Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC  —  Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System  —  Washington, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell, and FDIC Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg:

Biden will approve Alaska oil project, alongside Arctic protections  —  The administration will approve three pads for the Willow drilling project, according to people familiar with the matter.  The move comes after announcing a new ban on U.S. oil and gas leasing in the Arctic Ocean.

Netanyahu's Response to Iran-Saudi Deal Shows a Growing Detachment From Reality  —  Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that he is the one leading the Western world's fight against Iran and that peace with the Saudis is within reach shows how disconnected he is both at home and abroad

If Mike Pence continues his refusal to tell investigators the details of Trump's Jan 6 attack, he must be viewed as complicit  —  Why does the media cheer Pence for doing the bare minimum?!  —  Here we go again: Mike Pence is being praised for simply saying the truth about Donald Trump and the Jan 6 attack.

A former producer of the largest Fox show calls Trump supporters inbred ‘terrorists’  —  Anyone who has lost a family member to right-wing conspiracy theories knows that Fox News has been a key piece of that.  Now it's being revealed that even Fox execs view their own viewers with the most offensive terms.

Prosecutors say newly aired Chansley footage paints misleading portrait of his Jan. 6 conduct  —  Prosecutors on Sunday rejected the notion that newly public footage of Jacob Chansley — known as the QAnon Shaman — accompanied by police in the Capitol undercuts his criminal conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.

Two arrested after protesters and supporters clashed at Wadsworth drag queen story hour  —  Hundreds of protesters, including armed white supremacists, and LGBT-community supporters descended on Wadsworth's Memorial Park on Saturday as a humanist group tried to put on a drag queen storytelling event for children.

McCarthy: January 6 tapes to be ‘slowly’ rolled out to networks besides Fox News  —  Republican House speaker has only let Fox News see the tapes so far, giving access to the primetime host Tucker Carlson  —  The Republican speaker of the US House, Kevin McCarthy, said on Sunday he would …

What Florida Doesn't Want You to Know About Its Book Bans  —  My books are among those getting pulled off shelves, but here is why we should should care about all of them. … The seventh time I learned that my novel Nineteen Minutes was being banned in a school district, I was watching a book burning.

Moooove over: How single-celled yeasts are doing the work of 1,500-pound cows  —  Cowless dairy is here, with the potential to shake up the future of animal dairy and plant-based milks  —  BERKELEY, Calif. — The first course was a celery root soup lush with whole milk.

Norfolk Southern balks at compensating homeowners in East Palestine  —  Jim Stewart was getting ready to sell his home in East Palestine, Ohio, and retire.  Then came the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3, releasing toxic chemicals into the air and nearby water, and he fears crashing the value of his home.