Disabled Veteran: George Santos Took $3K From Dying Dog's GoFundMe  —  QUEENS, NY — In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of Route 9 in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved service dog Sapphire.  A veteran's charity gave the pit mix to Osthoff …

Justice Department Considered but Rejected Role in Biden Documents Search  —  Officials opted for hands-off approach to leave special counsel's probe uncompromised  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department considered having FBI agents monitor a search by President Biden's lawyers …

Matt Schlapp Is Accused in Lawsuit of Groping Aide to Herschel Walker's Campaign  —  The aide, who was working for Herschel Walker's campaign for Senate in Georgia, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed anonymously.  A lawyer for Mr. Schlapp denied the accusations.

Top Michigan Republicans move to draft DeSantis for 2024  —  A group of prominent Michigan Republicans are encouraging Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to jump into the 2024 presidential race — a significant and thinly veiled shot at the only announced Republican candidate: former President Donald Trump.

Pentagon Sends U.S. Arms Stored in Israel to Ukraine  —  Israeli officials had initially expressed concerns that the move could damage its relations with Russia.  —  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is tapping into a vast but little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel …

Extremely Hardcore  —  Twitter's staff spent years trying to protect the social media site against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use the reach of its platform for their own ends, and then one made himself the CEO. … In April 2022, Elon Musk acquired a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter …

Maine Gov. Janet Mills wants to expand access to abortion in the state  —  ME legislative leaders want to allow abortion after 24 weeks with a doctor's approval  —  Fox News Flash top headlines for January 17  —  Maine Gov. Janet Mills and legislative leaders want to expand access to abortion …

TAPES: We Investigated a Suburban LGBTQ Pedophile Ring.  Here's What We Found.  —  This is Part 1 of a four-part investigative series. … A months-long Townhall investigation reveals disturbing new details about the affluent LGBTQ-activist couple accused of sodomizing their young adopted sons …

Donald Trump prepares for his return to Facebook and Twitter  —  Mounting a comeback for the White House, Donald Trump is looking to regain control over his powerful social media accounts.  —  With access to his Twitter account back, Trump's campaign is formally petitioning Facebook's parent company …

USCP Threat Assessment Cases for 2022  —  Last year the number of threat investigations by the United States Capitol Police (USCP) decreased, but the caseload remains historically high.  —  In 2022, the USCP Threat Assessment Section (TAS) investigated a total of 7,501 cases.

Ukrainian interior minister, top officials killed in helicopter crash  —  KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky and other top ministry officials were killed Wednesday morning when their government helicopter crashed near a kindergarten just outside Kyiv, in what appeared to be an accident.

Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies  —  A 2016 video that Tesla (TSLA.O) used to promote its self-driving technology was staged to show capabilities like stopping at a red light and accelerating at a green light that the system did not have, according to testimony by a senior engineer.

Why does anyone want to re-elect the RNC chair?  We asked.  —  The Republican National Committee will elect its chair in 10 days, after a contentious campaign between three-term incumbent Ronna McDaniel and California RNC member Harmeet Dhillon, with MyPillow founder Mike Lindell shooting from the sidelines.

FTX Executives Expressed Concern Over Use of Customer Funds, Documents Show  —  Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX's top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November.  —  A few weeks before FTX collapsed …

Semafor Davos Daily: Davos, Man  —  Welcome to Day 3 of Davos 2023, where temperatures remain below freezing and the agenda is a little slow.  At least there's free “Emirati hot chocolate” available in sidewalk stalls.  —  It's midweek, which is right about when the “Davos consensus” …

They Fell Behind on Their Property Taxes.  So the Government Sold Their Homes—and Kept the Profits.  —  Geraldine Tyler is a 94-year-old woman spending the twilight of her life in retirement, as 94-year-olds typically do.  But there isn't much that's typical about it.

Polar bear kills woman, boy in remote Alaska village  —  A polar bear has attacked and killed two people in a remote village in western Alaska, according to state troopers.  Alaska State Troopers said they received the report of the attack at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wales, on the western tip of the Seward Peninsula, KTUU reported.

Election-fraud conspiracies behind plot to shoot at New Mexico Democrats' homes, police say  —  Solomon Peña, a defeated candidate for the state legislature, paid people to fire on the houses of four Democratic office-holders, authorities say  —  The arrest of a defeated candidate …