Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats  —  Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday.  —  U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump considers allowing federal investigators to search Mar-a-Lago again  —  Donald Trump's legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to return to the former President's Florida residence, and potentially conduct a supervised search, to satisfy the Justice Department's demands …

J.D. Vance wants a border wall battle with Biden  —  MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — J.D. Vance thinks it's time for Republicans to have another fight over a southern border wall, this time with President Joe Biden.  —  If the GOP seizes full control of Congress in the midterms, the Ohio Republican …

Texts from Loeffler's phone shed light on activities ahead of Jan. 6 and 2021 runoff  —  Tricia Raffensperger's text message, six days after the 2020 elections, was as blistering as it was direct.  —  Hours after Kelly Loeffler, then Georgia's junior U.S. senator, called for her husband …

Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you're in  —  For a brief time in 2020, it seemed as though the vote-by-mail movement was having a bipartisan moment.  —  Red and blue states that had offered the option only to a relatively small number of residents …

The Conservative Stalwart Challenging the Far-Right Legal Theory That Could Subvert American Democracy  —  J. Michael Luttig is opposing Republican groups in one of the most momentous cases that the Supreme Court is considering this term.  —  A powerful new litigant has joined …

US busts network providing technology to Russian military  —  The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino  —  The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.  —  Times Square, New York City's famed Crossroads …

State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’  —  State Dept. awards $20,600 grant for cultural center in Ecuador to host ‘12 drag theater performances’

Truss's Government on the Brink as Tories Agitate for Her to Go  —  Liz Truss's premiership looked close to imploding after she fired one minister over a security breach and two others were heard resigning amid the fallout from a chaotic parliamentary vote before agreeing to stay in their posts.

In 2021 Video, Trump Asks, ‘Is This a Good Jewish Character Right Here?’  —  Donald Trump made bigoted remarks about Jews and Persians at an event in 2021, in a new video provided by a British documentary filmmaker.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump inquired whether a documentary filmmaker recording …

De León vows: ‘I will not resign.’ Council president says apology isn't enough  —  Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin De León said Wednesday that he will not resign following leaked audio of an incendiary closed-door conversation that he took part in — a position that drew …

S.F. is spending $1.7 million on one public toilet: ‘What are they making it out of — gold?’  —  San Francisco politicians will gather at the Noe Valley Town Square Wednesday afternoon to congratulate themselves for securing state money for a long-desired toilet in the northeast corner of the charming plaza.

Tryst Is Suddenly D.C.'s Newest Cop Cafe, and Some People Are Pissed  —  Despite internet backlash, the Adams Morgan anchor welcomes community-wide conversation about crime starting this week  —  Washingtonians know Tryst as a longtime hub for the artsy, the under-caffeinated, and the first-date unimaginative.

Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted  —  SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — Skill Wilson had amassed more than three decades of knowledge as a paramedic, first in Memphis and then in Fayette County.  Two places that felt like night and day.

USCP Clear Suspicious Van, Arrest Driver for Bringing Guns to Capitol Grounds  —  This afternoon the United States Capitol Police (USCP) Hazardous Incident Response Division cleared a suspicious vehicle, which was illegally parked on Capitol Grounds.  —  USCP Officers arrested the driver …

Vladimir Putin's Place in the Culture Wars  —  The columnist Christopher Caldwell discusses conservative admiration for the Russian leader, and whether election denialism is just politics.  —  “Not merely is his cultural range perhaps without equal,” the Marxist historian Perry Anderson once wrote …

Ex-UCLA student linked to extremists gets Jan. 6 prison term  —  A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob's attack on the building.

Appeals court finds CFPB funding unconstitutional  —  An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism is unconstitutional, in a victory for lenders that have targeted the agency's structure in a years-long bid to tamp down regulation.

Pence warns of ‘unprincipled populists,’ ‘Putin apologists’  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican Party as he admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine.

They were elected to stop Trump.  Now they're fighting for their lives.  —  As we hurtle into the final stretch of the midterm elections, many of the Democrats who were elected in the exhilarating 2018 wave election are now staring into the abyss of defeat.  And at the core of their plight sits an unnerving paradox.

‘The World According to Fox’: A C.E.O.'s Vision Gets Tested in Court  —  Suzanne Scott remade Fox News Media into a lucrative consumer brand.  But a $1.6 billion defamation suit against the company is testing her strategy and leadership.  —  Before the committee investigating …

The attacks on LGBTQ people — especially trans people — aren't stopping  —  A new anti-LGBTQ bill in Congress, federal court rulings that sidestep the Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock ruling, court fights over anti-transgender state laws, and attacks on private trans individuals.

Sellers of Dr. Oz's new home in Pennsylvania say they ‘insisted on’ adding an unusual wrinkle  —  The GOP Senate nominee has pointed to the property amid criticism of his roots.  —  Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz hosts a safer streets community discussion at Galdos Catering …

Arizona GOP Candidate Arrested For Allegedly Masturbating In Truck Near Preschool  —  Maricopa County officials say it's too late to remove Randy Kaufman from the ballot in the race for a college district board.  —  A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district's governing board …

The intriguing Evan McMullin scenario  —  The business of legislating in the United States has always been messy.  But rarely has it been as messy as it was in 1881.  —  The American people had elected an equal number of Democrats and Republicans to the Senate, along with two independents.