Mike Lindell's firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge  —  MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference …

JUST IN: Dan Bongino Parts Ways With Fox News  —  Dan Bongino, the pro-Trump firebrand who turned frequent appearances on Fox News into a job hosting a weekend show on the network, announced his departure on Thursday.  —  Bongino, the host of Unfiltered and Fox Nation's Canceled in the USA …

‘Deeply frustrated’: Florida legislators worn out by DeSantis  —  The governor didn't wow D.C. It's not great in Tallahassee either.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' iron-clad grip on the Republican-controlled Legislature may be slipping amid growing frustration among GOP legislators.

BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its Namesake News Division  —  BuzzFeed News, which won a Pulitzer Prize but never made money, is “beginning the process of closing,” the company's founder, Jonah Peretti, said in a memo to employees.  —  BuzzFeed is shutting down its news division as part of an effort …

Manchin slams Biden for ‘deficiency of leadership,’ applauds McCarthy debt limit plan  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who faces reelection in a Republican-leaning state, on Thursday slammed President Biden for showing “a deficiency of leadership” on a potential national default …

Top GOP lawyer decries ease of campus voting in private pitch to RNC  —  A presentation by Cleta Mitchell at a donor retreat urged tougher rules that could make it harder for college students to cast ballots  —  NASHVILLE — A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors …

Republicans are alarmed about a Mastriano for Senate bid.  Even Trump.  —  The former president has privately conveyed concerns about having the Pennsylvania Republican on the top of the ticket alongside him this cycle.  —  MAGA firebrand Doug Mastriano is inducing panic among GOP officials …

SpaceX's Starship Rocket Will Try to Launch on 4/20: What to Expect  —  The most powerful rocket ever built got off the launchpad in South Texas, but did not achieve its most ambitious goals on Thursday.  —  A setback for Elon Musk and SpaceX, but not a fatal one.

Fox was resigned to a tough trial.  Then, a secret mediator stepped in.  —  Dominion held firm to its big-money claim, and the jury was seated, just before a dramatic ending to the defamation case  —  For months, as the pretrial proceedings wore on and the embarrassing internal messages kept spilling …

REVEALED: GOP leader, who voted to expel Tennessee Three, found guilty of sexually harassing interns  —  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A member of GOP leadership in the Tennessee House of Representatives was recently found guilty of sexually harassing at least one legislative intern, likely two …

‘Fear and paranoia.’ Grandson says Andrew Lester bought into conspiracies, disinformation  —  A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City's Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather's actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.

U.S. positioning troops ahead of possible Sudan embassy evacuation  —  The security situation has spiraled downward in the country's capital.  —  The Pentagon is positioning U.S. forces in Djibouti in anticipation of a potential mission to evacuate U.S. Embassy personnel in Khartoum, two people familiar with the military plans said.

Judicial record undermines Clarence Thomas defence in luxury gifts scandal  —  Republican mega-donor Harlan Crow was linked to a conservative group that had court business while Thomas was on the bench  —  Earlier this month, the supreme court justice Clarence Thomas put out a statement …

After All That, I Would Still Publish the Dossier  —  But I would do some things differently.  —  When i realized the power of online journalism in the early aughts, I saw transparency as key to its promise.  I'd watched Gawker X-ray New York's media scene, and seen bloggers tear apart mainstream reporting …

Exxon's Unethical Supreme Court Play  —  Oil company lawyers are pushing Justice Alito to indirectly decide cases he should recuse himself from. … As the revelations of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's flagrant corruption continue to unspool, scrutiny of the weak ethics rules binding the Court has intensified.

At Sandy Hook, Crime-Scene Investigators Saw the Unimaginable  —  The crime-scene investigators are the ones who document, and remember, the unimaginable.  This is what they saw at Sandy Hook.  —  The crime-scene van was parked next to the black Honda Civic already identified as belonging to the shooter …

The (Republican) Party's Over  —  With each passing month, week, and day, the Republican Party contrives to go a little crazier, one step more radical—to smash one more norm or tradition.  If you still think that surely they'll come to their senses one of these days, you're just not paying attention.

More peril for Trump in pending probes than NY: AP-NORC poll  —  Former President Donald Trump has emerged largely unscathed politically from his New York indictment.  But a new poll suggests that investigations in Georgia and Washington could prove more problematic.

Pentagon Requests $36 Million for Havana Syndrome … House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's debt limit bill unveiled Wednesday would slash $130 billion from a broad range of domestic programs, including clean-energy subsidies and student loan forgiveness.  But one thing the bill would not cut is the military …

Donald Trump Is Running a Democratic Campaign in a Republican Primary  —  DONALD TRUMP IS PUMMELING RON DESANTIS in the battle for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  He accuses DeSantis of exaggerating Florida's economic success, failing to control crime, and locking down businesses during COVID.

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan dies at 92  —  Richard J. Riordan, the take-charge venture capitalist who as mayor shepherded Los Angeles' rebound from the 1992 riots, expanded its Police Department and masterminded its recovery from the Northridge earthquake, has died at his Brentwood home.

A new Smithsonian boss settled multiple employee retaliation lawsuits  —  The selection of Nancy Yao to run the American Women's History Museum is being re-evaluated because of questions about firing three sex-harassment accusers at a New York museum  —  When the Smithsonian Institution announced …

Fox Paid a Parking Ticket; Mike Lindell Is Going To Get Wrecked  —  In the Game of Trump, the cynical elites prosper while the rubes get taken to the cleaners.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tonight: I'll be joined by A.B. Stoddard and Bill Kristol to talk about about [gestures broadly] all of this.

New secret recording reveals Oklahoma county leaders discussing sexual favors for pay raises  —  Last week the McCurtain Gazette News, suspecting that county meetings continued after the public left in a violation of Oklahoma's open-meetings laws, secretly placed a voice-activated recorder in the room.

Florida emergency alert test sent at 4:45 am draws angry response, has DeSantis threatening to fire someone  —  Florida Division of Emergency Management apologizes after emergency alert test triggers loud alarm on people's phones at 4:45 am Thursday  —  Florida authorities apologized Thursday …