Russian agents' threat to family made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance  —  Details offer clue as to why Wagner Group abandoned coup attempt that revealed ‘real cracks’ in Putin's authority  —  Russian intelligence services threatened to harm the families of Wagner leaders …

'It's just stupid': DeSantis stumbles in New Hampshire  —  It once looked like Ron DeSantis might be poised for a breakthrough in New Hampshire.  Not anymore.  —  For several months this year, Ron DeSantis seemed poised for a breakthrough in New Hampshire.

Supreme Court allows for Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district  —  The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district.  —  The justices reversed plans to hear the case themselves …

Democrats warn party: The threat of Trump winning in 2024 is ‘very real’  —  New NBC News polling shows President Joe Biden with a relatively narrow 49% to 45 % lead over Donald Trump — which is within the survey's margin of error.  —  WASHINGTON — The idea is somewhere between conventional wisdom …

Supreme Court lets lawsuits over team doctor's sexual abuse proceed against Ohio State  —  The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.

Sarah McBride announces run for US House seat to become first trans member of Congress  —  State Sen. Sarah McBride, the country's highest-ranking transgender elected official, announced her candidacy Monday to become Delaware's next sole congresswoman.  —  McBride, if elected …

The breathtaking hypocrisy of Alito  —  He's a Fox News talking head masquerading as a Supreme Court justice.  —  ∙ Paid … Another week, another story about a hard-right Supreme Court justice being more than happy to vacation with billionaires who have business before the court.

Fox News Names Jesse Watters to Replace Tucker Carlson as Anchor of 8 p.m. Hour  —  Network announces series of changes in prime time  —  Jesse Watters will be the new host of Fox News's 8 p.m. hour, replacing ousted star anchor Tucker Carlson, one of several prime-time changes the network announced on Monday.

Richard Ravitch, Rescuer of the Subways and New York's Finances, Dies at 89  —  He helped New York City avoid bankruptcy in the mid-1970s, ran the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and later served as lieutenant governor.  —  Richard Ravitch, a politically savvy, civic-minded developer …

A Dangerous Shift Is Underway in the West Bank  —  Mr. Nir is a former West Bank correspondent of Israel's Haaretz newspaper.  —  In April 1988, as a reporter for Haaretz, I attended the funeral of a 15-year-old West Bank settler, Tirza Porat, who was accidentally shot to death by a fellow settler.

Larry Fink “ashamed” to be part of ESG political debate  —  BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said he's no longer using the term “ESG” (environment, social and governance) because it is being politically “weaponized” and he's “ashamed” to be part of the debate on the issue. … BlackRock manages $9.2 trillion.

How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It's Published  —  The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.  —  Cecilia Rabess figured her debut novel, “Everything's Fine,” would spark criticism …

The Candidate of the ‘Tucker-Rogan-Elon-Bannon-Combo- Platter Right’  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s speech is warbling, crackling, scratchy—sort of like Marge Simpson's.  His voice, he told me, is “fucked up.”  The official medical diagnosis is spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that causes involuntary spasms in the larynx.

Special Report: US, Swedish prosecutors study graft complaint naming son of Turkey's Erdogan  —  Anti-corruption authorities in the United States and Sweden are reviewing a complaint alleging that the Swedish affiliate of a U.S. company pledged to pay tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks …

The next president's $4 trillion problem  —  Whoever is in the White House in 2025 will quickly face a series of legislative deadlines with impossible price tags: $3.6 trillion in tax cuts and $350 billion in Affordable Care Act subsidies are expiring — and that's after the debt limit will need to be addressed again.

A debt deal twist is shifting Congress' shutdown gameplan  —  The debt deal forces a 1 percent cut to government spending on Jan. 1 if a short-term funding bill is in place.  So, lawmakers say, that's the REAL deadline to pass new spending bills.  —  It's only June, and already Congress is threatening to ruin New Year's Eve.