‘My ultimate and absolute revenge’: Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda  —  Unbound and unhinged, ex-president vilifies immigrants before devolving into bizarre riffs, including calling himself ‘total genius’  —  Donald Trump styled himself as a “proud political dissident” …

Lawmakers fail to reach deal with partial shutdown looming  —  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Sunday blasted Republicans over for threat of what he called “a harmful and unnecessary government shutdown” as Congress struggles to strike a bipartisan deal days out from a key funding deadline.

Koch network stops spending on Nikki Haley's presidential campaign  —  Americans for Prosperity Action said it had to “take stock” after Haley's loss in South Carolina.  —  Americans For Prosperity Action, the powerful conservative group supporting Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary …

Democratic operative admits to commissioning fake Biden robocall that used AI  —  Steve Kramer acknowledged Sunday that he created the fake Joe Biden robocall at the center of a multistate investigation after NBC News reported about his involvement.  —  Steve Kramer, a veteran political consultant working …

Justice Thomas Hires Law Clerk Accused of Sending Racist Text Messages  —  Crystal Clanton, who is close with the Thomas family, has said she does not remember sending the messages, which emerged in 2017.  —  Justice Clarence Thomas recently hired a law clerk who was previously accused …

Trump's request to suspend E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict swiftly denied by judge  —  U.S. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan declined a request to grant a stay after a jury ordered Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll over $83 million for defamation.  —  “Twenty-five days …

Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’  —  Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son's bicycle helmet  —  A black man shopping for paint with his four-year-old son says he was racially profiled …

Climate change is throwing the water cycle into chaos across the U.S.  —  As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken.  —  The water cycle that shuttles Earth's most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving loop is in trouble.

Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women’  —  Series of new advertisements target Republican efforts to criminalize abortions and a ‘war on travel’ for reproductive care  —  California's governor, Gavin Newsom, is launching a series of new advertisements …

No Labels director says Nikki Haley 'somebody we'd definitely be interested in'  —  Joe Cunningham, national director for the political organization No Labels, said on Sunday that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is “somebody we'd definitely be interested in” …

What Is Christian Nationalism, Exactly?  —  If you're alarmed by the rise of Christian nationalism, the single worst thing you can do is define it too broadly.  If you define it too broadly, then you're telling millions of ordinary churchgoing citizens that the importation of their religious values …

Republicans need to explain when they learned the truth about Alexander Smirnov  —  Were GOP lawmakers played the fool by Russia, or were they in on their “informant's” claims?  —  “Russia, Russia, Russia” is Donald Trump's mocking mantra whenever someone raises the myriad investigative findings …

Ukraine war: Zelensky says 31,000 troops killed since Russia's full-scale invasion  —  Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia's full-scale invasion.  —  The Ukrainian president said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military planning.