Phil Bredesen holds double-digit lead over Marsha Blackburn in US Senate race, new MTSU poll shows  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a 10-point lead over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, according to a new poll from Middle Tennessee State University.

Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan  —  Twitter troll “Ricky Vaughn” had a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News and the Drudge Report.  Here's who he really is.  —  Who is Ricky Vaughn?

Scott Pruitt asked to use sirens in D.C. traffic and was told no for non-emergency  —  Several weeks after taking the helm of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Scott Pruitt was running late and stuck in Washington, D.C., traffic.  Sources tell CBS News that he wanted to use …

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Mercer backed a secretive group that worked with Facebook, Google to target anti-Muslim ads at swing voters  —  As the final weeks of the 2016 elections ticked down, voters in swing states like Nevada and North Carolina began seeing eerie promotional travel ads …

Former Trump aide approved ‘black ops’ to help Ukraine president  —  Exclusive: Paul Manafort authorised secret media operation that sought to discredit key opponent of then Ukrainian president … Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort authorised a secret media operation …

‘You Hate America!’:  How the ‘Caravan’ Story Exploded on the Right  —  WASHINGTON — It was the kind of story destined to take a dark turn through the conservative news media and grab President Trump's attention: A vast horde of migrants was making its way through Mexico toward the United States, and no one was stopping them.

Here's Don Jr. Talking About How It Sucks To Be At The Playboy Mansion With A Pregnant Wife  —  Has the president's son ever contemplated killing his dad for the money?  He once talked about that on the radio!  —  In January 2007, Adam Carolla broadcast his radio show, “The Adam Carolla Show …

Stuck in Third Place, Should CNN Abandon Its “Food Fight” Formula?  —  Despite its down-the-middle news brand, the network trails rivals Fox News and MSNBC in viewers and weathers daily attacks from the White House as critics bemoan a “clash model” of staging partisan debates that's now “outmoded.”

Number of women running for US House seats sets record  —  CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.

Ex-fiancee says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his slave  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks (Photo obtained by Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks is pictured in this undated photo obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Sparks is accused of sexually enslaving and battering his ex fiancee.

“You Don't Attack a Kid”: Inside the Laura Ingraham Nightmare at Fox News  —  Ingraham may have erred terribly in assailing a Parkland survivor, but she has the support of the man in charge of Fox News.  “Rupert has been annoyed by what he perceives as cowardly behavior by his executives,” says one person close to the mogul.

The case for extreme worry  —  To White House insiders, this is the most dangerous phase of Donald Trump's presidency so far, from the brewing trade war with China that he denies is a trade war, to the perilously spontaneous summit with North Korea.  —  The big picture: Checks are being ignored …

Everyone Got The Pulse Massacre Story Completely Wrong  —  And another, smaller injustice was obscured: the sadistic prosecution of Noor Salman.  —  Every mass tragedy begets a frantic search for answers, for a common understanding of what happened, for a narrative, and the 2016 Pulse massacre was no different.

Rex Tillerson's $12 million army of consultants  —  It was one of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's core goals: radically reshaping the State Department to make it leaner, cheaper and modernized to the standards of a former private-sector CEO.  —  Now that Tillerson has been fired …

Statement issued on behalf of Yulia Skripal  —  BST  —  Statement issued on behalf of Yulia Skripal, aged 33 years:  —  “I woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily.  I am grateful for the interest in me and for the many messages of goodwill that I have received.

Land for the Taking  —  The day after the meeting, Mr. Hamoud, a Sunni, returned to work and found that his department was now staffed 100 percent by Sunnis, the sect of Islam practiced by the militants.  The Shia and Christian colleagues who previously shared his office had all fled.

‘Have you ever seen luxury like this?’:  Trump moonlights as dinner host  —  It turns out that President Donald Trump loves to throw a good dinner party.  —  The president is known for his after-hours cellphone calls and his late-night cable news habit, but several times a month …

Police Fatally Shoot a Brooklyn Man After Falsely Believing He Had a Gun  —  New York City police officers shot and killed a black man who was known to be mentally ill on a Brooklyn street corner on Wednesday afternoon after he pointed what the officers believed was a gun at them, the authorities said.

The Left's Year of Magical Thinking  —  It's Wednesday, November 7, 2018, and the Democrats have awakened to the taste of ashes in their mouths.  Despite the poll numbers and the pattern of history, Republicans have somehow managed to keep their losses small enough to retain control of the House.

The woman who got fired for flipping off President Trump just sued her former employer … Juli Briskman, the Virginia cyclist who flipped off the presidential motorcade and lost her job last fall, doesn't think we should be afraid to speak our minds.  —  That's why she went to court Wednesday …

Body found in Chattahoochee River identified as missing CDC worker  —  Image Gallery  —  ATLANTA - Atlanta Police have confirmed a body found in the Chattahoochee River in northwest Atlanta has been identified as a missing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worker.

How Bill O'Reilly Silenced His Accusers  —  Settlement agreements between Bill O'Reilly and two of his accusers — made public for the first time on Wednesday — filled in previously unknown details about tactics employed by the former Fox News host to silence women who came forward with sexual harassment allegations against him.

Anchorage's vote-by-mail election was supposed to boost turnout.  It shattered a record.  —  Turnout in Anchorage's first vote-by-mail election was the highest in the city's history, buoyed by a wave of last-minute votes, according to new data released Wednesday.

West U councilwoman accused of yelling obscenities at teen wearing Trump shirt  —  HOUSTON - Investigators at the Harris County Precinct One Constable's Office on Wednesday filed a disorderly conduct charge against West University Place Councilwoman Kellye Burke, after accusations that she berated …

A Georgia city proclaimed April as Confederate History Month.  Then came the n-word. … A former elected official used the n-word several times during a public meeting, offending a black member of a Georgia city's board of commissioners.  —  The tense exchange between the two men happened …

Rudy Giuliani's wife files for divorce  —  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) and his wife of more than a decade are calling it quits.  —  “It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing,” the former presidential candidate said in a statement to The New York Post.

The Guy Who Wrote The Book On The Deep State Wishes Trumpworld Would Shut Up About The Deep State  —  Mike Lofgren wrote the book on the deep state — literally.  —  The longtime Republican aide, who worked for three decades on Capitol Hill, published The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution …

The Daily Beast, James Madison Project Sue Justice Department  —  Attorneys for the James Madison Project have sued the Department of Justice on behalf of The Daily Beast over the so-called “Nunes Memo” and its Democratic response.  The Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, filed Thursday …

The Paris Review Names a New Editor: Emily Nemens of The Southern Review  —  Emily Nemens, a co-editor of The Southern Review, seems agnostic and omnivorous when it comes to narrative mediums.  In addition to publishing poetry, fiction and essays, she is a prolific illustrator who has amassed …