John Durham Flames Out  —  Let's catch up before we get to the main event today:  — Fight Club update: “Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.” … - Meanwhile... “Chaos ERUPTS in House After Adam Schiff Is Censured: ‘Shame!  Shame!  Shame!’

George Santos' father and aunt guaranteed his $500K bond, court documents show  —  The congressman pleaded guilty in May to a 13-count fraud indictment.  —  Rep. George Santos' father and aunt guaranteed his $500,000 bond, according to a court document unsealed Thursday over the congressman's objection.

Moms for Liberty's Hamilton County chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in newsletter  —  The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an “extremist group” by a civil rights watchdog, apologized Thursday morning after it launched a newsletter called …

Trump documents investigation examined New Jersey club from outset  —  Exclusive: Prosecutors developed evidence early on of classified documents at Trump's Bedminster golf club  —  Federal prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's retention of national security material were examining evidence within weeks …

Senator Rick Scott Has Been Weighing a Presidential Run  —  If he runs, Mr. Scott would become the fourth Republican presidential candidate from Florida, joining Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis and Mayor Frances Suarez of Miami.  —  Senator Rick Scott of Florida is considering a late entry …

The Trump Divide that Should Have Republicans Terrified  —  The indictments are making him stronger in the Republican nomination fight while he's taking on more baggage for a general election.  —  The conventional wisdom is that Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier of Fox News on Monday night …

Just Another RFK Jr. Lie.  I Know, Because It's About Me.  —  I edited Kennedy's error-ridden piece on a vaccine-autism link, which Salon later retracted.  We caved to the truth, not Big Pharma.  —  I've been doing my best to ignore the farcical presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr …

Meteorologist resigns, citing PTSD from threats over climate change coverage  —  When Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger got an email notification last June, it read: “Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy on the weather.”  —  “What's your address,” another asked Gloninger a few days later.

Republican Will Hurd announces he's running for president  —  Former Texas Congressman Will Hurd announced he's running for president on “CBS Mornings” Thursday.  —  “This morning, I filed to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States,” Hurd told “CBS Mornings.”

Alito in the hot seat over trips to Alaska and Rome he accepted from groups and individuals who lobby the Supreme Court  —  Concerns about ethics and transparency at the Supreme Court have been reignited this week after Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged attending a luxury fishing trip …

Mark Zuckerberg is ready to fight Elon Musk in a cage match … Here we go.  —  After Elon Musk recently tweeted that he would be “up for a cage fight” with Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO shot back by posting a screenshot of Musk's tweet with the caption “send me location.”

Cop City in Atlanta is the future of America  —  ATLANTA — This hardly feels like the most-talked about piece of real estate in a development-crazed Sunbelt megalopolis.  What could be so controversial about a squad of dull-yellow Caterpillar earth movers pushing mounds of Georgia's red-clay soil …

NAEP Scores ‘Flashing Red’ After a Lost Generation of Learning for 13-Year-Olds  —  'Nation's Report Card' shows math skills reset to the level of the 1990s, while struggling readers are scoring lower than they did in 1971  —  Get stories like these delivered straight to your inbox.

Snctm sex club founder banned after naming Hunter Biden as former member  —  Damon Lawner, the founder of Snctm, has been banned from the high-end sex club after he publicly identified Hunter Biden as a former member.  The claim about President Biden's son was included in a Times profile of Lawner published Tuesday.

These 1,572 US politicians have helped ban abortion since Roe fell.  They're mostly men  —  These are the faces of lawmakers and governors whose votes helped pass bans on abortion  —  Ava Sasani, graphics by Andrew Witherspoon  —  It's been one year since the US supreme court ended the constitutional right to abortion.

Dobbs Turned Abortion Into A Huge Liability For Republicans  —  Support for abortion rights is higher than it's been in decades.  —  By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux  —  Graphics by Humera Lodhi  —  Jun. 22, 2023, at 9:15 AM  —  When Theresa M. started attending a support group for breast cancer survivors …

Russian Court Rejects Appeal to Release Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich  —  Wall Street Journal reporter had been ordered to remain in a Moscow prison until at least Aug. 30  —  A Russian court upheld the extended detention of Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter deemed …

Anti-abortion leaders tell presidential candidates to embrace national ban to win caucuses  —  A panel of anti-abortion advocates sent a message to Republican presidential hopefuls campaigning in Iowa: embrace a national abortion ban or risk losing in the caucuses.

Why Not Whitmer?  —  The Michigan governor isn't running for president.  But she is happy to be interrogated over whether she might change her mind.  —  Why doesn't Gretchen Whitmer just run for president?  Or at least humor the suggestion?  —  Whitmer, the governor of Michigan …

Dictators' dark secret: They're learning from each other  —  In the spring of 2012, Vladimir Putin was feeling the pressure.  —  For months, anti-Putin protests had surged through the streets of Moscow and other cities following fraudulent parliamentary elections the previous December.

White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent  —  Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of …

Submersible Pilot's Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple  —  Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the ocean liner.  —  Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush …

Three of Mount Rainier's glaciers have melted away  —  Glaciers across the world are on a path of prolonged decline, a trend driven by the human use of fossil fuels and the accumulation of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere.  —  A warming climate has melted three glaciers on Mount Rainier …

September date set for Texas attorney general impeachment trial  —  The Texas Senate voted Wednesday to begin the historic impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton on Sept. 5, and it approved rules that bar Paxton's wife from voting due to a conflict of interest.