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 …

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.

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 …

Trump's Threat of a Third-Party Run Is Undercut by ‘Sore Loser’ Laws  —  Donald Trump hates losing so much that he has suggested he will mount a third-party campaign if he doesn't win the Republican presidential nomination.  —  But he can't win that way either, thanks to “sore loser” …

Biden said he would go to Ohio train derailment site.  There is no trip currently scheduled.  —  Biden's calling card is empathy.  Yet the “comforter-in-chief” has no plan underway to visit the site of a toxic chemical spill in a small Ohio town.  —  WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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

Eyeing a run for president, Ron DeSantis wants to ‘Make America Florida’  —  MIAMI — He hasn't yet entered the contest for the Republican Presidential nomination, but even so, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is one of the leading candidates.  In polls of possible nominees, he rivals and sometimes surpasses former President Donald Trump.

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.

As we embrace the ‘science of reading,’ we can't leave out older students  —  As a new middle school teacher, I was shocked by the number of students who entered my classroom unable to decode text.  —  The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated …

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.

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.

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 …

Alleged Three Percenter who marched with Proud Boys on Jan. 6 pleads guilty  —  Robert Gieswein faces an estimated sentencing range of 41 to 51 months for two counts of assaulting police  —  A Colorado man prosecutors say was affiliated with the right-wing, anti-government Three Percenters …