Second Set of Classified Documents Were Found at Biden's Wilmington Home, White House Says  —  A statement by the president's special counsel confirmed reports that more documents had been uncovered after a previous batch was found at a think tank.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House …

The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos  —  A review of records and newly uncovered documents reveals that efforts to elect George Santos may have run afoul of campaign finance rules.  —  A month before George Santos was elected to Congress, one of his large donors received …

Gas Stoves Should Be a Matter of Individual Choice  —  Appliances are important, and politicians and the public need to be brought in on sweeping regulation.  —  Dear readers,  —  Douglas has written in with a timely question: … “There is this misconception that if you want to do fine-dining kind …

Exclusive: Alex Jones Phone Dump Reveals Text Convos With Tucker Carlson  —  “Everyone who thought it was fine that they deplatformed Alex Jones will look like a f**king moron,” Tucker Carlson told the Infowars boss in a text.  —  In early March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began …

SEC charges Gemini and Genesis with unregistered securities offering  — The SEC charged both Gemini and Genesis with unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors, some of who were in the U.S.  — This comes amidst a public fight between the leadership of the two companies …

Survey finds ‘classical fascist’ antisemitic views widespread in U.S.  —  At points in the past half-century, many U.S. antisemitism experts thought this country could be aging out of it, that hostility and prejudice against Jews were fading in part because younger Americans held more accepting views than did older ones.

‘Lost their minds’: Missouri Dems cry foul over GOP-proposed dress code for female state lawmakers  —  The Missouri House of Representatives has started off 2023 receiving scrutiny nationwide as they have debated the proper attire that women legislators should wear when they are on the floor …

Rep. George Santos says he'll resign if ‘142 people’ ask him to  —  Rep. George Santos, the newly sworn-in New York Republican under fire for fabricating large parts of his résumé, told NBC News on Thursday that “if 142 people ask for me to resign, I will resign.”

First on CNN: US Navy veteran released from Russian custody  —  An American Navy veteran who has been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released from Russian custody on Thursday, his family's spokesperson told CNN, after months of negotiations spearheaded by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Steve Bannon has ghosted his ‘We Build The Wall’ defense lawyers for months in what prosecutors call a delay tactic  — Steve Bannon was in Manhattan court Thursday for a hearing in his border wall charity scam case.  — His lawyers told the judge that Bannon has refused to talk to them for months.

Historic transportation crises haunt Buttigieg  —  A historic string of air, rail and supply-chain meltdowns has plagued Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's first two years in office, placing him — for better or worse — at the center of crises affecting millions of people.

Sweden discovers biggest rare earths deposit in EU  —  Lapland mine could help reduce Europe's dependence on China imports  —  Sweden's state-owned mining company LKAB has said it has discovered Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals.  The discovery bolsters the continent's ambition …

Exxon Scientists Predicted Global Warming, Even as Company Cast Doubts, Study Finds  —  Starting in the 1970s, scientists working for the oil giant made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet.  —  In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted …

FTX Pre-Mortem Overview  —  Summary  —  In mid November, FTX International became effectively insolvent.  The FTX saga, at the end of the day, is somewhere between that of Voyager and Celsius.  —  Three things combined together to cause the implosion:

U.S. Party Preferences Evenly Split in 2022 After Shift to GOP  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' party preferences were evenly divided in 2022, with 45% of U.S. adults identifying as Republican or saying they were Republican-leaning independents, and 44% identifying as Democrats or saying they were Democratic-leaning independents.

The wife of a jailed Russian opposition leader urges he be given medical treatment.  —  Yulia Navalny said that her ailing husband, Aleksei Navalny, was being held in a small cell with a sicker person to infect him, and was not allowed to lie down throughout the day despite having a fever.

The seismic shift that has brands like Sony and Sennheiser disrupting the hearing aids market  —  Once the Food and Drug Administration announced last August that it would let some hearing aids be sold over the counter for the first time, it seemed clear that the technology would be all over the Consumer Electronics Show this year.

What to do about Sotomayor  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Back in 2013, then President BARACK OBAMA quietly met with Supreme Court Justice RUTH BADER GINSBURG to subtly encourage …

Trump discussed using a nuclear weapon on North Korea in 2017 and blaming it on someone else, book says  —  WASHINGTON — Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike …

Woman Arrested for Voter Fraud Scheme  —  An Iowa woman was arrested today in Sioux City for her role in an alleged voter fraud scheme during the Iowa 2020 primary and general elections.  —  Kim Phuong Taylor, 49, of Sioux City, made her initial court appearance today.

Minnesota Poised To Ban Christians, Muslims, And Jews From Teaching In Public Schools  —  New licensing rules in Minnesota that require teachers to ‘affirm’ students' transgender identities will meet immediate court challenges from civil liberties advocates.

Climate Startup Removes Carbon From Open Air in Industry First  —  Climeworks cashes in on new technology by selling carbon credits to Microsoft and others  —  One of the most important technologies to address climate change got a boost Thursday when a startup said it pulled carbon dioxide from the open air and stored it underground.

McCarthy says he's willing to look at expunging a Trump impeachment  —  House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he's willing to take a look at expunging an impeachment of former president Donald Trump by the Democratic-led House.  —  Trump — now a 2024 candidate …