I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge  —  Yes, I was emotional last Thursday.  I hope everyone can understand I was there as a son, husband and dad.  —  I was deeply honored to stand at the White House July 9 with my wife, Ashley, and my daughters, Margaret and Liza, to accept President Trump's nomination …

Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this?  —  Lindsey Graham learned the benefits of acting audaciously at a young age.  —  As a boy, no older than 6, he hung around his mom and dad's bar in Central, S.C., dressing up as a cowboy and yukking it up with drunks for laughs.

Trump mocks Al Franken over resignation: He folded ‘like a wet rag’  —  President Trump mocked former Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) at a campaign rally in Minnesota Thursday for resigning following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.  —  “That guy was wacky.  Boy did he fold up like a wet rag, huh?”

Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing  —  SAN FRANCISCO — “I want to apologize,” the Facebook executive wrote last Friday in a note to staff.  “I recognize this moment is a deeply painful one — internally and externally.”  —  The apology came from Joel Kaplan, Facebook's vice president for global public policy.

Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden  —  An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer.  —  Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidöstern lake while at her family's holiday home in Jönköping County.

Interpol chief missing: French police launch investigation into President Meng Hongwei's disappearance  —  Meng Hongwei, 64, has not been heard from since travelling to China in late September  — {{#singleComment}}{{value}} comment{{/singleComment}}{{^singleComme nt}}{{value}} comments{{/singleComment}}

Still Anonymous: White House hunt for op-ed author fades  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Remember Anonymous?  —  One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secret “resistance” …

2018 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Congolese Doctor and Yazidi Activist  —  In the midst of a global reckoning over sexual violence, a Congolese gynecological surgeon and a Yazidi woman who was a captive of the Islamic State were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their campaigns to end the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.

Accused doxxer of GOP senators allegedly threatened to publish their children's health information  —  A Democratic congressional intern accused of publishing the private information of at least three Republican lawmakers allegedly threatened to leak senators' children's health information if a witness told anyone about his activities.

The Suffocation of Democracy  —  As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and Europe in the era of the world wars, I have been repeatedly asked about the degree to which the current situation in the United States resembles the interwar period and the rise of fascism in Europe.