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.

Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs  —  The group of congressional leaders charged with reviewing the most sensitive intelligence information has asked the Biden administration for access to the documents seized from former President Donald Trump's private residence in Florida …

Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers  —  Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.

The Jolt: National Republicans bolster Herschel Walker with Senate control on the line  —  Republicans need a net gain of just one Senate seat to take control of the chamber in a political climate that favors the GOP.  So why is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lowering expectations of a flip?

Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism  —  Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican, announced Monday morning that he is changing his party affiliation to Democrat.  —  Priola, considered …

The Trump Mar-a-Lago search was justified  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for August 22  —  Ever since news broke two weeks ago that the FBI had executed a search warrant on former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago, the political world has been aflame with hyperbole, accusations, innuendo, and hysteria.

Ukraine: 9,000 of its troops killed since Russia began war  —  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers since it began nearly six months ago, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.

Trump PAC's $650,000 ‘charitable contribution’ to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump  — Save America, one of Donald Trump's political committees, donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian.  — A Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider that the money will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump.

Attorney general's office to investigate ethics complaint against Gov. Kristi Noem  —  An ethics board investigating a pair of complaints leveled against Gov. Kristi Noem voted to refer one of those complaints to the South Dakota Attorney General's Office for investigation.

YouTube Bans Andrew Tate After Sexist Remarks, But He's Still on Twitch  —  A YouTube channel associated with Andrew Tate, an online influencer and self-described misogynist, was disabled Monday, as Google's video website joins a growing list of social media platforms taking action against the personality in the last week.

Can You Tell Me What Would Happen if the F.B.I. Were Investigating a Democrat?  —  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 …

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 …

David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82  —  He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence  —  David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …

On Car Seats as Contraception  —  Or: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2  —  (Note: This post takes the perspective of strongly preferring higher American fertility to lower American fertility on anything close to current margins.  I endorse this view and consider it very overdetermined …

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Behind the lie of ‘87,000 armed agents’: How an obscure factoid was bent into a popular GOP talking point  —  Amid a spike in threats against federal law enforcement, Republicans place their sights on an old target: the Internal Revenue Service.  —  A strange, false claim is all over conservative cable TV …

In U.S., Poor Life Ratings Reach Record High  — The “suffering” rate has climbed for both Democrats and Republicans  — The percentage of adults classified as “thriving” has dropped again, to 51.2%  — Daily stress and worry remain steady and near pre-pandemic levels

Biden bottoms out, pops back to 47% approval  —  With the help of Democrats bailing out his sinking approval ratings, President Joe Biden has started to recover just in time to begin a national 2022 election trip.  —  Rasmussen Reports, the sole pollster still conducting daily presidential approval ratings …

Oregon's Next Governor Could Be a Machine-Gun Toting Darling of GOP Megadonors  —  She's campaigning as a straight-shooting moderate, but Betsy Johnson despises “wokeness,” blasts Portland as the “City of Roaches,” and plans to keep the state's CEOs on “speed dial”