President Biden's COVID-19 Plan  —  President Biden is implementing a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy that employs the same science-based approach that was used to successfully combat previous variants of COVID-19 earlier this year.  This plan will ensure that we are using every available tool …

Progressives Want Justice Stephen Breyer To Retire.  His Response?  Not Yet  —  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has said he will retire on his own terms amid calls from progressives for him to step down from the court so President Biden can name a younger liberal to take his place.

Andrew Yang to launch a third party  —  Former presidential and New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang is set to launch a third party next month, according to two people familiar with the matter.  —  Yang is expected to start the party in conjunction with the Oct. 5 release of his new book …

FBI Seizes Oath Keeper Lawyer's Phone in “Seditious Conspiracy” Investigation  —  Fight disinformation.  Get a daily recap of the facts that matter.  Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.  —  The FBI is investigating “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol …

Scoop: The most dangerous Trump exposé  —  Stephanie Grisham has quietly written a top-secret memoir of her four years in Donald Trump's White House, and a publishing source says she'll reveal “surprising new scandals.”  —  What to watch: The book — “I'll Take Your Questions Now …

White House pulls nomination of ATF chief amid pushback over gun-control advocacy  —  The White House withdrew David Chipman's nomination to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday amid bipartisan pushback over his gun control advocacy.

Statement from Senator Amy Klobuchar  —  I wanted to share an update about my health.  —  In February of this year, doctors at Mayo Clinic found small white spots called calcifications during a routine mammogram.  After this was discovered, I had a biopsy at Piper Breast Center in Minneapolis …

The Off-Mic Moment That Changed My View of Larry Elder  —  Larry Elder, the surprising front-running candidate to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in next week's California recall election, has had quite a summer.  Mostly, it's because of the peculiarity of the recall itself: If less than half …

Usher, Priyanka Chopra & Julianne Hough Set For ‘The Activist’, CBS Competition Series From Global Citizen  —  Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Julianne Hough are set to co-host the Global Citizen competition series from CBS, The Activist.  The five-week reality series premieres Friday …

The Capitol Police Said Jan. 6 Unrest On Capitol Grounds Would Be “Highly Improbable”  —  The chief of the Capitol Police and its top intelligence officer personally approved permits for six demonstrations to be held on Jan. 6, 2021, despite signs that one of the applications was filed …

L.A. school officials order sweeping student vaccine mandate, a first by a major district  —  All children 12 and older in Los Angeles public schools must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January to enter campus under an order approved Thursday by the Board of Education …

Congress raising the debt ceiling is suddenly a problem for Republicans … Politics, like fashion, can be cyclical.  And in the coming weeks, America is about to go through the economic version of the return of low-rise jeans — a baffling choice that even in theory benefits only a few select individuals …

Americans refuse to leave Afghanistan without their families as evacuation flights resume  —  In the days and weeks before the U.S. military's hectic departure from Afghanistan, two former interpreters for the American military already resettled in the United States — one a naturalized U.S. citizen …

Smart Glasses Made Google Look Dumb.  Now Facebook Is Giving Them a Try.  —  The company has teamed up with Ray-Ban to create glasses that can take photos, record video, answer phone calls and play podcasts.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Last Saturday, after a three-mile hike through the Presidio …

Exclusive-Proud Boys leader urged group not to ‘turn on each other’ in riot probe  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As four of his fellow Proud Boy leaders sat in jail this summer, charged with conspiracy in the violent Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the group's chairman, Enrique Tarrio …

The American Aristocracy Tries to Fight Racism.  It's Not Working.  —  Mackenzie Scott's gift to Whittier College represents less than a third of one percent of all the money she gave last year.  But it has transformed the school.  And not for the better.

The Best Holocaust Movie You Haven't Been Able to See—Yet  —  When Barry Levinson, the veteran film and television director, was about 5 years old, a man appeared at his family's home in Baltimore.  Levinson was told that this fellow was his grandmother's brother, Symcha Skurnick.