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Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says  —  New evidence and testimony showed the president's tweet promoting a protest on Jan. 6 united extremist groups and led to calls for violence  —  Gift Article  —  Donald Trump scrawled the words on Twitter …

Tears, Screaming and Insults: Inside an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting to Keep Trump in Power  —  Even by the standards of the Trump White House, a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, that was highlighted Tuesday by the Jan. 6 committee was extreme.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Charges: Man lit his camper on fire, defaced own garage to appear targeted due to Trump flag  —  MINNEAPOLIS - A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims.

More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations  —  “We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe.  It's time for you to pass it,” the staffers wrote in a letter, sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory  —  “That's our strategy.  He's gonna declare himself a winner.” … On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing.

A Former Mueller Prosecutor Takes Merrick Garland to Task  —  Few people know complex federal criminal investigations as well as Andrew Weissmann does.  —  Over the course of his career, Weissmann has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, as a deputy and eventually director …

Twitter sues Elon Musk, setting stage for epic legal battle  —  The lawsuit is the first legal volley in what will likely be one of the most watched and contentious business trials in recent history  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Twitter filed suit Tuesday against Elon Musk to force …

Twitter went easy on Trump because it ‘relished’ the power, ex-employee says  —  In testimony before the Jan. 6 committee, the unidentified former employee said they'd tried for months ‘to raise the reality that ... if we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die.’

Mehmet Oz bragged about hunting in Florida, but he's never held a license  —  He also claimed to own a hunting ranch in Florida.  —  Television personality Mehmet Oz spent months in a Pennsylvania Senate race touting a history of hunting in Florida.  But the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission …

Logs show 10 House Republicans attended White House meeting on pressuring Pence  —  Ten Republican members of Congress attended a Dec. 21 White House meeting focused on efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the 2020 election, according to the Jan. 6 committee.

A Culture Warrior Goes Quiet: DeSantis Dodges Questions on Abortion Plans  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida faces political pressure from Republicans to further curb abortions — and risks to his re-election campaign and any presidential aspirations if he goes too far.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

The Constitution Isn't Working  —  On the last day of the Supreme Court's most recent term, the Court released two cases that highlight a challenge to American democracy—a challenge that is the direct result of one of the Founders' more consequential miscalculations.

What happened after Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News Sunday  —  Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News Sunday over the weekend and gave a good answer to a question he was asked about pro-choice protests against Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.

Bradley Cooper dating Huma Abedin—and Anna Wintour played matchmaker: sources  —  A star couple is born: Huma Abedin and Bradley Cooper are dating, insiders told Page Six.  —  The top aide to Hillary Clinton — and former wife of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner …

Sri Lanka: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa flees the country  —  Sri Lanka's president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has fled the country, the BBC has confirmed, following mass protests over the island's economic crisis.  —  The president had been in hiding after crowds stormed his palace on Saturday.

LeBron James Says He'd Question Returning To America If He Were Brittney Griner  —  LeBron James says Brittney Griner's been in captivity for way too long without the U.S. bringing her home, so if he were the WNBA star, he'd question returning to America.  —  Bron made the comments during …

Joe Biden's Dobbs Response Has Been Breathtakingly Awful  —  Why can't the president show some fight?  —  This weekend, the Washington Post published an article that chronicled the lumbering strategy of Joe Biden's administration in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade.

He worked from home and died suddenly.  Five days passed before his body was found  —  Dominic Green signed out of work as he always did, exactly at 4:30 p.m.  —  “Good afternoon everyone, my shift has ended,” the 28-year-old emailed from his desk in the living room of his Los Angeles apartment on a winter Wednesday afternoon.

Republicans threaten Wall Street over climate positions  —  BlackRock, JPMorgan Chase and other asset managers face complaints from the left — and threats from the right  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Republican officials across the country, tearing a page from the ongoing culture wars …

Former senior U.S. official John Bolton admits to planning attempted foreign coups  —  John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and former White House national security adviser, said on Tuesday that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.