Multiple people shot in Brooklyn subway stop during rush hour  —  Multiple people were shot Tuesday morning in a gruesome shooting in a Brooklyn subway station during rush hour, officials said.  —  The bloody incident broke out around 8:30 a.m. at the 36th Street station for the D, N, R lines in Sunset Park.

Big cuts coming for CNN+ after slow start  —  Investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios. … - Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total.

Lt. Gov. Benjamin Arrested in Campaign Finance Scheme  —  Brian A. Benjamin, New York's No. 2 official to Gov. Kathy Hochul, will face a federal charge that he conspired to commit bribery while a state senator.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Lt. Gov. Brian A. Benjamin of New York …

Pentagon looks to vastly expand weapons for Ukraine  —  The Biden administration is poised to dramatically expand the scope of weapons it's providing Ukraine, U.S. officials said Tuesday, with the Pentagon looking to send Mi-17 helicopters that can be equipped to attack Russian vehicles, armored Humvees and a range of other arms.

Case of duped Secret Service agents called an alarming agency breach … Secret Service leaders are downplaying any risk to national security after four of its employees — including an agent assigned to protect first lady Jill Biden — were allegedly hoodwinked by two men i mpersonating federal agents …

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg releases statement ahead of impeachment vote, slams Gov. Noem … PIERRE — On the eve of a vote to authorize articles of impeachment against Jason Ravnsborg, the South Dakota attorney general broke months of silence on the issue.

This Is the War's Decisive Moment  —  The relatively brief but bloody war in Ukraine is entering its fourth phase.  In the first, Russia tried to depose Volodymyr Zelensky's government and sweep the country into its embrace in a three-day campaign; in the second, it attempted to conquer Ukraine …

In Conference Call Before Riot, a Plea to ‘Descend on the Capitol’  —  Days before Jan. 6, a onetime aide to Roger J. Stone Jr. told Trump backers to make lawmakers meeting to finalize the 2020 election results feel that “people are breathing down their necks.”  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Summers Watch  —  Larry Summers is not only a self-promoter who is often wrong on his economics.  He is disdainful of who suffers if his recommendations are taken seriously.  —  Larry Summers, spurned for a Biden administration post, is famously vindictive.

House G.O.P., Banding Together, Kills Bid to Honor Pioneering Black Judge  —  A right-wing congressman persuaded fellow Republicans to abruptly turn against a routine measure to name a federal courthouse in Florida for a Black State Supreme Court justice.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Photos Indicate Russian Looting of Radioactive Materials from Ukraine's Chernobyl  —  The scale of Russia's looting of Ukraine has become clearer with new photos indicating Russian theft of hazardous materials from a site near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant, and another image from Belarus adding …

Angry Drivers, Lots of Guns: An Explosion in Road Rage Shootings  —  Dozens have been reported in Texas alone amid a pandemic surge in gun purchases and a country increasingly on edge.  —  HOUSTON — The trouble started with an argument between two drivers merging in slow traffic after an Astros baseball game last summer.

These Men Think You Won't Like Their Views.  But They Want to Feel Free to Express Them.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  There was no talk of a stolen election, no conspiracy theories about voter fraud or rants about President Biden's legitimacy.

Trump ‘authorized’ assault on Capitol, Jan. 6 defendant argues at trial  —  WASHINGTON — An attorney for a man who took a coat rack and a bottle of liquor during the U.S. Capitol attack argued to a jury on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump “authorized” the Jan. 6 assault on the building …

DOJ rebuffs Democrats' request for inventory of Trump's boxes  —  The Justice Department this week rebuffed a request from the House Oversight Committee for more details about the 15 boxes of White House records that former president Donald Trump improperly removed to Mar-a-Lago …

VIDEO: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sends cops to eject our journalists for NO reason  —  The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, sent police to expel two of our journalists from an official press conference at Miami Dade College today for no reason.  —  NBC News and The Miami Herald reported …

US inflation jumped 8.5% in past year, highest since 1981  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation soared over the past year at its fastest pace in more than 40 years, with costs for food, gasoline, housing and other necessities squeezing American consumers and wiping out the pay raises that many people have received.

A transgender psychologist has helped hundreds of teens transition.  But rising numbers have her concerned  —  Day after day, emails pour into Erica Anderson's inbox from parents struggling to support their teenagers coming out as transgender.  —  “He's been depressed and anxious since the pandemic began …

Biden suggests Putin is a ‘dictator’ who has committed ‘genocide half a world away’  —  WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden bemoaned the spike in gas prices as being driven by a “dictator” who committed “genocide half a world away” in a speech Tuesday that was an apparent reference …

Elon Musk's vision for the internet is dangerous nonsense  —  Musk has long advocated a libertarian vision of an ‘uncontrolled’ internet.  That's also the dream of every dictator, strongman and demagogue  —  The Russian people know little about Putin's war on Ukraine because Putin has blocked …

Washington Post columnist arrested in Moscow after criticizing Putin  —  Russian authorities on Monday arrested Vladimir Kara-Murza — a prominent Kremlin critic and politician who has written columns for The Washington Post protesting Russia's war in Ukraine and violations of human rights.

Pentagon does ‘not object’ to potential transfer of jets from Slovakia to Ukraine  —  The Pentagon would not stand in the way of a possible transfer of Slovakian fighter jets to Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Tuesday.  —  Slovakia, which has already provided military technology …

Iranian ‘Ghost Armada’ Ferries $22 Billion Worth of Illicit Oil to China  —  Iran's fleet of “ghost ships” has ferried at least $22 billion worth of illicit oil to China since 2021, providing the hardline regime with a major source of revenue and raising questions about the Biden administration's lax enforcement of sanctions.