Trump and the Town Hall  —  It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.  —  Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come.  She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.

The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About  —  Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol.  —  He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden  —  After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.  —  Reporting from Washington

The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas' Relationship With Harlan Crow  —  The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy.  Here's where our reporting started and how we got the story.  —  Our reporting on the relationship between Supreme …

US accuses South Africa of supplying arms to Russia  —  Claim worsens foreign policy crisis for Cyril Ramaphosa's government over country's ties to Kremlin  —  The US has accused South Africa of supplying arms to Russia in a covert naval operation, escalating a foreign policy crisis …

The Tragicomedy of George Santos and the GOP  —  Also, understanding the crimes Santos is charged with  —  What is the worst fate that could befall a political party?  Leaving Donald Trump (sexual assaulter, twice-impeached, insurrectionist, former president who badly lost his effort …

Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.  Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.  —  We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.

Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts  —  Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.

Zelensky says Ukraine needs more time for counter-offensive  —  Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country needs more time to launch a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces, as the military awaits the delivery of promised aid.

Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters … But he's acting like it. … - Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's “radical climate agenda.”  — Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related …

Supreme Court throws out ex-Cuomo aide's bribery conviction  —  The justices' ruling narrowed the scope of a law used to root out public corruption.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal anticorruption law by ruling in favor of an ex-aide to former …

Connie  —  IT WAS ON MY FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there.  —  Suddenly, I was among a student body that was almost 50 percent Asian.  While I was standing in line to order a sandwich at the campus cafe …

Appeals court tosses convictions of parents in college admissions scandal  —  A federal appeals court exonerated two parents on Wednesday who were found guilty of using bribes to get their children into school, with the ruling overturned on largely technical grounds.

Is the debt ceiling constitutional?  —  What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default?  —  The United States has a time bomb written into federal law, and no one knows whether it is constitutional or not.  —  As anyone who has paid attention …