Before Jan. 6, Mark Meadows joked about Trump's election claims  —  In a text, Meadows wrote that his own son was unable to find more than a handful of votes potentially cast in the name of dead voters, people familiar with message say  —  Mark Meadows joked about the baseless claim …

Inside Biden's unusual hidden campaign  —  The president is gambling that using Democratic and outside groups will work better than a big, centralized effort  —  President Biden's campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, has spent her first months on the job planning a sweeping national reelection effort …

Sununu: Most New Hampshire voters are ‘not with Trump’  —  The New Hampshire said GOP contenders can topple Trump in his state, but they have to take him on directly.  —  New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu insisted Republican presidential candidates can take down frontrunner Donald Trump …

The Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis's Vaccine Turnabout  —  Once a vaccine advocate, the Florida governor lost his enthusiasm for the shot before the Delta wave sent Covid hospitalizations and deaths soaring.  It's a grim chapter he now leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response.

Tony Bennett saw racism and horror in World War II.  It changed him.  —  What were the chances?  Thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land devastated by war, old friends bumped into each other on the street.  —  It was Thanksgiving Day, 1945, when two U.S. Army soldiers met unexpectedly in Mannheim, Germany.

Fox News hosts are pushing Trump to join the Fox News GOP debate  —  The former president's refusal to commit to the first debate of the 2024 cycle could make it a ratings wash-out.  Aides say he's unlikely to change his mind.  —  Fox News personalities Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade …

DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida's New Standards for Black History  —  In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”  —  After an overhaul to Florida's African American history standards …

Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory - scientists  —  A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is unprecedented.  —  Dangerous heatwaves in Europe could break further records, the UN says.

Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for ‘much stronger’ than expected GDP growth  — President Joe Biden's economic policies drove an unexpected economic surge that has forced Morgan Stanley to make a “sizable upward revision” in its GDP forecasts.  — Biden's 2021 infrastructure bill has created …

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden's lawyer Kevin Morris is seen smoking a BONG on the balcony of his LA home while clearly visible from the road during a visit from the president's son  — DailyMail.com saw Hunter Biden's hotshot lawyer Kevin Morris smoking from a large bong on the balcony of his Los Angeles home on Thursday

Researchers horrified, decry rise of ‘fascism’ as students send mocking responses to woke survey  —  ‘Malicious responses’ to the survey included identifying as ‘illiterate’ and as an ‘attack helicopter’  —  Academic researchers condemned students' irreverent and offensive responses to an LGBTQ survey …