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 …

Bob Woodward: “People better wake up to what's going on” in the Oval Office  —  Watergate journalist Bob Woodward made headlines once again this past week, with his new book about the Trump White House, entitled “Fear.”  This morning, in his first TV interview, Woodward paints a picture …

As Leslie Moonves Negotiates His Exit from CBS, Women Raise New Assault and Harassment Claims  —  Members of the board of the CBS Corporation are negotiating with the company's chairman and C.E.O., Leslie Moonves, about his departure.  Sources familiar with the board's activities …

Trump campaign members were ‘fully aware’ of efforts to set Putin meeting: Papadopoulos  —  George Papadopoulos, the one-time foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump who became swept up in the special counsel investigation, says members of the Trump campaign team were “fully aware” …

The growing GOP fears  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IF YOU LISTEN TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, Republicans are poised to win big in the midterms, keep control in Washington and win in a landslide in 2020.  Nothing to worry about, folks.  —  BUT THAT'S A STARK CONTRAST to the vast majority …

Cory Booker places staff in Iowa ahead of potential 2020 White House run  —  According to multiple sources, Cory Booker has placed four staffers on the ground in Iowa, helping Democratic candidates, as he moves to position himself for a potential presidential bid.

At-risk House Republicans say no to new tax bill  —  The White House and GOP House leaders are pushing a second tax reform before the midterms.  —  The White House and top congressional Republicans want to push for a House vote on a second round of tax cuts ahead of the midterms in hopes …

Sen. Ben Sasse said he thinks about leaving the GOP ‘every morning’  —  Sen. Ben Sasse said Sunday morning that he probably thinks about leaving the Republican Party “every morning,” while decrying the way he said Republicans and Democrats get caught up in the political furors of the day instead of having a …

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 …

Warsaw ghetto vandal to speak at Momentum's Corbyn festival  —  A woman who spray-painted graffiti “tainted with anti-semitism” on one of the last surviving walls of the Warsaw ghetto will speak at a Momentum event alongside the Labour Party conference this month.

Ted Cruz warns that Beto O'Rourke will bring ‘tofu, silicon and dyed hair’ to Texas  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told a rally crowd in Humble, Texas that his opponent would turn Texas into California by bringing “tofu, silicon and dyed hair,” according to a Reuters reporter.

Prosecutors Admit They Wrongly Accused Russian of Offering Sex for Republican Access  —  WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have admitted that they wrongly accused Maria Butina, a Russian citizen now in custody on charges of illegally acting as a foreign agent, of offering to trade sex for a job …

Trump to provide written answers under oath in Summer Zervos defamation lawsuit  —  President Trump will provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who claims Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007, a new court filing stated.

Perjury Complaint Filed Against Kavanaugh to be Reviewed by...Merrick Garland!  —  The Democratic Coalition, a controversial PAC, claimed on Saturday it had filed a perjury complaint against President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  —  The group announced in a statement …

Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game  —  When the UK authorities announced on Wednesday that they suspected two alleged Russian agents in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, they released CCTV images of the suspects arriving at Gatwick airport.