CNN Exclusive: ‘We control them all’: Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ideas for overturning 2020 election before it was called  —  Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump's eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that …

Proud Boys leader admits plan to storm Capitol, will testify against others … A North Carolina man who was one of the leaders of the far-right Proud Boys as they assaulted the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Friday to two felony counts with a minimum sentence of nearly six years in prison …

2 Whitmer kidnap plot suspects found not guilty; mistrial declared for other two  —  The historic Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot case has ended with no convictions.  —  Defendant Daniel Harris, - the only one who testified at trial - was acquitted on all four counts, with the judge telling …

The White House is freaked out that Putin's next big win could be in Paris  —  The White House has begun to harbor fears that Vladimir Putin could soon notch his biggest victory of Russia's invasion of Ukraine — in Paris.  —  There is growing concern within President Joe Biden's administration …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls the Police on Jimmy Kimmel  —  Kimmel said of Greene's angry tweets about a joke he made earlier this week: “She's a snowflake and a sociopath — a ‘snowciopath.’” … Marjorie Is the New Karen  —  Jimmy Kimmel struck a nerve with Marjorie Taylor Greene this week …

Actor Will Smith banned from attending Oscars for 10 years  —  (CNN)Will Smith will not be allowed to attend the Academy Awards for the next 10 years, as a result of his slapping comedian Chris Rock on stage during this year's Oscar ceremony, The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced in a statement obtained by CNN.

How Republican Rep. John Rose Found His Wife  —  This Tennessee representative married a college undergraduate when he was 45.  —  Rep. John Rose (R-TN) attends a House Financial Services Committee organizational meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 30, 2019.

‘If we do this right ...’: The new Dem organizing strategy catching fire ahead of the midterms  —  A group of Democratic strategists is trying to spread a novel organizing tactic in this year's election.  Technically, it's called “paid relational organizing,” but it boils down to this …

Statement from the President on Delivery of Air Defense Systems to Ukraine  —  Since the outset of my administration, the United States has placed the highest priority on delivering critical military capabilities to Ukraine so it can defend itself against Russian aggression.

Live Updates: At Least 39 Killed in Strike on Train Station, Ukraine Says, as Thousands Flee From East  —  The station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk had been a main point of evacuation as the region braced for a scaling up of Russia's offensive.  The European Union formally approved …

‘Get used to it’: Outbreaks give taste of living with virus  —  The U.S. is getting a first glimpse of what it's like to experience COVID-19 outbreaks during this new phase of living with the virus, and the roster of the newly infected is studded with stars.

Hmmm: Federal appeals court upholds vaccine mandate on federal workers  —  Better late, politically speaking, than never?  Joe Biden won a round for his workplace mandates, albeit the narrowest of the bunch.  Late yesterday, the normally conservative Fifth Circuit vacated an injunction imposed …

Cancel Your Disney Vacation And Go To Dollywood Instead  —  Dollywood turned out to be the perfect family getaway, with fresh, clean fun for every age and need.  —  Our family ended up at Dollywood recently by happenstance.  We were visiting family in Tennessee.

The Prisoners in a Cellar in the Ukrainian Village of Novyi Bykiv  —  A pattern of indiscriminate violence committed by Russian forces appears to have taken hold in a number of towns and villages in the Kyiv region.  —  In Novyi Bykiv, a village sixty miles east of Kyiv, I was led to a cellar.

The Supreme Court question Republicans won't answer  —  Don't ask Chuck Grassley how he'd handle another Supreme Court nomination from President Joe Biden.  —  “Ask me that question on Nov. 9,” said Grassley, who's in line to run the Judiciary Committee if Republicans win back the Senate this fall.

The Veteran Who Launched A Multimillion-Dollar Effort To Build A Border Wall Has Agreed To Plead Guilty To Fraud Charges  —  Brian Kolfage, an Iraq War veteran who launched a multimillion-dollar crowdfunding effort to build a private border wall, has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges …

F.B.I. Preparing to Investigate How Classified Material Went to Trump's Home  —  Federal authorities want to know more about how sensitive national security information came to be in 15 boxes of documents and mementos sent to Mar-a-Lago from the White House.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Compact Fake Gay History  —  From Mariupol to Missouri, in real wars and culture wars, soldiers like to film themselves in battle.  Twitter is awash with footage of Ukrainian and Russian troops showing off their tactical prowess and grisly exploits.  US culture warriors do likewise.

TX-34 Special Election Gives GOP an Early South Texas Gift  —  Blue Dog Democrat Filemon Vela (TX-34) did his party no favors when he announced he would leave Congress early on March 31 to join the lobbying firm Akin Gump.  Now, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott has used his authority to call an “emergency” …

Do Democrats Really Want Amazon's Workers to Win?  —  Seventy-nine years old and slouching toward a devastating midterm rebuke, President Joe Biden rarely appears to be enjoying his job these days.  But some of the old spark was there Wednesday, when he addressed a gathering of building-trades unionists …

We Can't Ignore Republican Attempts to Undermine Free and Fair Elections  —  There are no perfect elections, only fair ones.  In any election there will be some citizens prevented from voting and legal votes not counted.  It is a tragedy that is built into a system that relies on machines and people to do the best they can.

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