The Daily Beast reports: Throwing a little shade at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday during a roundtable meeting with energy executives, President Joe Biden mocked his predecessor’s long-running war on windmills. While addressing one of the meeting’s attendees, Biden wondered: “Are you getting less resistance when you start talking about wind and the windmills? I know they cause cancer.” …

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday announced he’ll lift his indoor mask mandate for most public settings by Feb. 28, but he’ll still push to keep face coverings on in schools for a few weeks beyond that. The Democratic governor’s latest pandemic directive means Illinoisans — vaccinated or not — can go bare-faced in grocery stores, restaurants, …

NBC News reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol subpoenaed Peter Navarro, a top aide in former President Donald Trump’s White House, on Wednesday. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee chairman, announced the subpoena, which seeks records and testimony from Navarro. “Mr. Navarro appears to have information directly relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation into …

The Ottawa Citizen reports: The city wants to invoke a clause in the revised Ontario Police Services Act that would allow it to bill protesters for the extra cost of policing. The tally would be enormous: an estimated $800,000 a day (times 12 and counting), plus possibly the cost of hundreds of extra outside personnel (as many as 1,800) now …

CTV News reports: Enforcement will begin Wednesday afternoon to reopen traffic to the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts which is being blocked by an ongoing protest, according to RCMP. The blockade has been ongoing for more than a week, in solidarity with the trucker protests in Ottawa and other parts of the country. “Really it’s going to be up to them,” …

The Washington Post reports: The National Archives and Records Administration has asked the Justice Department to examine Donald Trump’s handling of White House records, sparking discussions among federal law enforcement officials about whether they should investigate the former president for a possible crime. The referral from the National Archives came amid recent revelations that officials recovered 15 boxes of materials …

Mediaite reports: Recently released dashcam footage captured the moment a Tesla being driven on auto-pilot crashed into a parked patrol car, hitting an officer and sending a second vehicle into a ditch. The incident, which occurred in North Carolina last August alongside U.S. Highway 64, was the result of an auto-pilot attempt gone wrong, as the Telsa owner was watching …

The Associated Press reports: Between calculus and European history classes at a West Virginia public high school, 16-year-old Cameron Mays and his classmates were told by their teacher to go to an evangelical Christian revival assembly. When students arrived at the event in the school’s auditorium, they were instructed to close their eyes and raise their arms in prayer, Mays …

Knoxville’s ABC News affiliate reports: Dollywood’s parent company is picking up the education tab for all of its employees, beginning this year. Herschend Enterprises is the operating partner of Dollywood and the nation’s largest privately-owned themed attractions corporation. This week the company announced it will cover 100% of employees’ tuition, fees and books for employees who wish to further their …

Media Matters reports: During the February 8 edition of her eponymous podcast, Fox host Laura Ingraham hosted white nationalist sympathizer and far-right pundit Michelle Malkin to complain about vacation rental platform Airbnb banning Malkin after she attended a gathering organized by a white nationalist hate group. As the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hannah Gais recently documented, Malkin spoke “alongside a …

Law & Crime reports: A Maryland man who had previously argued that he was just following the orders of Donald Trump when he joined the Jan. 6 siege at the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty to two felonies. Matthew Ryan Miller, 23, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one charge of obstructing an official proceeding and one charge of assaulting, resisting, or …

The Detroit Free Press reports: An Ambassador Bridge protest by Canadian truckers critical of pandemic vaccine mandates was headed into a third day, shutting down traffic on one international gateway and backing it up on another. Both Detroit and Windsor have significant auto operations and the standstill is a huge concern for businesses that already have been suffering from global …

So this happened yesterday: The footage is striking. ABC congressional reporter Rachel Scott is trying to ask House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy about the Republican National Committee’s decision to censure two members of his conference. McCarthy is, um, running — or at least briskly walking — away. McCarthy tells Scott to make an appointment with his office and that it …

From the world’s most famous liar: Mitch McConnell does not speak for the Republican Party, and does not represent the views of the vast majority of its voters. He did nothing to fight for his constituents and stop the most fraudulent election in American history. And he does nothing to stop the lawless Biden Administration, the invasion of our Borders, …

The Hill reports: Speaker Pelosi (D-Calif.) has directed House Democrats to draft a bill to ban members of Congress and their senior staffers from trading individual stocks, giving the movement newfound momentum. Democratic leaders aim to vote on a stock trading bill by the end of the year, potentially before November’s midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday. Rep. Zoe Lofgren …

“I talk shit for a living — that’s why this is so baffling to me. If you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault? What dumb shit were you about to do when my stupid idea sounded better? ‘You know that dude who made people people eat animal dicks on TV? How does he feel about medicine?’ …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) warned officials in North Carolina that they could face “dangerous” consequences if he is removed from the ballot for his role in inciting a failed insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. “This is only going to lead to one place if you want to try and take the right of the people away to …

The Washington Post reports: In the weeks after the 2020 election, Rudolph W. Giuliani and other legal advisers to President Donald Trump asked a Republican prosecutor in northern Michigan to get his county’s voting machines and pass them to Trump’s team.  Antrim County prosecutor James Rossiter said in an interview that Giuliani and several colleagues made the request during a …

NBC News reports: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted a statewide mask mandate Wednesday amid a battle over the rule’s legality and as a surge in Covid-19 infections continues to recede. With infection numbers now trending down, Hochul said the “tremendous progress” has allowed the state to move into a “new phase.” Hospitalizations also decreased 63 percent between Jan. 12 …

CNN reports: President Joe Biden on Tuesday took the rare step of weighing in on a controversial Florida bill that would ban certain discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom, telling LGBTQ kids that he has their back. The message from the White House on Tuesday condemning Republicans for advancing the bill was a rare step as …