Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) did something rarely, if ever, seen in the MAGA era when he won passage Saturday of a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. He defied the loudest, most threatening GOP personalities, dug deep into government intelligence -- and shifted his position on the most vital foreign policy legislation in years. read more
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) called a faction of his Republican Party colleagues "some real scumbags" in a Sunday appearance on CNN's State of the Union, delivering a rant so "intense" it appeared to shock the show's host, Dana Bush. read more
A former Marine who carried a tiki torch ahead of a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., pleaded guilty Friday in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. read more
The MAGA hopeful has trailed behind President Joe Biden in campaign fundraising since early last month, and has yet to catch up -- as he continues to swim in millions of dollars in legal fees. read more
The Axios news site said the US would target Israel's Netzah Yehuda battalion over alleged human rights violations in the occupied West Bank. read more
U.S. officials have said the surveillance tool is crucial in disrupting terror attacks, cyber intrusions, and foreign espionage. read more
The climate crisis will mean that average incomes will fall by almost a fifth within the next 26 years compared with what they would have been if there was no such crisis, according to a study that predicts the costs of damage will be six times higher than the price of limiting global heating to 2C. read more
Yuval Noah Harari: Israel is facing a historic defeat, the bitter fruit of years of disastrous policies. If the country now prioritizes vengeance over its own best interests, it will put itself and the entire region in grave danger. read more
During opening statements at Trump's hush-money trial, a Manhattan DA said: "This case is about a criminal conspiracy. Trump orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election," said Matthew Colangelo, a lawyer with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office. "Then he covered up that criminal scheme by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again." read more
Exclusive: Review finds government has yet to substantiate claims UN relief agency staff have ties to Hamas or Islamic Jihad read more
Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: Mississippi was the great American battleground of freedom and democracy in the 20th century, and it remains central in the struggle to define the meanings of those terms. read more
By the late '60s, [Roman] Gabriel was a star quarterback and earned Pro Bowl selections for three straight seasons (1967-69). He also earned NFL MVP and All-Pro honors in 1969 while leading the league in touchdown passes with 24. read more
A first-in-the-nation bill that's already passed New Hampshire's state House, sponsored only by Republican legislators, would end the requirement for parents enrolling kids in childcare to provide documentation of polio and measles vaccination. read more
Thom Hartmann looks at several studies that found the trend of increased violent deaths when Republicans are in power. One researcher he interviewed told him this: "My colleagues and I did a study about 10 years ago looking at the two different parties in the United States -- not in terms of ideology or policies but purely in terms of violent death rates -- and, astonishingly, we found that over a 110-year period, almost without exception, whenever there was a Republican president who was elected, the murder and suicide rates would double, and whenever there was a Democratic president elected the murder and suicide rates would halve." read more
It's not every day the future arrives early. Robot cars and personal jetpacks might still some time off, but at least you can head over to the Kickstarter crowdfunding site right now and place an order for your very own invisibility shield. read more
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