GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …

Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington  —  The Trump administration is expected to announce Monday it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, widening a campaign of pressure amid stalled Middle East peace efforts.

The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering  —  How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.  —  Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump.  If he needs to discard friends, allies or wives along the way, so be it.

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?  —  The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.  —  At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …

Trump says he'll ‘write the real book’ to counter Woodward's  —  U.S. President Donald Trump promised Monday that he would “write the real book” to set the record straight on his administration, once again lashing out against veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward, whose incendiary book …

Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’  —  On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line  —  The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream …

Sweden faces political impasse after inconclusive election  —  PM refuses calls to resign while second-placed Moderates rebuff overtures from far right  —  The leaders of Sweden's main left and rightwing parliamentary blocs have staked claims to form the next government …

‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans  —  Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere.  —  GREEN BAY, Wisc.  — There's every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker.  —  His presidential bid crashed and burned.

A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them  —  Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …

Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds  —  (CNN)Rep. Mia Love's campaign has informed the Federal Election Commission that it will refund or redesignate less than half of what the government says was more than a million dollars improperly raised for a primary …

Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China  —  BEIJING (AP) — China's government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith …

Nancy Pelosi: As long as Trump is here, 'I'm here'  —  Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Nancy Pelosi airs on CNN International at 7 p.m. CET and 10 p.m. ET, and on PBS across the United States at 10 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN)Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who served as the first woman Speaker …

Democratic Party Mailer Associating Cynthia Nixon With Anti-Semitism Backfires  —  On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, just days before New York's gubernatorial primary on Thursday, a mailer sent by the New York Democratic Party misrepresenting Cynthia Nixon's views on Israel and accusing …

Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’  —  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.

Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think … This has been sitting in a browser tab for a while, and it's about time I either closed it or used it.  So let's use it: … I only have one purpose here: to demonstrate the difficulty of repealing executive orders put in place by a previous administration.

A Progressive's Guide to Reclaiming the Constitution  —  Progressives should not just resist the erosion of important legal gains, but say what they believe the courts should do, and what they believe the Constitution means.  —  Mr. Purdy is a professor of law at Duke.

Trump Claims Credit for the Economy.  Not So Fast, Says Obama.  —  WASHINGTON — The economy is doing quite well, thank you very much, and the president would naturally like to take credit.  Both of them.  —  Barely a day passes without President Trump boasting about the growing economy …

Les Moonves Admits to Unwanted Kissing of His Doctor 19 Years Ago  —  Another wrinkle emerges in Moonves's negotiated exit from CBS, and within one of the more head-spinning #MeToo storylines yet.  —  BY - WILLIAM D. COHANSeptember 9, 2018,  —  The career arc of Les Moonves …