Increasingly worried, Trump takes over Kavanaugh defense  —  Trump torches ‘lousy’ Democrats on Kavanaugh  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has grown increasingly dissatisfied with the way Brett Kavanaugh has defended himself in wake of sexual assault allegations that have threatened to derail …

Nikki Haley to Fox News: World Leaders Laughed at Trump Out of ‘Respect’  —  ‘They loved how honest he is,’ claimed the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claimed on Fox News that U.S. President Donald Trump's speech …

Revealed: What Erik Prince and Moscow's Money Man Discussed in That Infamous Seychelles Meeting  —  Mueller's team and Congressional investigators have looked into a meeting in the Seychelles between allies of Trump and Putin.  Now we have the Russian read-out of what was said.

Voter Enthusiasm at Record High in Nationalized Midterm Environment  —  Top voting issues: Supreme Court, health care, economy  —  With less than six weeks to go before the elections for Congress, voter enthusiasm is at its highest level during any midterm in more than two decades.

Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga  —  Bellingcat and its investigative partner The Insider - Russia have established conclusively the identity of one of the suspects in the poisoning of Sergey and Yulia Skripal, and in the homicide of British citizen Dawn Sturgess.

Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information  —  Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.  Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users …

H.R. McMaster: ‘Wholly appropriate’ for Gary Cohn to remove letter from Trump's desk  —  Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster on Tuesday defended his ex-White House colleague Gary Cohn for removing a trade-related document from President's Trump.  —  “I know about that incident …

New Polls: Democrats in Decent Shape Across the Frost Belt  —  Democratic Senate incumbents with big leads in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; very close races in Indiana Senate and Ohio governor; Scott Walker behind in Wisconsin  —  A series of new Reuters/Ipsos/University …

Rep. Keith Ellison Is Asking The House To Investigate An Ex-Girlfriend's Claims That He Abused Her  —  A growing number of Democrats say the domestic abuse allegations against Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison should be investigated, and now the House Democrat says he will request a House investigation himself.

Georgetown Preparatory School  —  Several media outlets, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, in pursuit of their own agenda, have published articles about and including Georgetown Preparatory School without seeking comment or response from the School.

Website Revs Up, With New York Magazine's Help, to Cover More Local News  —  With the once robust metropolitan news coverage in New York dwindling, a new nonprofit website called The City is teaming up with New York magazine in hopes of replacing some of that lost local accountability and investigative journalism.

The billionaire LA Times owner calls social media the ‘cancer of our time’  — Social platforms may have revolutionized how people get information, but they've also been criticized for spreading “fake news.”  — “The short attention span we're creating in this millennium is actually very dangerous,” says the owner of the LA Times.

Pompeo to travel to North Korea next month ahead of planned second Trump-Kim summit  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head back to North Korea for his fourth trip to the country to “make further progress” on talks to dismantle the country's nuclear weapons program and prepare …

‘Robot sex brothel’ slated to open is not wanted, Houston's mayor says  —  The mayor of Houston is exploring options in an effort to “restrict or regulate” the first so-called “robot sex brothel” in the United States that is slated to open this month in the city.

Aftab Pureval's secret poll obtained by Enquirer  —  Here's what you need to know about Steve Chabot and Aftab Pureval in 30 seconds Wochit  —  The Enquirer has obtained the poll at the center of a campaign finance spending complaint against Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval …