Nikki Haley announces she is running for president  —  Haley released a video Tuesday saying, “It's time for a new generation of leadership”  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nikki Haley, who served as U.N. ambassador and governor of South Carolina, announced Tuesday that she is running for president …

Suspect has died of apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after mass shooting at Michigan State University left 3 dead and 5 injured, police say  —  A suspect appears to have died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a shooting at Michigan State University left 3 people dead and injured 5 others Monday evening, police said.

Pence to fight special counsel subpoena on Trump's 2020 election denial  —  Mike Pence is preparing to resist a grand jury subpoena for testimony about former President Donald Trump's push to overturn the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the former vice president's thinking.

Guided Missile Killed U.S. Aid Worker in Ukraine, Video Shows  —  A Times analysis suggests that an intentional strike, not an indiscriminate attack, most likely killed Pete Reed.  It is unclear whether the attackers knew he was with a group of aid workers.

Indian government raids BBC offices after documentary critical of Modi  —  NEW DELHI — Indian tax authorities raided the BBC and seized its journalists' phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move Tuesday against the British broadcaster weeks after it aired …

Chinese balloon sensors recovered from ocean, says US  —  The sensors from the first suspected Chinese spy balloon shot down over the US have been recovered from the Atlantic Ocean, the US military says.  —  Search crews found “significant debris from the site, including all of the priority sensor …

Inflation rose 0.5% in January, more than expected and up 6.4% from a year ago  — Inflation rose in January by 0.5% following a 0.1% increase in December, according to the consumer price index report released Tuesday.  — The CPI was up 6.4% from the same period in 2022.

Biden poised to secure landmark 100th judge in the Democratic-led Senate  —  WASHINGTON — The Democratic-led Senate is poised to confirm President Joe Biden's 100th federal judge on Tuesday, marking a milestone for the president and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ - it's fascism  —  The media's framing of measures like Florida's African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality  —  wave of Republican enthusiasm for banning concepts, authors and books is sweeping across the United States.

Worried residents near Ohio train derailment report dead fish and chickens as authorities say it's safe to return  —  For days, authorities have been telling residents of the area around East Palestine, Ohio, that it is safe to return home after a 150-car train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed Feb. 3.

The Real Reason Trump Is Calling DeSantis ‘Meatball Ron’  —  It's no joke. … For Donald Trump, the first step is always to label his victim.  Indeed, assigning a good bad nickname appears to be a sine qua non in the Trump playbook.  Once he gets that part right, the job is half-done.

Ron Klain Looks Back on Biden's First Two Years as President  —  “We have been declared dead, dead, dead many times,” the White House's departing chief of staff says, of the Administration.  “You just have to keep after it.”  —  The mood at the Presidential Inauguration of Joe Biden …

Combating Disinformation Wanes at Social Media Giants  —  As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, like other social media platforms, spent years expanding its efforts to tackle misinformation after the 2016 election.

Get Me Risa Heller!  —  If you're Jeff Zucker or Mario Batali or Jared Kushner and you're trying to survive a bout of very bad press, she's who you call.  —  It was the last Monday in January 2022 when Jeff Zucker realized his world was about to come crashing down.

Elizabeth Warren cultivates anti-crypto coalition  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren is branding herself as the scourge of crypto.  And she's not doing it alone.  —  The progressive Massachusetts Democrat is starting to recruit conservative Senate Republicans to her anti-crypto cause and getting …

The GOP can't ignore the blockbuster report on Trump, Kushner and Saudi funds  —  Editor's Note: Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program “The Dean Obeidallah Show.”  Follow him @DeanObeidallah@masto.ai.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.

Playbook: Plan B talks on debt limit go underground  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TRAGEDY AT MICHIGAN STATE — “MSU shooting suspect dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound,” by the Detroit News' Craig Mauger, Jakkar Aimery and Beth LeBlanc …

Ron DeSantis Has a Glaring Vulnerability  —  As a rule, State of the Union addresses are what Daniel Boorstin has called pseudo-events: scripted affairs whose only news value is the commentary surrounding them.  But President Biden's speech gave some important signals about the upcoming election.

The 2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index  —  Executive Summary  —  While many economists argue that America's working families are more prosperous than ever before, families themselves feel that they have come under increasing economic pressure.  The families are right.

Bring on the Sanctions Against Israel  —  How will the West explain why Israel is developing nuclear weapons (according to foreign sources)?  That Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?  —  Zen Read  —  The chutzpah of the Americans!  How does their Secretary …

MSU shooter Anthony McRae pleaded guilty to gun charge in 2019  —  Lansing — State officials Tuesday identified 43-year-old Anthony McRae, who was charged with multiple gun-related crimes in 2019, as the attacker who shot and killed three people and wounded five others at Michigan State University.

A briefing unlike any other  —  Senators will walk into a classified briefing this morning that's probably unlike any they've ever been to before. … And a Senate that badly wants to conduct oversight of the Biden administration's handling of these incidents and figure out how to prevent more in the future has been largely paralyzed.

Democrat who nearly unseated Boebert launches 2024 bid against her  —  Adam Frisch, the Democrat who came within half a percentage point of unseating Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) in last year's midterm election, is launching a 2024 bid against the congresswoman.

How Ben & Jerry's Ended Up at War With Itself  —  Anuradha Mittal was the kind of person large corporations tend to avoid at all costs.  She'd been politically awakened as a college student in India, working as a volunteer in Bhopal, where a leak at a Union Carbine Corp. pesticide plant …

Longtime NJ senator who was a Trump delegate switches to the Democratic Party  —  After four terms as a Republican state senator, Samuel Thompson is going to try to keep his seat — but from the other side of the aisle.  —  Thompson intends to run this year as a Democrat after losing Republican Party support ahead of the primary.

First lady Jill Biden decorates White House for Valentine's Day  —  It's the third year in a row she's had hearts pop up across the lawn overnight.  —  Valentine's Day decorations on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 14, 2023.  —  For the  —  third year in a row