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 …

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.

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 …

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.

After warnings, no evidence China is supplying arms to Russia, U.S. officials say  —  Russian stumbles on the battlefield as well as the solidarity of Ukraine's allies have continued to pressure Putin  —  Top administration officials said Sunday there is no evidence that China …

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.

James Bond books edited to remove racist references  —  Reissued versions of Ian Fleming's classic works will feature a disclaimer following a review by sensitivity readers  —  James Bond novels have been rewritten to remove a number of racial references from Ian Fleming's work, The Telegraph can reveal.

How the Fed Opened Pandora's Box  —  Jerome H. Powell's no-holds-barred response to the pandemic was made possible by history.  It raises questions about the future.  —  It was July 2019 when Representative Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, asked Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve …

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.

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.

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 …

Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who'll likely face a tough reelection fight in 2024, says he won't ‘run from Biden’: ‘I run my own race, and my own brand’  — Sen. Sherrod Brown told Politico he was “fine” with Biden running on the same ballot as him in 2024.

‘Hell on earth’: I reported from the war in Ukraine.  What I witnessed still haunts me.  —  We don't talk about the nightmares, the survivors' guilt or the loss of identity from getting too consumed by the story.  That needs to change.  —  View Comments  —  The past year …

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?

GOP primary candidates must agree to loyalty pledge in order to debate, RNC chair says  —  Any candidate who wants to take part in the GOP's first primary debate in Milwaukee later this year will have to sign a pledge promising to support whoever wins the nomination, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said Sunday.

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 …

Jury awards Va. teacher $5 million over wrongful sex abuse case  —  The teacher was accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old student, though she denies his claims  —  The first clue that Kimberly Winters, a high school English teacher, had that a former student had accused her of sexually abusing …

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 …

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.

A new bipartisan push for paid family and medical leave  —  A cocktail party on Capitol Hill is often hardly notable.  —  But at one recent soiree, the clinking of glasses had a different ring.  Members of both parties joined together to kick off a renewed effort to solve a uniquely American problem …