You Have to Think of Trump's Election as Year Zero  —  THERE ARE EVENTS SO EPOCHAL that they create clear periods of before and after: Hiroshima; the fall of the Berlin Wall; 9/11.  Eight years after he declared his intention to run for president, it's now clear that we should consider Donald …

Harlan Crow: There's nothing wrong with my friendship with Clarence Thomas  —  The billionaire, in an exclusive interview, explains his relationship with Thomas, his love of American history and wanting to stay out of the limelight.  —  Harlan Crow believes he and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas …

Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day  —  Opening statements in the $1.6 billion defamation case against Fox News were set to begin on Monday.  —  A Delaware judge on Monday said that he had delayed by a day the start of a highly anticipated defamation trial over the spread of misinformation in the 2020 presidential election.

Russia sentences Kara-Murza, Putin critic and Post contributor, to 25 years  —  RIGA, Latvia — A Russian court sentenced Vladimir Kara-Murza, a longtime opposition politician and Washington Post Opinions contributor, to 25 years in prison on Monday on charges of treason for criticizing Russia's war on Ukraine.

Fiscal crisis nears as McCarthy takes debt ceiling plan to Wall Street  —  The House speaker is set to outline the party's new proposal at the New York Stock Exchange, more than a decade after a similar GOP-led standoff hammered U.S. markets  —  NEW YORK — Nearly 40 years ago …

DA's Secret Weapon May Be Lawyer Who's Dogged Trump for Years  —  Matthew Colangelo has taken on Trump multiple times before.  Now, he's in the middle of his highest-stakes Trump case yet.  —  A little-known lawyer in New York has long been the thorn in Donald Trump's side …

Why GOP culture warriors lost big in school board races this month  —  “Don't assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district,” one GOP activist said.  —  Amid all the attention on this month's elections in Wisconsin and Illinois …

Rep. Paul Gosar promotes pro-Hitler and Holocaust-denying site after it praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers”  —  Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) used his House.gov newsletter to direct people to a story posted on a Holocaust-denier website that praised him for attacking “Jewish warmongers” for their support of Ukraine.

“This Is A Hate Crime”: Kansas City Black Family Demanding Justice After A White Man Shoots Black Boy, Ralph Yarl, In The Head Twice For Ringing Doorbell Of The Wrong Home, White Man Released By Police Hours Later  —  Community members are demanding justice after a white man in Kansas City shot a black boy …

Sexton responds, constituents call for resignation  —  On Thursday, Popular Information reported that Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) secretly purchased a $600,000 home in Nashville.  Sexton and his family live in the Nashville home year-round, raising questions about whether Sexton …

Del. Stacey Plaskett Exposes Rep. Jim Jordan's Glaring Hypocrisy  —  The Virgin Islands delegate hit the Donald Trump-loving Ohio Republican with a blunt reminder of the former president's own conduct.  —  Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) slammed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) for hypocrisy on Sunday's broadcast of MSNBC's “Ayman.”

Pentagon leak promoted by pro-Russian network run by former Navy noncommissioned officer on US soil  —  The Wall Street Journal revealed that one of the people that helped promote and spread the leaked Pentagon documents was a former Navy noncommissioned officer on U.S. soil who developed a pro-Russia network on social media.

Potential U.S. Attorney Nominee Has Demonstrated Disregard for Constitutional Rights  —  If Keva Landrum were chosen, it would serve as yet another example of the Biden administration betraying its promises to reform the criminal legal system. … This week, NOLA.com reported that Keva Landrum …

Senior ISIS leader suspected killed in US raid  —  U.S. forces believe they killed a senior Islamic State leader on Monday in an early morning helicopter raid in northern Syria, according to U.S. Central Command.  —  The raid sought the senior ISIS Syria leader, an unnamed operational planner responsible …

Concern About Several Environmental Problems Dips in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of Americans, 55%, express “a great deal” of worry about the pollution of drinking water in the U.S., which remains their top environmental concern of six problems tested.

Scoop: Ron Klain rejoins law firm O'Melveny as partner  —  Ron Klain, two months after leaving as White House chief of staff, today will “return home” to the global legal giant O'Melveny as partner in its Litigation Department, based in Washington and New York, and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee.

How Walmart Pushed Arkansas Public Schools to Go Woke  —  Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show a private company's unprecedented effort to inject DEI into classrooms  —  In January 2020, Walmart approached public school administrators in Bentonville, Arkansas …

Meet the Murdochs' newest star  —  Writing the house biography of Tucker Carlson is the sort of challenge that could make even the most loyal News Corp. hand a little nervous.  Carlson is Fox News's franchise player, but he's also a skilled political operator who has managed to keep both Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch at bay.