'We're living a nightmare': life in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine  —  Officials in Berdyansk and Melitopol were removed and local radio reports on ‘liberation from Nazis’  —  Shaun Walker and Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv  —  Russian soldiers patrol the streets of Berdyansk in cars …

Document in Jan. 6 Case Shows Plan to Storm Government Buildings  —  New details from evidence cited in the indictment of Enrique Tarrio, the former head of the far-right Proud Boys, reveal a plan with similarities to what unfolded at the Capitol.  —  A document found by federal prosecutors …

China Is About to Make a Big Mistake by Supporting Russia  —  The Chinese government could be a peacemaker in Ukraine or it can be Putin's enabler.  But it can't be both. … China is about to make a big mistake.  —  Faced with the choice between playing a constructive role in helping …

SF is now boycotting most of the United States  —  Gavin Newsom likes to say that San Francisco is 49 square miles surrounded by reality.  Well, okay then.  In reality, he's actually ripping off a line from

NY Woman Punched 125 Times, Foot-Stomped in Brutal Hate Crime Beating: Police  —  A 42-year-old Yonkers man has been arrested on attempted murder as a hate crime and other charges in the vicious caught-on-camera beating of a 67-year-old Asian woman who was attacked as she returned home last week, police said Monday.

U.S. Sewer Data Warns of a New Bump in Covid Cases After Lull  —  A wastewater network that monitors for Covid-19 trends is warning that cases are once again rising in many parts of the U.S., according to an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by Bloomberg.

How Kyiv's outgunned defenders have kept Russian forces from capturing the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bodies of Russian soldiers were scattered by the wreckage of charred military vehicles and shelled buildings.  Twenty feet away, behind tanker trucks, Ukrainian volunteers stood watch …

Russian Mogul Is Charged With Donating Illegally to U.S. Campaigns  —  Andrey Muraviev was indicted on charges of making donations as a foreign national to boost licensing decisions for a marijuana business.  —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan on Monday accused a Russian tycoon of scheming …

‘Gutted’: What happened when a Georgia elections office was targeted for takeover by those who claim the 2020 election was a fraud  —  ROME, Ga. — The interim election supervisor took a seat all the way to one side of the meeting room, her back against the wood-paneled wall …

MSNBC Almost Brought Back Olbermann to Replace Maddow  —  In this week's Source Material we reveal how MSNBC almost filled Maddow's soon-to-be vacant time slot with her own former mentor—until Rachel killed the deal. … To fill its upcoming Rachel Maddow void, MSNBC almost took a time machine back to the good old days of 2011.

How does Ron DeSantis sleep at night?  —  Republicans are killing us.  —  No, really.  —  Until now, we've known that covid-19 death rates were higher among the unvaccinated, and also higher in counties that went for Donald Trump, whose supporters were more likely to resist vaccinations, masks and other pandemic precautions.

Roman Abramovich: New evidence highlights corrupt deals  —  A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich's fortune.  —  The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995.

DeWine signs law removing training, background check, permitting requirement to conceal carry  —  Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill into law Monday removing training, background check and permitting requirements to carry a concealed weapon in Ohio.  —  When the law takes effect in 90 days …

CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques  —  Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received ‘certification’  —  A detainee at a secret CIA detention site …

He's American, He Oversees Papa John's in Russia and He's Staying  —  Christopher Wynne's company controls the franchise agreements for the 190 Papa John's locations in the country.  “At the end of the day, they appreciate a good pizza,” he said.  —  Papa John's International said last week …

Gov. Newsom signs law to stop UC Berkeley enrollment cuts  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that will rescue UC Berkeley from a court-ordered enrollment freeze and steep admission cuts and allow the university to resume plans to enroll more than 5,000 California first-year students.

Iran fires missiles at Biden's nuclear deal delusions  —  The Biden administration seems willing to bear any Iranian burden, however bloody, in order to restore the flawed nuclear deal with Tehran.  —  Secretary of State Antony Blinken might have left it out of his weekend tweeting spree …

USPS Truck Contract Prompts Cries for Investigation  —  A plan to purchase up to 165,000 gasoline-powered mail trucks instead of electric models has angered Democrats and the Biden administration.  —  WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats called Monday for an investigation into a decision …

Two Refugees, Both on Poland's Border.  But Worlds Apart.  —  A young man fleeing war in Sudan and a young woman evacuating Ukraine crossed into Poland at the same time.  They had very different experiences.  —  KUZNICA, Poland — On the day war broke out in Ukraine, Albagir …

Idaho Is First State to Pass Abortion Ban Based on Texas' Law  —  The bill prohibits abortions after about six weeks, and allows family members of a “preborn child” to sue abortion providers.  —  Idaho on Monday became the first state to adopt a copycat of an unusual new Texas law that relies …

Seattle Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization  —  Defendant Swore Oath to ISIS and Attempted to Travel to Middle East to Commit Acts of Violence  —  A Seattle man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle …

How an Academic Grudge Turned Into a #MeToo Panic  —  During normal years, Meliora Weekend at the University of Rochester (U.R.) is one of the biggest events of the fall.  A four-day combination of Homecoming and Family Weekend, parents visit, alumni return to campus, and there's good old-fashioned student debauchery.

Russia could default on its debt within days  —  London (CNN Business)Russia has sent the clearest signal yet that it will soon default — the first time it will have failed to meet its foreign debt obligations since the Bolshevik revolution more than a century ago.

Tulsi Gabbard's Biggest Political Donor In 2021 Is A Putin Apologist  —  The largest individual donor to former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's (D-Hawaii) PAC in 2021 is an apologist for Vladimir Putin who runs a nonprofit that aims to foster cooperation between the U.S. and Russia.

Election ‘Vigilante’ Group Posing as County Workers, Says New Mexico's State Auditor  —  One of the group's leaders gave a speech in a church about the audit where he said “I want arrests, I want prosecutions, I want firing squads.”  —  Leaders of a far-right Telegram group pledged …

The Revolution Inside the ADL … When Whoopi Goldberg said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but rather “two white groups of people” fighting, the actress and chat-show maven was shocked by criticism she received.  Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League …

Neoconservatism: A Vindication … Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat itself, but that it often rhymes.  We're rhyming today with the late 1970s, in uncanny ways.  To take the most obvious: Inflation is on the rise and is about to skyrocket due to a disruption in the global oil market, just as was the case in 1979.