MSU suspect dead of self-inflicted gunshot wound; 3 people killed; 5 wounded  —  East Lansing — A suspected gunman who killed three people and wounded several others on the campus of two Michigan State University was founded dead late Monday night from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

Nikki Haley launches 2024 Republican presidential bid, first challenge to Trump  —  Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that she will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, putting her at odds with one-time boss Donald Trump, the ex-president also seeking to win back the White House.

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.

Biden's unacceptable silence on UFO shootdowns  —  President Joe Biden talks a great deal about the importance of democratic accountability and good government.  The public has a right to expect the federal government to provide timely and accurate information on important matters.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Biden Will Name Fed's Lael Brainard as His Top Economic Adviser  —  President Joe Biden has decided to name Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard as his top economic adviser, with an announcement coming as soon as Tuesday, people familiar with the matter said Monday night.

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 …

Russia Has Already Lost in the Long Run  —  Even if Moscow holds onto territory, the war has wrecked its future.  —  As Russia ramps up its second offensive, a debate has erupted over whether Moscow or Kyiv will have the upper hand in 2023.  While important, such discourse also misses …

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 …

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.

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.

Clapper says letter about Russian links to Hunter Biden laptop saga was ‘distorted’  —  Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign quickly dismissed the laptop story as a Russian disinformation operation.  After the New York Post published emails belonging to his son, Biden called the story …

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.

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.

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.

The G.O.P.'s Long War Against Medicare and Social Security  —  Politically, the most crucial moment in President Biden's State of the Union address was his declaration that “some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.”  Why did he say that?

Rescuers find more alive in Turkey, more aid reaches Syria  —  1 of 18  —  Aid agencies and governments stepped up a scramble to send help to earthquake-hit parts of Turkey and Syria on Tuesday, as rescuers continued to pull survivors out of the rubble more than 200 hours after devastation swept the region.

2/14/23 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM  —  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 …

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

California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage  —  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California, a U.S. trendsetter for progressive policies and a state where the current governor once made news issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in San Francisco before it was legal …