Senate races: GOP up in Texas, Tennessee; Dems up in Arizona, New Jersey — CBS News poll  —  The battle for Senate control finds Democrats trying to mount upset challenges in a string of typically Republican states, and this round of Battleground Tracker polls shows them having at best mixed results so far.

Read Jamal Khashoggi's columns for The Washington Post  —  Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist, was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, according to Turkish officials.  In a statement released Saturday, Fred Hiatt, The Post's editorial page editor …

McConnell: Senate won't be “intimidated” by “mob-like tactics” of anti-Kavanaugh protesters  —  Fresh off the successful confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the vote showed the Senate “will not be intimidated” by what he called the …

GOP Operative Secretly Raised at Least $100,000 in Search for Clinton Emails  —  Opposition researcher's efforts are of intense interest to investigators probing Russian election interference  —  WASHINGTON—A veteran Republican operative and opposition researcher solicited and raised …

Trump on why he mocked Christine Blasey Ford: ‘I had to even the playing field’  —  President Trump said late Saturday that he mocked Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, because he needed to “even the playing field.”

Lindsey Graham Is the Saddest Story in Washington  —  His fight for Brett Kavanaugh completed his transformation into Donald Trump's slobbering manservant.  —  The battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court was an especially ugly episode of a reality-show presidency …

China Says Interpol President Is Under Investigation  —  The Chinese Communist Party announced late Sunday that the missing president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, was under investigation on “suspicion of violating the law” and was “under the supervision” of an anticorruption watchdog tied to the party.

Pompeo Trip to North Korea Yields New Summit Meeting, South Korea Says  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had a “good trip” to North Korea, meeting with its leader, Kim Jong-un, on Sunday and making progress in diplomatic efforts to denuclearize the country.

Trump set to shuffle top generals  —  Washington (CNN)As President Donald Trump grapples with a number of huge foreign policy challenges over the coming months, he is going to have to make some key decisions on the generals who advise him and lead the US military.

Democrats Fear They're the Wet Rag Party  —  Al Franken is a long-time liberal warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds in exile.  —  Brett Kavanaugh is a long-time conservative warrior accused of predatory sexual behavior who is now licking his wounds on the United States Supreme Court.

The junk science Republicans used to undermine Ford and help save Kavanaugh  —  The politically convenient, scientifically baseless theory that sexual assault so traumatized Christine Blasey Ford she mixed up her attacker is now something like common wisdom for many Republicans.

WEST BANK SHOOTING VICTIMS IDENTIFIED: KIM YEHEZKEL (29), ZIV HAJBANI (35)  —  Two of the victims, a man and woman in their 30's, were fatally wounded and later passed away and one, a woman in her 50's, was in moderate condition, according to Magen David Adom.

White Women, Come Get Your People  —  They will defend their privilege to the death.  —  Ms. Grenell has written on gender and politics for The New York Daily News, The Washington Post and other outlets.  —  After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists …

America, the radicalized  —  It's going to get worse.  Virtually every major American institution is being radicalized — or being reshaped by the radicalization of our public lives.  —  You see this most vividly in politics, where the White House and Congress are often the cause and effect of the radicalization.

Fresh off Kavanaugh vote, Sen. Cory Booker tests presidential waters in Iowa with words of resilience  —  Sen. Cory Booker descended on Iowa Saturday night with ideal timing to strike a chord with Iowan Democrats.  —  The senator from New Jersey, a long-rumored 2020 presidential candidate …