Rare visit by House speaker to campus escalates tension at Columbia [WaPo gift link] (wapo.st)
The fate of emergency abortion care rests with Supreme Court (wapo.st)
Shanae Smith-Cunningham arrived at Memorial Regional Hospital on Dec. 21, 2022 — five days after her water broke, only halfway through her pregnancy. Despite her pleas for treatment and the risks to her health, staff at the Hollywood, Fla., hospital turned her away amid the state’s new abortion restrictions....
Nestlé adds more sugar to baby food in poorer countries, report finds (wapo.st)
U.S. cites a litany of rights violations in Israel, Gaza and West Bank (wapo.st)
How Trump has become angrier and more isolated on Truth Social (wapo.st)
As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters | Waves of layoffs and policy shifts are forcing campaigns to change tactics, potentially transforming the 2024 election (wapo.st)
I’ll note that “Politics” here also includes a variety of topics that are disfavored by Meta, including climate.
Live Updates: Full jury selected in Trump hush money trial (wapo.st)
The New York Times coverage for comparison
The U.S. just changed how it manages a tenth of its land: Interior Department rule puts conservation and clean energy development on par with drilling, mining and resource extraction on federal lands (wapo.st)
For comparison, the New York Times coverage
Trump rails against wind energy in fundraising pitch to oil executives | At a Mar-a-Lago dinner, Donald Trump doubles down on promises to derail a key form of clean energy (wapo.st)
“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation....
Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S. (wapo.st)
In a classified addendum to Russia’s official — and public — “Foreign Policy Concept of the Russian Federation,” the ministry calls for an “offensive information campaign” and other measures spanning “the military-political, economic and trade and informational psychological spheres” against a “coalition of...
Leo rejects Senate subpoena from panel probing gifts to Supreme Court justices (wapo.st)
The conservative judicial activist called the move ‘politically motivated,’ and the committee chair said Leo had left them ‘no other choice’ but to move forward with the compulsory process
Meet the ‘pursuer of nubile young females’ who helped pass Arizona’s 1864 abortion law (wapo.st)
The Arizona Supreme Court has decided the law is still relevant. So let’s talk about the guy who led the body that passed it....
U.S. sends Ukraine seized Iranian-made weapons (wapo.st)
The Pentagon has provided Ukraine with thousands of Iranian-made weapons seized before they could reach Houthi militants in Yemen, U.S. officials said Tuesday. It’s the Biden administration’s latest infusion of emergency military support for Kyiv while a multibillion-dollar aid package remains stalled in the Republican-led...
Montana GOP Senate candidate says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 (wapo.st)
Tim Sheehy was cited for illegally discharging a weapon in a national park but says he made up the gunshot to cover up a bullet wound he received as a Navy SEAL in Afghanistan that he never reported to superiors
Inside Donald Trump’s secret plan to end the Ukraine-Russia war | Foreign policy experts and some Republicans warned that pressuring Ukraine to cede land would reward Putin (wapo.st)
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP (wapo.st)
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is the latest to point out such a problem in his party
Trump swindles his followers — again (wapo.st)
America’s new high-risk, high-reward $20 billion climate push | In an ambitious effort to fight climate change, the EPA is assisting local groups in financing clean-energy projects (wapo.st)
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday awarded $20 billion to help finance clean-energy projects across the country, marking one of the Biden administration’s biggest investments in combating climate change and curbing pollution in disadvantaged communities.
Trump can’t remember much. He hopes you won’t be able to, either. (wapo.st)
Probably why the Republicans try to pretend that Biden isn’t with it anymore
Many GOP billionaires balked at Jan. 6. They’re coming back to Trump. (wapo.st)
Elite donors are rediscovering their affinity for the former president over taxes — even as he vows to free Jan. 6 defendants, promises mass deportations and faces 88 felony charges...
First cars, now trucks: Biden takes aim at tailpipe pollution | The EPA rule could prompt pushback from the truck industry, which has fought a rapid transition away from diesel-powered vehicles (wapo.st)
Yet EPA officials said the rule will not mandate the adoption of a particular zero-emission technology. Rather, it will require manufacturers to reduce emissions by choosing from several cleaner technologies, including electric trucks, hybrid trucks and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles....
His job is to interpret the Constitution. Would he rather run the FDA? (wapo.st)
But Alito was the only justice who had voted on more than one case and whose record aligned perfectly with his ideological predispositions: There were zero cases in which he found that a conservative litigant lacked standing, and zero cases in which he found that a liberal plaintiff had standing to sue.
U.S. clamps down on oil and gas firms releasing potent greenhouse gas (wapo.st)
A new rule restricts releases of methane from companies that have leases to extract fossil fuels from federal lands...