Embattled GOP Senator Says a Staffer Vanished. We Found Him.

By Roger Sollenberger

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) is accused of a number of major campaign-finance violations. The campaign blames it on one particular staffer who it says “vanished.” Not quite.

By Kelly Weill

Longtime figures on the racist far-right are repurposing their rowdy events for vaccine-reluctant crowds.

By Sam Brodey, Matt Fuller

For many pro-Trump Republicans in the House Republican Conference, handing Democrats a win on infrastructure amounts to treachery, far more than anything Paul Gosar did.

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By Kali Holloway

Calling a killer a “baby boy” is a neat trick for gesturing at the ways white lives matter to people like him, and Black lives do not.

By Brooke Leigh Howard

Steve Lynch once threatened to send “20 strong men” to pro-mask school boards. Now he’s “haunting” the people counting votes in an election he lost badly.

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For many pro-Trump Republicans in the House Republican Conference, handing Democrats a win on infrastructure amounts to treachery, far more than anything Paul Gosar did.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) is accused of a number of major campaign-finance violations. The campaign blames it on one particular staffer who it says “vanished.” Not quite.

Voting for an infrastructure bill is beyond the pale, but accusations of domestic abuse are not.

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 FLAILING AND FAILING

The former president is urgently trying to stop Jan. 6 records from being passed to House investigators.

 BACK AND FORTH

After a trade of insults, the former New Jersey governor reminded Trump he lost last year’s election.

 TIPPED OFF

A screenshot included in court documents shows him giving the finger to a Capitol surveillance camera.

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