Exclusive: Special counsel trades immunity for fake elector testimony as Jan 6 probe heats up  —  Special counsel Jack Smith has compelled at least two Republican fake electors to testify to a federal grand jury in Washington in recent weeks by giving them limited immunity …

House Freedom Caucus faces an internal purge push  —  At least two hardliners have discussed trying to boot members who no longer meet the group's ideological standards, according to three Republicans with knowledge of the talks.  —  Tensions inside the conservative House Freedom Caucus …

I.R.S. Agent Told Congress of Hunter Biden Invoking His Father in Business Deal  —  A whistle-blower said the tax agency found a message from 2017 in which Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business partner by saying he was with his father, who was then out of office.

No Labels declines to reveal just who is funding its third party bid  —  The group isn't required under law to disclose its donors even as it takes on the look of a political party  —  No Labels' bid to run a third party presidential candidate in 2024 has sparked a number of questions about political motivations.

Pro-RFK Jr. Super PAC Has Deep Ties to Marjorie Taylor Greene, George Santos  —  The super PAC is just one example of the nominally Democratic candidate running a campaign that's awash in support from backers of Donald Trump … On its website, the group — whose name is borrowed …

Infighting among Putin's lieutenants hurts Russia's war footing, if not his hold on power  —  The video was shocking — not just for what it showed but also for what was said.  —  Yevgeny Prigozhin, the outspoken millionaire head of the private military contractor Wagner …

Supreme Court says White House can continue to set deportation priorities  —  The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for the Biden administration in an important immigration case, saying Texas and Louisiana lacked the legal standing to challenge the executive branch's priorities on who should be deported.

Read: Arizona GOP election official sues Kari Lake for defamation  —  Kari Lake is facing a defamation lawsuit from Maricopa County recorder Stephen Richer over the failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate's false claims about her 2022 election loss.

New video undercuts claim Twitter censored pro-Trump views before Jan. 6  —  In the internal video call from Jan. 5, 2021, workers were told not to take tougher action against a growing wave of tweets they feared were veiled incitements to violence.  —  On Jan. 5, 2021, the lawyers …

Trump Prosecutors Struggled Over Motives.  Then They Heard the Tape.  —  Audio recording became a significant find in the classified-documents case  —  WASHINGTON—Justice Department and FBI officials disagreed back in August about whether their investigation into the handling …

Trump insider says mood has shifted to ‘quiet’ and ‘a bit sour’  —  What a difference a day makes?  —  While Donald Trump was “fixated,” fired up and outraged in the wake of Hunter Biden getting a “slap on the wrist” after being charged with tax and firearm offenses …

Biden to sign executive order expanding access to contraception  —  U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday will sign an executive order designed to protect and expand access to contraception, after a Supreme Court ruling last year overturning the constitutional right to abortion raised fears that birth control could also face restrictions.

Hunter Biden kicked out of $10K sex club for 'grabbing women's asses,' acting like a ‘spoiled child’  —  Hunter Biden got kicked out of a private sex club for “grabbing women's asses” and acting “like a spoiled child,” the founder exclusively told The Post.  —  The president's troubled son is “a really bad guy — not a good person.

Canadians will no longer have access to news content on Facebook and Instagram, Meta says  —  Bill C-18, the Online News Act, received royal assent after passing House and Senate  —  The social media giant Meta has confirmed that it will end access to news on its social media sites …

North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE  —  In 2018, fierce organizing by immigrants' rights groups led to a sea change in North Carolina: sheriff candidates who promised to stop collaborating with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement won in five of the state's most populous counties.

Trump coup plotter John Eastman is finally facing real accountability  —  Former president Donald Trump and his supporters have blamed his indictment on a “two-tiered” justice system.  As it happens, we do have a two-tiered system, but here's a better example of it: Hundreds of ordinary people …

U.S. Navy Detected Titan Sub Implosion Days Ago  —  Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy  —  WASHINGTON—A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system designed to spot enemy submarines first heard the Titan sub implosion hours …

‘Shady and Corrupt’: Add Barrett Real Estate Deal to List of Supreme Court Ethics Scandals  —  The right-wing justice sold a home to a religious freedom group that has filed numerous briefs in cases before the court.  —  Thursday reporting on a real estate deal made by U.S. Supreme Court …

The Big Names That Got Backstop for Billions in Uninsured SVB Deposits  —  When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank's deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups and prevented what could have been a catastrophic blow to a sector that relied heavily on the lender.

Exclusive: House conservatives challenge their leaders on abortion  —  The Republican Study Committee is pushing House GOP leadership for a vote on the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act (H.R. 7), Axios has learned.

SCOTUS rules that some legally innocent people can't even challenge their imprisonment  —  The 6-3 decision did, however, highlight that Thomas's indifference to people in prison will now face the spotlight of Jackson's expertise.  —  The Supreme Court's reactionary majority was on full display Thursday …

Have Republicans found their own Steele dossier?  —  The News  —  Remember the Steele dossier?  Congressional Republicans certainly do.  —  On Wednesday, House GOP members voted to formally censure Rep. Adam Schiff, one of Donald Trump's most vocal Democratic critics in Congress …

Treasury Sanctions Russian Intelligence Officers Supervising Election Influence Operations in the United States and Around the World  —  WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) …

Ron DeSantis pushes racist tropes in latest comments about basketball and baseball players  —  Ron DeSantis isn't telling the truth.  He knows when he uses a racist dog whistle in speaking about basketball players − not a dog whistle actually, a bullhorn ... wait, not a bullhorn …

The GOP's abortion bans are what RELIGIOUS FASCISM looks like  —  Since Roe was overturned GOP has gone full religious supremacy  —  This Saturday marks the one year anniversary of the GOP controlled United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.  From there, we saw …

The World's Empty Office Buildings Have Become a Debt Time Bomb  —  In New York and London, owners of gleaming office towers are walking away from their debt rather than pouring good money after bad.  The landlords of downtown San Francisco's largest mall have abandoned it.

Senator Calls For Return of Old Mississippi Flag: ‘Our People Died Under That Flag’  —  Almost three years after both houses of the Mississippi Legislature overwhelmingly voted to retire the old Confederate-themed state flag, a state senator from Union County is calling for its return.

3M Reaches $10.3 Billion Settlement in ‘Forever Chemicals’ Suits  —  The deal followed an agreement by Chemours, DuPont and Corteva to pay $1.19 billion to help resolve claims that the chemical manufacturers contaminated drinking water across the country.  —  The chemical and manufacturing …