U.S. Senate Ratifies Adding Finland and Sweden to NATO  —  Resolution passed 95-1 as senators emphasize the expansion's importance to American security worldwide  —  Watch: Senate Votes to Add Finland and Sweden to NATO … The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly ratified the addition of Finland …

‘Your Bedroom Is on the Ballot’: How Democrats See Abortion Politics After Kansas  —  A decisive vote to defend abortion rights in deeply conservative Kansas reverberated across the midterm campaign landscape on Wednesday, galvanizing Democrats and underscoring for Republicans the risks …

Republican ‘doomsday ticket’ ready for November  —  LURCHING RIGHT — Even before Donald Trump, Arizona Republicans had a soft spot for hard-liners.  Think Evan Mecham and Joe Arpaio, or the party's pre-Trump censuring of the late Sen. John McCain.  —  But what may soon be different …

Exclusive: Jan. 6 Committee Prepares to Subpoena Alex Jones' Texts, Emails  —  The committee would like to know more about any contacts with Donald Trump's team regarding the Jan. 6 Capitol attack  —  The January 6th House committee is preparing to request the trove of Alex Jones's text messages …

Sinema inquires about Democrats' proposed tax hike on companies as lobbying intensifies for her vote  —  (CNN)Republican senators and the business community are mounting a full-court press on Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to sink — or substantially change — the Democrats' economic package …

South Korea's president skips Nancy Pelosi meeting due to staycation  —  SEOUL — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met leaders of Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan in her closely-watched tour this week — but not the South Korean president.  The official reason: He was on a staycation.

Trump Lawyer Proposed Challenging Georgia Senate Elections in Search of Fraud  —  On the day of President Biden's inauguration, John Eastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in Georgia — and asked for help being paid the $270,000 he billed the Trump campaign.

Homeland Security watchdog previously accused of misleading investigators, report says  —  The Homeland Security watchdog now under scrutiny for his handling of deleted Secret Service text messages from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack previously was accused of misleading Justice Department investigators and running …

Trump's pandora's box  —  A growing number of Republican candidates this cycle are refusing to concede elections they indisputably lost, promoting conspiracy theories about the results and engaging in local battles over certification.  —  Why it matters: The undercurrent of election denialism pervading …

US says Russia aims to fabricate evidence in prison deaths  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials believe Russia is working to fabricate evidence concerning last week's deadly strike on prison housing prisoners of war in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine.

‘Never seen it this bad’: America faces catastrophic teacher shortage  —  Rural school districts in Texas are switching to four-day weeks this fall due to lack of staff.  Florida is asking veterans with no teaching background to enter classrooms.  Arizona is allowing college students to step in and instruct children.

Reuters US Journalists Plan to Strike For First Time In Decades  —  Thomson Reuters Corp. journalists in the US are preparing to launch a daylong strike Thursday, the first walkout in decades among the media company's long-unionized staff.  —  Employees plan to start a 24-hour strike at 6 …

Trump faces uphill fight on executive privilege in DOJ probe  —  Donald Trump's camp has yet to say whether he'll try to use executive privilege to disrupt the Justice Department's grand jury investigation into attempts to overturn the 2020 election.  But if he does, it could be a very short fight.

‘Social contagion’ isn't causing more youths to be transgender, study finds  —  “Social contagion” is not driving an increasing number of adolescents to come out as transgender, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics.  —  The study also found that the proportion …

The GOP is sick.  It didn't start with Trump — and won't end with him.  —  It began where it ended, on the West Front of the United States Capitol.  —  On Jan. 6, 2021, an armed mob invited and incited by President Donald Trump smashed barriers, overpowered police and stormed the Capitol.

Justice Department sues former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for emails from his private account  —  The Justice Department sued former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Wednesday, seeking to force Navarro to turn over emails from a private account that he used while working at the Trump White House.

After a deadly 2009 attack, the CIA's hunt for Zawahiri became personal  —  Years before the CIA strike that ended his life, Zawahiri played a key part in the deaths of American operatives  —  It was one of the darkest days in CIA history: Seven operatives killed after being lured by a rogue informant into a deadly trap.

Dems Want Billions More for ‘Green Energy’  —  Doubling down on their failures.  —  Bruce Thornton is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.  —  Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, who courageously slammed the brakes on the Dems' drunken-sailor Build Back Better tax-and-spend spree, seems to have lost his nerve.

HBO Max Quietly Removed Six Warner Bros. Streaming-Exclusive Movies … Warner Bros. Discovery has been quietly culling content from HBO Max — including several Warner Bros. movies that were exclusively streaming on the service — in what appears to be an effort to cut costs.

Fearing looters, Kentucky flood victims refuse to leave wrecked homes  —  “A lot of people are going primitive,” a survivor said.  “They're just sitting on their porch, hoping somebody's coming to save them.”  —  KNOTT COUNTY, Ky. — First came the floods, then came the vultures.