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 …

Producer who crashed Russian TV broadcast with antiwar message can't be found, lawyers say  —  A day after she burst onto a live news broadcast on Russian state television holding a sign denouncing the war in Ukraine, lawyers with human rights groups told The Washington Post they are unable …

Schumer's Senate shocker: Bills are passing (seriously)  —  It's the Capitol's election-year surprise: The 50-50 Senate is actually working.  —  After high-profile partisan failures on President Joe Biden's signature domestic policy bill and on weakening the filibuster for voting reform …

Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan Instead of Dollars for Chinese Oil Sales  —  Talks between Riyadh and Beijing have accelerated as the Saudi unhappiness grows with Washington  —  Saudi Arabia is in active talks with Beijing to price its some of its oil sales to China in yuan …

Russia says it received guarantees from US on Iran nuclear deal  —  MOSCOW — Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that Moscow has received guarantees from the US on its ability to trade with Tehran as part of ongoing talks to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.  —  “We received written guarantees.

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 Jefferson Airplane's Paul [...]  —  SF is now boycotting most of the United States

How this tiny Christian college is driving the right's nationwide war against public schools  —  Exclusive: In the full-scale conservative assault on public education, Hillsdale College is leading the charge  —  The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb …

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 …

Covid, Russia and crime: GOP presidential hopefuls take swipes at Trump's record  —  Republicans looking to run in 2024 once lived in fear of crossing former President Donald Trump.  —  That's starting to change.  —  Over the past few weeks, three would-be presidential candidates who hail …

Wild Kremlin TV Hosts Threaten the U.S. With Nuclear Strikes Unless Sanctions End and Reparations Are Paid  —  Russian state media has shut down last week's minor dissent and now demands an end to sanctions and even reparations for affected Russians.  Or else.

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.

Reconsidering the gender wage gap and retirement inequality  —  While watching the Big Ten basketball tournaments this month, viewers saw advertisements for the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America with the hashtag #retireinequality.  —  TIAA partnered with influential players …

In private speech, Romney warns of “extraordinary challenge” to preserve American democracy  —  McLean, Virginia — Senator Mitt Romney, of Utah, offered more than 200 Republican donors a stark message on the fragility of American democracy during private remarks on Monday night at a fundraiser in Northern Virginia.

Putin Killed Trump's ‘America First’ Movement  —  In 2016, Trump wooed disaffected Republicans by bashing Bush's wars.  But Russia's bombardment of Ukraine has changed things. … In political campaigns, we are always fighting the last war.  —  Donald Trump's election in 2016 was …

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.

Poll: Americans warm to Biden's approach on Russia and Ukraine  —  President Biden's approval rating for his handling of Russia and Ukraine has risen 5 percentage points since the start of the war in Eastern Europe more than two weeks ago, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll …

Half of Americans Doubt Biden Will Run in 2024, WSJ Poll Shows  —  The president says he is planning for another campaign; some fellow Democrats worry about his age and energy level  —  President Biden enters this year's midterm elections with roughly half of Americans doubting …

‘Liberal Hack Tournament’ returns, tourney all-stars compete with newcomers for viral glory  —  Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin made history last year as the first woman to win #HackMadness  —  CNN faces new turmoil amid Cuomo probe  —  One of the most viral events of the year is underway …

In embattled Mariupol, glimpses of devastation and misery emerge  —  In the more than two weeks that it has been cut off from the outside world, Mariupol, the southern Ukrainian port city, has become synonymous with the horror of the Russian invasion.  —  It is a place of overflowing morgues …

White House to ‘stop critical COVID response efforts’ as funding stalls in Congress  —  The Biden administration has warned for weeks there was not enough money left.  —  The White House is preparing to “stop critical COVID response efforts” as additional funding for COVID-19 relief sits stalled …

Millions of vulnerable Americans likely to fall off Medicaid once the federal public health emergency ends  —  As many as 16 million low-income Americans, including millions of children, are destined to fall off Medicaid when the nation's public health emergency ends, as states face …

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.

From 15 Days to Two Years  —  The date of March 16, 2020 isn't just a day that will live in infamy—it marked the beginning of the largest crime against humanity since the last world war.  —  On Saturday morning, my daughter in college texted me: “I got sent home two years ago today.  Feels like a dream.”

One year later: Why Biden's ‘American Rescue’ failed  —  Friday marked the anniversary of President Joe Biden signing his $2 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.  Although Biden and Democrats argued every which way about the urgent need to pass the monstrous bill, Congress …

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 …

Lawmakers push for pandemic probe modeled on 9/11 Commission ‘to fully reckon with the lessons’ … A Senate panel is set to vote Tuesday on whether to establish an independent task force to probe the U.S. pandemic response — the closest lawmakers have come to supporting such an investigation, two years into the crisis.

C-SPAN poll: Americans clueless about court, but trust it  —  C-SPAN's latest survey on the U.S. Supreme Court showed continued support for transparency — and in-court cameras — as a way to build trust and knowledge about the third branch of government.  —  While the just-released voters poll found …

“Here Be Monsters”  —  A remedial look at American interests  —  Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the phrase “national interest” has become something of a blasphemy.  Certain thinkers in the “realist” school of foreign policy analysis have drawn social media ire …

'People's Convoy' drives through D.C. after permit for organized demonstration downtown partially denied … Police blocked interstate exits into downtown Washington as hundreds of trucks, cars and SUVs protesting the government's response to the pandemic rode into the nation's capital to start a second week of demonstrations.