Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate … Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018.

Small Montana firm lands Puerto Rico's biggest contract to get the power back on  —  For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall.

Trump-Corker feud explodes ahead of critical Hill visit  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)The ongoing public feud between Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump exploded Tuesday ahead of the President's high-stakes visit to Capitol Hill for tax negotiations …

Kid Rock: Of course I'm not running for Senate … CONNECT  —  Mocking people who took the idea seriously, Kid Rock said this morning he's not running for U.S. Senate.  —  “F— no, I'm not running for Senate.  Are you kidding me?”  Rock said on Howard Stern's SiriusXM show.  “Who couldn't figure that out?

Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott  —  Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore said late last year that the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage was “even worse” than the notorious 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.

House GOP opens probe into DOJ's Clinton investigation  —  Two powerful House Republican chairmen announced Tuesday that they would jointly investigate the Justice Department's handling of its 2016 Hillary Clinton investigation — a potential counter-punch to the FBI probe …

Exclusive: Terry Richardson banned from working with Vogue and other leading mags, leaked email shows  —  Terry Richardson, the fashion photographer, has been barred from working with some of the world's bestselling magazines, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Jeff Flake's full speech announcing he won't run for re-election  —  Mr. President, I rise today to address a matter that has been much on my mind, at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined by our discord and our dysfunction than it is by our values and our principles.

Bill O'Reilly Dropped by Talent Agency After $32M Settlement Reveal (Exclusive)  —  The former Fox News anchor's relationship with UTA has been severed following a report last weekend about a massive settlement he paid out.  —  Bill O'Reilly is no longer a client of the talent agency UTA, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Honor the Truth, John Kelly  —  John Kelly, President Trump's chief of staff, is grimly suited to addressing the family of a fallen service member.  Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star general, is the highest-ranking officer to lose a child in Iraq or Afghanistan.  His son Second Lt. Robert Kelly was killed in Afghanistan in 2010.

Caught in a deadly ambush, U.S. troops in Niger waited an hour for French air power to arrive  —  The U.S. Special Forces team caught in a deadly ambush three weeks ago in Niger did not request help from nearby French forces for about an hour after the firefight began near a village the Americans …

Don Lemon's open letter to Trump: ‘Please stop!’  —  (CNN)Dear Mr. President,  —  I've interviewed you multiple times.  —  You've introduced me to your family.  —  You've also criticized me publicly ... both in front of cameras and on Twitter.  —  Calling me “hateful,” “dumb,” a “lightweight.”

Political Typology Reveals Deep Fissures on the Right and Left  —  Conservative Republican groups divided on immigration, ‘openness’  —  Nearly a year after Donald Trump was elected president, the Republican coalition is deeply divided on such major issues as immigration …

Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Still Being Paid by Campaign Nearly One Year After Defeat  —  Most have remained by Clinton's side post-election  —  A number of longtime aides to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are still being paid from her campaign committee nearly …

The ‘Never Trump’ Construct  —  The president's fiercest critics still do not grasp that Trump is a symptom, not the cause of the GOP's internal strife.  —  For all the talk of a Civil War in the Republican party over Donald Trump, 90 percent of Republicans ended up voting for him.

Maybe Don't Dress Your Kid Up As Moana This Halloween?  —  It's on you to teach your kid not to be racially insensitive.  —  It's mid-October, which means Halloween is just two weeks away, which means it's way past time to decide on a  —  Halloween costume  —  for your kid.

NFL Losing Viewers At Alarming Rate But Faces Limits On Its Response  —  Last year, the NFL lost about a million regular-season viewers versus the 2013 and 2014 seasons.  It represented about a 6% fall-off enough to be easily noticed and maybe even cause a little concern, but it could be written off as a one-year blip.

After 38 women accuse filmmaker James Toback of sexual harassment, 200 more reach out to share their stories  —  After the Los Angeles Times ran a story in which 38 women accused director James Toback of sexual harassment, almost 200 women responded with similar stories.  (Tiziana Fabi / AFP/Getty Images)

Why ‘Medicare for All’ Will Sink the Democrats  —  Repeal-and-replace may be done for now, but for Senator Bernie Sanders, the war is just beginning — and it has already become a fracas that is dividing the Democratic Party, to its detriment.  —  Mr. Sanders — who, of course …

Republicans quietly craft Dreamers deal  —  Key Senate Republicans have begun privately discussing the contours of an immigration plan to shield the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers who will lose work permits and deportation protections starting early next year.

I Accidentally Turned My Dad In to Immigration Services  —  This month my father and I drove to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Centennial, Colo., for a routine visit.  I offered to drive because my dad was too nervous and excited to take the wheel.

Black Executives Join Forces, Forming a PAC to Back Them Up  —  Once an informal network, a group of friends and associates is organizing a united political push on issues like education, employment and voting rights.  —  Dozens of black executives and their spouses joined Senators Cory Booker …