Justice Dept. Is Said to Request Transcripts From Jan. 6 Committee  —  The committee has interviewed more than 1,000 people so far, and the transcripts could be used as evidence in potential criminal cases or to pursue new leads.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has asked …

Elon Musk Does Not Care About Spam Bots  —  Programming note: Money Stuff will be off tomorrow, back on Thursday.  Unless.  You know.  —  Oh Elon  —  Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and an active Twitter user.  When he tweets, he gets a lot of spammy replies, many of which seem to be written by automated bots.

Doug Mastriano, a far-right 2020 election denier, is Pennsylvania Republicans' choice for governor.  —  Doug Mastriano, a central figure in former President Donald J. Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania, won the state's Republican primary for governor on Tuesday …

Republican Senate candidates promote ‘replacement’ theory  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A half-dozen mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the “great replacement” conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season …

Map: A county-by-county look at COVID-19 transmission in the United States  —  As the Northeast and other parts of the country grapple with a highly transmissible offshoot of the Omicron variant, community transmission levels are once again rising, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools  —  The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation's public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed.  —  ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — In New York City, the nation's largest school district has lost some 50,000 students over the past two years.

Double Jeopardy: Princeton Prepares To Axe Star Professor Who Raised Hell Over Woke Lunacy  —  Ivy League school leans on second investigation into Joshua Katz's decade-old consensual relationship with a student  —  Princeton University is planning to fire one of the most distinguished classics professors …

Ukraine aid splinters the GOP  —  The Republican establishment is striking back against a right flank attempt to turn its opposition to Ukraine aid into an “America First” talking point.  —  Congress' nearly $40 billion package of help for the war-torn nation is taking heat from a growing number …

Bill de Blasio eyeing run at newly drawn NY seat Jerrold Nadler has left behind  —  Just when you thought he was out ...  Ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio told a state lawmaker he plans to run for New York's newly drawn 10th Congressional district — the seat entrenched Rep. Jerrold Nadler …

China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive  —  Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment  —  Search-and-rescue workers in March sorted through aircraft debris at the China Eastern crash site in southern China.

A pro-Trump film suggests its data are so accurate, it solved a murder.  That's false  —  A conservative “election integrity” group called True The Vote has made multiple misleading or false claims about its work, NPR has found, including the suggestion that they helped solve the murder of an eight-year-old girl in Atlanta.

UFO hearing features historic testimony from Pentagon officials  —  Congress held a rare public hearing Tuesday into the existence of what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, a subject of scrutiny by the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies following …

Dems question whether Maloney can run DCCC while battling freshman colleague  —  House Democrats could find themselves picking sides in a deeply uncomfortable primary this summer: their campaign chair versus a Black freshman.  And a growing swath of the caucus is blaming its midterm chief …

BREAKING: Madison Cawthorn Loses Primary After Series of Scandals, Concedes (UPDATED)  —  Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) narrowly lost his primary Tuesday, according to a projection by Dave Wasserman of Cook Political Report.  —  With 92% reporting, Cawthorn trails by two percentage points.

Opinion Black people want the hate to stop.  But it is only getting worse.  —  I keep telling my Black friends that it's just going to get worse.  —  I keep telling them that some White men, fed a steady diet of nonsense and statistics about the state of Whiteness in the United States …

Abortion-Rights Advocates Tell Democrats to Stop Saying ‘Choice,’ Because Reasons  —  Abortion can be a winning issue for Democrats but they have to make it one, instead of playing language games  —  Last Thursday, Politico congressional reporter Sarah Ferris reported on a memo circulated …

FBI investigating Dallas' Koreatown shooting as hate crime  —  DALLAS (AP) — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown and federal officials have launched a hate crime investigation, authorities said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court Just Streamlined the Process for Bribing Senators  —  Ted Cruz manufactured a case to upend anti-corruption provisions, and it worked.  —  Bribing members of Congress is generally thought of as a bad thing.  That's why there was widespread support for the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act …

Prosecutors allege Michael Sussmann planned “October Surprise” against Trump in September 2016 FBI meeting, as trial gets underway  —  Washington - Special counsel John Durham's first jury trial in the three years since his appointment by Trump Attorney General Bill Barr commenced Tuesday …

Virginia mom suing biracial son's school over CRT curriculum says it ‘totally changed his perspective’ on race  —  Lawyer said Henley Middle School appears to be standing by divisive curriculum amid lawsuit  —  Virginia mother suing son's school over CRT curriculum

Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics.  She Decided to Live With Her Voices.  —  A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.  —  Caroline Mazel-Carlton began hearing voices when she was in day care.  Mornings, by the time she was in middle school …

Jackson's first Supreme Court clerks include judiciary workplace reform advocate  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson has selected a diverse set of lawyers to serve as her first four law clerks, including one who has advocated for the judiciary to do more to prevent sexual harassment.

Trump fundraiser Barrack sought UAE investment while lobbying for country, prosecutors say  — A billionaire fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign sought investment from two United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth funds at the same time he was illegally lobbying for the country, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

White supremacists are convicted of training for a civil war in Michigan  —  The Base is a pro-Hitler movement that advocates a race war against non-white people  —  Three members of a militant white supremacist group were the first in Michigan to be convicted of conspiring to train …

DeSantis' office considered a bill to target libel laws, records show  —  A top staffer for Gov. Ron DeSantis worked on a proposal that sought to challenge decades-old First Amendment protections for the news media and make it easier for high-profile people to win defamation lawsuits …

Did WaPo Publish, ‘This Dog is the New Face of Online Homophobia’? … A screenshot of a supposed Washington Post article headlined, “This dog is the new face of online homophobia,” with a photograph of a dog, went viral in the spring of 2022.  But the article is not real.

The Jolt: Where in the world is David Perdue?  —  We looked high and low for David Perdue near the end of his last campaign, when the then-senator loaded his schedule with a statewide bus tour and dozens of meet-and-greets, but he was almost impossible to access for most reporters.Now we're asking …

America more interested in Depp-Heard trial than abortion  —  The defamation trial between actors and former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has quickly amassed more online attention than some of the country's biggest and most pressing news stories, including the leaked Supreme Court decision and Russia's war in Ukraine.

Opinion All eyes are on Ukraine, but another crisis is brewing in Iran  —  Carl Bildt, a Global Opinions contributing columnist, is a former prime minister of Sweden.  Javier Solana, a former secretary general of NATO and E.U. high representative for foreign affairs and security policy …

Biden's ‘MAGA Republicans’ is a meh-ga slogan  —  Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap  —  It is a Washington ritual so old that it probably dates back to the era when senators lived in boarding houses and any stray citizen could wander into the White House.