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 …

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 …

‘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.

Biden Blasts GOP ‘Wacko Notions’ Amid Debt Limit Standoff  —  President Joe Biden has lambasted the House Republicans' emerging proposal to raise the nation's debt limit in a speech at a union hall.  —  President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans' emerging trade-off plans to raise …

'I'm not a paid assassin': Inside Chris Christie's 2024 decision  —  The former New Jersey governor is eager to take on Donald Trump.  But he's only running, he says, if he thinks he can win.  —  A few weeks ago, Chris Christie called up a former Republican presidential candidate and asked for some advice …

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 …

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.

‘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.

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 …

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 …

BuzzFeed Shuts Down Its 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 to cut 15 percent …

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.

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 …

WATCH: Michelle Obama talks White House return after being snubbed by Trump  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama described returning to the White House last fall as a “beautiful experience” on Wednesday while speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show.  —  The former first lady's trip …

DeKalb County releases autopsy in ‘Cop City’ protester Manuel Teran's death  —  Teran was protesting the development of a police training center.  DeKalb County has released the autopsy results related to the death of Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who demonstrated against the construction …

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 …

The left ignores the real Biden Delaware drama to satisfy their bias  —  New York Times opinionista Michelle Goldberg complained bitterly this week that she had trekked all the way to Wilmington, Del., at the brutal hour of 7 a.m. to watch the Dominion-vs.-Fox News defamation trial, only for the parties to settle before the show began.

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 …

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.

Most adults value reproductive rights when deciding where to go to college, poll shows  —  Class sizes, available majors and extracurriculars aren't the only things going into college decisions this year.  —  A new poll shows that incoming and current college students are also thinking …

Montana Republicans want censure while misgendering lawmaker  —  A group of conservative Republican lawmakers in Montana deliberately misgendered a transgender colleague in demanding that she be censored for language she used on the floor while speaking against a bill that would ban gender-affirming medical care for children.

U.S. preparing to position troops in case of Sudan embassy evacuation  —  The security situation has spiraled downward in the country's capital.  —  The Pentagon is preparing to position U.S. forces in Djibouti in anticipation of a potential mission to evacuate U.S Embassy personnel in Khartoum …

The how and why of Tucker Carlson's misleading Ukraine war math  —  It is unusual for a newly announced Democratic candidate to make Tucker Carlson's Fox News show on one of his first stops on his media tour.  But Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s long-shot bid to wrench the party's nomination …