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.

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 …

Why I'm Leaving the Republican Party  —  Unlike Senator Susan Collins, who took pages upon pages of text on national television to tell us something we already knew, I will cut right to the chase: I am out of the Republican Party.  —  I will also acknowledge right away what I assume …

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 …

Bulgarian TV host Victoria Marinova raped and killed  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Bulgarian authorities to conduct a rigorous, thorough investigation into the killing of Victoria Marinova, presenter and administrative director for local television channel TVN.

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.

Many women saw Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, could be ‘our husbands, our sons’: Trump counselor  —  President Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway said that many women viewed Brett Kavanaugh as unfairly accused, and “saw in him possibly our husbands, our sons, our cousins, our co-workers, our brothers.”

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 …

Interpol President Is Detained by China and Has Quit His Post  —  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.

20 killed in Schoharie limousine crash  —  State Police confirm the number of dead as they work to notify relatives of the dead  —  SCHOHARIE - Twenty people died in Saturday's crash of a limousine in Schoharie County, a tragedy that unfolded outside a popular tourist stop that was filled …

Police Removed A Texas Yard Sign Showing A GOP Elephant With Its Trunk Up A Woman's Skirt  —  Police in Texas removed an anti-Republican political sign from a woman's yard Tuesday night last week, amid nationwide rancor over the Senate's vote on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court.

Pompeo has ‘productive conversation’ with Kim Jong Un in North Korea, attempting to set stage for second Trump-Kim summit  —  TOKYO — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spent several hours with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Sunday, later describing his talks as “productive” …

Hamptons millionaires build luxe panic rooms to hide from MS-13  —  There is a specter haunting the Hamptons — one that's turning some of the priciest properties in the country into fortresses equipped with bulletproof glass, weaponry and panic rooms.  —  “I sleep with a gun underneath my pillow …

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.

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.

Sen. Cory Gardner reveals wife received graphic text of beheading after Kavanaugh vote  —  In the wake of his vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday, Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., revealed to Fox News on Sunday that his wife had received a graphic text message …

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.