EXCLUSIVE: Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’  —  The January 6 committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, called the committee “bs” in a text message obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.  —  On Feb 1.  Hutchinson sent a text …

‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights  —  Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times  —  AKRON, Ohio — Police on Sunday released footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car to flee a traffic stop last week.  —  Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett …

100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn't the ‘country we fought for’: ‘I am so upset’  —  Carl Spurlin Dekel served in the U.S. Marines during World War II  —  Coming up on ‘Fox News Sunday’: July 3  —  Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain …

The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count  —  Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.

An American's Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6  —  Charles Bausman, a former financial executive who runs websites that promote far-right views, recorded footage in the Capitol for a Russian television producer.  Soon after, he fled to Moscow as a “political refugee.”

Can Ukraine Win?  —  A Ukrainian soldier shows off a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher - part of the package of US military aid (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post via Getty Images)  —  ‘Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically’

Happy(?) Fourth of July  —  Cheer up.  We're still America.  There are worse things to be.  —  Warning: this isn't exactly a fully-formed essay.  Just a grab-bag of Fourth of July sentiments, poetry, and song.  Neither, despite the photo above, is it intended to be some concentrated meditation on Johnny Cash.

The Holy Anarchy of Fun  —  In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun.  —  Writes Unbound  · Subscribe … So, a little late as always, because I like my pop culture to ferment some before I swill it down, I saw the sequel to Top Gun.

Justice Dept. Braces for Summer of Violent Crime  —  Top officials at the department met with prosecutors and the local police in Philadelphia in an effort to help cities prepare for a hot-weather crime wave marked by the Fourth of July.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Why Glenn Youngkin — or someone like him — must run in 2024  —  Virginia's new Republican governor is seriously thinking of running for president in 2024.  And that's good news.  —  My Richmond-based Post colleagues Laura Vozzella and Gregory S. Schneider wrote last week of the telltale clues …

How California's legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare  —  A ROW of luxury ‘healing’ creams is guarded by a locked glass cabinet, gilded in gold trim.  —  The packaging is stylishly minimal - clean and white with small black typeface - and beside the tubs sit decorative …

Now more than ever, Democrats need Hillary Clinton  —  THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  Earlier this year, I co-authored a piece for The Wall Street Journal that argued that a perfect storm in the Democratic Party is making a once unfathomable scenario …