Sarah Palin Announces She's Running for Congress in Alaska  —  Ms. Palin released a statement on Friday that she was entering the race to replace Representative Don Young, who died last month.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor …

Trump's presidential diarist tells Jan. 6 committee White House officials provided less detail about his activities days before riot  —  Washington (CNN)Just days before the US Capitol riot, White House officials started providing fewer details about then-President Donald Trump's calls and visits …

Manchin: Biden's repeal of Title 42 order ‘a frightening decision’  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Friday slammed President Biden's decision to rescind Title 42, a Trump-era health order used to rapidly deport people who cross the border without authorization as “a frightening decision” …

Will Smith Resigns From Academy Over Chris Rock Oscars Slap Backlash … Will Smith, facing possible expulsion or suspension after he assaulted Chris Rock during last Sunday's Oscars telecast, has instead resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

U.S. Will Help Transfer Soviet-Made Tanks to Ukraine  —  The transfer, a response to a request from Ukraine's president, will mark the first time the Biden administration has helped send tanks in the five-week-old war.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Vote on Staten Island  —  Members of the new Amazon Labor Union are on course to become the the nation's first unionized workers at the online retail behemoth, thanks to a grassroots independent organizing campaign.

Why Biden's jobs boom isn't translating  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  The U.S. unemployment rate hit 3.6 percent today, as 431,000 jobs were added during the month of March.

Roman Abramovich's $1bn five-yacht fleet revealed  —  Latest vessel's discovery highlights veil of secrecy over sanctions-hit oligarch's assets  —  Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich owns or is linked to a collection of five yachts estimated to be worth almost $1bn, including several vessels …

Shaken at First, Many Russians Now Rally Behind Putin's Invasion  —  Polls and interviews show many Russians now accept the Kremlin's assertion that their country is under siege from the West.  Opponents are leaving the country or keeping quiet.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents  —  Russian tech giant Yandex has blamed one of its employees for the hacking and subsequent leak of data from Yandex Food, a popular food delivery service in Russia.  —  Among the many users affected are serving agents of Russia's security services …

Ukrainian helicopters strike an oil depot in Russia, an official there says.  —  A bus convoy left Mariupol, but a Red Cross team could not reach city, bombarded by Russian forces, to aid a larger evacuation.  Ukrainian helicopters carried out the first airstrike on Russian territory since the war began.

GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker has been overstating his academic achievements for years  —  (CNN)For years, Herschel Walker has told the same inspiring story: that he graduated in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia.  He's told the story, according to a review …

Minute-by-Minute: Inside The Out-Of-Control Protest at Yale Law School  —  On March 10, 2022, a protest at Yale Law School—just ranked (again) this week as the #1 law school in the U.S.—got horrendously out of hand.  —  The background: Yale's Federalist Society had invited two lawyers …

Ginni Thomas Pushed Trump to Hire Someone the White House Suspected Was a Foreign Spy  —  The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave the former president “insane and unworkable” lists of people he should fire and hire, according to a new report from The Daily Beast

The Problem With Jon Stewart … I was busy walking my dog several weeks ago, on my lunchtime Thursday break, preoccupied with the piece I was trying to write in my head.  The phone rang and a frantic booker was on the line.  Would I be able to get to New York tomorrow to do an interview with Jon Stewart on race?