Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas's wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’  —  Leonard Leo told GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill nonprofit, then use money to pay spouse of Supreme Court justice  —  Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife …

Trump Says Stars Get Away With Sexual Assault—'Unfortunately or Fortunately'  —  He keeps denying that he raped E. Jean Carroll.  But Donald Trump says stars like him do indeed get away with sexual assault.  —  The Manhattan jury that will decide whether Donald Trump raped journalist E …

Justice Dept. Intensifying Efforts to Determine if Trump Hid Documents  —  Prosecutors investigating the former president's handling of classified material have issued a wave of new subpoenas and obtained the confidential cooperation of a witness who worked at Mar-a-Lago.

Clarence Thomas' Friend Acknowledges That Billionaire Harlan Crow Paid Tuition for the Child Thomas Was Raising “as a Son”  —  In response to ProPublica reporting, the friend said Crow covered two years of schooling for the teen, which would amount to roughly $100,000 of undisclosed gifts.

Biden to Name Air Force Chief to Top Military Post, Officials Say  —  The appointment of Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. would mean that the top two Pentagon leadership positions would be inhabited by Black men for the first time in American history.  —  WASHINGTON — President Biden is expected …

Enrique Tarrio was not just a random seditionist  —  Enrique Tarrio was there, behind Donald Trump, as the president spoke to a Miami audience in February 2019.  The chairman of the right-wing extremist group clapped as Trump, just starting to turn his attention to his 2020 reelection bid …

Mozilla's setting up shop on Mastodon and trying to reinvent content moderation … If you want to be a member of Mozilla.Social, Mozilla's new Mastodon instance, you're not allowed to harass other users.  You're also not allowed to use derogatory language about gender, sex, sexual orientation …

Florida lawmakers pass pair of extreme anti-trans bills  —  Over the past two days, Florida lawmakers passed two of the most extreme anti-transgender bills in the nation — bills that would criminalize providing gender-affirming medical care to minors as a felony and criminalize trans people …

Fox's Gutfeld Somehow Blames George Floyd for Deadly NYC Subway Chokehold  —  “If anybody says this is like George Floyd, no. It's because of George Floyd,” he said.  —  Fox News host Greg Gutfeld placed responsibility for the death of homeless man Jordan Neely not on the ex-Marine …

Americans split on who they'd blame if U.S. defaults, Post-ABC poll finds  —  As the debate over raising the debt ceiling continues, 39 percent say they would blame congressional Republicans, while 36 percent say they would blame President Biden  —  A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds Americans divided …

How Gov. Ron DeSantis deploys state police to enforce political agenda  —  The mission was a tightly held secret as two agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement traveled to a remote Texas town, hundreds of miles away on the U.S.-Mexico border.  —  They worked for a statewide …

How Rep. James Clyburn Protected His District at a Cost to Black Democrats  —  The meeting was arranged in secret.  On Nov. 19, 2021, the chief of staff for South Carolina's Senate Judiciary Committee texted Dalton Tresvant, a key aide to Rep. Jim Clyburn, the state's most powerful Democrat.

GOP frontrunner for NC governor mocked school shooting survivors and once justified shooting protesters  —  North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the current Republican favorite to be the party's nominee for governor in 2024, has a long history of remarks viciously mocking and attacking teenage survivors …

Someone needs to tell MTG that Biden can't be both a criminal mastermind and completely senile  — Greene baselessly claimed this week that Biden is the mastermind of a criminal empire.  — But Greene has also hammered Biden on his age and called him “mentally incompetent.”

DeSantis courts evangelicals with strict abortion law; opponents counterpunch in his backyard  —  A multi-million-dollar initiative would roll back one of DeSantis' signature policies by allowing abortion until a fetus is viable at about 24 weeks of pregnancy.

Producer Tells All: How Tucker Carlson Became the GOP's MAGA Puppeteer  —  “He was changing the Republican Party, and he loved having that kind of power” … Carlson terrified top Republicans with threats to “destroy” them if they failed to do his bidding and used his platform to push …

Wagner Chief Again Threatens Bakhmut Pullout Over Supplies  —  In an expletive-laden video filmed in front of a field of corpses, Wagner mercenary group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin accused Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and the head of the army Valery Gerasimov of failing to supply his troops in Ukraine with enough ammunition.

Former Trump campaign staffer subpoenaed by DOJ is now working for House committee on elections  —  Thomas Lane's home was searched by the FBI.  He now works on the House Administration Committee.  —  A former Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice as part …