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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.”

TV Host's Brutal Murder Shakes Bulgaria  —  Bulgarian police confirmed on Sunday that Victoria Marinova, TV host and administrative director of the local TVN, has been killed - after reportedly being raped and then strangled.  —  Victoria Marinova, the 30-year-old TV host and administrative director …

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 …

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” …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …