EXCLUSIVE: Text Messages Show Cassidy Hutchinson Referring To January 6 Committee As ‘BS’  —  The January 6 committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, called the committee “bs” in a text message obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.  —  On Feb 1.  Hutchinson sent a text …

‘The Pro-Life Generation’: Young Women Fight Against Abortion Rights  —  Many American women mourned the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe, but for others it is a moment of triumph and a matter of human rights.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Akron police release video of officers shooting Black man dozens of times  —  AKRON, Ohio — Police on Sunday released footage showing officers firing dozens of rounds at a Black man who left his car to flee a traffic stop last week.  —  Akron Police Chief Stephen Mylett …

100-year-old WWII vet breaks down, says this isn't the ‘country we fought for’: ‘I am so upset’  —  Carl Spurlin Dekel served in the U.S. Marines during World War II  —  Coming up on ‘Fox News Sunday’: July 3  —  Much of what American soldiers fought for in World War II has “gone down the drain …

An American's Murky Path From Russian Propagandist to Jan. 6  —  Charles Bausman, a former financial executive who runs websites that promote far-right views, recorded footage in the Capitol for a Russian television producer.  Soon after, he fled to Moscow as a “political refugee.”

Happy(?) Fourth of July  —  Cheer up.  We're still America.  There are worse things to be.  —  Warning: this isn't exactly a fully-formed essay.  Just a grab-bag of Fourth of July sentiments, poetry, and song.  Neither, despite the photo above, is it intended to be some concentrated meditation on Johnny Cash.

Justice Dept. Braces for Summer of Violent Crime  —  Top officials at the department met with prosecutors and the local police in Philadelphia in an effort to help cities prepare for a hot-weather crime wave marked by the Fourth of July.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

The Far Right and Far Left Agree on One Thing: Women Don't Count  —  Perhaps it makes sense that women — those supposedly compliant and agreeable, self-sacrificing and everything-nice creatures — were the ones to finally bring our polarized country together.

The Holy Anarchy of Fun  —  In our era of high vigilance, emergency measures and vast decrees, Walter Kirn makes the case for fun.  —  Writes Unbound  · Subscribe … So, a little late as always, because I like my pop culture to ferment some before I swill it down, I saw the sequel to Top Gun.

Summer in America is becoming hotter, longer and more dangerous  —  Wildfires had been burning for weeks, shrouding Reno, Nev., in harmful smoke, when Jillian Abney and her eight-year-old daughter Izi drove into the Sierras last year in search of cleaner air.

More resignations within U.S. Capitol Police?  Longtime partner of fallen officer claims morale extremely low.  —  Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died following the Capitol riots.  His partner of 11 years, Sandra Garza, on what happens after the January 6th hearings.

How California's legal cannabis dream became a public health nightmare  —  A ROW of luxury ‘healing’ creams is guarded by a locked glass cabinet, gilded in gold trim.  —  The packaging is stylishly minimal - clean and white with small black typeface - and beside the tubs sit decorative …

Can Ukraine Win?  —  A Ukrainian soldier shows off a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher - part of the package of US military aid (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova for The Washington Post via Getty Images)  —  ‘Despise the enemy strategically, but respect him tactically’