Arrest made in rape of Ohio girl that led to Indiana abortion drawing international attention  —  Bethany Bruner Monroe Trombly Tony CookThe Columbus Dispatch  —  A Columbus man has been charged with impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl, whose travel to Indiana to seek an abortion led …

Exclusive: Trump's Lawyers Think Mark Meadows Is Going Down  —  The Jan. 6 Committee is probing the former chief of staff's finances, Rolling Stone has learned, adding to a long list of legal headaches  —  As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican …

1 big thing: Seismic shift … - Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters concerned more about issues like gun control and abortion rights.  — Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters, with inflation as an accelerant.

Secret Service member returns to US following altercation in Israel  —  Washington (CNN)A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team was detained by the Israeli national police in Jerusalem this week after he allegedly assaulted a woman outside of a bar, a source tells CNN …

Exclusive: Read the private email Obama sent his former doc after he questioned Biden's cognitive health  —  Obama told Jackson, who was the doctor for three presidents, that criticizing Biden's mental state was ‘unprofessional’  —  Hegseth on media, Democrats turning on President Biden: He is ‘persona non grata’

Judge tells Lindsey Graham he must testify in grand jury probe  —  Lindsey Graham said he had no intention of honoring a subpoena from a special grand jury in Georgia.  A judge has now told him he doesn't have a choice.  —  Last week, a special grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation …

Trump discussing 2024 plans at secret donor dinners  —  Donald Trump has quietly convened some of his wealthiest and highest-profile supporters for intimate dinners in recent weeks, where the groups have talked about the former president's 2024 election plans — and debated when he should make his expected comeback bid official.

Starbucks Went Woke and Now It's Paying the Price for Allowing Its Stores to Become Drug Dens  —  Just how bad are America's cities doing under the watch of their Democrat leaders?  Even ultra-woke Starbucks is pulling up stakes in Democrat-run cities where drug use, homelessness, and crime have made staying in business untenable.

Trump lashes out at Elon Musk, says he could have made the billionaire ‘beg’  —  Musk previously said the former president should ‘sail into the sunset’  —  Coming up on Wednesday, July 13 edition of ‘Special Report’  —  Former President Donald Trump continued his war of words …

Republican Josh Hawley accused of transphobia at Senate hearing  —  Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges says Missouri senator's line of questioning ‘opens trans people up to violence’  —  Josh Hawley, a Republican senator from Missouri, was accused of being transphobic by a law professor on Tuesday …

Trump-backed Kari Lake gets a hand from an unlikely source in Arizona: Democrats  —  TUCSON, Ariz. — Kari Lake watched her lead narrow in the polls and big players in Arizona's Republican establishment coalesce around her top rival weeks before the state's Aug. 2 primary for governor.

Exclusive: U.S. government warns that Iran may try to kill American officials as revenge for killing top general  —  The U.S. government believes that Iran may try to assassinate current or former senior American officials to avenge the death more than two years ago of its top military …

Biden in Israel: You don't need to be a Jew to be a Zionist  —  The president stressed his “deep and ongoing commitment” to a two-state solution.  —  US President Joe Biden reaffirmed his Zionism and the strong ties between the US and Israel in his remarks upon landing in Israel on Wednesday.

President Biden Statement on CPI Inflation in June  —  While today's headline inflation reading is unacceptably high, it is also out-of-date.  Energy alone comprised nearly half of the monthly increase in inflation.  Today's data does not reflect the full impact of nearly 30 days of decreases in gas prices …

Election officials fear copycat attacks as ‘insider threats’ loom  —  BATON ROUGE, La. — Election officials are confronting a wave of threats and security challenges coming from a troubling source: inside the election system itself.  —  In interviews on the sidelines of the National Association …

Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  Amid the parade of awful revelations unearthed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection, one area of immense culpability still needs further fleshing out.

ProPublica wins July Sidney for Exposing Right Wing Witch Hunt Based On “Critical Race Theory” Lie  —  Nicole Carr of ProPublica wins the July Sidney Award for “White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town.  Then, They Followed Her to the Next One,” a deeply reported story about Cecelia Lewis …

Josh Gottheimer Is on a Mission to Destroy Joe Biden's Presidency  —  Joe Manchin has absorbed most of the heat from liberals angry that the Senate has often blocked President Biden's proposals.  But Manchin represents an overwhelmingly Republican state, and he has been willing to negotiate a meaningful …

Free Range  —  A Film Club Q&A goes off the rails, and we end up discussing........everything  —  A couple weeks ago, Alex Didion emailed me with a request.  Didion runs a Substack called Lack of Taste, which bills itself as “a newsletter about movies for people who don't like movies.”

Owner of Sweet & Vicious Bar Will Pay $500,000 for Worker Harassment  —  The state attorney general says employees at the Manhattan bar were subjected to repeated slurs and sexual harassment.  —  Sweet & Vicious, a downtown Manhattan bar and restaurant popular for its “jargaritas” …

Introducing the 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)  —  Now that all 50 states have finalized new lines for the 2022 elections, the Cook Political Report is pleased to introduce the 25th Anniversary edition of the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠) …

‘As somebody who has helped plan coups ...’  —  Today's hearing of the Jan. 6 committee was another revelatory affair, added damning details to the already comprehensive picture of how high-level strategists, motivated paramilitaries, and ordinary partisans worked together to try …

7th Fleet Destroyer conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation in South China Sea  —  13JUL22 1645 JST UPDATE:  —  The PRC's statement about this mission is false.  USS Benfold conducted this FONOP in accordance with international law and then continued on to conduct normal operations in international waters.