At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire's power play  —  Chair umpire Carlos Ramos managed to rob not one but two players in the women's U.S. Open final.  Nobody has ever seen anything like it: An umpire so wrecked a big occasion that both players …

Top Trump Adviser Says Ted Cruz Could Lose Texas Senate Race  —  President Trump's budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, expressed confidence to Republican donors on Saturday that the party would overcome a Democratic “movement of hate” in November, but he acknowledged Republicans could lose races …

3 Million People With Nowhere to Go  —  President Bashar al-Assad's forces are about to attack Idlib, the last rebel-held province in Syria.  Fear of mass slaughter is increasing.  —  Mr. Shaheen covered the Syrian war for The Guardian.  —  The first thing that struck me when I saw Idlib …

Prosecutors back off claim that accused Russian agent Maria Butina traded sex for access  —  U.S. prosecutors have acknowledged they misunderstood text messages they used to claim in court that a Russian woman traded sex for access and should be jailed pending trial on charges …

She made the discovery, but a man got the Nobel.  A half-century later, she's won a $3 million prize.  —  Jocelyn Bell Burnell built the telescope, laboring in damp and chilly English weather to install more than 100 miles of cable and copper wire across a windswept field near Cambridge.

Dallas officer who shot man in his own apartment was involved in 2017 shooting of a suspect  —  The officer who killed a man in his apartment Thursday after she apparently mistook it for her own home also shot a suspect during an arrest in 2017.  —  Officer Amber Guyger has not been officially named …

Trump won't enforce Stormy Daniels nondisclosure agreement  —  President Donald Trump said he will not attempt to enforce a nondisclosure agreement blocking porn star Stormy Daniels from revealing details of her alleged affair with him, according to papers filed Saturday.

Bannon Said He ‘Sucked Reince Priebus’ D*ck' to Get RNC Help, Woodward Book Claims  —  It's the latest revelation from Bob Woodward's bombshell book, “Fear,” about Donald Trump's campaign and administration.  —  Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon had so much disdain for former Republican …

Lisa Murkowski's Biggest Reason To Oppose Brett Kavanaugh May Not Be Abortion Rights  —  Alaska Natives are urging the senator to vote no. She owes her re-election to them.  —  WASHINGTON For all the speculation about Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and whether she'll vote …

I Am an Idiot: Zina Bash's OK Sign Was Completely Innocent After All  —  There's no sugar-coating this.  I was wrong about this.  Badly, badly wrong.  Laughably wrong.  Zina Bash, the former clerk of Kavanaugh's who made the OK sign did it for an innocent reason.

How the Anonymous Op-Ed Came to Be  —  The New York Times's Opinion desk published an Op-Ed by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration on Wednesday.  By Friday, nearly 23,000 readers had submitted questions to us about the vetting process and our thinking behind publishing the essay.

Sheriffs who cheered Trump's attack on press have their own media run-ins  —  A group of sheriffs gave the president a troubling ovation after he called journalists ‘very, very dishonest’.  Here is a taste of local media scrutiny of 10 of them  —  Donald Trump whipped up another rowdy ovation …

They Killed Their Abusive Husbands.  Their Acquittals Shocked Russia.  —  MOSCOW — When Yana Gurcheva and Galina Katorova were arrested for stabbing their husbands to death with kitchen knives after suffering years of domestic abuse, the murder cases stirred hardly a ripple in Russia's national news media.

Kamala Harris Tweets Out Deceptively Edited Video to Smear Brett Kavanaugh  —  I've seen my share of deception and chicanery from politicians in my thankfully brief time on this earth.  And sure, I expected dumb hatchet jobs and pointless grandstanding in reaction to something as big as an open Supreme Court seat.

Forget the House.  It's the battle for the Senate that could provide the most drama on election night.  —  For months now, the focus of Campaign 2018, rightly, has been on control of the House.  All the metrics continue to point to a midterm election in which Democrats could seize control of that chamber.

House candidates in critical California district face off on Trump, taxes and the prospect of a Democratic Congress  — Nearly every cross-current of the 2018 campaign for Congress collides in California's 45th House district.  — In a year of surging political activism by women …