The Clearest Evidence Yet of Donald Trump's Criminal Intent on Jan. 6  —  On Tuesday, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported in the Washington Post that the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 has the White House presidential phone log, and it shows a seven-hour gap in the record of his communications that fateful day.

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.

How to Impeach a Supreme Court Justice  —  It has never been done successfully, but lawmakers should investigate whether Clarence Thomas' behavior merits an attempt.  —  Kimberly Wehle is a professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law.  —  Revelations that Virginia Thomas exchanged …

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 …

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.

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 …

Trump's Truth Social App Plummets in Traffic, Sees 93% Drop in Signups Since Launch Week (Exclusive)  —  Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social app is seeing a 93% drop in signups and similarly steep decline in traffic after a rocky rollout last month fraught with technical issues …

Half of Russia's 20 Richest Billionaires Are Not Sanctioned  —  Data and graphics by Raeedah Wahid, Mira Rojanasakul, Marion Halftermeyer and Alex McIntyre  —  Half of Russia's 20 richest people have not been sanctioned over its war in Ukraine, leaving a group of super-rich …

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.

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 …

Statement from Jamie Wallis MP - 30th March 2022  —  Yesterday the parliamentary party had a photo in the chamber and then we went for dinner together.  It was nice, especially for those of us in the ‘2019 intake’ of MPs who haven't done anything like that before.

Republican Jewish Coalition PAC endorses Marjorie Taylor Greene opponent Jennifer Strahan  —  The rare move by RJC to not back an incumbent comes as Strahan appears to be gaining momentum ahead of the May 24 primary  —  CAROLINE BREHMAN/CQ-ROLL CALL, INC VIA GETTY IMAGES, COURTESY

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.

Biden officials bracing for unprecedented strains at Mexico border if pandemic restrictions lifted  —  Biden administration officials who are coping with record numbers of migrants crossing the southern border said Tuesday they are making contingency plans for an even bigger surge …

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.

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 …

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.