Resignations Roil Twitter as Elon Musk Tries Persuading Some Workers to Stay  —  Mr. Musk, Twitter's new owner, had given employees a Thursday deadline to decide whether to leave or stay “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0.”  —  Hours before a Thursday deadline that Elon Musk …

Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House, says she'll step down as Democratic leader  —  Pelosi, 82, has been the Democratic leader for two decades.  She is expected to remain a member of the House, at least temporarily.  —  WASHINGTON — Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House …

GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump  —  A Republican political strategist was convicted of illegally helping a Russian businessman contribute to Donald Trump's campaign in 2016.  —  Jesse Benton, 44, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 for a different campaign finance crime …

Let crypto burn  —  Just say no to legitimacy-inferring regulation … In the aftermath of the collapse of FTX, authorities should resist the urge to create a parallel legal and regulatory framework for the crypto industry.  It is far better to do nothing, and just let crypto burn.

Jan. 6 committee interviews former Trump Secret Service agent Bobby Engel  —  WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee on Thursday interviewed Bobby Engel, who was the lead Secret Service agent for then-President Donald Trump when the insurrection took place, three sources familiar with the session said.

Trump would act ‘like a little elementary schoolchild,’ former spiritual adviser says  —  IRVING, Tex. — A televangelist who served as a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump says the former president has the tendency to act “like a little elementary schoolchild” and suggests that Trump's focus …

Exclusive: Ex-Russian spy flees to the NATO country that captured him, delivering another embarrassing blow to Moscow  —  TALLINN, Estonia — “The Russians have no idea,” Alexander Toots, the head of Estonian counterintelligence, tells me, laughing.  —  “They have absolutely no idea he is here.

Trumps had role in fraud scheme, Allen Weisselberg testifies at company's trial  —  Former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg testified in court Thursday, describing how Donald Trump and two of his children allegedly participated in a scheme to defraud tax authorities.

‘Momentous:’ US advances largest dam demolition in history  —  U.S. regulators approved a plan Thursday to demolish four dams on a California river and open up hundreds of miles of salmon habitat that would be the largest dam removal and river restoration project in the world when it goes forward.

US moves to shield Saudi crown prince in journalist killing  —  The Biden administration declared Thursday that the high office held by Saudi Arabia's crown prince should shield him from lawsuits for his role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, a turnaround from Joe Biden's passionate …

Rep. Lauren Boebert race too close to call, with margin inside recount threshold  —  With nearly all votes counted, the Republican incumbent led Democrat Adam Frisch by a small margin  —  Rep. Lauren Boebert, a far-right Republican from Colorado, was locked in a race that was too close …

Los Angeles Voters Ousted Their Sheriff—and Then Just Kept Going  —  Alex Villanueva lost re-election, one in a series of victories for local organizers seeking accountability from the sheriff's office and alternatives to policing and punishment.  —  A coalition of LA activists seeking …

Webb telescope spots earliest galaxies yet, and they are cosmic oddballs  —  The two bundles of stars formed shortly after the big bang, offering a long-anticipated window into the origins of the universe  —  From its perch a million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has sighted …

Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts  —  Some workers allegedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes  —  Meta Platforms Inc. META -1.82%decrease; red down pointing triangle has fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year whom …

North Korea test-fires ICBM with range to strike entire US  —  North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. mainland.

GOP plans to punish ‘woke’ Wall Street  —  Wall Street loves Republican tax cuts and deregulation.  It's going to hate the GOP's plans for 2023.  —  Republican lawmakers, who will be in the House majority come January, are pressing party leaders to send a message to big financial firms …

FBI director ‘very concerned’ by reports of secret Chinese police stations in US  —  Christopher Wray says the FBI is investigating the existence of stations in New York, which could violate sovereignty  —  The United States is deeply concerned about the Chinese government setting up unauthorised …

Election Day Problems Inflame Voter Fraud Conspiracies in Houston  —  Republicans have seized on issues that voters encountered at the polls in Texas's largest county last week to push for state intervention and more policing of elections.  —  Election officials in Harris County (Harris County Elections/Facebook)

Bomb threat at Jewish school in Philadelphia forces students to evacuate  —  The Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia said institutions in five different states receive similar threats at the same time  —  The Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia, a Jewish school for 6-12 graders …

Biden will ask Supreme Court to revive student debt relief plan  —  The Biden administration will ask the Supreme Court to revive its student debt relief program as it fights to reverse lower court rulings that have upended its plans to forgive up to $20,000 of debt for tens of millions of Americans.

Starbucks Workers Strike at Dozens of Stores Nationally  —  Workers said they were protesting the company's refusal to bargain in good faith and other anti-union activity.  —  Starbucks employees went on strike on Thursday at dozens of unionized locations nationwide, citing …

Officials: White House told Israel it wasn't behind FBI's Abu Akleh probe decision  —  The White House and the State Department told the Israeli government they were not behind the FBI decision to open an investigation into the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, three Israeli and U.S. officials told me.