Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says  —  Energy Department's revised assessment is based on new intelligence  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according …

Trump White House Pressured Disney to Censor ... Jimmy Kimmel  —  The former president was so incensed by the late-night host making fun of him that he had his staff take action  —  IN EARLY 2018, the American national security apparatus was fixated on reports that North Korea …

Why Fox News Lied to the Viewers It ‘Respects’  —  There are some stories that are important enough to pause the news cycle and linger on them, to explore not just what happened, but why.  And so it is with Fox News's role in the events leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.

Newspapers Drop ‘Dilbert’ Comic After Creator's Rant About Black ‘Hate Groups’  —  Scott Adams, who created the syndicated comic strip, also said that white people should “get the hell away from Black people,” prompting criticism from editors across the country.

Fox News Poll: Trump, DeSantis top 2024 Republican preference … Ron DeSantis 2024 rumors ramp up  —  One year out from the 2024 primaries, here is the debut Fox News national survey on the presidential nomination races.  Spoiler alert, former President Donald Trump looks formidable, while President Biden faces doubt.

Jessa Duggar Reveals She Suffered a Miscarriage: ‘I Just Immediately Started Crying’  —  The “19 Kids and Counting” alum said she plans to “take a break” from social media and focus on recovering  —  Jessa Duggar Seewald revealed that she suffered a miscarriage over the holidays.

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has another big problem: He won't shut up  —  Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, isn't doing himself any favors.  —  Despite being charged with orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history …

Scoop: House GOP plans Ohio derailment hearings  —  Multiple House committees are gaming out aggressive hearings 0n the Biden administration's response to the toxic train wreck in Ohio — including how the government supervises giant rail companies, Axios has learned.

How a small-town train derailment erupted into a culture battle  —  The East Palestine train accident is one of hundreds each year, but it's become a significant political flashpoint  —  Two weeks after a train carrying toxic chemicals went off the tracks in northeastern Ohio …

How the W.W.E. Explains What's Happened to U.S. Politics  —  Mx.  Riesman is a journalist and the author of a biography of Vince McMahon.  —  What shall we call contemporary Republican ideology?  Is it conservatism?  Libertarianism?  Authoritarianism?  Trumpism?  Fascism?  —  How about kayfabe?

EPA tells Norfolk Southern to temporarily stop shipping toxic train derailment waste  —  The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered shipments of hazardous waste out of East Palestine, Ohio, to stop after complaints from residents and officials in other states where the toxic material was headed.

‘Saturday Night Live’ mocks Trump visit to East Palestine  —  “Saturday Night Live” targeted former President Trump's visit to the town in Ohio where a train derailment has sparked environmental and public health concerns in its latest cold open, mocking Trump's off-the-cuff public speaking style.

Ron DeSantis wanted to send weapons to Ukraine when he was a congressman — as a presidential hopeful he questions US involvement  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis once strongly supported arming Ukraine to fight Russia, urging then-President Barack Obama to do so as a deterrent to Russian aggression …

Access to abortion is a unifying issue  —  Who could have guessed that preserving access to abortion would be such a unifying position?  —  Given how divided our country is, and how loud voices seeking to criminalize the procedure have become, one might not expect abortion bans to be so unpopular.

With Trump running, nearly all Republican senators say no to a presidential bid  —  WASHINGTON — There's an old joke that senators look in the mirror and see a president.  These days, a whole lot of mirrors in the chamber seem to be broken.  —  Republicans have an open presidential primary in 2024 …

Marianne Williamson says she'll run for president again, in long shot challenge to Biden  —  She will announce her campaign next weekend, she told donors.  —  Marianne Williamson speaks as she endorses then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during a campaign rally …

Failing at polls, election deniers focus on state GOP posts  —  1 of 16  —  In a basement event space in the Denver suburb of Parker, Tina Peters surveyed a crowd of Colorado Republicans last week and made an unusual pitch for why she should become chair of their beleaguered party …

Nevada Democrats implode over battle for party control  —  The Democratic establishment is accusing state chair Judith Whitmer of dividing the party.  The Democratic Socialist leader says it's a “smear campaign.”  —  A fierce power struggle has broken out over who will run the Democratic Party in Nevada …

Judge: Jan. 6 probe unable to review 2,000 records due to fight over Perry's phone  —  A judge ordered Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) to turn over more than 2,000 phone records after ruling that they are not shielded under the Constitution, according to newly unsealed court documents.