The fight over the scope of the Kavanaugh probe  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FIRST LOOK ... TRUMP'S WEEK ... Monday: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP will have lunch with VP MIKE PENCE and present the Medal of Honor.  The president will travel to Johnson City, Tennessee, where he'll hold a roundtable with supporters and then a political rally.

Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border  —  In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home …

How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying  —  This man should not serve another day as any kind of judge...  On Thursday morning, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford detailed under oath her claim that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh attacked her and sexually violated her when he was 17.

Kanye West Delivers Pro-Trump Rant on ‘SNL,’ Gets Booed By Audience  —  The rapper/entrepreneur delivered a pro-Trump speech in a red MAGA hat after his final performance—one that didn't make it to air.  —  Following his performance of “Ghost Town” during the 44th season premiere of Saturday Night Live …

The Republican Party Abandons Conservatism  —  The conservative virtues remain real virtues, the conservative insights real insights, and the conservative temperament an indispensable internal gyro keeping a country stable and sane.  —  Ignoring the dictum that if one is not of the left …

House GOP cancels Yoder ad buys  —  The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) has canceled more than $1 million in planned advertising aimed at helping Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-Kan.) in the coming weeks.  —  The decision to cut advertising, described to The Hill by a source familiar …

Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office will be investigated to determine if it leaked a confidential letter from one of Brett Kavanaugh's accusers, Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday.  —  Cotton, an Arkansas Republican …

Democrats find their answer to the Koch brothers  —  Democratic House candidates raised nearly $36 million online in August, giving many the resources to air early TV ads.  —  Hundreds of thousands of online donors are pouring gobs of cash into Democratic House campaigns at an accelerating clip …

Judge's ruling may force Kansas Army officer's adopted Korean daughter to leave US  —  A retired Kansas Army officer has lost his fight in federal court over his adopted daughter's citizenship status, meaning she may have to return to her native South Korea.

Brett Kavanaugh Loves His Beer  —  The Supreme Court nominee paired a frothy beverage with identity politics.  —  At one point during Brett Kavanaugh's testimony, desperate for some comic relief, I messaged a friend to ask if this were a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing or an Anheuser-Busch commercial.

An Age Divided by Sex  —  The Kavanaugh nightmare shows how the competing moralisms of conservatism and feminism are tearing us apart.  —  The Year of Our Lord 1982, upon whose disputed summertime events a Supreme Court nomination now hinges, was part of the Reagan era but not a particularly conservative year.

Death toll soars past 800 in Indonesia earthquake, tsunami  —  JAKARTA — The death toll from twin disasters on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a major earthquake and the tsunami that followed, jumped to more than 800 on Sunday as rescue workers were only just starting to take stock of the wreckage …