Once an albatross around Trump's neck, Jan. 6 is now taboo in the GOP primary  —  OXON HILL, Md. — Like most politicians considering a White House run, Ron DeSantis published a new book this past week, designed to frame him as an unapologetic truth teller, eager to tackle the hard issues of the day.

What is Fox News hiding in the Dominion lawsuit?  —  A Feb. 16 filing by Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit in Delaware against Fox News has kicked up a media firestorm: Outlet after outlet described how internal email and text messages quoted in the document …

New emails show Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned scientific paper in Feb. 2020 to disprove Wuhan lab leak theory  —  New emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.  —  They show he “prompted” or commissioned …

D.C. Council chair says he's withdrawing crime bill before it goes to U.S. Senate  —  D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) said he wrote to the U.S. Senate on Monday morning to withdraw the city's criminal code revision legislation, before the Senate votes on a Republican-led disapproval resolution that could overturn the bill.

Trump Has Become the Thing He Never Wanted to Be  —  One thing can be said for the proprietors of the MAGA Mall: They know their brand.  —  The right-wing-merch retailer's setup was among the most impressive at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference—a gargantuan display …

CPAC: Taste the Sadness  —  Go ahead and laugh.  They deserve it.  —  As I pulled into Matt Schlapp's preferred Gaylord Hotel in suburban Washington for the latest rendition of CPAC, ghosts of past selves flashed through my head.  I remembered 2015, my last time at the gathering.

Digital foot soldiers: Pro-Trump bots swarm DeSantis, Haley  —  Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.  Besides posting adoring words about the former president …

Asian Americans, Shifting Right  —  The new politics of class in America.  —  The Chinatown area of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, was long a Democratic stronghold.  The party's candidates would often receive more than 70 percent of the vote there.  Last year, however, the neighborhood underwent a political transformation.

Ukraine war: Russia's Wagner boss suggests ‘betrayal’ in Bakhmut battle  —  The head of Russia's Wagner private army has said it is not getting the ammunition it needs from Moscow, as it seeks to gain control of Bakhmut.  —  Russian troops - from Wagner and regular Russian forces - are trying to seize the eastern city from Ukraine.

The Programs You'd Have to Cut to Balance the Budget  —  Several conservative lawmakers say House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has promised a House vote on a balanced federal budget.  That's a harder task than it sounds, given the size of the federal deficit.  —  More recently, Mr. McCarthy …

DHS has a program gathering domestic intelligence — and virtually no one knows about it  —  For years, the Department of Homeland Security has run a virtually unknown program gathering domestic intelligence, one of many revelations in a wide-ranging tranche of internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.

Twitter can't protect you from trolls any more, insiders say  —  Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is no longer able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation, following lay-offs and changes under owner Elon Musk.

The bewildering descent of Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert’  —  ‘I shook the box intentionally,’ Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop his comic strip  —  Scott Adams sat for his regular YouTube show last month with a plan to stir a hornet's nest.

4 US citizens were kidnapped by gunmen in Mexico in case of mistaken identity, US official says  —  Four US citizens were assaulted and kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern Mexico on Friday in a case of mistaken identity, a US official with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

Group Seeks Disbarment of a Trump-Aligned Lawyer for a Key Jan. 6 Witness  —  Prominent lawyers filed a scathing ethics complaint against Stefan Passantino, who represented Cassidy Hutchinson in the early stages of the House committee's investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — In appearing …

Inside the Suspicion Machine  —  Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world.  Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.  —  DHRUV MEHROTRA, JUSTIN-CASIMIR BRAUN, EVA CONSTANTARAS, AND GABRIEL GEIGER

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort settles case with Justice Department for $3.15M  —  Paul Manafort, former chairman of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, agreed to pay $3.15 million to settle a civil case filed by the Justice Department last year for his allegedly …

White House Said to Consider Pushing Congress on Dealing With TikTok  —  In a strategy shift, the Biden administration is increasingly pointing to Congress to give it more legal power to deal with TikTok and other technology that could expose Americans' sensitive data to China.

Rosendale calls neo-Nazi photo op a mistake  —  U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale said he unwittingly posed for a photo with high profile members of the neo-Nazi movement last week walking between congressional hearings.  —  The photo taken March 1 in front of the Capitol, shows Rosendale posing with Ryan Sanchez …

No avoiding it now: Immigration issues threaten Biden's climate program  —  President Joe Biden's plan for greening the economy relies on a simple pitch: It will create good-paying jobs for Americans.  —  The problem is there might not be enough Americans to fill them.

Polygamist cult leader and self-proclaimed prophet ‘brazenly’ used jailhouse phone system to have ‘sexual discussions’ with kids: Feds  —  Polygamous cult leader Sam Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet awaiting trial on kidnapping and other charges, “brazenly” used the jailhouse phone system to …

The New Anarchy  —  America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop. … I. ON THE BRINK  —  in the weeks before Labor Day 2020, Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon, began warning people that he believed someone would soon be killed by extremists in his city.

Supreme Court declines to hear Florida prayer vigil dispute  —  WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider making it harder for people to challenge what they allege is the unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.  —  The court turned away a dispute over a vigil held …