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 …

SCOTUS Denies Stay, New Disclosure Ruling Goes Into Effect  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  The Supreme Court today denied a stay, and lifted a temporary stay by Chief Justice Roberts, in Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's (CREW) landmark dark money case against Crossroad GPS and the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

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 Retaliates With Tariffs on $60 Billion of U.S. Goods  —  New tariffs will take effect on Sept. 24 and will apply to 5,207 U.S. products, including farm goods, machinery and chemicals  —  BEIJING—China scrambled to deal with an escalating trade fight with the U.S. …

Trump rails on top Florida ally over Hurricane Maria flap  —  Republican Ron DeSantis accused of disloyalty for bucking the president.  —  President Donald Trump is privately lashing out at one of his top allies, Ron DeSantis, angrily accusing the Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee of publicly betraying him.

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) …

White House reviews incident involving Epoch Times photographer handing a folder to Trump  —  The White House has reviewed an incident last week in which a news photographer for the Epoch Times, a publication banned in China for its critical coverage, stepped into a restricted area …

Pompeo raises eyebrows with appearance at politically charged event  —  Secretaries of state have historically avoided such partisan affairs, say former and current U.S. officials.  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slated to speak later this week to a gathering of American conservative activists …

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 …

Justice Department Has Ordered Key Chinese State Media Firms to Register as Foreign Agents  —  Order uses law employed in Manafort case, and comes amid an escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing  —  The Justice Department ordered two leading Chinese state-run media organizations …

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).

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.

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 …

New York Magazine to Launch Expanded Intelligencer Site  —  New York Media today announced the upcoming launch of Intelligencer, a new destination covering politics, business, technology, media, and innovation.  The site, which will incorporate the company's tech vertical Select All into Daily Intelligencer …

Senate approves $854B spending bill  —  The Senate is racing to avoid the third government shutdown of the year ahead of a looming end-of-the-month deadline.  —  Senators on Tuesday voted 93-7 to pass a sweeping $854 billion spending bill that includes funding for the Departments of Defense …