Exclusive: US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden's private office, source tells CNN  —  Among the classified documents from Joe Biden's time as vice president discovered in a private office last fall are US intelligence memos and briefing materials …

Crime Concerns Drove Asian Americans Away From New York Democrats  —  Worries about public safety, especially attacks against Asian Americans, caused some in the once-reliably Democratic bloc to vote Republican last year.  —  Asian Americans have typically formed a crucial and reliable voting bloc …

Divided House Approves G.O.P. Inquiry Into ‘Weaponization’ of Government  —  Republicans pushed through a measure to create a powerful new committee to scrutinize what they have charged is an effort by the government to target and silence conservatives.  —  WASHINGTON — A divided House voted …

Twitter bans account for D.C. area bus system without explanation  —  The social media app suspended the @metrobusinfo account on Tuesday and gave Metro transit officials no explanation why.  —  Twitter suspended the account Tuesday that the D.C.-area's largest transit system uses …

Exclusive: Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF's Bay Bridge Hours After Elon Musk Announces “Self-Driving” Feature … Highway surveillance footage from Thanksgiving Day shows a Tesla Model S vehicle changing lanes and then abruptly braking in the far-left lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, resulting in an eight-vehicle crash.

Trump's Longtime Finance Chief Sentenced to 5 Months in Jail  —  Allen H. Weisselberg served the family company for decades but agreed to testify about its tax fraud in exchange for a lighter punishment.  —  Allen H. Weisselberg, once one of Donald J. Trump's most loyal lieutenants …

House Republicans in the dark on McCarthy's shadow document  —  A private document that only some House Republicans have seen and others refuse to talk about could play an outsized role in the governance of the chamber over the next two years. … - Those members have threatened …

Rep. Katie Porter announces bid for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat  —  Rep. Katie Porter, a Democratic star known for her incisive questioning of corporate leaders and use of a whiteboard to distill complex concepts in congressional hearings, announced Tuesday that she is running for the U.S. Senate.

Internet Troll ‘Baked Alaska’ Sentenced To 60 Days In Prison For Jan. 6 Role  —  Far-right livestreamer Anthime Gionet pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge.  —  WASHINGTON — Anthime Joseph Gionet, better known as the far-right internet troll “Baked Alaska,” was sentenced Tuesday …

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Trump's tax returns show he was a bigger risk than we realized  —  ‘That was a surprise’ What we learned from Trump's revealed tax returns  —  Last month the House Ways and Means Committee published six years of former President Trump's tax returns — documents that should have been released years earlier …

Southern states rebel against RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel  —  A growing Sunbelt uprising among GOP activists at the state and local level has emerged as a threat — or at least a noisy nuisance — to Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel's bid for another term.

Gaetz introduces amendment to bring C-SPAN cameras back to House floor  —  Gaetz says pool view of Congress is 'antiquated, ‘boomer-fied’  —  The House is in a stronger position after these concessions: Rep. Matt Gaetz  —  EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing an amendment …

How Ron DeSantis Stole Christmas  —  An ominous Daily Beast headline from this morning reads: “They Were Loving College.  Then Ron DeSantis Got Involved.”  Here are the opening two paragraphs: … Dun dun dun dunnnnnnn.  —  The rest of the story, unfortunately, is far less exciting …

How a speaker of the House can be ousted with a ‘motion to vacate’  —  WASHINGTON — In his bid to become speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy agreed to a number of concessions to secure the support of Republicans who originally opposed him.  One was a rule change to allow just a single member to try to force him from office.

U.S., Japan set to announce shake-up of Marine Corps units to deter China  —  In a deepening of the two countries' strategic alliance, a Marine regiment on Okinawa will be able to fire missiles at Chinese ships in the event of a Taiwan conflict  —  Japan, already Washington's most important ally …

Bolsonaro eyes early return to Brazil as US stay irks Biden  —  The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as U.S. lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following his supporters' brazen attack on Brazil's capital over the weekend.

Lynnette Hardaway, of pro-Trump social media duo Diamond and Silk, dies at 51  —  Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway, an African American commentator who drew a right-wing fan base for her piercing and unflinching embrace of President Donald Trump as part of the sister-act social media duo Diamond and Silk, has died.

Curious about George: House Republicans debate Santos' fate  —  House Republicans know George Santos is a problem.  They're just not sure what to do about him yet.  —  The New York Republican landed on the Hill for his first term last week with a reputation marred by multiple public falsehoods …

Death Toll in Peru Rises to 47 Amid Extraordinary Violence  —  “What happened yesterday was really a massacre,” said one human rights activist.  —  LIMA, Peru — A young medical student in his work uniform, desperate, his family said, to help injured protesters.

The Normalization of Marjorie Taylor Greene  —  Once considered a blight on the Republican party, she is now one of its prominent leaders.  —  During one of Kevin McCarthy's gauntlet of punishing votes, it was striking to see with whom he passed the time.  There she was, dressed …

Blake Hounshell, ‘On Politics’ Editor at The Times, Dies at 44  —  He was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before overseeing The Times's popular political newsletter.  —  Blake Hounshell, an influential political journalist who was managing editor …

Ground-up decision: How Bills, Bengals led the way after Damar Hamlin collapsed  —  An hour after Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field and about 35 minutes after he was rushed to a Cincinnati hospital, a small knot of people gathered amid a chaotic scene outside the locker rooms beneath Paycor Stadium.

Trump's Tax Returns Expose Sweetheart Loans For Ivanka And Her Brothers  —  The real-estate billionaire used loans with rock-bottom interest rates to shift some of his fortune to his kids—and he may have employed savvy tax techniques to ensure it all happened legally.

Satellite images show crowds at China's crematoriums as covid surges  —  An overwhelmed funeral home in Chengdu, China, stopped offering memorial services, budgeting just two minutes for each family to say goodbye to loved ones before cremation.  A funeral parlor on the outskirts of Beijing quickly cleared space for a new parking lot.