WASHINGTON — If it’s Friday ... Russian forces take over Ukraine’s large nuclear power plant. ... President Biden meets at the White House with Finland’s president. ... Former AG Bill Barr tells NBC’s Lester Holt that Trump became enraged when told there was no evidence that 2020 election results were fraudulent. ... Sen. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., returns to work. ... Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., appears to fire back at Mitch McConnell. ... And Republican Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says no to Arizona Senate bid.

But first: A Republican congressman just quit his re-election bid after admitting having an affair with a former “ISIS bride.”

A labor dispute is already interrupting Major League Baseball’s season.

And neither story has received much national attention.

Folks, we’re no longer in the 1990s, when sex scandals involving American politicians — big and small — rocked the political world, and when the president of the United States was intervening to save baseball’s season during the 1994 strike.