CBS News reports: A day ahead of the scheduled rollout of free COVID-19 tests distributed by the Biden administration, some Americans are already placing orders for their free deliveries through a form posted by the U.S. Postal Service. The White House announced last week that it would publicly launch the site covidtests.gov on Wednesday. However, some early visitors to the …

The Houston Chronicle reports: The footage shows the 37-year-old former Navy SEAL at a Montgomery County Tea Party meeting on Monday night responding sharply to a young girl at a speaking engagement after being presented with quotes from past comments he’d made on the Jocko podcast back in March of 2020. The video begins with the girl quoting remarks made …

Talking Points Memo reports: During an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday night, McDaniel listed various complaints about the CPD’s 2020 election debates between President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden, which the RNC official claimed were biased toward the Democrat. “And then they switched one of the debates to virtual to let Joe Biden stay in …

The Huffington Post reports: State Rep. Teresa Martinez [photo] kicked off Arizona’s 2022 legislative session by introducing H.B. 2483, titled the Arizona Heartbeat Act. Similar to the Texas legislation, the Arizona bill bans abortion around the six-week point (a period in which most people don’t yet know they’re pregnant) and financially incentivizes private citizens to sue anyone who aids or …

Politico reports: Ray Epps, the former Arizona Oath Keeper at the center of pro-Trump conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6., intends to sit for a transcribed interview Friday with the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, his attorney said in a phone interview. Epps, who has become the centerpiece of an unsupported GOP claim that the FBI incited …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: The traveling cavalcade of various election, COVID-19, and QAnon conspiracy theorists who have been gathering in churches around the country every month for the last year as part of The ReAwaken America Tour stopped in Phoenix, Arizona, last weekend. Among the speakers at the latest stop was Latinos For Trump President Bianca Garcia, …

The New York Times reports: Verizon and AT&T said on Tuesday that they would delay the debut of new 5G cellular service near some airports, an attempt to address concerns that their equipment would interfere with airplane equipment when the service started on Wednesday. AT&T said in a statement that it had “voluntarily agreed to temporarily defer turning on a …

The Daily Mail reports: An anti-vax Czech folk singer has died after deliberately catching Covid to obtain a health pass to allow her to visit the sauna and theatre. Hana Horka, the vocalist for the band Asonance, died on Sunday after contracting the Delta variant at the age of 57, according to her son Jan Rek. She voluntarily exposed herself …

The Associated Press reports: The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching …

ABC News reports: Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming out March 8 titled “One Damn Thing After Another,” and billed by his publisher as a “vivid and forthright book” of his time serving two “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush. One of his most controversial actions involved special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of …

CNN reports: Around three dozen former Trump administration officials, disillusioned with their former boss and concerned about his impact on the GOP and the nation, held a conference call last Monday to discuss efforts to fend off his efforts to, in their view, erode the democratic process, several participants told CNN. The only items the group seemed to agree upon …

The Associated Press reports: Anders Behring Breivik, the far-right fanatic who killed 77 people in massacres in Norway in 2011, appeared at a parole hearing Tuesday, seemingly more focused on spreading white supremacist propaganda than gaining an improbable early release from prison. Breivik, sporting a stubble beard and a two-piece suit, walked into a prison gymnasium-turned-courtroom with white supremacist messages …

The Hill reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to block a federal mask mandate for air travel. The emergency application was filed by a father on behalf of himself and his 4-year-old autistic son, both of whom claim to be medically incapable of wearing masks for extended periods. Their request was filed to Justice Neil Gorsuch, who …

NPR reports: Sotomayor has diabetes, a condition that puts her at high risk for serious illness, or even death, from COVID-19. She has been the only justice to wear a mask on the bench since last fall when, amid a marked decline in COVID-19 cases, the justices resumed in-person arguments for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. …

British tabloid The Mirror reports: Right Said Fred have been making headlines since the start of the pandemic but it hasn’t always been for the right reason. The pop duo – consisting of Fred and Richard Fairbrass – most recently stunned fans by sharing a web video of Neo-Nazis spouting racist and anti-vax conspiracy theories. It wasn’t the only time …

The Huffington Post reports: Jim Obergefell, who was at the center of the 2015 Supreme Court case that legalized marriage equality in the United States, announced Tuesday that he is running for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. “We should all be able to participate fully in society and the economy, living in strong communities with great public …

NY1 reports: Former Mayor Bill de Blasio will not run for governor this year. De Blasio made the announcement in a tweet Tuesday morning. De Blasio had long been considered a possible challenger to Gov. Kathy Hochul. The announcement comes as a new Siena poll found Hochul is comfortably in the lead of potential Democratic contenders. The winner of the …

CBS News reports: A group of men detained at Washington County Detention Center in Arkansas say that the jail’s medical staff gave them the anti-parasite drug ivermectin last year, without their consent, to treat COVID-19, while telling them the pills were “vitamins.” The ACLU, on behalf of the inmates, filed a federal lawsuit against the jail and its doctor. The …

The New York Times reports: Stations in lower-income areas in Brooklyn, Queens and Upper Manhattan, where residents are less likely to be able to work from home and typically depend more on public transit, have rebounded far faster than stations in office-heavy sections of Manhattan, including some that were once the busiest in the system, where many workers are still …

The Associated Press reports: Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ukraine this week and meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as tensions between the U.S. and Russia escalate over a possible Russian invasion of its neighbor, the State Department said Tuesday. Blinken will be in Kyiv on the hastily arranged trip to show U.S. support following inconclusive diplomatic talks between …