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.

Biden chief economist pick Bernstein moves toward Senate confirmation  —  The longtime Biden aide has already been an important voice in the administration's economic messaging.  —  President Joe Biden's pick for chief economist, Jared Bernstein, is one step closer to Senate confirmation …

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 …

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 …

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 …

At least two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections found in the U.S., CDC says  —  Cases of the infection had surged in South Asia over the past decade.  —  Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City — the first such cases ever reported …

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 …

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.

Washington Post names Matea Gold as new managing editor  —  Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday.  —  She replaces Steven Ginsberg, who left The Post last year to take a position as top editor of the Athletic, a sports site owned by the New York Times.

What's Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border?  —  The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the lives of millions.

‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah's drawings expose the US's depraved torture policy  —  Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release  —  Warning: the images and descriptions of torture in this article are extremely graphic

Tim Scott Hires Staff for His 2024 Republican Nomination Bid  —  Tim Scott is laying the groundwork for his upcoming 2024 presidential run, hiring two well-known Republican political consulting firms, according to a person familiar with his planning.  —  The Republican senator from South Carolina …

Here Are Five Rules for the Media When They Cover Trump  —  This isn't rocket science, people.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tonight on the livestream I'm going to talk with Will Saletan and Adam Keiper about the CNN town hall, the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and Will's Lindsey Graham opus.

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.

Feinstein return allows Judiciary Committee to advance three stalled nominees  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to her post on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and greenlit the passage of three judicial nominees who had been stalled during her lengthy health-related absence.