Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods  —  The conservative media mogul made the remarks under oath last month in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems.  —  Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News …

Is it “OK to be white”?  —  In the span of a few days, Dilbert — a cartoon lampooning workplace culture by Scott Adams — was dropped by hundreds of newspapers.  The backlash was in response to a racist rant that Adams posted on YouTube in which he described Black Americans as “a hate group” …

Judge overseeing Trump Georgia grand jury speaks after foreperson's controversial interviews  —  The jurors “can talk about” their final report, the judge told ABC News.  —  After the foreperson of the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury  —  investigating former President Donald Trump

DeSantis's ‘Apocalyptic’ Attack on Higher Education  —  In 2017, the government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban passed a law intended to drive Central European University, a prestigious school founded by a Hungarian refugee, George Soros, out of the country.

White House: No more TikTok on gov't devices within 30 days  —  The White House is giving all federal agencies 30 days to wipe TikTok off all government devices, as the Chinese-owned social media app comes under increasing scrutiny in Washington over security concerns.

Top Republicans question McCarthy over release of January 6 footage as speaker vows deliberate approach  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy faced questions from his leadership team Monday night over his plans to publicly release security footage from January 6, 2021, multiple sources told CNN …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Was ‘Attacked’ by ‘Insane’ Person in a Restaurant  —  ‘TURNED INTO DEMONS’  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Monday night that she was attacked by an “insane” woman and “screamed at by her adult son” while dining at a restaurant.

As CPAC's head faces sexual assault claim, other leadership concerns emerge  —  Matt Schlapp, who runs the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been backed by prominent Republicans but some staffers complain of a ‘toxic’ culture  —  For nearly a decade, Matt Schlapp has captained …

Tennessee governor appears to have dressed in drag, an art form he wants to restrict  —  By the time Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee confirmed Monday that he would sign a recently passed bill criminalizing drag performances in public and in front of children, a photo that appears to show him dressed …

Scoop: Jonathan Capehart quits WaPo editorial board, leaving no people of color  —  Jonathan Capehart quit the Washington Post editorial board after a dispute over an editorial about 2024 politics, leaving the paper with an all-white editorial board, Axios has learned.

Jeffrey Sachs's Great-Power Politics  —  The economist discusses what the U.S. gets wrong about Putin and the war in Ukraine.  —  Last week, Jeffrey Sachs, the economist and professor at Columbia known for his work in the fields of poverty alleviation and foreign aid, delivered remarks …

Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival  —  Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop an alternative to ChatGPT, the high-profile chatbot made by the startup OpenAI, according to two people …

How a disputed $55M loan plays into feds' probe of Commanders  —  DANIEL SNYDER'S FINAL breakup from his longtime minority partners in Washington's NFL franchise began with a footnote in an April 2020 financial report.  —  The note revealed a $55 million credit line the team had taken …

Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins  —  Small shift in favor of ‘lab leak’ theory was prompted by new data and group of weapons-lab scientists  —  The theory that covid-19 started with a lab accident in central China received a modest boost …

Daniel Snyder's demands anger NFL owners, renew talk of voting him out  —  Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder and his attorneys have demanded that fellow NFL franchise owners and the league indemnify him against future legal liability and costs if he sells the team …

Calling the Police: Lightfoot Needs A Lifeline  —  CHICAGO — In grave danger of becoming the first Chicago mayor defeated in 40 years, Lori Lightfoot stood before an audience of mostly her fellow Black women at a union hall here Saturday and issued a warning about the left-wing challenger who's threatening …

Feds Inadvertently Reveal They're Looking Into Trump's Shady ‘Recount’ Campaign  —  It started with a FOIA looking for answers about Trump's recount efforts.  It revealed that the FEC is looking into these questions itself. … When the Federal Elections Commission rejected a recent Freedom …

Just how big is the Always Trump component of the Republican Party?  —  Chris Sununu, the New Hampshire governor and potential presidential candidate who once joked that former President Donald Trump is “fucking crazy,” backpedaled and pledged recently to support Trump if he's the nominee in 2024.

A bipartisan group of Senators is talking about raising the retirement age on Social Security  —  A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the retirement age to about 70 as part of their legislation to overhaul Social Security …

DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing company  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over its opposition to the so-called “Don't Say Gay” law.

Biden's new deficit hawk persona has some progressives feeling some bad deja vu  —  Joe Biden spent the last two years pursuing and enacting massive domestic programs meant to remake the U.S. economy.  But as he prepares a run for reelection, Biden is trying out a new economic persona: deficit hawk.

Texan young adults can now get licensed to carry handguns at college campuses, businesses  —  The change in handgun policy comes after a federal judge toppled the state's age restrictions.  —  AUSTIN — A new kind of student is showing up in handgun instructor Michael Cargill's classroom: teenagers.

The End of the English Major  —  Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country.  What happened?  —  The crisis, when it came, arrived so quickly that its scale was hard to recognize at first.  From 2012 to the start of the pandemic, the number of English majors …

Josh Hawley's False Choice  —  For a guy who says we should do less for Ukraine and more for America's working people, he sure doesn't support policies that help the working people.  —  Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has been trending, sadly, for presenting a false and dangerous choice …

The Journalists Who Smeared Tom Cotton and Tarnished Their Own Reputations Over the Lab Leak Theory  —  When Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) first suggested that the deadly, hyper-contagious virus that reared its head in Wuhan, China in 2019 might have something to do with the laboratories conducting …

Slotkin raises $1.2M on first day of Senate campaign  —  Washington ― U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin raised over $1.2 million on the first day of her campaign for U.S. Senate on Monday, her campaign said.  —  It's a significant show of support that the Lansing Democrat hopes will help propel …

U.S. Marshals Service suffers ‘major’ security breach that compromises sensitive information, senior law enforcement officials say  —  The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that resulted in the compromise of sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.

Top Senate Democrats press Chamber of Commerce on threat to sue FTC over noncompete clause ban  — Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., will press the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on its threat to sue the FTC over a proposal to ban noncompete clauses.

Old Racist Gun Laws Enter Modern-Day Legal Battles  —  Government lawyers reluctantly cite historical laws that kept guns from Blacks, Native Americans and Catholics  —  Historical, racist gun laws are taking on new relevance in legal battles over modern-day gun regulations …