Most people in most states support legal abortion  —  The Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year is perhaps the preeminent modern political example of the dog catching the car.  —  Republican leaders had pledged for decades to restrict abortion and to challenge the precedent in Roe …

How Putin blundered into Ukraine — then doubled down  —  The decision to invade was taken after consulting only a tiny circle.  The Russian leader has since become even more isolated  —  At about 1am on February 24 last year, Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, received a troubling phone call.

Trump Visits East Palestine, Seeking to Draw Contrast With Biden  —  The former president has attacked the administration's handling of the train derailment, even as his own environmental policies while in office have been criticized.  —  EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — It was evocative …

Kevin McCarthy's Jan. 6 footage stunt demands a real response  —  Democrats have loudly expressed outrage about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to grant Fox News's Tucker Carlson exclusive access to surveillance footage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson Arrested After a Former Executive Pleads Guilty to Fraud  —  Samir Rao, company's former chief operating officer, appeared in court as John Doe and admitted wrongdoing in probe of the company's practices  —  Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson …

Trump's grip on the Republican base is slipping — even among his fans  —  More than 150 interviews in pivotal electoral states show the former president maintains a bond with his GOP voters, but faces rising interest in a new standard-bearer  —  One recent snowy evening at a gun range …

Crew tried to stop Ohio train after alert about overheating wheel bearing, NTSB says  —  Federal investigators' preliminary report provides clues about the cause of the derailment and the response.  —  By Ian Duncan and Luz Lazo  —  The crew of the Norfolk Southern train that derailed in East Palestine …

Remembering Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons  —  Dylan Lyons was born and raised in Philadelphia but made Central Florida his home, when he enrolled in, thrived in and graduated from UCF.  —  That's when he began his journey up the ladder of career success.

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Subpoenaed in Jan. 6 Investigation  —  The special counsel overseeing the inquiry into Donald Trump's efforts to retain power after the 2020 election wants the former president's daughter and son-in-law to testify to a grand jury.

Taiwan Foreign Minister Held High-Level Meeting in Washington  —  Senior U.S. and Taiwan diplomats met amid heightened security concerns  —  TAIPEI—Taiwan's foreign minister traveled to the U.S. this week for an unusual high-level meeting with senior American officials in the Washington area.

DeSantis wants to roll back press freedoms — with an eye toward overturning Supreme Court ruling  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' broken relationship with the mainstream media could get even worse.  —  At the governor's urging, Florida's Republican-dominated Legislature …

House GOP's top tax man throws K Street in a tizzy  —  Rep. Jason Smith hasn't been chair of the House Ways and Means Committee very long, but he's already done something rare for a Republican: He's struck fear into the heart of corporate tax lobbyists.  —  The Missouri lawmaker is making …

Axios-Ipsos poll: Republicans call opioids No. 1 health threat  —  Republicans see fentanyl and other opioids as the biggest threat to Americans' public health, while Democrats say it's guns, according to a new Axios-Ipsos survey. … - The survey also found that Americans overwhelmingly …

Schiff, Porter in tight race to replace Sen. Feinstein, poll shows; others trail far behind  —  The race to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein is shaping up to be a close contest between two congressional colleagues who have built national profiles and potent fundraising operations but appeal …

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried hit with four new criminal charges  — FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was hit with four new criminal charges in a superseding indictment in New York federal court.  — The new charging document lays out in greater detail Bankman-Fried's allegedly fradulent conduct related …

Elon Musk's Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs  —  “That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter's previously routine transparency reports  —  TWITTER BOSS ELON Musk has railed against what he sees as U.S. government attempts to “censor” the social media company.

‘Incredibly damning:’ Fox News documents stun some legal experts  —  The disclosure of behind-the-scenes emails and texts greatly increased the chances that Dominion will win its $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox, experts say.  —  The disclosure of emails and texts …

Why This Democratic Strategist Walked Away  —  Simon Rosenberg delivered a major surprise last week when he announced that he was shutting down NDN, the Democratic advocacy and research group he has led since the mid-1990s.  —  After working for three decades as an operative in the upper reaches …

This ‘climate-friendly’ fuel comes with an astronomical cancer risk  —  Almost half of products cleared so far under a new US federal ‘biofuels’ program are not, in fact, biofuels  — This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power

I'm a Black physician, and I'm appalled by mandated implicit bias training  —  Marilyn Singleton is a board-certified anesthesiologist and a visiting fellow at the medical advocacy organization Do No Harm.  —  I'll never forget my parents' reaction when I was accepted to the University of California at San Francisco's medical school.

Kyrsten Sinema's $300,000 Security Expert Is Tulsi Gabbard's Sister  —  The Arizona senator has a security arrangement that raises several ethical red flags, according to campaign law experts. … Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) spends more of her campaign funds on security than nearly every …

Ron DeSantis' Press Secretary Throws Hissy Fit at NBC, MSNBC  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' office has announced it would be boycotting both NBC News and MSNBC after pushing back on a report by the network's Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.