Why The White House isn't stressed about Elon Musk's Twitter  —  Joe Biden's White House is less concerned about Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter than many Democrats, officials said in recent interviews.  —  That's because Biden's team believes Twitter is largely valuable for just two things:

Fusion energy breakthrough by US scientists boosts clean power hopes  —  Net energy gain indicates technology could provide an abundant zero-carbon alternative to fossil fuels  —  US government scientists have made a breakthrough in the pursuit of limitless, zero-carbon power by achieving …

Elon Musk Gets Viciously Booed by Stadium Crowd at Dave Chappelle Show  —  “You shut the fuck up,” Chappelle said as the crowd booed the billionaire.  —  Alerts  —  Elon Musk, the billionaire who wants nothing more in life than to be adored by legions of fans, was loudly booed by a crowd …

Special Counsel Smith speeds ahead on criminal probes surrounding Trump  —  Newly-appointed special counsel Jack Smith is moving fast on a pair of criminal probes around Donald Trump that in recent months have focused on the former president's state of mind after the 2020 election …

How Kari Lake's campaign to be the Trump of 2022 unraveled  —  Interviews, internal documents and audio show how the former TV news anchor squandered a chance to become Arizona's governor — a defeat that carries warnings for the GOP in 2024  —  PHOENIX — After Kari Lake rode former president …

Iran execution: Man publicly hanged from crane amid protests  —  Iran executed a second prisoner on Monday convicted over crimes committed during the nationwide protests challenging the country's theocracy, publicly hanging him from a construction crane as a gruesome warning to others.

Young voters' enthusiasm for Democrats waned during midterms  —  Young voters who have been critical to Democratic successes in recent elections showed signs in November's midterms that their enthusiasm may be waning, a potential warning sign for a party that will need their strong backing heading into the 2024 presidential race.

White House: Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest Jan. 6 comments a “slap in the face” to law enforcement, victims' families  —  Washington — The White House is reacting sharply to comments made over the weekend by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and how the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021 …

How a Trump-allied group fighting ‘anti-white bigotry’ beats Biden in court  —  America First Legal was founded last year by Stephen Miller, the architect of Trump's immigrant family separation policy  —  The deal in early 2021 was hailed by advocates for Black farmers as the most significant piece …

Red-Pilled Elon Musk Still Loves the Chinese Communist Party … A decade ago, Elon Musk was an object of contempt for conservatives.  Tesla was “a prodigious harvester of government favors and handouts,” complained Phil Kerpen of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

Sam Bankman-Fried to testify before Congress remotely: ‘Quite overbooked’  —  Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday he will testify remotely rather than in person before Congress because he's “quite overbooked” and has security concerns about “paparazzi” if he were to travel to Washington, DC.

Biden faces growing pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange  —  Biden faces a renewed push, domestically and internationally, to drop charges against Assange, who is languishing in a UK jail  —  The Biden administration has been saying all the right things lately about respecting …

Live news: Putin cancels annual press conference as unease grows over Ukraine war  —  Today's top headlines:  —  Global debt burden drops as inflation surges  —  Global debt as a share of output fell by the most in at least 70 years last year, as economies rebounded from their sudden slowdown …

Trump who?  GOP senators rave over a potential Tim Scott presidential run.  —  Joni Ernst is “very excited” about a potential Tim Scott presidential run.  John Cornyn would “advise him to go for it.”  And John Barrasso said it “doesn't get any better than Tim Scott.”

Cause of death: Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America  —  During the past seven years, as soaring quantities of fentanyl flooded into the United States, strategic blunders and cascading mistakes by successive U.S. administrations allowed the most lethal drug crisis in American history …

Inside the secret $32M effort to stop ‘Stop the Steal’  —  A pair of progressive organizations operating in complete secrecy spearheaded a $32 million campaign during the midterms to push back against former President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” movement.

Supreme Court takes up another clash over Biden's student debt relief plan  —  The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a second legal clash over President Biden's ambitious student debt relief plan that is currently blocked by lower courts.  —  The two cases involve an effort …

Christopher Nolan: “Oppenheimer is one of the most challenging projects I've ever taken on in terms of scale”  —  By Matt Maytum Contributions from Jack Shepherd published  —  Exclusive: Christopher Nolan tells Total Film about recreating the first-ever nuclear weapon detonation without the use of computer graphics

Styles's 93 Most Stylish ‘People’ of 2022  —  Or is it Styles-ish?  Either way, when anthropologists look back on this year, they'll be glad to have this list.  —  By The Styles Desk  —  High and low.  Fun and serious.  Curious and open-minded.  Reveling in characters.  Appreciating the material world.

Pete Buttigieg often flies on taxpayer-funded private jets, flight data show  —  Biden Cabinet member has taken at least 18 flights on taxpayer-funded private jets, despite calls to curb carbon emissions  —  Pete Buttigieg: We will be proud when America ‘leads the way’ into EV future

Why Some Hasidic Children Can't Leave Failing Schools  —  Parents who try to withdraw their children from yeshivas over a lack of secular education often cannot do so, hampered by social pressure and a rabbinical court system.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times …

The Autocrat in Your iPhone … In the summer of 2020, a Rwandan plot to capture exiled opposition leader Paul Rusesabagina drew international headlines.  Rusesabagina is best known as the human rights defender and U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient who sheltered more than 1,200 Hutus …

How to ban 3600 books from school libraries  —  This year, at least 102 books have been removed from the shelves of school libraries in Clay County, Florida.  Many of these books were pulled at the request of one man: Bruce Friedman.  A conservative activist and longtime resident of New York, Friedman moved to Clay County this May.