Rape, Incest Victims Must Show Proof to Get Exception to Florida's New Abortion Ban  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law, which bans abortions after six weeks and increases restrictions to the standing exceptions  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has doubled …

Supreme Court Briefly Preserves Broad Availability of Abortion Pill  —  The temporary stay of an appeals court ruling is meant to preserve the status quo while the justices study the case, and it did not forecast how they would ultimately rule.  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. issued …

Mike Pence is booed at the NRA convention in his home state  —  Two years after he certified President Joe Biden's election, the former vice president was greeted by lusty boos and some applause in the state where he served as governor.  —  INDIANAPOLIS — Former Vice President Mike Pence …

Fox News viewer who crushed officer with a shield on Jan. 6 sentenced to over 7 years in prison  —  Federal prosecutors sought what would have been the longest sentence to date — 15 years — for a Jan. 6 rioter who, defense lawyers say, “knew next to nothing” about the 2020 election.

Tech Executive Was Left to ‘Slowly Die’ After Stabbing, Prosecutors Say  —  Bob Lee was stabbed three times on a dark San Francisco street after what appeared to be an argument over a personal relationship, prosecutors said in court documents.  —  The man accused of killing the tech executive Bob Lee …

Montana on cusp of becoming first state to block TikTok downloads  —  The news comes amid mounting concerns over the app among lawmakers over security concerns with its Chinese owners.  —  Montana lawmakers passed a bill Friday blocking downloads of TikTok, the most significant action by a state yet against the app.

Leak suspect charged with retention of defense information, willful control of classified documents  —  BOSTON — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected of leaking a trove of classified military intelligence, was charged by the federal government Friday with retention …

Liz Cheney says Greene should lose security clearance for defending suspect in Pentagon docs leak  —  Former representative Cheney criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her defense of the alleged leaker of hundreds of pages of classified U.S. intelligence.

An Acute Attack of Trumpism in Tennessee  —  Shame is a toxic emotion, and it often causes people to direct hostility outward.  —  What's happened in Tennessee in recent weeks should be no surprise, coming from a party whose sensibilities and racial attitudes are embodied by Donald Trump.

Fox News isn't talking about Clarence Thomas much  —  Two complementary reports from ProPublica published in recent days have resulted in intense new scrutiny of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.  Last week, the independent news site reported that Thomas had received hundreds of thousands …

Alien motherships: Pentagon official floats a theory for unexplained sightings  —  One astronomy professor called the notions “highly questionable” and “odd.”  —  The official in charge of a secretive Pentagon effort to investigate unexplained aerial incursions has co-authored an academic paper …

Sarah Sanders blames ‘design error’ for form asking job applicants to name something nice about her  —  The office of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) is blaming a controversial state job application form demanding prospective hires write a short essay on what they admire about her most on a …

This plan for a third-party presidential bid in 2024 is dangerous  —  Jonathan Cowan is president of Third Way, Rahna Epting is executive director of MoveOn and Patrick Gaspard is CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund.  —  As leaders of three groups that represent various segments …

Conservatives plot text warnings on “woke” products  —  A conservative group is offering a new service that texts “Woke Alerts” straight to the phones of grocery shoppers who want to know which brands are accused of taking political positions that are offensive to the right.

Federal judge slaps down another bid to delay E. Jean Carroll's civil rape trial, but Trump still isn't done trying  —  Donald Trump lost another attempt to delay trial in author E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit accusing him of rape, but the former president hasn't stopped trying to keep the jury at bay.

Bud Light halts promotion with Dylan Mulvaney, transgender ‘influencer,’ after share value plummets  —  Parent corporation's shares lost $6.6 billion in value in single week  —  After a weeklong $6.6 billion loss in share value, executives at AB InBev, parent company of Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light brand …

Substack CEO Chris Best Doesn't Realize He's Just Become The Nazi Bar  —  I get it.  I totally get it.  Every tech dude comes along and has this thought: “hey, we'll be the free speech social media site.  We won't do any moderation beyond what's required.”  Even Twitter initially thought this.

Donald Trump's 2023 financial disclosures  —  Below is Donald Trump's 2023 financial disclosure, which he is required to file as a candidate for federal office.  —  Support our fight for accountability for the insurrection  —  CREW counters corruption, exposes dark money, and fights for accountability for the insurrection.

McCarthy prepares his opening debt-limit bid — and it's full of potential pitfalls  —  The stakes couldn't be higher for the California Republican, who must avoid a misstep in the talks that would weaken his speakership.  —  Speaker Kevin McCarthy is accelerating the long-stalled push …

Dianne Feinstein digs in  —  The senator's confidants and allies scoff at her detractors and are firing back.  —  Dianne Feinstein is once more displaying the stubborn approach that's powered her storied career as pressure mounts on her to return to Washington or resign.

Special counsel prosecutors press witnesses for details about how Trump has paid for their lawyers  —  Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents are pressing multiple witnesses for details about their attorneys, including whether …

France pension reforms: Constitutional Council clears age rise to 64  —  France's top constitutional body has cleared the Macron government's highly unpopular move to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64.  —  The Constitutional Council also rejected calls for a referendum by political opponents …

Everything Ron DeSantis did yesterday was wrong — and people are noticing  —  Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis managed to anger both Democrats and Republicans on Thursday, people in his state and out of his state, as he continued his unofficial run for president while ignoring real problems …