Congressman says he expects to be indicted  —  Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) told supporters on Tuesday he expects to be indicted on allegations he lied to federal investigators.  —  Driving the news: In a video uploaded to YouTube, the congressman sat with his wife and dog in a vintage pickup truck …

FBI agents swarm D.C. home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska  —  FBI agents swarmed the home of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in Washington D.C. Tuesday, an agency spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.  —  The reason for their presence wasn't immediately clear.

Message to Progressives: Dragging Manchin and Sinema Isn't Working  —  If Bernie Sanders and the left want to move the needle, they'll need more carrots than sticks.  —  Gary Gulman has a fantastic yarn called “Meltdown at Trader Joe's.”  The comedian describes his confrontation …

What is Tommy Tuberville doing here? … Tommy Tuberville had a decision to make.  So did the other Republican senators huddling with him in the storage closet.  —  It was Jan. 6, right-wing rioters were ransacking the U.S. Capitol, but these lawmakers were already in a secured part …

Steve Bannon Out in the Open  —  The erstwhile Trump adviser is refusing to talk to the Jan. 6 committee, but most of his energetic anti-democratic activities are in plain sight.  —  The House committee investigating the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol is expected to vote today …

Colin Powell and the Crisis of the Boomer Elite  —  You need to understand that in a society where religion has gone out of fashion, the elite has to canonize secular saints as examples for the people it proposes to rule.  The elite needs a quasi-religious justification to feel superior …

Trump says his son Donald Jr. 'couldn't be beaten' if he ran for office in ‘certain places’: book  — Former President Trump says he'd support his son Donald Trump Jr. if he runs for office someday.  — “There are certain places where he couldn't be beaten,” Trump told journalist David Drucker.

Meghan McCain Reveals Why She Quit ‘The View’ (EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT) … On July 1, 2021, I announced live on air that I was leaving “The View” after four years.  My co-hosts learned about my decision that morning, and the shock registered on their faces.  I'd been talking to ABC's higher-ups for weeks about wanting to leave.

Iowa Democratic Party chair reports lynching threat after writing op-ed critical of Donald Trump  —  Iowa Democratic Party Chair Ross Wilburn received multiple threats, including one of lynching, after he penned an opinion piece critical of former President Donald Trump, he told the Des Moines Register.

‘The limitation of Donald Trump’: Election audit bill fails to pass in Texas Legislature  —  Despite unusually heavy lobbying from former President Donald Trump, two elections bills that he pushed Gov. Greg Abbott to enact this fall are all but dead.  —  One would have eased up the process …

U.S. Ratings at Record Low as Trump Exited, Rally Under Biden  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six months into Joe Biden's presidency, approval ratings of U.S. leadership around the world had largely rebounded from the record-low ratings observed during the Trump administration.

Virginia Democrats are worried.  They should be.  —  In two weeks, Virginia will elect a new governor — and nobody knows who it will be.  Polls show a tight race between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin.  The race has broken state fundraising records.

Don't rant about short-staffed stores and supply chain woes.  Try to lower expectations.  —  For more than a century, business experts have been trying to dial up the United States' efficiency.  Ever since Frederick Taylor published “The Principles of Scientific Management” in 1911 …

The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find  —  The Food to Families program, touted by Ivanka Trump, gave tens of millions of dollars to unqualified firms and was also used to promote then-President Trump.

Passengers held up phones during Philadelphia train rape, police say  —  The passengers who did nothing while a homeless man raped a woman on a commuter train outside Philadelphia may have also recorded the vile attack on their cellphones instead of calling for help, authorities said.

Midnight runs: Biden secretly flying underage migrants into NY in dead of night  —  Planeloads of underage migrants are being flown secretly into suburban New York in an effort by President Biden's administration to quietly resettle them across the region, The Post has learned.

Taliban promise cash, land, to families of suicide bombers  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have promised plots of land to relatives of suicide bombers who attacked U.S. and Afghan soldiers, in a provocative gesture that seems to run counter to their efforts to court international support.

San Francisco Closes In-N-Out Burger After Defying City's Vaccine Rule … In-N-Out Burger's Chief Legal and Business Officer, Arnie Wensinger, is set to release a statement after the San Francisco Department of Health closed one of the Top California Burger Restaurant's locations.

Southwest drops plan to put unvaccinated staff on unpaid leave starting in December  — Southwest scrapped a plan to put unvaccinated workers with pending exemptions on unpaid leave after the Dec. 8 deadline.  — Both American and Southwest require their new-hire employees to show proof …

Rikers Detainees Are Being Transferred From One “Hell Hole” to Another  —  Former and currently incarcerated people denounce Governor Kathy Hochul's decision to transfer detainees as a temporary fix to the ongoing crisis at Rikers.  —  Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that nearly 230 women …

Rachel Levine, openly transgender health official, sworn in as four-star admiral in Public Health Service  —  The former Pennsylvania health secretary is the sixth four-star admiral in the history of the health corps.  —  A senior Biden health appointee who made history when she became …

Trump won big in Utah in 2020.  Activists want an Arizona-style audit anyway.  —  Judiciary Interim Committee hearing to focus on ‘election integrity’ on Wednesday.  —  (Rick Egan |  The Salt Lake Tribune) A voter drops off her ballot at the drop-off location in Lehi, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

‘History of the World Part II’ Variety Series Ordered at Hulu, Mel Brooks to Write and Executive Produce (EXCLUSIVE) … “History of the World, Part I” is finally getting a Part II, with Hulu ordering a variety series followup to the classic Mel Brooks comedy film, Variety has learned exclusively.

Conservative pundit Dan Bongino threatens to quit radio giant over vaccination mandate  —  'I don't see this going forward as a workable arrangement,' Bongino said of his radio distributor's vaccination requirement  —  In late May, the massively influential radio network Westwood One debuted …

Russia allows methane leaks at planet's peril  —  On the morning of Friday, June 4, an underground gas pipeline running through the ancient state of Tatarstan sprang a leak.  And not a small one.  —  In a different era, the massive leak might have gone unnoticed.  —  Blank slide

Out: Brexit.  In: Polexit  —  All during the seemingly endless debate over Brexit, European leaders continued to warn the world of the dangers such a move could pose to the European Union.  If Great Britain can leave, what's to stop other countries from following them out the door?

The Economic Rebound Is Still Waiting for Workers  —  Despite school reopenings and the end of some federal aid, many people are in no rush to land a job.  Savings and health concerns are playing a role.  —  Fall was meant to mark the beginning of the end of the labor shortage that has held back the nation's economic recovery.