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 …

A Defense of G.O.P. Paranoia  —  The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans.  Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police, voices on the right are calling …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden  —  Households have seen a stunning rise in employment and income, even considering inflation.  —  Ronald Reagan closed his presidential debate with Jimmy Carter in October 1980, urging Americans to ask themselves if they were better off than they were four years ago.

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.

GOP lawmaker says Trump may have kept classified documents at Mar-a-Lago to write a memoir  — A GOP congressman called for the release of the FBI affidavit underpinning the Mar-a-Lago raid.  — Rep. Mike Turner told CBS News on Sunday that Trump may have kept classified documents to write a memoir.

POLITICO Playbook: A shifting center of attention reshapes 2022  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE WEEK —Today: U.S. and South Korea begin largest joint military exercises in half a decade (more from Reuters). ...  Tuesday: Statewide primaries in New York and Florida. ...

Kansas recount confirms landslide win for abortion rights, but highlights risk to democracy  —  Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier …

Polls reveal Trump's FBI search bump … Several polls show him rising against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been surging in key states. … - A source close to Trump says the fundraising effect has been “yuge,” reengaging donors in the biggest way since he left office.

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 …

CIA unable to corroborate Israel's ‘terror’ label for Palestinian rights groups  —  Exclusive: sources say report shows CIA unable to find evidence to support Israeli claim, but finding does not prompt US rebuttal  —  A classified CIA report shows the agency was unable to find any evidence …

Is a Fetus a Person?  An Anti-Abortion Strategy Says Yes.  —  Fetal personhood, which confers legal rights from conception, is an effort to push beyond abortion bans and classify the procedure as murder.  In Georgia, it also means a $3,000 tax credit.  —  Even as roughly half the states …

Senate prepares to pick up the judicial-pick pace as November looms  —  With most of their biggest legislative priorities accomplished and control of the Senate a toss-up, Democrats are about to dig into territory more closely associated with the GOP: ramping up judicial confirmations.

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 …