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 …

‘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 …

Crypto firms Genesis and Gemini charged by SEC with selling unregistered securities  — The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a complaint that crypto firms Gemini and Genesis offered and sold unregistered securities.  — It's the latest in a series of recent enforcement actions initiated …

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.

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.

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 …

‘Rick and Morty’ co-creator Justin Roiland faces felony domestic violence charges  —  Justin Roiland, the star and co-creator of the animated comedy series “Rick and Morty,” has been charged with felony domestic violence in Orange County, California, in connection with a 2020 incident …

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.

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.

How Democrats can flip the script on the GOP's ‘weaponization’ subcommittee  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) won't make the same blunder that Republican leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) made when he pulled all of his party's members off the House Jan. 6 select committee.

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.

Progressives eagerly await their chance to harass McCarthy  —  Kevin McCarthy's concessions to conservatives did more than win him the speaker's gavel — they empowered House progressives to wreak havoc.  And they're eager to mess with him.  —  Republicans' new rules allow just one member …

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 …

Why Japan is the latest ally moving Biden's way  —  When President Joe Biden sits down with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday, it will mark a major tete-a-tete that could have profound implications for U.S. policy toward a critical part of the globe.

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.

'He's a proven loser': Paul Ryan on Trump's future in the Republican Party  —  In an exclusive interview with CNN's Jake Tapper, former House Speaker Paul Ryan discusses the future of former President Trump and the Republican Party.

U.S. Deficit Fell to $1.4 Trillion in 2022  —  The deficit was down from $2.6 trillion a year earlier, as pandemic emergency spending slowed, the economy reopened and tax revenue rose.  The new figures come as spending fights loom in a divided Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — The federal budget deficit fell …

Trump's fake electors sued in Michigan, adding to their legal troubles  —  The Republican electors are accused of using fraudulent documents to try to subvert the outcome of the election … Sixteen Michigan Republicans who posed as presidential electors and falsely declared that Donald Trump won …

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:

Justice Department reveals it has Jan. 6 select committee files that the panel opted not to release to the public.  —  News and analysis from Capitol Hill for when you only have a few minutes, from POLITICO.