In Congress, Republicans confront divisions posing long-term threats  —  Clashes over government spending and party leadership underscored looming challenges in the GOP as it prepares to take control of the House in January  —  Congressional Republicans confronted sharp internal divisions Wednesday …

Trump Hoarded Most Of The $147 Million In Small-Donor Money He Raised For Himself  —  The much-touted super PAC he created spent only $15 million on GOP candidates in key Senate races, and nothing at all on Herschel Walker's runoff.  —  WASHINGTON ― Just weeks after touting a new super PAC …

An Alternate Reality: How Russia's State TV Spins the Ukraine War  —  Leaked emails detail how Russia's biggest state broadcaster, working with the nation's security services, mined right-wing American news and Chinese media to craft a narrative that Moscow was winning.

DeSantis Sucks Up to the Anti-Vax Crowd  —  Another stunt aimed at the fringe base.  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's record handling the COVID-19 pandemic is nuanced.  After initially locking down the state's businesses and schools and installing highway checkpoints to monitor travel …

Xi Jinping Doubles Down on His Putin Bet.  ‘I Have a Similar Personality to Yours.’  —  The Chinese leader has long admired Vladimir Putin.  Now, he is strengthening ties between the two nations with increased trade and energy partnerships.  —  China's leader Xi Jinping has in recent months tried …

I Think I Found Kyrsten Sinema's Side Hustle  —  Last week, she ditched the Democrats.  Perhaps this is her real passion?  —  It is 11 a.m. on a Tuesday, and I am exchanging Facebook messages with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema about a lightly used pair of Badgley Mischka heels.

Video Footage of Attack on Paul Pelosi Shown at San Francisco Hearing  —  David DePape, the man accused of bludgeoning the husband of Nancy Pelosi, told the police that he also had Gavin Newsom and Tom Hanks on his target list.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — It was as quick as it was brutal …

Five down in Apt. 307: Mass fentanyl deaths test a Colorado prosecutor  —  COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — From the doorway of Apt. 307, District Attorney Brian Mason could see the five bodies inside.  They lay awkwardly on the floor and couch, their arms and legs contorted — a sign of sudden collapse.

Jill Biden makes a tidal shift from her thoughts on another run at the White House  —  First lady Jill Biden, despite being so worn out from a recent circuit of White House events that she lost her voice, is now seriously looking ahead to her husband running for reelection in 2024.

U.S. widens ban on military and surveillance tech sales to China  —  The Commerce Department added 36 entities to a U.S. export blacklist, including one of China's largest chipmakers  —  The Biden administration doubled down Thursday on its high-tech containment of China …

Newly Revealed Texts Show Mark Meadows Is a Liar  —  Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.  —  Mark Meadows is a liar—at least by omission.  And newly revealed text messages prove it.  —  In 2021, the former White House chief …

The Electoral College in the 21st Century  —  Dear Readers: Join the Crystal Ball's Kyle Kondik, J. Miles Coleman, and Carah Ong Whaley for a Twitter Spaces at 2 p.m. eastern today.  They will be wrapping up the best and worst moments from politics in 2022, and listeners will also get the chance …

Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting  —  The Center For Disease Control (CDC) deleted a reference to a study it commissioned after a group of gun-control advocates complained it made passing new restrictions more difficult.

What's Wrong at the Times  —  Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union's wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.  —  New York Times employees and journalists participate in a 24-hour contract walkout …

NCAA taps Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as next president, succeeding Mark Emmert  —  The NCAA has chosen Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker as its next president, succeeding Mark Emmert.  Here's what you need to know:  — Baker, 66, will assume the role on March 1, 2023.

Kanye West's Love of Hitler Allegedly Goes Back 20 Years  —  The rapper spoke of his admiration for Hitler during the making of ‘The College Dropout,’ and even tried to use propaganda strategies inspired by the Nazis to boost his own fame, sources tell Rolling Stone

Musk bans Twitter account tracking his jet, threatens to sue creator  —  Twitter suspended, restored and then suspended again the 20-year-old college student's account that for years had shared publicly available data on Musk's private flights  —  Jack Sweeney, a sophomore at the University …

‘Nightmare’ Warehouse Fire Erases Evidence in Many Unsolved Cases  —  Lawyers say evidence in cold cases and bids for exoneration disappeared or was ruined when a Police Department storage facility in Brooklyn went up in flames.  —  When a massive Police Department warehouse burned Tuesday …

Washington state man indicted over threatening calls to members of Congress  —  Prosecutors have indicted a Washington man after he allegedly left a series of antisemitic, threatening voicemails for multiple members of Congress.  —  A newly unsealed indictment indicates prosecutors charged Mark Leonetti …

People's Republic of China Citizen Arrested for Stalking  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts  —  Defendant allegedly stalked an individual promoting democracy in China  —  BOSTON - A Berklee College of Music student, who is citizen …

Sam Bankman-Fried's Harsh Bahamas Jail Could Shift His Stance on Extradition  —  The grim conditions FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is encountering in the Bahamas prison where he's currently being held could change his attitude on extradition to face fraud charges in the US.

White House to restart free Covid home test program  —  The Biden administration plans to reopen a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service to mail free at-home Covid-19 tests to households that request them, four people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.

Tillis Amnesty Deal Is Dead  —  After outcry from conservatives and Republican lawmakers who weren't willing to betray the GOP's commitment to the rule of law, legal immigration, and border security, an attempt to grant mass amnesty to DACA beneficiaries is, according to reporting on Wednesday night, dead.

The L.A. journalist making Americans smarter about politics  —  The man who is perhaps the sharpest observer of America's political divides lives not in Washington but Los Angeles.  He has never interviewed Donald Trump.  His recent book was not a tell-all about the Trump or Biden White Houses …

A New York Gala Draws Incoming G.O.P. Lawmakers, and Extremists  —  Organizations that track extremism have expressed concern about some of the attendees at a New York Young Republican Club event in Manhattan on Saturday.  —  Three incoming House freshmen who flipped Democratic seats …