldn't have happened.  For a couple who has been in the public eye for 30 years, and who, in recent years at least …

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 …

Hot water: GOP colleagues want Madison Cawthorn to say who invited him to an orgy  —  It's not even April and this is already a sure bet to be the funniest political story of the year.  —  Especially since there's a high probability that Cawthorn made the whole thing up.

‘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 …

DeSantis says Disney ‘crossed the line’ in calling for 'Don't Say Gay' repeal  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday lashed out at the Walt Disney Co. and “California corporate executives” after the company said Florida's “Parental Rights in Education bill” — dubbed “Don't Say Gay” by opponents — should be repealed.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Larry Summers: ‘the situation continues to resemble the 1970s’  —  Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has been saying for quite a while now that inflation was coming and that it would not be transitory.  Last October the consensus seemed to be that inflation was largely the result …

Accounts of Russian Rapes Are Growing, Ukraine Officials Say  —  The crime first came to light last week, when Ukraine's prosecutor general, Iryna Venediktova, said in a Facebook post that a Russian soldier had killed an unarmed civilian and then repeatedly raped his wife.

A Heat Pump Might Be Right for Your Home.  Here's Everything to Know.  —  Heat pumps are good for your wallet—and the world.  —  They're the cheapest and most efficient way to handle both heating and cooling for your home, no matter where you live.  They're also better for the environment.

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 …

Andrew Giuliani Brings Up Baby Daughter in Gross Anti-Trans Remarks  —  The New York gubernatorial candidate made the off-color comments as he and fellow Republican Lee Zeldin attended a far-right rally.  —  New York gubernatorial hopeful—and son of disgraced Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani …

“I see their faces”: a saboteur hunter in Kyiv remembers his victims  —  Sasha worries that killing Russians is corroding his soul  —  On the first day of the war, Sasha woke up to the sound of bombing at 4am.  It was roughly “the same time that Hitler began his invasion” of the Soviet Union in 1941, he told me.

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 …

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.

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 …

Estimating the Illegal Immigrant Population Using the Current Population Survey  —  Data shows number fell from 2019 to 2021 but rebounded by more than one million by early 2022 … Among the findings of our analysis: … Overview  —  The Foreign-Born and Illegal Immigrants.