Trump and the Town Hall  —  It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.  —  Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come.  She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.

The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About  —  Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol.  —  He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.

House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden  —  After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.  —  Reporting from Washington

The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas' Relationship With Harlan Crow  —  The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy.  Here's where our reporting started and how we got the story.  —  Our reporting on the relationship between Supreme …

Is the debt ceiling constitutional?  —  What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default?  —  The United States has a time bomb written into federal law, and no one knows whether it is constitutional or not.  —  As anyone who has paid attention …

First-ever drug-resistant ringworm infections found in US: CDC  —  Two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections were reported in New York City, the first such cases in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced on Thursday.  —  The infection, which is highly contagious …

18- to 20-year-olds can't be barred from buying handguns, judge rules  —  A federal judge in Virginia on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a set of federal laws and regulations that prohibit federally-licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people who are 18 to 20 years of age …

Supreme Court throws out ex-Cuomo aide's bribery conviction  —  The justices' ruling narrowed the scope of a law used to root out public corruption.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal anticorruption law by ruling in favor of an ex-aide to former …

Connie  —  IT WAS ON MY FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there.  —  Suddenly, I was among a student body that was almost 50 percent Asian.  While I was standing in line to order a sandwich at the campus cafe …

Washington Post names Matea Gold as new managing editor  —  Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday.  —  She replaces Steven Ginsberg, who left The Post last year to take a position as top editor of the Athletic, a sports site owned by the New York Times.

Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters … But he's acting like it. … - Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's “radical climate agenda.”  — Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related …

Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.  Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.  —  We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.

Couple Suspected of Buying Bud Light Assaulted, Police Say  —  BEER BRAWL  —  Three suspects allegedly assaulted an Ontario couple who was suspected of buying Bud Light Saturday night.  According to a press release from local police, the couple was leaving a liquor store when three men approached …

Here Are Five Rules for the Media When They Cover Trump  —  This isn't rocket science, people.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tonight on the livestream I'm going to talk with Will Saletan and Adam Keiper about the CNN town hall, the E. Jean Carroll verdict, and Will's Lindsey Graham opus.

Woke College Puts Professor On Leave For Handing Out Jeremy's Chocolate  —  A California community college history professor is in big trouble with the school's woke administration all because he handed out Jeremy's Chocolate bars to students.  —  David Richardson, a self-described gay conservative …

CNN Trump Town Hall Flops With Ratings Lower Than 2016  —  The ratings are in for CNN's Trump town hall, and the special only drew the audience for an average Tucker Carlson show.  —  Here are the ratings: … CNN was expecting a ratings bonanza after the E. Jean Carroll verdict …

What's Driving Record Levels of Migration to the U.S. Border?  —  The United States is trying to curtail border crossings as a Covid-era immigration policy lifts this week, but it has little control over the crises in Latin America that have upended the lives of millions.

Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts  —  Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.

‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah's drawings expose the US's depraved torture policy  —  Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release  —  Warning: the images and descriptions of torture in this article are extremely graphic

UK confirms supply of Storm Shadow long-range missiles in Ukraine  —  The UK has confirmed it is supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles it requested for its fight against invading Russian forces.  —  The Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer.