Sam Bankman-Fried diverted FTX customer funds to donate to political campaigns, authorities charge  — Federal authorities charged FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried with using tens of millions of dollars of misappropriated customer funds to make illegal political donations to both Democratic and Republican candidates.

2022 Review: How Republicans Lost Despite Winning the Popular Vote  —  There were several reasons Republicans struggled to translate votes into seats, including candidate quality and strength in the wrong places.  —  Here's a figure about the 2022 midterm elections that might surprise you …

Goodbye, Twitter  —  Everything Ends, And That's Okay.  —  Today I was thinking of all the websites I've spent time on, and the people I've met there.  —  I messed around on the internet in the days of screeching dial-up modems, but I didn't really start to contribute regularly to online communities until 1995 or so.

Trump in trouble: Republican support for his 2024 bid falls amid political, legal setbacks  —  By double digits, GOP voters prefer DeSantis as the 2024 presidential nominee  —  Republican support for Donald Trump's presidential bid in 2024 has cratered, an exclusive USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds …

Exclusive: US finalizing plans to send Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine  —  The Biden administration is finalizing plans to send the Patriot missile defense system to Ukraine that could be announced as soon as this week, according to two US officials and a senior administration official.

Norman Responds To TPM Revelations Of His Call For ‘Marshall Law’: Texts Came From ‘Source Of Frustration’  —  Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), whose Jan. 17, 2021 text to then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows called for Donald Trump to invoke “Marshall Law,” has responded to the revelations.

CPI Report Shows U.S. Inflation Eased in November  —  Price increases have eased this fall from a four-decade high earlier in year, while Federal Reserve continues to move aggressively  —  Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021 …

Exclusive: An intel analyst tried to prevent the Jan. 6 attack — but DHS failed to act  —  On Dec. 20, 2020, a 21-year-old intelligence analyst went online to search for local Washington, D.C., fishing holes and stumbled upon the blueprint of a plot to storm the Capitol and execute members …

House committee asks National Archives to review Trump storage unit  —  Rep. Carolyn Maloney says the storage facility and other properties ‘may contain presidential records that were not the focus of the search and therefore have not been turned over to the federal government’

Russian Trolls Made Fake Kid Rock Fan Accounts — and Fooled Donald Trump Jr.  —  The former president's son reposted a conspiracy theory on Ivermectin and oil supplies from “KidRockOfficial.”  The account was a Russian troll trying to meddle in the U.S. election

Washington Post caught stealth-editing report that initially labeled Matt Taibbi, Bari Weiss ‘conservative’  —  Taibbi, Weiss have reported this month on Twitter files released by new CEO Elon Musk  —  Recent release of ‘Twitter files’ reveals employees were ecstatic over Trump ban

Epstein Victim Was Questioned About Alan Dershowitz's ‘Bleeding’ Penis  —  Sarah Ransome claims she was forced into a threesome with the Harvard lawyer and was subjected to gruesome questions about whether he had “scarred,” “bandaged” private parts.  —  A victim of multimillionaire sex …

Binance withdrawals hit $1.9 bln in 24 hours, data firm says  —  Binance has registered $1.9 billion of withdrawals in the past 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world's biggest crypto exchange said it had “temporarily paused” withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin.

Inside Chuck Schumer's Long Game On Judges  —  The Senate majority leader told HuffPost his goal is to “achieve balance” on every appeals court in the next two years with Biden's judicial picks.  —  For years, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been crafting his legacy as the Senate leader …

Mass Migrant Crossing Floods Texas Border Facilities  —  The arrival of up to 1,000 migrants, the latest big group to have crossed the border, was one of the largest single crossings in recent years in West Texas, which has seen a surge in migration.  —  EL PASO — After nightfall on Sunday …

Covid vaccines averted 3 million deaths in U.S., according to new study  —  This Wednesday will mark two years since nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the U.S. to receive a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial.  A study released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund shows …

The midterms should be a stake through the heart of the mobilization myth  —  Turnout was great for Republicans, but they lost most of the key races anyway  —  In recent years, I've become obsessed with making an argument that would have struck people as too obvious to even write about 20 years ago …

The White House prepares for an end to the Covid-19 PHE  —  Presented by With Alice Miranda Ollstein  —  PREPPING FOR THE END — Even as Covid-19 cases are rising across the country, preparations for the end of the public health emergency are in full swing within the administration …

Shocking moment female-to-male transgender ice hockey player is tackled to the ground and CONCUSSED by much larger male-to-female rival at controversial NHL-backed tournament  — Trans hockey player Danny Maki was left concussed after a much larger player collided with him during a trans hockey tournament last month

Elon Musk Is the Nation's Foremost Culture Warrior  —  His unwillingness to swallow the orthodoxies of the elite media and progressive establishment has made him a heretic.  —  Elon Musk, who has never called himself a conservative, is now the nation's foremost culture warrior.

Putin Skips Annual News Conference, Avoiding Possible Questions on War  —  The December event has offered reporters rare — albeit stage-managed — chances to pose hard questions.  With the war going poorly for Russia, that could have been awkward.  —  It has been an annual ritual …

Man With Neo-Nazi Links Arrested With Ghost Gun and Wearing Body Armor  —  A New York man connected to a dangerous fascist group was arrested in November during a traffic stop.  —  Mack Lamoureux  —  A man connected to neo-Nazi networks was arrested during what appears …