Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security's Wolf and Cuccinelli  —  DHS watchdog was alerted in February to unavailable records of top officials, but did nothing to alert or investigate  —  Text messages for former President Donald Trump's acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf …

Joe Manchin's climate deal isn't enough, but it's still a miracle  —  Better late than never.  The $369 billion to fight climate change in the deal announced Wednesday between Senate Democrats and the White House represents the nation's biggest investment ever in the future of our overheating planet.

EXCLUSIVE: Prosecutors prepare for court battle to force former White House officials to testify about Trump's January 6 conversations  —  Justice Department prosecutors are preparing to fight in court to force former White House officials to testify about then-President Donald Trump's conversations …

House passes chips and science bill, sending measure to Biden's desk  —  The House passed a $280 billion bill on Thursday to strengthen the domestic chip manufacturing industry and finance scientific research in a bid to boost the United States's competitiveness on the global stage …

Americans dismayed at end of Roe are less certain they will vote, poll finds  —  A Washington Post-Schar School poll finds 65 percent of Americans view the Supreme Court's abortion ruling as a major loss of women's rights, while 35 percent say it is not  —  Nearly two-thirds of Americans …

Wait, Is Biden a Better President Than People Thought?  —  Biden is making a comeback with his breakthrough on climate legislation — but limitations to his leadership still shadow his presidency.  —  Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective …

Alito dismisses foreign criticism of Supreme Court's abortion ruling  —  Speaking last week at a conference, the conservative Supreme Court justice also offered a robust defense of religious liberty  —  Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. in a speech in Rome dismissed criticism from foreign officials who he said …

Oz's Great Escape  —  Republican Party insiders are increasingly frustrated with what they perceive as a certain laissez-faire attitude from the poorly-polling G.O.P. Senate candidate, who has spent nearly as much time on vacation as on the campaign trail.  —  To the G.O.P. establishment …

Phillips: Democrats need ‘new generation’ of leadership, not Biden in 2024  —  In an interview on the Chad Hartman radio show on WCCO-AM, Phillips, who represents Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District, said he wants to see “a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up.”

Susan Collins: Democrats' Climate Deal May Doom Bipartisan Efforts On Same-Sex Marriage  —  The GOP senator said the surprise move by Democrats could make it harder to convince fellow Republicans to get on board.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Susan Collins, one of a handful of GOP senators working …

Why did the GOP reject a bill to help veterans exposed to toxins?  —  If there's a defense for Senate Republicans rejecting a bill to help sick veterans, after having already voted for a similar bill, it's hiding well.  —  It may not have been the highest profile legislative fight of the year …

Paul Manafort admits indirectly advising Trump in 2020 but keeping it secret in wait for pardon  —  In new book, obtained by Guardian, 2016 campaign manager convicted of tax fraud says he was ‘very careful’ to hide advice  —  Paul Manafort indirectly advised Donald Trump's 2020 campaign …

Ukraine could be turning the tide of war again as Russian advances stall  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Russian advances in Ukraine have slowed almost to a standstill as newly delivered Western weapons help Ukrainian forces reclaim much of the advantage they had lost in recent months …

Inside one far-right sheriff's crusade to prove Trump's bogus voter-fraud claims  —  In rural Michigan, county Sheriff Dar Leaf has teamed with a Trump-camp lawyer to chase the former president's outlandish rigged-election theories.  A member of a radical group of “constitutional sheriffs,” he's now under investigation himself.

Pelosi Must Go  —  I'm not in the habit of saying that Nancy Pelosi is right.  But if she wants to visit Taiwan next month as part of a congressional delegation to several countries in the Indo-Pacific, she really ought to go.  Canceling the trip now would be a capitulation to tyranny.

‘Stop the Steal’ speaker Brandon Straka gave FBI info on rally organizers, more than a dozen others as part of plea deal  —  Newly unsealed filings detail aspects of the “significant information” Brandon Straka provided the DOJ in a deal to avoid a felony charge from the Capitol riot.

Death toll rises to 15 after devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky: Latest updates  —  Caleb Stultz Lucas Aulbach Thomas BirminghamLouisville Courier Journal  —  Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Friday morning that the death toll has risen to 15 after torrential rains flooded Eastern Kentucky …

Johnson County sheriff claimed he got 200 tips of election fraud.  A records request yielded only one  —  Few outside Sheriff Calvin Hayden's office appear to know what he and his department are investigating.  —  The Johnson County Sheriff's Office has said that since last fall it has received …

Why Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned her blue suit at a disability rights meeting  —  The ongoing dustup over Vice President Kamala Harris describing herself during a meeting with disability rights leaders this week is much ado about an increasingly common practice and a distraction …

Pelosi's January 6th Committee and the Death of American Justice  —  The Committee's real agenda.  —  One of my favorite Hollywood movies is John Frankenheimer's thriller, “Seven Days in May,” which describes an attempted military takeover of the US government.

Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S.  —  Protein-packed diets add excess nitrogen to the environment through urine, rivaling pollution from agricultural fertilizers  —  In the U.S., people eat more protein than they need to.  And though it might not be bad for human health …