Statement from Press Secretary Jen Psaki  —  Senator Manchin's comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances.  Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington …

Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will she have vaccine after contracting Covid  —  The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate revealed in March she had tested positive for Covid  —  Sarah Palin says ‘over my dead body’ will authorities make her have a covid vaccine shot

D.C. third-graders were made to reenact episodes from the Holocaust  —  A Watkins Elementary School staff member told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates' mass graves and simulate shooting the victims, according to an email from the school's principal.

Don't Panic About Omicron.  But Don't Be Indifferent, Either.  —  The Omicron wave is upon us, and the national conversation is vacillating between panic and indifference.  Those who are near panic point to rapidly rising case counts and lockdowns in several European nations.

NYU Is Top-Ranked—In Loans That Alumni and Parents Struggle to Repay  —  By many measures, the elite Manhattan school is the worst or among the worst for leaving families and graduate students drowning in debt; 'It feels like I'm kind of trapped'  —  Five months after Kassandra Jones earned …

Brandon Just Wants to Drive His Racecar  —  “I have zero desire to be involved in politics,” says Brandon Brown, the NASCAR driver at the center of the “Let's Go, Brandon!” meme.  —  WOODFORD, Va. — “What actually keeps you from getting any nausea is that you're so zoned in on just doing this …

Justice Breyer has Democrats even more worried about the midterm elections  —  (CNN)Senate Republicans are poised to deny President Joe Biden an appointment to the Supreme Court if they take the majority in the 2022 midterm elections.  —  Five Republican senators raised …

Sens. Warren and Booker test positive for Covid-19  —  Fauci warns of record-high cases, hospitalizations and deaths  —  (CNN)Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker tested positive for the coronavirus, according to tweets Sunday from their official accounts.

Johnny Isakson, 76, Georgia politician respected by both sides, dies  —  Johnny Isakson spent his life cutting deals.  —  From his successful career in real estate to when Georgia's Republican Party was mostly confined to a small knot in Cobb County to Congress, Isakson learned early on what it took to get two sides to an agreement.

Most of the World's Vaccines Likely Won't Prevent Infection From Omicron  —  They do seem to offer significant protection against severe illness, but the consequences of rapidly spreading infection worry many public health experts.  —  A growing body of preliminary research suggests …

GOP maps Biden probes, prelude to 2024 culture war  —  House Republicans have begun mapping aggressive probes of the Biden administration if they win back the majority — including inquiries into the origins of COVID, a leak of IRS data about billionaires, and accusations the NSA spied on Tucker Carlson.