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Vice President Kamala Harris said she wishes lawmakers would take on domestic threats to national security without a "partisan lens." During an NBC News's Meet the Press interview, Harris recalled her time on the Senate Intelligence Committee and said she wishes lawmakers would address domestic threats as "Americans first." "When we walk through the doors, Republicans, Democrats, Independents — when we walked through the door of the SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility), that secure room — press could not come in, no cameras, no public, just us. People would take off their jackets, they'd roll up their sleeves and they...

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein said former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election was something not even former President Richard Nixon would have imagined. In an op-ed in The Washington Post, the two reporters known for uncovering the Watergate scandal said they thought Nixon defined corruption until they saw Trump's presidency. In 1972, the Nixon administration coordinated a break-in at the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The administration attempted to cover up its involvement until Nixon was forced to resign in 1974.

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul lashed out at critics who called him a hypocrite for requesting federal funds when his state was devastated by tornadoes, but he has a lengthy history of opposing disaster-relief bills, The Washington Post reported. On Saturday, the morning after a storm created historic tornadoes, Paul wrote President Joe Biden a letter asking him to move "expeditiously to approve the appropriate resources for our state." The most damage and destruction hit Kentucky, with more than 70 people killed. "We should do all we can to help our Kentucky neighbors. God be with them — they are...