This Is the Southern Baptist Apocalypse  —  The abuse investigation has uncovered more evil than even I imagined.  —  They were right.  I was wrong to call sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) a crisis.  Crisis is too small a word.  It is an apocalypse.

Democrats See Headwinds in Georgia, and Everywhere Else  —  Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, viewed as strong candidates by their party, will be running against President Biden's low ratings as well as their G.O.P. rivals.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Kushner's and Mnuchin's Quick Pivots to Business With the Gulf  —  Weeks before the Trump administration ended, Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin met with future investors on official trips to the Middle East.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Shortly before the 2020 election …

In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump  —  Part personal chronicle and part political journey, the book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news  —  In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick …

A grasp at diplomacy as fighting grinds on in Ukraine  —  The Polish president addresses Ukraine's parliament, calling on Russia to withdraw.  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the path to ending the war with Russia would require diplomacy and an international agreement …

My Lunch With President Biden  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  President Biden invited me for lunch at the White House last Monday.  But it was all off the record — so I can't tell you anything he said.  —  I can, though, tell you two things — what I ate and how I felt after.

Inside the Republican push to stop Trump's ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia  —  GOP governors hatched a plan months ago that will culminate in a closely-watched gubernatorial primary on Tuesday  —  Republican governors hatched the plan months ago.  Meeting at the desert Biltmore resort in Phoenix …

More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak — CBS News poll  —  With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties' own voters, aren't terribly happy with the parties or what they're talking about.

What they can attempt after an election has been certified  — Launch audits and investigations - Attempt to decertify the election  —  The Times's review provides only a glimpse of the ways that state legislatures fueled the movement to deny and challenge the 2020 results.

Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending  —  Executives and investors gather in Davos to discuss mounting economic and financial challenges  —  The three-decade era of globalisation risks going into reverse according to company executives and investors …

‘Megadrought’ threatens water and power supplies to millions in US  —  Water levels in two largest reservoirs at record lows as study says southwestern drought worst in 1,200 years  —  The “megadrought” gripping the southwestern US has driven water levels at the two largest reservoirs to record lows …

The Ransom: A Look Under the Hood  —  Thousands of pages of original documents, and hundreds of books and articles.  Here are the historians and researchers on which the Haiti project drew.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  This series was the work of four reporters and more than a dozen researchers.

78,000 pounds of infant formula arrives in US  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage …

Ahead of Biden visit, Israel launches biggest eviction of Palestinians in decades  —  AL-MARKAZ VILLAGE, West Bank — The Najjar family knew what to expect on the morning of May 11 when a neighbor called: “The bulldozer is coming.”  For the second time in five months, the Israeli military had come to knock down their house.

More Horrors Await After $550 Billion Retail Earnings Meltdown  —  Soaring costs and swollen inventories have retailers on the ropes, and investors fear that the punishment won't ease anytime soon.  —  With companies from Costco Wholesale Corp. to Dollar General Corp. and Best Buy Co. set …

Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum  —  Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading.  Critics may not be appeased.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Lara Logan, Once a Star at CBS News, Is Now One for the Far Right  —  The former chief foreign affairs correspondent is now a popular guest on podcasts hosted by vaccine skeptics and deniers of the 2020 election.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  When Lara Logan reached the heights …