Will Lewis steps down as Washington Post publisher and CEO after job cuts  —  British journalist's tenure was controversial after Jeff Bezos appointed him to turn around the newspaper  —  Christopher Grimes in Los Angeles, Daniel Thomas in London and Anna Nicolaou in New York

Trump Rages at Bad Bunny—and Accidentally Exposes a Big MAGA Weakness  —  On Sunday, Bad Bunny is set to perform in the Super Bowl's halftime show, and President Trump is angry about it.  “I think it's a terrible choice,” Trump seethed recently, referring to the Puerto Rican performer …

Massie on Trump's rhetoric: 'He's gone too far' … After that video depicting the Obamas was widely denounced, including by some Republicans, the White House took it down.  —  “He should absolutely apologize.  He's gone too far.  I mean, he's attacked my wife recently online …

For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump  —  A new organization blessed by the president is raising money for events and projects that will put a Trumpian spin on the nation's semiquincentennial.  —  President Trump's allies are offering access to him and other perks …

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Foreign Call About Person Close to Trump  —  Call intercepted by U.S. formed a key part of a complaint filed last year against the director of national intelligence  —  A whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …

Top Starmer aide Morgan McSweeney resigns over Peter Mandelson scandal  —  The British prime minister has been under pressure since revelations about Mandelson's relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.  —  U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney …

As goes the Washington Post: US democracy takes another hit under Trump  —  Jeff Bezos's axing of more than 300 jobs at the storied newspaper has renewed fears about the resilience of America's democracy to withstand Trump's attacks  —  The email landed in Lizzie Johnson's in-tray in Ukraine just before 4pm local time.

Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez wins District 60 seat, replacing Chad Brown  —  Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez won Saturday's special election for State House District 60, defeating Republican Brad Daigle.  —  Martinez, a member of the Iberville Parish Council, earned 62% of the vote against Daigle …

The disappearing art gallery in your post office … To lift the United States out of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt put Americans to work building roads and bridges, conserving forests and rivers, laying sewer pipes, and constructing schools, parks and airports.

The Secret History of the Deep State  —  On July 1, 1975, under gray skies, two Watergate prosecutors arrived in the office of the White House counsel.  Also present was the deputy national security adviser, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft.  They were gathered for a burial.

One Generation Runs the Country.  The Next Cashed In on Crypto.  —  Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn't always fare so well  —  In the depths of Donald Trump's interregnum, his eldest two sons huddled in a Mar …

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users  —  I get leaked docs bigger media don't because I'm not slowed down by corporate bureaucracy.  But this also means I don't have corporate money - I just have readers like you.  Please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work!

MAGA Elites Are Indoor Cats  —  It was the most consequential camping trip in American history: In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, asked the naturalist John Muir to guide him into the wilderness of California's Yosemite Valley.  After three days and an unexpected snowstorm …

Rightwing critics blame Mamdani as New York snow fails to melt  —  Murdoch tabloid leads charge as big freeze persists - could the mayor please do something about the weather?  —  It snowed two weeks ago in New York.  Since then, the temperature has barely risen above freezing …

Man Suspected of Shooting GRU General Arrested in Dubai, FSB Says  —  A man suspected of shooting and wounding senior Russian military intelligence officer Vladimir Alexeyev in Moscow has been arrested in Dubai, Russia's FSB security service said Sunday.  —  The man in his 60s was …

Epstein Files Reveal Scope of Ghislaine Maxwell's Role in Clinton Circle  —  Jeffrey Epstein's longtime companion helped advise on the kickoff of the Clinton Global Initiative and arranged for $1 million in funding for it, emails show.  —  Jeffrey Epstein's longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell …

The “boys club” that protected Epstein  —  Millions of files, zero accountability? … The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million files tied to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.  The rollout has been chaotic.  —  Many documents were heavily redacted …

Why Trump's Attack on Refugees Could Hurt Grandma  —  It's immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries who care of our elderly, and nobody's lining up to take their place.  —  MARYSE, 56, HAS BEEN A HOME CARE WORKER in the United States ever since she moved here from Haiti sixteen years ago.

‘The sugar high will be short lived’: Trump's big bet on tax refunds might not pay off … “The sugar high will be short-lived if [the refunds], in fact, go toward paying and supporting prices of things like additional health care costs, additional insurance costs, additional electricity costs …

How a $30 Billion Welfare Program Became a ‘Slush Fund’ for States  —  Republicans and Democrats alike decry the lack of oversight for America's famous antipoverty experiment.  ‘Fraud by design.’  —  When the Trump administration targeted billions of dollars in federal welfare funds recently …

Elderly Lawmakers Won't Step Aside, Prompting New Debate Over Age Limits  —  Refusal of older officeholders to cede stage to younger faces is prompting fresh calls for a limit on how long they can serve  —  An aging political class in Washington is prompting fresh calls for forcing older officeholders …