Elon Musk's team is seeking new investors for Twitter  —  The managing director of Elon Musk's family office is seeking new equity investors for Twitter as users revolt, advertisers flee, and debt payments loom, according to two people familiar with the fundraising effort.

No alien life discovered on Earth, Pentagon says, but search deepens  —  A new office within the Defense Department is evaluating recent reports of unexplained phenomena and is planning to look at accounts dating back decades  —  A new office at the Pentagon is scrutinizing hundreds of reports …

Jan. 6 Panel Plans Vote on Referring Trump for Insurrection and Other Charges  —  The committee also was expected to recommend charging the former president with obstructing an official proceeding of Congress and defrauding the American people.  —  WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating …

Brittney Griner and the Role of Race in Diplomacy  —  Griner's release recalls the lessons of the effort to free Robert Goodman, an African American Navy navigator, from Syria.  —  Thirty-nine years ago this month, an African American Navy bombardier-navigator named Robert Goodman was taking part …

Twitter's top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employees  —  Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections.  —  More than a dozen former feds flocked …

What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?  —  Reflections on the end of history ... and the academic study of the arts, literature and philosophy.  —  The December 2022 issue of Jacobin, which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left …

Republican Party Masochists in Congress  —  GOP division and disarray on Capitol Hill bode ill for the next two years.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  WSJ Opinion: Free Speech and the Push to Shut You Up  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  1x

Two Tennessee Men Arrested for Planning Attacks on Law Enforcement Personnel and the FBI's Knoxville Field Office  —  A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, and Austin Carter, 26, of Knoxville, Tennessee, with conspiracy …

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 16  —  Click here to see ISW's interactive map of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  This map is updated daily alongside the static maps present in this report.  —  Russian forces conducted their ninth large-scale missile campaign …

Georgia Man with Ties to White Supremacist Organization Pleads Guilty to Federal Hate Crime for Racially Motivated Shootings  —  A Georgia man pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime and a firearms violation for shooting into two Clayton County convenience stores in an attempt to kill …

David Cameron lands teaching job at Abu Dhabi university  —  Former UK prime minister will lecture students on ‘practising politics and government in the age of disruption’  —  David Cameron, Britain's former prime minister, is returning to public life with a new job teaching politics at a university in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi.

Trump Tax Returns May Be Released After House Panel Meets Tuesday  —  Ways and Means Committee has access to Trump records from IRS  —  WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee scheduled a closed-door meeting for Tuesday at which lawmakers are likely to review former President Donald …

Mendham Twp.  Committee ballots, filed by Dems and questioned by Republicans, include one from GOP incumbent's daughter  —  MENDHAM TWP.  - Morris County Republicans Thursday said they would soon file a lawsuit contesting the results of the Nov. 8 election in which Republican Township …

'Comply or it's going to be a serious backlash:' Activist demanding $800,000 for every black resident issues warning to California's reparations task force  — Following the second meeting of California's reparations task force, video shows one of the speakers warning of repercussions if payments weren't made

The Chechen Warlord Who Does Putin's Dirty Work in Ukraine  —  Ramzan Kadyrov, once an anti-Russian rebel, now gets billions from Moscow and plays a key role in the war  —  At the start of the war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov …

Self-esteem of sports fans is linked to their team, research shows  —  Winning or losing not only changes how fans dress, but also how they talk about their team  —  Sports fans, especially at the World Cup, use their clothes and colors to show their team identity.

J. Robert Oppenheimer Cleared of ‘Black Mark’ After 68 Years  —  The physicist and architect of the American atomic bomb was stripped of his security clearance in 1954 after what is now called a flawed investigation.  —  The Secretary of Energy on Friday nullified a 1954 decision to revoke …