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 …

Pro-Trump Rally Planner Is Cooperating in Justice Dept.'s Jan. 6 Inquiry  —  Ali Alexander, who was a key figure in the “Stop the Steal” movement, said he had received a grand jury subpoena and would assist the expanding investigation.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

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 …

Russian Blunders in Chernobyl: ‘They Came and Did Whatever They Wanted.’  —  Tanks treads ripped up the toxic soil, bulldozers carved trenches and bunkers, and soldiers spent a month camped in — and dug into — a radioactive forest.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

State Department: WH gift records for Trump, Pence missing  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it is unable to compile a complete and accurate accounting of gifts presented to former President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials by foreign governments during Trump's final year in office …

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.

Starr County woman arrested for “self-induced abortion”  —  STARR COUNTY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A woman has been charged with murder after authorities say she performed a “self-induced abortion.”  —  Lizelle Herrera, 26, was arrested on Thursday by the Starr County Sheriff's Office and charged with murder.

Donations Steered to Trump Super PAC by Canadian Are Found to Be Illegal  —  The Federal Election Commission fined a Canadian steel billionaire, Barry Zekelman, $975,000 in the case, one of the biggest penalties it has ever assessed.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Stash of assault rifles, body armor, passports with multiple visas, and sham uniforms found in penthouse of ‘fake’ Homeland agents - including one with ‘links to Pakistani intelligence’ - who 'infiltrated Biden, Kamala and Jill's Secret Service details'  — A motion for detention shows …

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.

Judge Says Trump Firm Can Keep Running Bronx Golf Course After de Blasio Broke Contract  —  The Trump Organization can continue to operate a city-owned Bronx golf course, a judge ruled Friday.  —  Former Mayor Bill de Blasio terminated a Trump company's contract for the Ferry Point Park golf course …

Academy Bans Will Smith From Oscars for 10 Years … The Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences met Friday morning to discuss the consequences for actor Will Smith following his slap of presenter Chris Rock during the 94th Oscars telecast, and voted to ban Smith …

Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, prompted by Russian war in Ukraine  —  (CNN)Finland and Sweden could soon join NATO, moves that would likely infuriate Moscow and that officials say would further underscore Russia's strategic error in invading Ukraine.

US to send officials to Solomon Islands due to tensions over China security pact  —  Washington fears Beijing will gain strategic toehold in Pacific close to Australia  —  The White House's top Asia official is preparing to travel to the Solomon Islands in a rare high-level visit …

Biden won't remove Iran's Revolutionary Guard from terror list.  He's right.  —  The Biden administration plans to reject an Iranian demand that the United States lift its designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization as a condition for renewing …

Biden blames Russia for ‘atrocity’ at station that killed 50  —  Updates from BBC correspondents: Joel Gunter in Kyiv, Yogita Limaye in Chernihiv, Jonathan Beale and Joe Inwood in Kramatorsk, Tom Bateman in Zaporizhzhia, and Anna Foster and Emma Vardy in Lviv  —  Summary

Ohio GOP Senate hopeful: Middle class doesn't pay fair share  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don't pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.

NPR reporter blasts own newsroom: Hunter Biden's laptop has ‘always been’ a story  —  Journo explicitly blamed ‘newsroom editors’ for refusing to report it.  —  An NPR reporter called out her own newsroom on Thursday for claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was “not a real story.”

Ukraine: Inside the spies' attempts to stop the war  —  Traditionally, it is the job of a spy to keep secrets - but as the invasion of Ukraine loomed, Western intelligence officials made the unusual decision to tell the world what they knew.  —  For nearly a dozen days in February …

DeSantis says ‘Cold War’ coming between Florida, Georgia, if Stacey Abrams is elected governor  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday warned of a coming “Cold War” between Florida and Georgia if Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams wins the gubernatorial election in the latter state.