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 …

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 …

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 …

Cortez Masto and Laxalt neck and neck in Nevada Senate race — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Another battleground state, another toss-up contest.  In one of Republicans' best pick-up opportunities, Republican challenger Adam Laxalt and Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto are neck and neck.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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’

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.

Russian jet ‘released missile’ near RAF aircraft during patrol over Black Sea  —  Defence Secretary Ben Wallace describes the incident as a “potentially dangerous engagement” but said it was not deemed a “deliberate escalation”, with Russia saying it was a “technical malfunction”.

U.S. has viewed wreckage of kamikaze drones Russia used in Ukraine  —  Such information could prove crucial in helping the United States and its Ukrainian allies better identify and ultimately defeat the unmanned craft  —  The U.S. government has examined the wreckage of Iranian-made drones shot …

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 …

Sorry, Ron DeSantis, You Are No Donald Trump  —  In the two years since Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, the political-media industrial complex has been busy trying to answer an urgent question: Who is the next Trump?  —  Business has been surprisingly brisk …

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 …

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 …

Vote for Trump in 2024?  Pence says ‘there might be somebody else I prefer.’  —  48th Vice President of the United States  —  American educator and former Second Lady of the United States  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence indicated Wednesday that he might not be inclined to vote …

False claim that CDC would require covid vaccines for kids goes viral  —  ‘This is an all new level of dangerous misinformation,’ says former top health official  —  On Tuesday morning, a Fox News contributor claimed on Twitter that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was set …

Afghan couple accuse US Marine of abducting their baby  —  The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.  —  The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. Special Forces raid …

Welcome to Britaly  —  A country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets  —  In 2012 liz truss and Kwasi Kwarteng, two of the authors of a pamphlet called “Britannia Unchained”, used Italy as a warning.  Bloated public services, low growth, poor productivity …

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.

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 …

Biden world privately thinks McCarthy could fold on Ukraine aid  —  The GOP's internal rift over how long to keep U.S. aid flowing to war-ravaged Ukraine is spilling into public view weeks before a midterm election that could hand the party full control of Congress.

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.

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.

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 …