Far-Right Republicans Press Closer to Power Over Future Elections  —  Midway through primary season, the party has nominated several candidates who deny the 2020 outcome for posts that will have significant sway over the 2024 presidential election.  —  The potential for far-right Republicans …

Herschel Walker, Critic of Absentee Fathers, Has a Second Son He Doesn't See  —  Herschel Walker, the Republican nominee for Senate from Georgia, who has often spoken out against absentee fathers, particularly in Black households, on Tuesday publicly acknowledged having fathered a second son with whom he is not in contact.

Republican Mayra Flores wins South Texas House seat long a Democratic stronghold  —  Rising Republican star Mayra Flores beat out Democratic challenger Dan Sanchez on Tuesday in a special election to finish Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela's current term in South Texas, a competitive congressional seat …

Democrats Fetterman, Shapiro show early leads in USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll  —  A USA Today Network/Suffolk University poll in Pennsylvania released this week suggests a clear U.S. Senate frontrunner — with a tighter race for governor.  —  According to the Suffolk University …

GOP commission refuses to certify New Mexico primary vote  —  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Votes in a New Mexico community are at risk of not counting after a Republican-led commission refused to approve primary election results over distrust of Dominion vote-tallying machines.

Leave Joe Biden Alone  —  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture.  Sign up for it here.  —  Every administration has its ups and downs …

Seth Rich's killing was exploited on Fox News and online.  His parents are fed up  —  The fatal shooting of a young Democratic Party aide named Seth Rich early in the morning of July 10, 2016, brought incalculable loss to his parents.  —  Within days, Joel and Mary Rich then had to endure an unimaginable …

Five Blunt Truths About the War in Ukraine  —  Five sentences sum up the war in Ukraine as it stands now.  —  The Russians are running out of precision-guided weapons.  The Ukrainians are running out of Soviet-era munitions.  The world is running out of patience for the war.

US abortions rise: 1 in 5 pregnancies terminated in 2020  —  The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to figures released Wednesday.  —  The report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights …

Biden warns Big Oil over gas output  —  President Biden will warn CEOs of the nation's largest oil companies on Wednesday that he's considering invoking emergency powers to boost U.S. refinery output, according to a letter obtained by Axios. … - The letter, which calls on the companies to boost output …

Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Crashes, U.S. Data Shows  —  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla's Autopilot.  A handful of accidents turned deadly.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?  —  When former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke intimated in early 2017 that he would be joining Donald Trump's nascent administration, CNN obtained a copy of Clarke's master's thesis from the Naval Postgraduate School and revealed …

South Florida synagogue sues over Florida's new 15-week abortion ban  —  BY JIM SAUNDERS NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA  —  A South Florida Jewish congregation has challenged a new state law that blocks abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contending the measure violates privacy and religious-freedom rights.

Group behind Trump SCOTUS picks brought in nearly $50 million in secret money … As the Supreme Court stands on the brink of loosening gun restrictions and rolling back decades of abortion protections, tax documents obtained by CREW show that the dark money group that poured millions of dollars …

Wind and solar power are ‘bailing out’ Texas amid record heat and energy demand  —  (CNN)Texans are cranking on the air conditioning this week amid an unusually early heat wave, setting new records for electricity demand in the state, which surpassed 75 gigawatts on Sunday and smashed the 2019 record.

Scoop: Keisha Lance Bottoms to join White House  —  President Biden is tapping former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to replace Cedric Richmond as one of his most senior aides, bringing a Democratic rising star and former VP contender into the White House at a critical juncture, Axios has learned.

Publix heiress paid Kimberly Guilfoyle's $60,000 speaking fee on Jan. 6  —  The funds were directed to Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancee through Turning Point Action, a nonprofit run by Charlie Kirk  —  Kimberly Guilfoyle, a fundraiser for former president Donald Trump and the fiancee of his eldest son …

Under the Banner of Hulu  —  A buzzy new true-crime series advances an old, insidious idea—that Mormons are a threat to the American project.  —  Give this to Under the Banner of Heaven, the buzzy true-crime miniseries that recently concluded its run on FX and Hulu: It wastes little time in getting to the point.

GOP spends millions on election volunteers to search for fraud  —  The Republican National Committee's volunteers could lay the groundwork for future court challenges where the Trump campaign came up short in 2020  —  The Republican National Committee is spending millions this year …

Proud Boys leader seeks transfer of trial after Jan. 6 committee builds case he instigated riot  —  Joseph Biggs, a member of the Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy for his role in the breach of the Capitol last year, is urging a federal judge to relocate his trial to South Florida …

National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles  —  A world of independent nations is the only alternative to universalist ideologies seeking to impose a homogenizing, locality-destroying imperium over the entire globe. … We are citizens of Western nations who have watched with alarm …

A Striking Contrast: Trump Officials Then and Now  —  Many officials have told the Jan. 6 committee that they tried to dissuade the former president from his bid to overturn the election.  But in public at the time, their words were far different.  — Give this article- - - Read in app