Collins to Back Jackson for Supreme Court, Giving Her a G.O.P. Vote  —  Senator Susan Collins, a centrist from Maine, said a second meeting with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson alleviated her concerns.  It is unclear if other Republicans will join her.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok … Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn the public against TikTok.  —  The campaign includes placing op-eds and letters to the editor …

Inside Hunter Biden's multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company … The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China.  But on Aug. 2, 2017, signatures were quickly affixed, one from Hunter Biden, the other from a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.

The Attacks On Clarence And Ginni Thomas Are Merely Latest In A Decades-Long Smear Campaign  —  Not only are the attacks on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni purely political, they're deeply hypocritical.  —  While claiming its aggressive collection of confidential information …

Why Russian troops are using tree branches for camouflage in Ukraine  —  Russian troops in Ukraine have scrambled to avoid detection and attack by using tree branches and straw, even swaths of carpeting, to conceal tanks and other armored vehicles, in what analysts call a surprising lack …

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 …

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 …

POLITICO Playbook: Could Trump blow the midterms for the GOP?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  He's back.  —  All signs point to a typical midterm election this year in which the president's party suffers double-digit losses in the House.  The GOP has the big structural advantages on its side …

Americans' Energy Worries Surge  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are significantly more worried about the energy situation in the U.S. than they have been in a decade.  Nearly half of Americans, 47%, say they worry a great deal about the availability and affordability of energy.

Pompeo leverages foreign policy bonafides in 2024 shadow primary  —  NAPLES, Fla. — Mike Pompeo is running — if not for president, then for a chance to be Donald Trump's running mate should the former president mount another campaign.  —  Pompeo is methodically laying the groundwork …

Koch Industries' valentine to Vladimir Putin  —  Give Koch Industries credit for consistency: It's aiding the foes of democracy at home and abroad.  —  In the two weeks since I wrote about U.S. companies that remained in Russia despite Vladimir Putin's savage invasion of Ukraine …

Feds prepare ‘disclosure’ on figure at heart of pro-Trump Jan. 6 conspiracy theory  —  The Justice Department is compiling information to share with defendants about Ray Epps, an Arizona man who has been the focus of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories pushed by former President Donald Trump, his allies in Congress and right-wing media figures.

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 …

The most popular — and unpopular — 2022 candidate qualities  —  WASHINGTON — If it's Wednesday .... Russia redeploys troops from Kyiv. ...  President Biden delivers remarks on Covid as the CDC signs off on second booster for those 50 and older. ...  NRCC says it's targeting 72 House districts for midterms. ...

Freedom and Democracy in Russia, Then and Now  —  Pavel Litvinov—a Soviet dissident who was exiled to Siberia for his role in the 1968 Red Square demonstration—discusses Putin's Ukraine invasion.  —  Among the Americans watching the Russian assault on Ukraine with horror and hope …

A Democratic Super PAC's Ad Buy Shows a Widening Battle for House Control  —  The Democrats' House Majority PAC is spending nearly $102 million to reserve advertising time in 51 media markets, staking out a broad battlefield for the coming midterm elections.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

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.

The Government Made This Fake News Broadcast About a Nuclear Attack on Indianapolis  —  Watch a never-before-seen video from Mighty Derringer, a Department of Energy training exercise simulating a nuclear terrorist attack on a major U.S. city.  —  Alerts  —  In December of 1986, the Pentagon …

NFL creates a new anybody-but-white-males hiring policy  —  Once again, the NFL has caved to the leftist narrative of the perpetual victimization of minorities.  After former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores claimed he was fired because of racism, the NFL announced it would address …

Russia shells areas in Ukraine where it vowed to scale back  —  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces pounded areas around Ukraine's capital and another city overnight, regional leaders said Wednesday, just hours after Moscow pledged to scale back military operations in those places.

Biden to outline dire need for COVID funding in speech highlighting government website  —  The president will speak Wednesday afternoon about the state of the pandemic.  —  In a speech about the state of the country's COVID response on Wednesday, President Joe Biden will promote the launch of COVID.gov …