An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …

Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.  —  I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.

Trump Allies Will Betray Him, Former Lawyer Predicts: ‘So Much Flipping’  —  Former President Donald Trump's allies will eventually turn on him to avoid prison, his former attorney Michael Cohen said on Sunday.  —  Cohen's comment came nearly two weeks after FBI agents executed a search warrant …

‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump  —  In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation …

There's a bipartisan bill to codify Roe — and abortion rights groups can't stand it  —  The Reproductive Freedom for All Act reveals deeper debates about post-Roe America.  —  Amid threats over the last year that the Supreme Court might abolish the right to an abortion …

Hawkish Russian Commentator Is Killed in Car Bombing  —  The daughter of a prominent ultranationalist, herself a hawkish commentator, was killed by a car bomb deep in Russian territory.  —  A brazen car bombing in a Moscow suburb that killed the daughter of a prominent backer …

Eric Adams After Dark: A Private Table and Tarnished Friends  —  New York's mayor vowed to boost nightlife establishments in every corner of the city.  But again and again, he returns to the same spot, run by friends with troubled pasts.  —  Before he took office, Eric Adams vowed to boost …

Kansas recount confirms results in favor of abortion rights  —  A decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in traditionally conservative Kansas was confirmed with a partial hand recount, with fewer than 100 votes changing after the last county reported results Sunday.

Wanted: 7,000 construction workers for Intel chip plants  —  Ohio's largest-ever economic development project comes with a big employment challenge: how to find 7,000 construction workers in an already booming building environment when there's also a national shortage of people working in the trades.

The left's mask slips on brazen Trump bias  —  Sam Harris deserves our gratitude.  With dazzling honesty, the liberal atheist public intellectual from LA has said out loud what we all knew but which his ilk have blurred for the past two years: once you decide Donald Trump is the second coming …

Trump's Senate Candidates Say Better Call Mitch (McConnell)  —  Struggling nominees in swing states turn to the Republican Leader to save their campaigns.  —  WSJ Opinion: The Mar-a-Lago Raid Heads Into Overtime  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.

UK inflation to hit 18.6% next year according to Citi  —  Investment bank raises forecast as wholesale gas prices surge  —  UK inflation is on course to hit 18.6 per cent in January — the highest peak in almost half a century — because of soaring wholesale gas prices …

A Russian soldier's journal: ‘I will not participate in this madness’  —  RIGA, Latvia — Russian paratrooper Pavel Filatyev spent more than a month fighting in Ukraine after his poorly equipped unit was ordered to march from its base in Crimea for what commanders called a routine exercise.

Imran Khan: Pakistan police charge ex-PM under terrorism act  —  Pakistan's police have charged the country's former Prime Minister, Imran Khan, under anti-terror laws.  —  Their investigation comes after he accused the police and judiciary of detaining and torturing a close aide.

Expansion of Clean Energy Loans Is ‘Sleeping Giant’ of Climate Bill  —  The bill President Biden signed into law recently will greatly expand government loans and loan guarantees for clean energy and automotive projects and businesses.  —  Tucked into the Inflation Reduction Act …