Explosive Southern Baptist sex abuse report expected to be released Sunday  —  Leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention on Sunday are expected to release the findings of a major third-party investigation into how sex abuse cases have been handled by prominent leaders within the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

My Lunch With President Biden  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  President Biden invited me for lunch at the White House last Monday.  But it was all off the record — so I can't tell you anything he said.  —  I can, though, tell you two things — what I ate and how I felt after.

Pentagon Weighs Deploying Special Forces to Guard Kyiv Embassy  —  Administration weighs desire to avoid escalating military presence against security of U.S. diplomats in a conflict zone  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. military and diplomatic officials are weighing plans to send special forces troops …

Inside the Republican push to stop Trump's ‘vendetta tour’ in Georgia  —  GOP governors hatched a plan months ago that will culminate in a closely-watched gubernatorial primary on Tuesday  —  Republican governors hatched the plan months ago.  Meeting at the desert Biltmore resort in Phoenix …

In new book, Kellyanne Conway takes aim at many targets — except Trump  —  Part personal chronicle and part political journey, the book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news  —  In 2015, Kellyanne Conway found herself en route to pick …

More Americans label Republican Party extreme and Democratic Party as weak — CBS News poll  —  With midterm primaries helping set the direction for the Democratic and Republican parties, most Americans, including many of the parties' own voters, aren't terribly happy with the parties or what they're talking about.

Democrats See Headwinds in Georgia, and Everywhere Else  —  Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams, viewed as strong candidates by their party, will be running against President Biden's low ratings as well as their G.O.P. rivals.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

What they can attempt after an election has been certified  — Launch audits and investigations - Attempt to decertify the election  —  The Times's review provides only a glimpse of the ways that state legislatures fueled the movement to deny and challenge the 2020 results.

Lara Logan, Once a Star at CBS News, Is Now One for the Far Right  —  The former chief foreign affairs correspondent is now a popular guest on podcasts hosted by vaccine skeptics and deniers of the 2020 election.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  When Lara Logan reached the heights …

More Horrors Await After $550 Billion Retail Earnings Meltdown  —  Soaring costs and swollen inventories have retailers on the ropes, and investors fear that the punishment won't ease anytime soon.  —  With companies from Costco Wholesale Corp. to Dollar General Corp. and Best Buy Co. set …

78,000 pounds of infant formula arrives in US  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis, the first of several flights expected from Europe aimed at relieving a shortage …

Ahead of Biden visit, Israel launches biggest eviction of Palestinians in decades  —  AL-MARKAZ VILLAGE, West Bank — The Najjar family knew what to expect on the morning of May 11 when a neighbor called: “The bulldozer is coming.”  For the second time in five months, the Israeli military had come to knock down their house.

Business leaders warn that three-decade era of globalisation is ending  —  Executives and investors gather in Davos to discuss mounting economic and financial challenges  —  The three-decade era of globalisation risks going into reverse according to company executives and investors …

Lucy Calkins Retreats on Phonics in Fight Over Reading Curriculum  —  Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading.  Critics may not be appeased.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Russian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin's war  —  It took a few weeks of sleeping on crates of grenades for a bed and hiding his face from Ukrainians amid a growing sense of guilt, for the Russian junior officer to come to his conclusion: This wasn't his battle to fight.

Multi-country monkeypox outbreak in non-endemic countries  —  Outbreak at glance  —  Since 13 May 2022, cases of monkeypox have been reported to WHO from 12 Member States that are not endemic for monkeypox virus, across three WHO regions.  Epidemiological investigations are ongoing …