Oyster Bay Residents Charged with $27 Million Investment Fraud Scheme and Selling Foreign Nationals Access to Prominent U.S. Politicians  —  Defendants Attended 2017 Campaign Fundraiser with Foreign Donors and Took Photographs with Then-President of The United States

How media coverage drove Biden's political plunge  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  The mainstream media has played a huge, underappreciated role in President Biden's declining support over the past year.  Its flawed coverage model of politics and government is bad for more than just Biden …

First on CNN: Former Trump National Security Council official expected to testify at Thursday's January 6 hearing  —  (CNN)Matthew Pottinger, who served on former President Donald Trump's National Security Council before resigning in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021 …

A clever plan to foil a 2024 coup attempt quietly advances  —  Listen  —  Gift Article  —  It may seem improbable, given adamant Republican opposition to legislation protecting voting rights, but a bipartisan group of senators is close to agreement on a separate, crucial way to protect our democracy …

Gov. Greg Abbott did not attend funerals for any of the Uvalde shooting victims  —  Gov. Greg Abbott did not attend a single funeral for any of the 19 children or two teachers killed mass shooting at Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, according to his schedule …

Good News for Democrats: Even Republicans Are Tiring of Trump  —  Democrats are worried that President Joe Biden is old, but the Jan. 6 hearings are showing that former president Donald Trump is stale.  —  And in a sea of negativity for Democrats, that's a potential bright spot ahead of November's midterm elections.

Exclusive: Fake Accounts Fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ Online Army  —  A WarnerMedia report reveals that bots and other inauthentic users bolstered the fan-led campaign for director Zack Snyder's Justice League do-over  —  Zack Snyder was becoming increasingly agitated.

CNN Poll: Most Americans are discontented with Biden, the economy and the state of the country  —  (CNN)The summer of 2022 is a season of deepening and widespread discontent, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.  The survey finds the public's outlook on the state of the country …

Nikki Haley: Biden's push for new Iran Deal will ‘come back to bite’ the US, Israel if not faced with strength  —  Former Ambassador Nikki Haley said that Biden must show strength to combat Iran's aggression toward the US  —  Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley is warning …

FiveThirtyEight's anti-trans smear  —  A piece published last week relying on extraordinarily flimsy polling evidence serves a single, obvious purpose: to push Democrats to be more anti-trans.  —  Last week, Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight website published a piece from Natalie Jackson …

Secret Service likely broke the law by deleting texts  —  The United States Secret Service appears to have violated federal criminal law by destroying text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 after receiving a request for records related to the attack on the Capitol from the Department …

Doug Mastriano is deleting his videos from Facebook as he runs for Pa. governor  —  In early April, Doug Mastriano was recording a Facebook Live video on his phone after a legislative session in Harrisburg when he segued into his thoughts on global warming.The state senator from south-central Pennsylvania …

Carolyn Maloney Uses Personal Fortune in Primary Against Jerrold Nadler  —  The New York congresswoman lent her campaign $900,000, according to new filings released late Friday.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York holds …

Yes, Things Are Really As Bad As You've Heard  —  A Leftist Schoolteacher Struggles To Say Aloud the Things He Regularly Witnesses That Are So Outlandish They Sound Made Up By Right-Wing Provocateurs … The summer program where I'm currently teaching enrolls about seventy students between the ages of six and twelve.

Roman Polanski's Lawyer Will Renew Effort to Resolve 45-Year-Old Rape Case … But the path to resolving the case is not at all straightforward.  Harland Braun, Polanski's lawyer, said in an interview that he first wants to get a new judge to handle it.  Braun stated that the current judge …

The USCP's Unlawful Entry Arrest on June 16, 2022  —  The United States Capitol Police (USCP) has been working with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia on the June 16, 2022, Unlawful Entry case that involved a group of nine people associated with The Late Show.

Do States with Easier Access to Guns have More Suicide Deaths by Firearm?  —  Nearly half a million lives (480,622) were lost to suicide from 2010 to 2020.  During the same period, the suicide death rate increased by 12%, and as of 2009, the number of suicides outnumbered those caused by motor vehicle accidents.

Fox News Posts Stunning Three Minute Montage of Trump Voters Ready to Ditch Him for DeSantis: He's ‘Too Polarizing’  —  Ahead of the rally former President Donald Trump was scheduled to have in Arizona (later postponed due to the death of Ivana Trump), the Fox News website posted …

Rand Paul lights into McConnell over ‘secret’ judicial deal  —  All is not well in Kentucky's Senate delegation.  —  Sen. Rand Paul unloaded on fellow Republican Mitch McConnell for the Senate GOP leader's handling of an anti-abortion judicial nomination, criticizing McConnell for refusing …

Psychics and Tarot Readers Are Under Siege By Instagram Scammers and Online Fatigue  —  An already beleaguered workforce confronts a legion of impersonators and a platform they say isn't doing enough to stop them.  —  Anna Merlan  —  On a recent evening, the author, podcast host …

Pulitzer board rejects Trump's challenge to Post, Times Russia stories  —  After a complaint from the former president, the board took the unusual step of reviewing the stories — and deciding they were indeed worthy of their prizes  —  Listen  —  Gift Article

Audio: Gov. Youngkin's New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a “Morally Fine Human Being”; “Secession Was NOT Treason”; the North's “Invasion” of the South Was “just like we see Russia invading Ukraine”; etc.  —  The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's new …

Exclusive: Russia's Gazprom tells Europe gas halt beyond its control  —  Russia's Gazprom has told customers in Europe it cannot guarantee gas supplies because of ‘extraordinary’ circumstances, according to a letter seen by Reuters, upping the ante in an economic tit-for-tat with the West over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

Bannon trial set to open Tuesday as jury selection winds down  —  Opening arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday in the criminal trial of former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, after a federal judge selected 22 potential jurors to sit in the contempt-of-Congress case.

Confused about 2022?  You should be  —  ANALYSIS — I've seen more than a few election cycles, but I'm not certain I have seen many that are more confusing than the one we are now in.  —  Which “rules” of handicapping still hold in the current environment, and which fell by the wayside …

Man drew gun after women didn't thank him for holding door in Hamden, police say  —  HAMDEN — Police arrested a New Haven man after they say he was reported to have drawn a gun Saturday over two women not thanking him for holding a door open for them.  —  Hamden police said 25-year-old Joshua Murray …

Democrats Navigate Nuanced Views on Abortion Among Black Voters  —  Faced with a streak of conservatism about abortion among some Black Americans, a vital constituency for President Biden, Democrats are framing the issue as part of a broader civil rights struggle.  — Give this article- - - Read in app

Word of Trump Media Deal Is Said to Have Leaked Months in Advance  —  Federal authorities are investigating a surge in trading that preceded the announcement of a $300 million deal with the former president's media company.  —  Months before former President Donald J. Trump's social media company unveiled …

Jordan Peterson's Pro-Putin Punditry  —  The Canadian pop-psychologist's descent into tired and predictable right-wing rhetoric continues apace.  —  Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and “anti-woke” crusader who has stirred controversy and garnered praise, opprobrium …

exclusive |  China asks European leaders to meet Xi in November.  But will they accept?  —  The trips would mark a return to Beijing for Western European leaders following almost three years of a zero-Covid policy that has prevented in-person diplomacy The proposed date would likely be right …