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 …

Diplomats Say They Were Definitely Laughing At Trump At The UN  —  Donald Trump's speech to the UN was met by widespread laughter, and diplomats have confirmed that their delegations were laughing at — not with — the US president.  —  “Sometimes, when we see a behavior or listen to arguments …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

A new report estimates that more than 380,000 people have died in South Sudan's civil war  —  Years of brutal civil war in South Sudan have left at least 382,000 people dead, according to an estimate in a new State Department-funded study that far surpasses an earlier figure issued …