Republicans take the rare step of censuring Rep. Adam Schiff over Trump-era probes  —  Schiff, D-Calif., will be required to stand on the House floor and receive a formal reprimand.  The resolution also directs the Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Schiff.

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.”

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 …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor  —  A feud has been boiling between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert for months.  It finally reached a new level on Wednesday. … The messy feud between two of MAGA world's biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday …

KCCI chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger departing station citing PTSD, past death threat  —  KCCI's chief meteorologist Chris Gloninger is departing the station due in part to past threats he said stemmed from his coverage of climate change.  —  Gloninger announced the news on Twitter …

Ex-FBI analyst who kept classified info in bathroom like Trump going to prison in KC case  —  A former FBI intelligence analyst from Dodge City, Kansas, who kept hundreds of classified documents at her home, including in her bathroom, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison by a federal judge …

John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress  —  The former special counsel denied two essential facts of the Trump-Russia scandal.  —  John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI's investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal …

Alito's Reply in a Rival Publication Surprises ProPublica  —  The Wall Street Journal made the unusual decision to let Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. pre-empt ProPublica's article about him in its opinion pages.  —  The Wall Street Journal faced criticism on Wednesday after its highly unusual decision …

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.”

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 …

Did Hunter Biden get a “sweetheart deal”?  —  In a May interview, President Joe Biden said that his son, Hunter, “has done nothing wrong.”  That turned out not to be true.  On Tuesday, Hunter Biden was charged with two misdemeanor counts of failure to pay income tax and one felony charge of unlawful possession of a firearm.

Middle schoolers' reading and math scores plummet  —  American students' test scores in math and reading got significantly worse last year — continuing a decade-long freefall. … Results were distributed by the National Center for Education Statistics, a branch of the Education Department.

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.

Court: Professor who went to strip club with students not ‘anti-male bias’ victim  —  George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting the public Virginia university where he works.  —  For the past four years, George Mason psychology professor Todd Kashdan has been fighting …

Who Bailed George Santos Out?  Court Is Set to Reveal the Mystery.  —  Mr. Santos, a first-term G.O.P. congressman, has tried to keep the names of his bail sureties sealed, but two judges have now rejected his efforts.  —  Of the many questions that surround Representative George Santos …

Television veteran Geraldo Rivera says he's quitting Fox News' political combat show ‘The Five’  —  Geraldo Rivera has quit as one of the lonely liberal voices on Fox News' popular political combat show “The Five,” saying Wednesday that “a growing tension that goes beyond editorial differences” made it no longer worth it to him.

Sam Alito and his fishy Alaskan getaway  —  Another justice, another luxury trip, all expenses paid by conservative activists with ideological or financial interests before the Supreme Court.  —  This time, it's Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the venue is an Alaskan fishing lodge …

Jill Stein, 2016 Green Candidate, Now Running Cornel West's Bid  —  Cornel West, the Ivy League academic and progressive activist mounting a third-party campaign for president, has chosen former Green Party candidate Jill Stein to help him challenge to President Joe Biden from the left.

Transcript: A $9 Billion Deal to Supercharge US Cleantech  —  Tesla is now a household name, but few people have heard of one of its key backers: the Loan Programs Office.  —  Part of the US Department of Energy, the Loan Programs Office is tasked with awarding government-backed loans to clean-tech.

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.

Judge strikes down Florida's ban on Medicaid funding for transgender treatment  —  The federal judge said Florida had chosen to block payment for some treatments “for political reasons” using a biased and unscientific process.  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge on Wednesday struck …