January 6 committee obtains emails that former Trump attorney John Eastman sought to keep secret  —  Washington (CNN)The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol has obtained a cache of emails that right-wing lawyer John Eastman had sought to keep secret.

What's A Woman?  GOP Senators Stumble On Their Own Question To Ketanji Brown Jackson.  —  Some mentioned body parts.  Some cited chromosomes.  Others didn't want to talk about it at all.  —  WASHINGTON ― Republicans mocked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson last month …

Scoop: Sinema throws cold water on Build Back Better revival  —  Last year, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) publicly sounded the death knell for President Biden's Build Back Better agenda.  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), his fellow holdout, is privately concurring, Axios has learned.

Court orders Jan. 6 defense lawyer disbarred  —  A Virginia state court has disbarred Jonathon Moseley, an attorney who has represented a slew of high-profile Jan. 6 defendants, including a member of the Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy, as well as several targets …

Execution of Village Mayor Becomes Symbol of Russian Brutality in Ukraine  —  A beloved mayor and her family helped townspeople resist Russian occupation.  They paid for it with their lives.  ‘Why were they killed?  Because they were Ukrainians’

How Will Inflation End?  —  Larry Summers forecasts a major recession and high unemployment.  —  Inflation is now, incontestably, the leading issue for the electorate, and voters are giving the Biden administration low marks for handling it.  This is a political crisis for Democrats …

The Bridgewater CEO Who Went Full MAGA  —  If you were to pick the high point of David McCormick's career in finance, it might've come on a bright summer day in 2019 at the Belle Haven Club, a Gatsby-esque waterside retreat in Greenwich, Conn., that's popular with local billionaires.

Election claims dominate lively night for Trump, allies at Mar-a-Lago  —  PALM BEACH — Former president Donald Trump and a coterie of his top allies, donors and paying club members gathered at his palatial beachfront club Tuesday night for a reunion of sorts: to sip Trump-branded wine …

A weary Zelensky challenges U.N. to act with graphic video for diplomats … Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of war crimes Tuesday in a remote appearance before the United Nations Security Council that included gruesome video of dead bodies, challenging diplomats …

'We're not finding soldiers, just innocent people': The horror of Russian occupation revealed in Borodianka  —  This story contains graphic imagery.  —  Borodianka, Ukraine (CNN)Oksana Kostychenko walks down a narrow pathway, leading to her back garden in Borodianka.

Why haven't Republicans had to answer for Trump's support for Putin?  —  Reports of horrific atrocities in Ukraine are putting some who are sympathetic to the Kremlin's take on the Russian invasion in an awkward position, since most people aren't comfortable defending war crimes.

Ginni Thomas, Trump and America's worst-kept secret  —  The Ginni Thomas saga gets even more interesting  —  With so much wild and crazy news inundating us each day, it can be easy to quickly move from one shocking and outrageous story on to the next.  But in the case of Ginni Thomas …

Democrats eye Defense Production Act for clean energy  —  Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202!  If you were on Capitol Hill yesterday, we hope you steered clear of the fox that was reportedly biting people, including Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) and Politico reporter Ximena Bustillo.

Proof has emerged from the White House that Biden's presidency is over  —  Barack Obama was at the White House yesterday, making it clear, as did others at the reception held in Obama's honor, that Biden's presidency is over.  Watching Obama suck the oxygen out of the room made me wonder …

It's too soon to say Putin has given up on capturing Kyiv, despite strategy shift, Western officials warn  —  (CNN)Russian President Vladimir Putin has not necessarily given up on trying to capture the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv, even as Russia has shifted its focus in recent days to southern …

FBI has names of hundreds more Jan. 6 rioters.  DOJ needs more lawyers to prosecute them.  —  WASHINGTON — Aided by citizen sleuths who keep identifying Jan. 6 rioters, the Justice Department is finding that it has more cases than lawyers to prosecute them.

The Republican Party Is Trump Steaks  —  Truth Social, the president's latest private sector scam to flop was promoted relentlessly by official GOP accounts.  —  It's been an inauspicious start for TRUTH Social, the former president's new Twitter knock-off, helmed by bovine ex-Congressman Devin Nunes.

The Russo-Ukraine War: Phase Two  —  On 24 February as they began their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces began shelling Mariupol, a port city of over 400,000 inhabitants.  The next day they began to advance to its outskirts.  By 2 March the city was surrounded and the shelling had become routine and deadly.

May governor primaries pose big test for Trump's control over the GOP  —  Donald Trump is about to learn how much clout he still has in the Republican Party.  —  A series of Republican gubernatorial primaries in more than half a dozen states, all scheduled for May, has turned into mini-referendums on the former president.

Republican candidates in battleground states skip debates  —  Over half a dozen have skipped at least one primary debate.  —  Republican candidates are shying away from the debate stage as the midterm elections approach.  —  Over a half dozen GOP candidates in crucial state and federal races …

Fred Upton calls it quits, leaving a much different House … A few weeks after voting to impeach Donald Trump, the 10 House Republicans who supported charging the now-ex-president with inciting the Capitol riot gathered with a conservative luminary who told them not to worry.