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.

Governors: Rating Changes Four States  —  If political geography is helping Senate Republicans, it isn't doing much for the party's quest to hold their losses in gubernatorial contests to a minimum.  There are a handful of races in very red states that have inched from the Likely …

Job growth slumps in September, but the unemployment rate hits the lowest level since 1969  — The unemployment rate fell two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.7 percent, the lowest level since December 1969 and one-tenth of a percentage point below expectations.

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}}

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.

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.

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” …

Media Mangles Its Duty to Question Ford  —  Journalistic malpractice as it's never been malpracticed.  —  A reasonable, objective, establishment media would have spent far more time than it has in delving into Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's background and credibility, and her veracity under oath …

Mitch McConnell's Legacy Is Riding on Kavanaugh's Confirmation  —  Picture this: Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. Early July 2017, a punishing 86 degrees.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walking alongside his wife, Elaine Chao.  His casual comment to her, overheard by a reporter …

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.

‘Grow up’: Orrin Hatch waves off female protesters demanding to speak with him  —  Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) raised the ire of protesters on Thursday after telling a group of mostly women who confronted him in one of the Senate buildings that he would talk to them when they “grow up.”