Brazilian Authorities Will Revive Fraud Case Against George Santos  —  A 2008 court case had been suspended because Brazilian law enforcement officials could not find Mr. Santos.  —  When Representative-elect George Santos takes his seat in Congress on Tuesday, he will do so under the shadow …

GOP dilemma: If not McCarthy, then who?  —  As House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy has struggled to lock down the votes to become speaker, his top deputy has kept his head down.  —  Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 in the House GOP leadership, has made clear he supports McCarthy …

‘This made us all unemployable’: Trump White House aides respond to January 6 in angry text exchange  —  A text exchange between Ivanka Trump's chief of staff Julie Radford and White House aide Hope Hicks reveals their anger over then-President Donald Trump's actions on January 6, 2021 …

Jan. 6 Panel Transcripts Show Gen. Milley Agreed With Pelosi That Trump Was ‘Crazy’  —  The transcript is part of a mass database of evidence released by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.  —  Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff …

'It's going to stink for a while, but I'll fight with all I have got': Tennis world rallies around Wimbledon legend Martina Navratilova, 66, as she reveals ‘double whammy’ of throat and breast cancer diagnosis  — Martina Navratilova, 66, has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer …

Trump Blames Extreme Pro-Lifers for Republican Midterm Defeats  —  “It wasn't my fault that the Republicans didn't live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” Trump posted yesterday.  He added: … This is a pile of nonsense atop a kernel of truth.  —  Some Republican candidates took the positions on abortion Trump is describing.

‘Died Suddenly’?  More Than 1-in-4 Think Someone They Know Died From COVID-19 Vaccines  —  Nearly half of Americans think COVID-19 vaccines may be to blame for many unexplained deaths, and more than a quarter say someone they know could be among the victims.

America's True Divide: Pluralists vs. Zealots  —  Stop making politics about partisan identities and tribalism and get back to persuasion and policy.  —  WSJ Opinion: Congress Is Now Officially Divided  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  1x

Turning the tide in Russia's war on Ukraine  —  Goal for 2023 must be to give Kyiv the means to end the conflict on its terms  —  Tens of thousands have died.  Millions have been turned into refugees.  Almost one-sixth of Ukraine's territory remains under Russian occupation.

We're Going to Miss Greed and Cynicism  —  It's 2023.  What will the new year bring?  The answer, of course, is that we don't know.  There are a fair number of what Donald Rumsfeld (remember him?) called “known unknowns” — for example, nobody really knows how hard it will be to reduce inflation …

Ukrainian Attack Kills 63 Russian Soldiers in East, Moscow Says … A Russian proxy official called the attack in Donetsk a ‘massive blow.’  —  Ukrainian missiles struck a building that housed Russian soldiers in an occupied city in Donetsk early on New Year's Day, according to Russian proxy officials and the Ukrainian military.

This Land Becomes Their Land.  New U.S. Citizens Hit a 15-Year High  —  Nearly one million immigrants became Americans in 2022 after the pandemic delayed the process and prevented hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the 2020 election.  —  On a windswept morning last spring …

White contractors wouldn't remove Confederate statues.  So a Black man did it.  —  RICHMOND — Workers in bright yellow vests circled up in the morning chill.  Some clutched cups of Starbucks coffee, a last comfort before beginning the hard work of dismantling a statue of Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill in the middle of an intersection.