How to Get the Kavanaugh Hearings Right  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee has a chance to do better by the country than it did nearly three decades ago.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  There is no way to redo 1991, but there are ways to do better.

Stormy Daniels' tell-all book on Trump: salacious detail and claims of cheating  —  Exclusive: pornographic actor says Trump 'didn't want to be president' in her book Full Disclosure  —  In a tell-all memoir, the pornographic actor Stormy Daniels details salacious descriptions of her time with Donald Trump …

Internal RNC Poll: Complacent Trump Voters May Cost GOP Control of Congress  —  A private survey shows many Republican voters “don't believe there is anything at stake” in the midterm elections.  —  A private survey conducted for the Republican National Committee and obtained …

Trump's Growing Legal Team Has a Problem: It's Operating Partly in the Dark  —  The president's lawyers are struggling to understand where the investigations surrounding him are going, and the extent of his legal exposure.  —  2018 EMMY AWARDS  —  ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards

GOP stalwart Nancy Kassebaum picks Democrat Laura Kelly over Kris Kobach  —  A titan of Kansas Republican politics is shunning Kris Kobach, her party's nominee, in his run for governor.  —  Nancy Kassebaum, who represented Kansas for three terms in the U.S. Senate, said Tuesday …

China raises tariffs on $60B of US goods in technology fight  —  BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday announced a tariff hike on $60 billion of U.S. products in response to President Donald Trump's latest duty increase in a dispute over Beijing's technology policy.

Man caught shaving on train in viral video says don't judge  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was mocked online after he was recorded shaving at his seat on a commuter train headed out of New York City said he was just trying to clean up after days spent in a homeless shelter.

Deep State Unmasked: State Department on Hidden Cam, “Resist Everything,” “I Have Nothing to Lose”  —  [This post contains video, click to play]  —  Federal Employee for State Department: “Resist everything... Every level.  F**k sh*t up.”  —  Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) …

Senators Shouldn't Harass Their Constituents on Twitter  —  That means you, Marco Rubio.  —  Paging @jack.  Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Monday night took to Twitter to engage in what looked dangerously close to online harassment.  —  The target of Rubio's ire was so-called “Salt Bae …

Trump-proof aspects of Manafort deal rankle lawyers  —  Robert Mueller seems to have built in safeguards to discourage the president from pardoning Manafort.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's plea agreement with Paul Manafort on Friday took unusual and possibly unprecedented steps …

Tesla Faces U.S. Criminal Probe Over Musk Statements  —  Tesla is under investigation by the Justice Department over public statements made by the company and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, according to two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg News' Tom Schoenberg and Matt Robinson report.

Leaked NPR Emails: Don't Call Kermit Gosnell an ‘Abortion Doctor’  —  National Public Radio's own past reporting called Kermit Gosnell an ‘abortion doctor.’ But when the makers of a new documentary wanted to pay to use the phrase on air, no dice.  —  Early last month, John Sullivan …

GOP Edge in CD39  —  Kim seen as more in touch, better liked than Cisneros  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Young Kim holds a slight edge over Democrat Gil Cisneros in the open seat contest for California's 39th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.

Devin Nunes explains ‘antifa’ and ‘all of these riots’: 'Because we're winning'  —  In a speech last week, Nunes also directly linked the declassification of documents to Republican victory in November.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes's (R-Calif.) weeks-long push to get President Trump …

How Puerto Rico Became the Newest Tax Haven for the Super Rich  —  A year after the tragedy of Hurricane Maria, the 51st state has become the favorite playground for extremely wealthy Americans looking to keep their money from the taxman.  The only catch?  They have to cut all ties to the mainland (wink, wink).