Indicted Matt Gaetz Associate Is Expected to Plead Guilty, Lawyers Say  —  The associate could cooperate with prosecutors, giving them information about Mr. Gaetz's relationships that investigators are examining for possible sex trafficking violations.  —  ORLANDO, Fla. …

AP source: NFL player Phillip Adams killed 5, then himself  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The gunman who killed five people including a prominent doctor in South Carolina was former NFL player Phillip Adams, who killed himself early Thursday, according to a source who was briefed on the investigation.

Manhattan district attorney seizes evidence from Trump executive's former daughter-in-law  —  NEW YORK — Investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, acting on a grand jury subpoena, took possession of financial records Thursday morning from the apartment of Jennifer Weisselberg …

Intelligence forecast sees a post-coronavirus world upended by climate change and splintering societies  —  U.S. intelligence officials have little comfort to offer a pandemic-weary planet about where the world is heading in the next 20 years.  Short answer: It looks pretty bleak.

Florida Elections Commission general counsel arrested on child porn charges  —  Eric Lipman also served as an officer with a nonprofit soccer league for boys and girls aged 4-17.  —  View Comments  —  The general counsel for the Florida Elections Commission was arrested Wednesday on charges …

Former Fox host Eric Bolling walks off BBC interview  —  Former Fox News host Eric Bolling walked off an BBC news show Wednesday after another guest on the show, Aisha Mills said his concern for black communities was a lie, Mediate reported.  —  “I think it's really rich for any Republican …

Howard Dean Pushes Biden to Oppose Generic Covid-19 Vaccines for Developing Countries … Howard Dean, the former progressive champion, is calling on President Joe Biden to reject a special intellectual property waiver that would allow low-cost, generic coronavirus vaccines to be produced to meet the needs of low-income countries.

Not My Party: Coke Too Woke  —  Now that companies are doing things they don't like, Republicans have turned on the free market.  —  “Screw you MLB.  Screw Delta and screw Coke.  In fact, screw all corporations”  —  Corporate America has had enough of the GOP trying to make it harder …

A GOP governor's frantic appeal to Trump voters reveals a terrible GOP truth  —  The tragic plight of Brian Kemp, the Republican governor of Georgia, deserves careful study.  It reveals that in the post-Trump GOP, the space for behaving with even a modicum of real commitment to democracy …

Historic border numbers undercut Biden claim that surge ‘happens every year’  —  More than 172,000 migrants were encountered in March  —  Human smuggling operations exploiting Biden border crisis  —  President Biden last month downplayed the surge in migrants coming to the southern border …

Has the Era of Overzealous Cleaning Finally Come to an End?  —  This week, the C.D.C. acknowledged what scientists have been saying for months: The risk of catching the coronavirus from surfaces is low.  —  When the coronavirus began to spread in the United States last spring, many experts warned of the danger posed by surfaces.

Politicians dread the sting of #KHive, the fervent online fans of Kamala Harris  —  When Rep. Ro Khanna started pressing Vice President Kamala Harris to use her procedural power to push a national minimum wage hike a few weeks ago, he found himself targeted by a swarm of online Harris supporters.

Joe Manchin: I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster  —  Joe Manchin III, a Democrat, represents West Virginia in the Senate.  —  When Americans vote to send their two senators to Washington, they trust that they will work to represent the interests of their state on equal footing with 98 other senators.

Latinas Drove Trump's Gains With Hispanic Voters in 2020  —  On November 3 of last year, Miami-Dade County gave the Democratic Party a panic attack.  Florida was the first major swing state to report its ballots in the 2020 election, and returns from overwhelmingly Hispanic — and, heretofore …

Biden calls gun violence in the U.S. an ‘epidemic’ and ‘embarrassment’ as he announces executive orders to tighten restrictions  —  BREAKING: President Biden announced the executive actions, including one targeting kits used to assemble firearms from pieces, after deadly back-to-back mass shootings …

What exactly is Trump doing at Mar-a-Lago all day?  —  Fortunately for us, the club's members are giving the man most of what he needs.  —  17 hr ago  —  Donald Trump was relatively quiet when he first left office, and while that's not too unusual for most former presidents, it was unprecedented for him.

Georgia's New Voting Law Is Racist  —  , EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEMOCRATIC COALITION  —  Let me start off with this fact: Georgia's new voting law is racist.  Even worse, it allows elected officials to choose their voters, which really means that democracy will be over entirely in the state …

We tested the first state ‘vaccine passport.’ Here's what worked — and didn't.  —  New York's Excelsior Pass has some solid privacy protections.  But it's complicated to use and easy to fake.  —  Want to go to a Yankees game?  Watch a Justin Bieber concert?  Let's see your app.

Chauvin Trial Day 8 Wrap-Up: “I Ate Too Many Drugs” Video May Be Game-Changer  —  Once again the defense weaponizes prosecution ‘expert’ witnesses against the prosecution case.  — Parler  — Gab  — MeWe  — Buffer  — Pocket  — Blogger  — Yahoo Mail  — Viber

Confronting 2016 and 2020 Polling Limitations  —  Pew Research Center's efforts to examine its American Trends Panel surveys and develop solutions  —  Pew Research Center conducted a series of analyses exploring data quality in its U.S. surveys, specifically those conducted …

Four Ways of Looking at the Radicalism of Joe Biden  —  It's unexpected, but it's not inexplicable.  —  Joe Biden didn't wake up one day and realize he'd been wrong for 30 years.  —  I covered him in the Senate, in the Obama White House, in the Democratic Party's post-Trump reckoning.

The Cause Of Roberto Grant's Death In Notorious Manhattan Jail Was Deemed “Undetermined.”  Experts Now Say It Was A Homicide  —  It was May 2015, and Roberto Grant had pleaded guilty to taking part in a series of luxury watch store heists.  He was awaiting sentencing at the Metropolitan Correctional Center …

Corporate Taxes Are Wealth Taxes  —  And their decline has led to a steep drop in tax rates for the affluent.  —  The main cause of the radical decline in tax rates for very wealthy Americans over the past 75 years isn't the one that many people would guess.

The GOP Needs to Understand That the Corporations Are Its Enemy  —  Old habits die hard, and now it's time for the GOP's habitual support of big business to die, and to die hard.  —  Look around - the corporations have decided it's a great time to use their power against us.

You Can't Ignore Physics, Joe  —  On the menu today: Joe Biden urges America to pass his infrastructure bill so that one day trains can cross the United States as fast as jet planes do, a vision that does not align well with the laws of physics.  The president also envisions passenger airliners …

Labor Wants Biden to Put Cook or Spriggs on Fed, Trumka Says  — President currently has one seat on Fed board to fill  — Trumka says Fed's Powell is ‘masterful’ at steering economy  —  AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka called on President Joe Biden to use a current vacancy …

Joe Biden Lied About Gun Shows  —  Joe Biden said today, “Most people don't know: you walk into a store and you buy a gun, but you go to a gun show you can buy whatever you want and no background check.”  —  This isn't even close to being true.  In fact, gun shows are subject to the same rules …

After Pandemic, Shrinking Need for Office Space Could Crush Landlords  —  Some big employers are giving up square footage as they juggle remote work.  That could devastate building owners and cities.  —  As office vacancies climb to their highest levels in decades with businesses giving …

Existential Threat — Or Politics As Usual?  —  In Washington — and in many state capitols — legislators and activists have cast voting legislation in apocalyptic terms, claiming that any change in voter law represents an existential threat to democracy as we know it.

Online Scammers Have a New Offer for You: Vaccine Cards  —  Hundreds of sellers are offering false and stolen vaccine cards, as businesses and states weigh proof of vaccinations for getting people back to work and play.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Etsy, eBay, Facebook and Twitter …

$2.1 Billion for Undocumented Workers Signals New York's Progressive Shift  —  The fund, which could provide payments to hundreds of thousands of people excluded from other pandemic relief, ignited a battle among state lawmakers before it was approved this week.

America's elites want a racial apocalypse  —  The narrative of racial conflict peddled by politicians, Big Business and progressives threatens social peace.  —  Jamil Ford still recalls the disorders of late May. ‘It was like Baghdad’, he recalls, even as jurors listen to the arguments during …

Andrew Weissmann on How to Prosecute Trump  —  It would have been hard to imagine in April 2019 that two years later, we would barely be talking about the investigation into Donald Trump by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  —  Once the subject of nightly news coverage and the object of liberal fantasies …

JetBlue Makes 1st PAC Giving to Election Objector After Halt  — Company's PAC stopped giving after Jan. 6 Capitol riot  — PAC contributed $1,000 to New York GOP lawmaker  —  (Updates with CLC reaction after Disappointing Decision subhead and companies that paused giving …