Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg Expected to Be Charged Thursday  —  The Manhattan district attorney's first charges in three-year probe will focus on alleged tax-related crimes at former president's company  —  The Manhattan district attorney's office is expected to charge …

The N.Y.C. Elections Board Is a Disaster.  This Is the Last Straw.  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  New Yorkers have endured the incompetence …

Billionaire GOP megadonor funding South Dakota's troop deployment to border  —  The Oklahoma-born Johnson is estimated to be worth $2.2 billion, per Forbes.

Tucker Carlson doubles down on NSA spy claim after agency denial  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday again insisted that he is being spied on by the federal government despite the nation's leading intelligence agency refuting his claim earlier the same day.  —  “Did the Biden administration read my personal emails?

‘Something inside me said run’: Surfside survivor describes escaping as building came down  —  SURFSIDE, Fla. - It's an unbelievable story of survival.  —  For 64-year-old Iliana Monteagudo it's as if a supernatural force she said woke her up and guided her from her sixth floor unit at Champlain Towers South.

Pro-Israel House Democrats endorse Shontel Brown in heated Ohio race  —  With progressives backing Nina Turner, the primary will underscore the deep schisms in the party as Israel emerging as a key issue  —  Four pro-Israel House Democrats are collectively endorsing Shontel Brown …

Washington lawmaker wears yellow Star of David, evoking Nazi persecution, to protest COVID vaccine mandates  —  A Washington state lawmaker critical of COVID-19 vaccine mandates wore a yellow Star of David at a speech over the weekend — a symbol the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust.

Dems fret that GOP could tap pro-Trump chaos agents for Jan. 6 probe  —  Democrats wanted a panel of outside experts to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.  Instead they might have to deal with the Trump wing of the House GOP.  —  The House is set to vote Wednesday to create a new committee …

Stop Gaslighting Parents on Critical Race Theory  —  Proponents of Critical Race Theory are resorting to semantic gaslighting to defend a dogma that most Americans instinctively abhor.  —  Some pundits claim that CRT is exclusively a school of thought taught in legal academia.

POLITICO Playbook: Nutso in New York  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  POLITICO New York's Joe Anuta and David Giambusso, in a story that posted at 11:31 p.m.: “Tallies released Tuesday afternoon indicated that KATHRYN GARCIA had come within 2.2 points of leading Democratic candidate ERIC ADAMS after ranked-choice tabulations were processed.

The Internet Is Rotting  —  Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together preserve the intellectual products of human civilization—fits Clarke's observation well.

Masks Again?  Delta Variant's Spread Prompts Reconsideration of Precautions.  —  Los Angeles County and the W.H.O. warned that even immunized people should wear masks indoors.  Some scientists agreed, but urged a localized approach.  —  Throughout the pandemic, masks have ranked among …

House votes to purge Confederate statues from Capitol  —  The chamber voted 285 to 120 to approve the legislation, which aims to banish the likenesses of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Jefferson Davis and roughly a dozen other figures associated with the Confederacy or white supremacist causes.

Tribunal Convicts Former Serbian Officials of Crimes in the Balkans  —  It was the first time in the three decades of the tribunal's history that officials in the wartime Serbian government were found guilty of playing a role in atrocities in neighboring countries.

Murkowski has the moxie to take on Trump.  Will she?  —  Lisa Murkowski has an ice-cold review of the Donald Trump-backed conservative who's vowing to topple her in Alaska's Senate race next year.  —  “It doesn't surprise me.  The president has said, you know, that he's gonna endorse anybody …

Video, images and interviews deepen questions about role of pool deck in condo collapse  —  Your browser does not support the video element.  —  A Washington Post examination of video and images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise apartment building outside Miami …

Rep. Paul Gosar keeps hanging out with white nationalists, and GOP leaders don't do a thing about it  — Republican Rep. Paul Gosar appeared with white nationalist Nicholas Fuentes in February, and is cagey about whether he'll be doing another fundraiser with him.

The most influential think tank of the Biden era has a new leader  —  Patrick Gaspard, a longtime Democratic operative who served most recently as president of the George Soros-run Open Society Foundations, will take over as president and CEO of the Center for American Progress.

N.H.'s Sununu, the GOP's top Senate recruit for 2022, may have just created a big political problem over abortion  —  In a little-noticed move on Friday, the Republican Party's top recruit to run for the US Senate next year— and possibly flip the balance of power in the chamber ― …

Omar blasted for remarks about Jews in Congress: ‘This is what a modern day Muslim Supremacist looks like’  —  Kevin McCarthy slams Ilhan Omar as ‘anti-Semitic’ and ‘anti-American’  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest remarks about Israel and Jewish members of Congress have sparked backlash …

The House Price Surge  —  3 charts for you today:  — House prices.  House prices are surging, pretty much everywhere.  — Just do it, direct.  Nike's latest numbers reveal how its direct-to-consumer strategy is progressing.  — The Trump bump.  The Trump bump is fading for media companies.

Trump: Herschel Walker will run for Senate in Georgia  —  Former President Donald Trump said Georgia Bulldog football great Herschel Walker told him he was going to run for U.S. Senate, a decision that would make him the front-runner in the chaotic race against Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Putin: US aircraft involved in Black Sea UK incident  —  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft was operating in sync with a British destroyer during last week's Black Sea incident in what he described as a “provocation” to test Moscow's response.

Russia Targets Fox News Fans in Bid to Become the World's Anti-Woke Capital  —  GREENER GRASS  —  The Kremlin and its staunchest loyalists are touting Russia as a politically incorrect utopia—something they think Western conservatives can't resist.  —  Galvanized by the results …