Fani Willis Responds to GOP Backlash to Trump Case: ‘They Want to Come Up With This Foolishness’  —  ‘They worry the hero is treated the same as everybody else,’ the Fulton County, Georgia district attorney said  —  Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis is speaking up amid pushback …

Supreme Court will decide access to key abortion drug mifepristone  —  The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide this term whether to limit access to a key abortion drug, returning the polarizing issue of reproductive rights to the high court for the first time since …

House Set to Approve Biden Impeachment Inquiry as It Hunts for an Offense  —  Republicans are pushing forward with a formal investigation even though their yearlong scrutiny of the president and his family has turned up no proof of high crimes or misdemeanors.

André Braugher Dies: Star Of ‘Homicide: Life On The Street’, ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ & Other Series And Films Was 61  —  Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film  — VIBE Editor-In-Chief Datwon Thomas Takes Executive Producer, Talent Post At Dick Clark Productions  — Mort Engelberg Dies …

We Were Told Biden Is Secretly Running the DOJ.  Why Is His Son Being Charged? … It has long been an article of faith on the right that Attorney General Merrick Garland is prosecuting Donald Trump because President Biden wants him to.  Even the Trump-skeptical corners …

Tesla to Recall More Than Two Million Vehicles Over Autopilot Safety Concerns  —  Move follows two-year investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration  —  Tesla will recall more than two million vehicles over concerns over its Autopilot system, following a two-year probe …

New York's high court just blew up the fight for control of the House  —  Here are five takeaways from the Tuesday's court ruling to redistrict New York — and what to know about the chaotic weeks ahead.  —  New York's high court gave Democrats a big leg up in the dogfight for control of the House of Representatives.

Playbook: A protest that should worry Biden and Harris  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IT'S A WRAP — “Climate summit makes ‘historic progress’ — but the world still can't quit oil,” by Karl Mathiesen, Zia Weise, Zack Colman …

Santos: ‘I want to go back to Congress’  —  Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) said he'd be interested in returning to Congress, just two weeks after he was removed from office and wrote off Congress.  —  It's a stark reversal from previous comments about his future.  —  “Why would I want to stay here?

Contraception is a winning issue, conservative strategists tell GOP  —  Former Trump confidante Kellyanne Conway and other strategists are citing poll data showing strong demand among GOP voters for birth control after the fall of Roe.  —  Kellyanne Conway is going to Capitol Hill on Wednesday …

Trump considers overhauling his approach to North Korea if he wins in 2024  —  The idea, which has been considered in other forms during years of U.S.-led negotiations with North Korea, would be a shift in Washington's overall approach to Pyongyang.  —  Donald Trump is considering a plan …

Florida abortion rights activists win over Republicans in ballot measure push  —  An abortion rights group says more than 150,000 of the voters who have signed its petition to get protections into the state constitution are registered Republicans.  —  PINECREST, Fla. — Jaymie Carter is a registered Republican.

Michael D. Cohen's Lawyer Cited Cases That May Not Exist, Judge Says  —  Mr. Cohen, the onetime fixer for former President Donald J. Trump, went to prison after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations.  He wants the court to end his supervised release.

The truth about Wreaths Across America  —  Wreaths Across America is a non-profit organization that places wreaths on the graves of military veterans.  It's a simple gesture that has proven popular.  Wreaths Across America placed 33,000 wreaths in 2007, its first year.

‘Thank God they walked out’: Oregon's partisan divide highlights heightened animosity in statehouses  —  Republicans lawmakers in Oregon are banned from running for reelection after staging a six-week protest over guns, abortion and transgender issues.  —  Ten Oregon Republican senators …

Trump Legal Defense Fund's Biggest Expense Was Mar-a-Lago  —  New tax filings show that a legal defense fund for Trump isn't spending any money on legal services, but is dishing out for a party at Mar-a-Lago.  —  A legal defense fund for Donald Trump appears to have placed its spending priorities in a strange place: Mar-a-Lago.

Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: One-in-Five Mail-In Voters Admit to Committing at Least One Kind of Voter Fraud During 2020 Election  —  17% of mail-in voters admit that in 2020 they voted in a state where they are “no longer a permanent resident”  —  21% of mail-in voters admitted that they filled out a ballot for a friend or family member

Trump Tries to Slow Down Appeals Court Review on ‘Presidential Immunity’  —  The former president's lawyers cited ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ in a court filing on Wednesday arguing against a speedy briefing schedule … “The prosecution has one goal in this case: To unlawfully attempt to try …

Ten soldiers, including two senior officers, killed in Gaza fighting and deadly ambush  —  9 troops of Golani Brigade, Air Force's Unit 669, killed in one of the deadliest incidents of ground offensive so far, taking toll to 115; combat engineer killed in separate clash

Israel Begins Pumping Seawater Into Hamas's Gaza Tunnels  —  Early effort to flood tunnels is one of several techniques aimed at destroying network that underpins Hamas's operations  —  Israel's military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas's vast complex of tunnels in Gaza …

Nude painting row at French school sparks teacher walkout  —  France's education minister has visited a school where some pupils refused to look at a painting of nude women in class, sparking a teacher walkout.  —  The pupils also accused their teacher of making racist and Islamophobic remarks, which the school denies.

White House lays out offer on immigration changes in talks with Congress  —  Washington — The Biden administration on Tuesday indicated to congressional lawmakers that it would be willing to support a new border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as a dramatic expansion …