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 …

The Senate GOP Got Played  —  Manchin is being Manchin, but Republicans helped him do it.  —  WSJ Opinion: Joe Biden, Milton Friedman and a Lesson in Inflation  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15 … 1x  —  Senate Republicans are furious that Democrats Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced …

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.”

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.

First on CNN: Jared Kushner details West Wing ‘war’ with ‘toxic’ Steve Bannon in new book  —  (CNN)Jared Kushner details his clashes with Steve Bannon in his new book, describing a “toxic” West Wing presence who accused him of “undermining the President's agenda” and threatened to break him “in half” if Kushner turned on him.

McCarthy says he does not recall Jan. 6 Cassidy Hutchinson call on Trump going to Capitol  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said that he did not remember talking to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Jan. 6, 2021, about the prospect of former President Trump …

Justices worry about the future of the Supreme Court — and point fingers as to who's to blame  —  Limping away from one of the most significant terms in decades, justices are sending out flares expressing concern not only for the future of the Supreme Court but the country as a whole …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Wait, is Biden a better president than people thought?  Many progressives have spent the Biden years in a mood of rising despair and even rage about the prospects for achieving the kind of fundamental change they believe the country and world urgently need.  They wish Joe Manchin was a different kind of senator.

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 …

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.

Horrifying footage appears to show Russian captors castrating a Ukrainian prisoner of war  —  A horrific video posted online on Thursday appears to show a Ukrainian prisoner of war being castrated by his Russian captors.  —  While Yahoo News cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video …

U.N. nuclear conference to start Monday as Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya plant in “alarming” state, watchdog says  —  United Nations — On Monday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres …

In Michigan Governor Race, Legal Missteps Hurt GOP Bid to Unseat Gretchen Whitmer  —  Ahead of Aug. 2 primary, establishment Republicans look to boost political newcomer Tudor Dixon as unusual GOP race comes to a close  —  Midterms 2022: Where Republicans and Democrats Stand on the Issues

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 …

Hmmm: Did Macron just get more oil production out of MBS?  —  Joe Biden sent to Saudi Arabia, gave Mohammed bin Salman an enthusiastic fist bump, only to wind up with no new oil production and mutual accusations of lying about their meeting.  MBS traveled to Paris to get a warm handshake …

Biden administration to fill border wall gaps near Yuma, Arizona  —  PHOENIX — The Biden administration on Thursday authorized completion of the Trump-funded U.S.-Mexico border wall in an open area of southern Arizona near Yuma, where four wide gaps make it among the busiest corridors for illegal crossings.

Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism  —  That is why his country is such a threat to Ukraine, the West and his own people  —  What matters most in Moscow these days is what is missing.  Nobody speaks openly of the war in Ukraine.  The word is banned and talk is dangerous.

Improvement or Illusion?  —  Over the last couple of weeks, there's been a shift in opinion among many political professionals about Democrats' chances in the midterm campaign.  They point in particular to improvement for Democrats in the generic ballot poll question (which party …

On Economics And Democracy  —  High unemployment is extremely dangerous.  —  Earlier this week, I spoke at a gathering in Washington organized by Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Adam Jentleson on what they are calling “Inclusive Populism” — an economic agenda that defends the rights of all working people, whatever they may look like.

He Made a Joke About Land Acknowledgements.  Then the Trouble Began.  —  When Professor Stuart Reges exercised his free speech rights, the University of Washington retaliated.  So we're suing the school.  —  Stuart Reges is no stranger to controversy.  In the 1980s, he risked his career …

White House goes on offense to argue that the U.S. is not in a recession  — The White House responded to Thursday's second quarter negative GDP growth with a coordinated message: the U.S. economy is not in a recession.  — On Thursday, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis reported …

A key US inflation gauge reaches 6.8% as prices keep surging  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.8% in June from a year ago, the biggest increase in four decades, and leaving Americans with no relief from surging costs.