Alec Baldwin Expected to Be Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Rust’ Shooting  —  Film's armorer also expected to be charged while assistant director has agreed to plead guilty to negligent use of deadly weapon  —  Watch: Alec Baldwin Rehearses With Gun Before Fatal ‘Rust’ Shooting

Supreme Court Says It Hasn't Identified Person Who Leaked Draft Opinion  —  The leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, published by Politico in May, was an extraordinary breach of the court's usual secrecy.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced on Thursday …

In new memoir, Mike Pompeo says Trump told him to ‘shut the hell up’ about China  —  Donald Trump told former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “shut the hell up for a while” about China at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in order to avoid angering the country's leader, according to a memoir that Pompeo will publish next week.

Matt Yglesias and the secret of blogging  —  How to be a successful content entrepreneur  —  What is the secret to a successful career as a blogger/newsletter author/content creator?  No one ever asks me this, because my career is not successful, but if they did I would tell them to read …

U.S. begins ‘extraordinary’ steps to avoid debt ceiling  —  The Treasury Department says it is taking action to prevent a default that could do “irreparable harm” to the economy  —  The Biden administration began “extraordinary measures” Thursday to prevent the federal government from breaching …

Embattled U.S. Rep. Santos was drag queen in Brazil pageants, say associates  —  U.S. Representative George Santos competed as a drag queen in Brazilian beauty pageants 15 years ago, two acquaintances told Reuters on Wednesday, adding to contrasts that have drawn criticism …

California is in decline.  And it's likely to get even worse.  —  California's status as the most important state in the nation will remain secure for quite some time.  But its falling population coupled with its $22.5 billion budget deficit suggest it could experience a swift and wrenching decline.

John Eastman Is Unbowed as Investigations Proliferate  —  A legal reckoning awaits a chief architect of Donald Trump's effort to reverse his election loss.  But in Mr. Eastman's telling, he was far from a criminal.  —  WASHINGTON — John C. Eastman, a legal architect of Donald J. Trump's efforts …

The Pressed Secretary  —  Frustration among White House reporters with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is reaching a boiling point.  —  That is according to conversations I had on Wednesday with more than a half-dozen White House reporters who painted a picture of a White House press corps …

Biden classified document investigation: Secret Service ready to provide Delaware visitors, source says  —  Secret Service prepared to turn over documentation of visitors to Biden's Delaware home if requested by Congress, source familiar with situation tells Fox News

Emmy-winning journalist Cecilia Vega joins 60 Minutes  —  Emmy Award-winning journalist Cecilia Vega is joining CBS News as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, executive producer Bill Owens announced today.  Vega will begin reporting for the broadcast in the spring and will be based in Washington, D.C.

Trump Is Plotting How to Kick DeSantis ‘In the Nuts.’ Here's His Playbook, So Far  —  Team Trump is preparing to paint the Florida governor as an establishment hawk who'll put Social Security on the chopping block  —  FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and his allies have already started charting …

Trump sold his DC hotel.  GOP spending disappeared. … In June the Waldorf Astoria opened for business in downtown D.C.'s Old Post Office Building, replacing the Trump International Hotel, which for five years served as an assembly point for Republican officials, lobbyists and anyone who wanted to buy Donald Trump's attention.

3 Active-Duty Marines Charged in Jan. 6 Capitol Riot  —  STILL GOING  —  Three active-duty Marines have been hit with federal misdemeanor charges for their alleged roles in the Capitol siege by a mob of Trump supporters.  After one of them posted photographs from Jan. 6 to his Instagram page …

Harvard Reverses Course on Human Rights Advocate Who Criticized Israel  —  News that the university had blocked a fellowship for the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor influence.  —  The Harvard Kennedy School reversed course on Thursday …

'You're hurting my country': Manchin faces Europe's wrath  —  DAVOS, Switzerland — When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Washington late last year, he hunted down the key architect of the new American trade and energy policies he loathed.  —  On the eve of a state dinner at the White House …

George Santos constituent calls getting forwarded to LaLota's office  —  Constituents trying to reach Rep. George Santos got a surprise Thursday morning when telephone calls to his embattled office were forwarded to the office of fellow GOP Rep. Nick LaLota in Huntington — which was also a surprise to LaLota's team.

Republican Dave McCormick is making moves for a potential run against Sen. Bob Casey in Pa.  —  Shortly after Republicans' disappointing November election, Dave McCormick hosted several dozen GOP strategists, donors, and insiders for drinks and food at his stately home in Pittsburgh's Squirrel …

Union membership drops to record low in 2022  —  Union membership hit an all-time low in 2022 despite a surge in organizing efforts that emerged during the pandemic.  —  The percentage of U.S. workers who belong to a union dropped from 10.3 percent to 10.1 percent, the Bureau …

Putin ally Medvedev warns NATO of nuclear war if Russia is defeated in Ukraine  —  Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, warned NATO on Thursday that the defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.  —  Striking a similar tone …

Ben Savage is considering a run for Adam Schiff's California House seat, rep says  —  The actor filed campaign paperwork with the FEC this week.  —  By Hannah DemissieVideo by Will Linendoll  —  Actor Ben Savage is considering another run for political office.

DC think tank addresses undisclosed conflicts of interest  —  The Atlantic Council retroactively acknowledged content it was producing on energy and climate change had a connection to a major funder. … Washington-based think tanks have been notoriously slow to implement the same conflict …

Why I'm Not Running Again for City Council  —  I'm Launching a National Movement Called Workers Strike Back  —  This is now the tenth year I've had the honor to serve as an elected representative of Seattle's working people.  —  Workers in Seattle, through getting organized alongside …

Trump thought photo of accuser was of ex-wife during deposition  —  NEW YORK — Donald Trump mistook his sexual assault accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when shown a photograph from the 1990s in a deposition at Mar-a-Lago last year, potentially undermining one of the common defenses he has used to deny an attack.

Biden Revives Housing Rule That Trump Derided as ‘Abolishing the Suburbs’  —  The Biden administration is restoring a rule that will require cities, counties and states that receive federal housing funds to examine patterns of residential segregation within their borders and take steps to uproot them …

Trump's Interior chief goes 4-0 in political show trials  —  For a fourth time, former Trump-era Interior Secretary David Bernhardt has been cleared by the department's inspector general of ethics charges made by his political foes.  —  Bernhardt, the Interior chief from 2019-2021 …

Coast Guard monitoring suspected Russian intelligence vessel off Hawaiian coast  —  The U.S. Coast Guard is tracking a vessel it suspects to be a Russian intelligence-gathering spy off the coast of the Hawaiian islands amid tensions over the Kremlin's war in Ukraine.

The Not Particularly Talented Mr. Santos  —  With Kevin McCarthy and co. giving government oversight power to election deniers, it's perhaps fitting that the comically dishonest New York representative is also landing a couple committee seats.  As Rep. Ritchie Torres put it, “House Republicans have sunk to the level of self-parody.”

Corporate and White-Collar Prosecutions Hit New All-Time Lows in FY 2022  —  The latest available case-by-case records from the Department of Justice (DOJ) show that the prosecution of white-collar offenders in FY 2022 reached a new all-time low since tracking began during the Reagan administration.

Americans Sour on U.S. Healthcare Quality  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup's two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it “excellent” or “good.”  The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar …