Accounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service over past year  —  Ex-aide was backstage with Trump at his Jan. 6 rally.  Here's what she heard him say  —  (CNN)Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6 …

The Biden-McConnell Deal to Make an Anti-Abortion Advocate a Federal Judge Is Still On  —  President Joe Biden struck a deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to nominate Chad Meredith, a Republican anti-abortion advocate, to a federal judgeship on the Eastern District of Kentucky, Slate has confirmed.

President Biden Announces Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom  —  WASHINGTON - Today, President Biden named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  —  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals …

In Russia's Biggest Cities, Ukraine War Fades to Background Noise  —  Bars are packed out, film and jazz festivals are sold out and Moscow's police officers are busier handing out fines for public drinking than putting down dissent  —  MOSCOW—Dima Karmanovsky had just finished his second DJ set …

National Poll: Biden With Higher Approval Than US Congress & Supreme Court; Trump Leads GOP Nomination Contest  —  Home Blog National Poll: Biden With Higher Approval Than US Congress & Supreme Court; Trump Leads GOP Nomination Contest  —  The latest Emerson College Polling national survey …

Rudy Giuliani Deletes Tweet Insisting Cassidy Hutchinson Was Not Present When He Asked for a Pardon  —  Rudy Giuliani insisted on Twitter that Cassidy Hutchinson was “never present” when he asked former President Donald Trump when he asked for a pardon, and then deleted it.

Congress has let the Supreme Court run amok  —  Biden accuses Supreme Court of ‘outrageous behavior’ following Roe v. Wade reversal  —  The Supreme Court ended its term Thursday having produced a string of decisions that with casual brutality threatened Americans' privacy, health and well-being.

Lanhee Chen comes clean on Trump, abortion  —  Note: The newsletter will pause until Tuesday due to the Fourth of July holiday.  —  Lanhee Chen has a few confessions to make.  —  The Republican candidate for California state controller, who will face off against Democrat Malia Cohen …

America Is Headed For Disaster  —  Donald Trump is on course to reconquer the White House.  To save the republic, we need a radical change of direction. … Most of the time, politics is like a jumble of puzzle pieces.  On any given day, there are hundreds of news stories, some promising, others ominous.

Facebook Asks Judge to ‘Crack the Whip’ in Attempt to Silence a Black Whistleblower  —  A lawyer representing Facebook's parent company Meta called on a judge to “crack the whip” against a Black South African whistleblower on Monday, requesting a gagging order to prevent him from speaking to the media.

Neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin gives ‘forceful endorsement’ of Blake Masters' Senate bid  —  The move by The Daily Stormer publisher is a play to try to exert influence in a GOP moving to the right, experts in extremism contend  —  Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi publisher of The Daily Stormer …

'It's Scary': Students Fear Going to College in Red States After Roe  —  “Location has never before been more important to me,” said Ashley Huynh, 17, a rising high school senior in Montgomery County, Maryland.  —  NT  —  TORONTO, CA  —  AU  —  When Sasha Rosenfeld walked onto …

DOJ subpoenas two Arizona state senators in Jan. 6 probe  —  The Justice Department has subpoenaed two Republican Arizona state senators for information tied to possible correspondence with former president Donald Trump's attorneys as attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election were underway.

After Dobbs, What Comes Next for the Conservative Legal Project?  —  , NEWSWEEK OPINION EDITOR AND HOST, “THE JOSH HAMMER SHOW”  —  This past week and a half has been truly remarkable.  From a conservative perspective, and a legal conservative perspective more specifically …

McDonald's Dollar Drinks Deal Fades in the Face of Inflation  —  More restaurants remove any-size-soda-for-a-buck promotion as the company recommends keeping it to drive traffic  —  Inflation is coming for McDonald's MCD 1.51%▲ dollar drinks.  —  Some McDonald's Corp. locations …

Voter fraud claims are heating up a battle for political control in an oil-rich Texas county  —  Eleven people are registered to vote at an old farm in Loving County, Texas.  But the sheriff says no one lives there.  —  MENTONE, Texas — One of the worst-kept secrets in Loving County sits along …

Ukraine scatters arsenal to protect weapons from Russian strikes  —  An intense ‘cat-and-mouse’ game to preserve Ukraine's Western weapons could determine the next phase of the war  —  The Russian military is increasing attacks on Ukrainian arms depots to deprive the country of Western weapons critical …

The Sleeper ‘Wire Fraud’ Scheme That Could Nail Trumpworld  —  The Jan. 6 committee has already laid out a convincing case of wire fraud against the Trump campaign.  —  the day television networks called the election for Joe Biden—then-President Donald Trump's campaign manager was trying …

Texas education board rejects proposal to call slavery ‘involuntary relocation’  —  A group of educators in Texas proposed referring to slavery as “involuntary relocation” in second-grade classes — before being rebuffed by the State Board of Education.  —  The nine educators …