Trump Loses Federal Appeal on Immunity in E. Jean Carroll Case  —  No judge from the Second Circuit called for a vote to rehear Trump's appeal, leaving the Supreme Court as the last possible stop for the former president  —  Donald Trump on Monday lost again in the former president's bid …

Exclusive: Roger Stone Spoke With Cop Pal About Assassinating Eric Swalwell and Jerry Nadler  —  Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, infamous political operative Roger Stone sat across from his associate Sal Greco at a restaurant in Florida.  —  At the time, Greco was an NYPD cop working security for Stone on the side.

Florida Republican Party ousts Christian Ziegler as chairman after rape allegation  —  The move was widely expected after news broke last month that Ziegler was under investigation by the Sarasota County Police Department.  —  The Republican Party of Florida on Monday formally voted …

Biden won't accept an Austin resignation if offered  —  The president is not considering sacking his defense secretary, officials say.  —  President Joe Biden is not considering firing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after he did not tell the White House about his emergency hospitalization …

Biden's January 6 Speech Was The Template For A Winning Campaign  —  Anti-Trumpism unites Democrats, gets Biden fired up...and happens to be the cause of our lifetimes  —  Joe Biden's Friday speech marking the third anniversary of the January 6 insurrection landed in a way his previous remembrances did not.

Tanya Chutkan, the judge overseeing Trump's federal election interference case, appears to be victim of ‘swatting’  —  Police and fire trucks responded to reports of a shooting at Chutkan's home, but police determined no shooting had taken place.  —  WASHINGTON — Police and fire trucks showed …

‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says  —  Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products  —  The developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot …

This Might Be the High-Water Mark of Trumpism  —  An argument for why Trump's numbers can't get much better and Biden's numbers are likely to improve.  —  1. How Biden Wins  —  Mark Halperin watched both Trump and Biden's January 5 speeches and came away with a shrewd piece of analysis.

Business Insider story on Harvard antagonist's wife draws owner's scrutiny  —  The news site's German owner, Axel Springer, plans to review a story about alleged plagiarism by former MIT professor Neri Oxman, whose billionaire husband, Bill Ackman, sought to oust Harvard's president for similar academic transgressions.

Why Iowa Turned So Red When Nearby States Went Blue  —  Over the past 15 years, the Upper Midwest has seen a remarkable state-by-state sorting of voters along partisan lines.  —  With the Iowa caucuses six days away, politicians will be crisscrossing the state, blowing through small-town Pizza Ranches …

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform  —  Nazi content violates rules against incitement to violence, the company says  —  Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.  The company said this did not represent …

To disqualify or not to disqualify: The Supreme Court confronts the ‘laugh test’  —  The reactionary Supreme Court is in a quandary as to how to decide the Trump disqualification case while retaining whatever credibility it has left.  The court just voted to review the Colorado Supreme Court decision, but it really didn't want to.

BREAKING: Filing alleges ‘improper’ relationship between Fulton DA, top Trump prosecutor  —  Fani Willis hired alleged romantic partner as special prosecutor, court motion says  —  District Attorney Fani Willis improperly hired an alleged romantic partner to prosecute Donald Trump …

Pope Francis Calls For Global Ban on Surrogacy  —  The pope said that an unborn child must not be “turned into an object of trafficking,” expanding his condemnation of a practice already illegal in Italy and some other European countries.  —  Pope Francis on Monday called surrogate motherhood a …

Say it ain't snow.  Iowa's forecast is terrible and it's impacting the campaign.  —  If you like a foot of snow and single digit temperatures, then this is the caucus for you.  —  The current forecast in Iowa could best be described as frigid bordering on terrible.

House Republicans plot swift impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas as moderates signal support  —  House Republicans are plotting to swiftly impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas early this year, as key swing-district Republicans express fresh openness …