The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election  —  Ex-Judge who played key role in Trump-Pence feud speaks out for first time  —  J. Michael Luttig, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, formerly served on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years.

Twitter says mass deactivations after Musk news were ‘organic’  —  How Elon Musk's Twitter takeover could change the platform  —  Twitter was flooded with user reports of high-profile accounts losing thousands of followers in the hours after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk would purchase …

Russia cuts off gas to Poland, Bulgaria, stoking tensions with E.U. over Ukraine  —  Russia's state-controlled gas company, Gazprom, said Wednesday it had shut off the supply of natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, a move that marks a significant escalation in the economic tension between Moscow and the West over the war in Ukraine.

Disney tells investors state can't dissolve special district without paying debt  —  As Florida legislators were rushing through passage of a bill to repeal the special district that governs Walt Disney World last week, they failed to notice an obscure provision in state law that says the state …

Russia releases US Marine vet as part of prisoner exchange  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia and the United States carried out a dramatic prisoner exchange on Wednesday, trading a Marine veteran jailed in Moscow for a convicted Russian drug trafficker serving a long prison sentence in America …

Michigan Republican resigns from GOP committee citing ‘delusional lies’  —  Lansing — Tony Daunt, a longtime Michigan Republican insider, resigned Tuesday night from the GOP's state committee, saying party leaders had made the coming election a test of “who is most cravenly loyal” to former President Donald Trump.

Villanueva backs off investigation of Times reporter who revealed cover-up  —  Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said Tuesday that his department was targeting a Times journalist in a criminal leak investigation for her reporting on a departmental cover-up, but after a barrage …

NY attorney general's office says it's nearly done unraveling Trump's ‘Russian nesting doll’  —  New York (CNN)Lawyers for the New York State Attorney General's Office said they are nearly finished with their civil investigation into the Trump Organization, after taking steps to unravel …

First look: Lis Smith dishes on love of political combat in new book … - The title, “Any Given Tuesday,” puts an Election Day twist on the “Any Given Sunday” truism about the NFL.  —  The book is animated by Smith's love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics, and she …

POLITICO Playbook: Fauci pulls out of WHCD.  Is Biden next?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Late Tuesday night, CNN's Oliver Darcy and Kaitlan Collins scooped that ANTHONY FAUCI is dropping out of this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association dinner over concerns about Covid-19.

China's Covid Lockdown Outrage Tests Limits of Triumphant Propaganda  —  Public anger and grief over the bungled lockdown in Shanghai is creating a credibility crisis for the country's leader, Xi Jinping, and his zero Covid policies.  —  Immediately after Beijing said it had detected …

Ohio Senate Race Pits Trump and Son Against Big G.O.P. Group  —  The Club for Growth has lined up behind Josh Mandel.  Donald J. Trump and his eldest son, Donald Jr., are backing J.D. Vance.  Tuesday's outcome will be a crucial test of the former president's sway.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

The Most Damning Part of the Meadows Texts  —  He knew the president was lying.  And he kept helping to spread the lies anyway.  —  We've known for a long time, based on audits, investigations, and court reviews, that Donald Trump's allegations about massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election are false.

Warren tries to ‘light the fire of urgency’ for Democrats  —  As Elizabeth Warren surveys the landscape for her party, she does not like what she sees.  —  “We've got nearly 200 days.  If we don't deliver, if we don't get up off our rear ends and make it happen, we're in real trouble,” …

Before Washington's ‘Nerd Prom,’ Lots of Risk-Benefit Calculation  —  Dr. Anthony S. Fauci won't attend the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but President Biden has concluded it is worth the risk.  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris's Covid-19 diagnosis …

Madison Cawthorn Is Trying to Commit Every Possible Scandal … No lawmaker in recent memory has inspired such fervent, bipartisan speculation as Madison Cawthorn.  The young, right-wing first-term member of Congress has generated so many horrible news stories, ranging from the personal to the ideological …