Inside a Biden White House adrift  —  WASHINGTON — Faced with a worsening political predicament, President Joe Biden is pressing aides for a more compelling message and a sharper strategy while bristling at how they've tried to stifle the plain-speaking persona that has long been one of his most potent assets.

Exclusive: Supreme Court leak investigation heats up as clerks are asked for phone records in unprecedented move  —  (CNN)Supreme Court officials are escalating their search for the source of the leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, taking steps to require law clerks …

What Durham proved  —  WHAT DURHAM PROVED.  The trial of Michael Sussmann is before a jury in Washington, D.C. Sussmann is the Democratic lawyer who, according to special counsel John Durham, lied to the FBI in 2016 when, working on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign, he tried to plant a derogatory story about Donald Trump.

Memorial Day weekend marked by more than a dozen mass shootings in the U.S.  —  12 killed, 15 wounded in Philadelphia weekend shootings  —  Amid calls for gun control after last week's massacre at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, shots rang out across the country over the Memorial Day weekend …

Is America heading for civil war?  —  A clutch of books makes an alarmingly persuasive case that the warning lights are flashing redder than at any point since 1861  —  In the summer of 2015, America caught a glimpse of how its future could unfold.  The US military conducted a routine exercise …

Former Trump aide Navarro says he has received a grand jury subpoena related to Jan. 6  —  Peter Navarro, a former White House aide to Donald Trump, says he's been served a grand jury subpoena by federal prosecutors probing the Jan. 6 insurrection — and claims they have asked for records of …

Doug Mastriano, Christian Nationalism, and the Cult of the AR-15  —  The Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor has ties to a gun-worshiping sect.  But the real scandal is just how common many of their beliefs have become on the right.  —  The horrific mass shootings at Buffalo …

Kevin McCarthy's Jan. 6th Coverup is Underway  —  The man who wants to be speaker of the House refuses to cooperate with the Jan. 6th investigation.  —  Conditioned to accept the idea that most Republican officials are zombified “ultra MAGA” automatons for former President Trump …

Economic Pessimism Growing in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup's Economic Confidence Index measured -45 in May, down from -39 in each of the previous two months.  It is the lowest reading in Gallup's trend during the coronavirus pandemic, and likely the lowest confidence has been since …

Breastfeeding isn't ‘free.’ Here's what it cost me.  —  “TRY BREASTFEEEDING!  It's free and available on demand.”  “God literally designed mothers to feed their babies.”  This is cruel to any parent who can't make the milk their child needs.  And it's not true.  —  Even in the best-case scenario, breastfeeding isn't free.

Expatriate Executives Flee Saudi Arabia's Bad Bosses  —  The kingdom wants to attract the world's best and brightest to futuristic projects such as Neom.  But a difficult workplace culture is driving many away.  —  In the summer of 2020, two videogame companies canceled sponsorship deals …

Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation  —  I won't meddle with the Fed, but I will tackle high prices while guiding the economy's transition to stable and steady growth.  —  1x  —  The global economy faces serious challenges.  Inflation is elevated, exacerbated by Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Don't Let the Cameras Turn Away  —  This week, for the first time in my career, I found out about a mass shooting in America just like most of you: not from a TV producer breaking into my earpiece on live TV, or a CNN internal email alert, or from someone shouting in the newsroom, but from a friend.

OPRF to implement race-based grading system in 2022-23 school year  —  Oak Park and River Forest High School administrators will require teachers next school year to adjust their classroom grading scales to account for the skin color or ethnicity of its students.