JUSTIFIED: Fox News just published an editorial that you won't believe came from them  —  After widespread criticism and deflection by Republican allies of Donald Trump — all scrambling to condemn the FBI's search of the ex-President's Palm Beach home — an unlikely source has pushed …

Files copied from voting systems were shared with Trump supporters, election deniers  —  Sensitive election system files obtained by attorneys working to overturn President Donald Trump's 2020 defeat were shared with election deniers, conspiracy theorists and right-wing commentators, according to records reviewed by The Washington Post.

An Unusual $1.6 Billion Donation Bolsters Conservatives  —  A low-profile Republican financier donated his company to a new group run by the influential operative Leonard A. Leo.  —  WASHINGTON — A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via a little-known donor …

Statement by Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.  —  I am announcing today that I will be stepping down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.

Gang of 8 wants to see Trump Mar-a-Lago search docs  —  The group of congressional leaders charged with reviewing the most sensitive intelligence information has asked the Biden administration for access to the documents seized from former President Donald Trump's private residence in Florida …

The Jolt: National Republicans bolster Herschel Walker with Senate control on the line  —  Republicans need a net gain of just one Senate seat to take control of the chamber in a political climate that favors the GOP.  So why is Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lowering expectations of a flip?

Colorado GOP Sen. Kevin Priola switches party affiliation to Democrat, citing election conspiracies and climate denialism  —  Colorado Sen. Kevin Priola, a Henderson Republican, announced Monday morning that he is changing his party affiliation to Democrat.  —  Priola, considered …

YouTube Bans Andrew Tate After Sexist Remarks, But He's Still on Twitch  —  A YouTube channel associated with Andrew Tate, an online influencer and self-described misogynist, was disabled Monday, as Google's video website joins a growing list of social media platforms taking action against the personality in the last week.

Did opposition to Liz Cheney boost far-right candidates in Wyoming? … The line snaked out from the Central Wyoming Fairgrounds Industrial Building and down the road outside.  Voters stood in the warming August sun, waiting for an opportunity to cast their ballots Tuesday in Wyoming's most discussed primary election in memory.

White House leaning toward canceling $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000  —  White House officials have been weighing - and leaning toward - the cancellation of up to $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower tied to an income threshold, CNN has learned.

Despite Newsom's veto, S.F. might push ahead with supervised drug consumption sites anyway  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have allowed pilot programs where people could use drugs under the supervision of trained staff in San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles …

The horribly timed defenestration of Brian Stelter  —  In the spring of 2018, CJR's Pete Vernon profiled Brian Stelter, CNN's chief media correspondent.  It was the height of the Trump era, so the media—and Trump's relentlessness in attacking it—was a major story, and Stelter was ubiquitous in covering and analyzing it.

David Kay, weapons inspector who helped disprove Iraqi WMDs, dies at 82  —  He concluded that no weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq and that intelligence agencies had badly misjudged the available evidence  —  David A. Kay, the weapons proliferation expert who led a CIA-run operation …

Trump PAC's $650,000 ‘charitable contribution’ to the Smithsonian will pay for portraits of Donald and Melania Trump  — Save America, one of Donald Trump's political committees, donated $650,000 to the Smithsonian.  — A Smithsonian official confirmed to Insider that the money will fund portraits of Donald and Melania Trump.

Democrats Designed the Climate Law to Be a Game Changer.  Here's How.  —  In a first, the measure legally defines greenhouse gases as pollution.  That'll make new regulations much tougher to challenge in court.  —  When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency …

California congressman becomes latest Republican to invoke Nazis to defend Trump, bash Biden  —  Rep. Mike Garcia, a Republican who faces one of the most competitive House races in the country, likened the Biden administration to the Nazi regime during an interview on a conservative podcast last week.

$27 billion class action lawsuit announced for Uvalde victims and survivors  —  Charles Bonner of Bonner & Bonner Law is also representing victims in the Buffalo shooting  —  UVALDE - Some of the families affected by the Robb Elementary School mass shooting are now a part of a major lawsuit.

These celebrities are accused of drought restriction violations  —  They're among the biggest names in entertainment and sports: Sylvester Stallone, Dwyane Wade, Kevin Hart, Kim and Kourtney Kardashian.  —  And as Southern California struggles with a third year of punishing drought …

On Car Seats as Contraception  —  Or: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2  —  (Note: This post takes the perspective of strongly preferring higher American fertility to lower American fertility on anything close to current margins.  I endorse this view and consider it very overdetermined …

Can You Tell Me What Would Happen if the F.B.I. Were Investigating a Democrat?  —  The reaction to the F.B.I. search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago property created an immediate and furious backlash among Republicans.  Even after two years of making political hay out of left-wing calls to defund the police …