McConnell: GOP senators were ‘literally under assault’ in days before Kavanaugh vote  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that GOP senators were “literally under assault” during the confirmation process for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women.

MeToo Is a ‘Movement Toward Victimization,’ G.O.P. Senate Candidate Says  —  BISMARCK, N.D. — Representative Kevin Cramer of North Dakota has repeatedly made headlines this year in his race against Senator Heidi Heitkamp because of off-the-cuff comments that range from inflammatory to indelicate.

Trump Campaign Aide Requested Online Manipulation Plans From Israeli Intelligence Firm  —  WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 2016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence …

Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?  —  A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.  —  In June, 2016, after news broke that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked, a group of prominent computer scientists went on alert.

Praying for Jamal Khashoggi  —  Saudi Arabia stands accused of killing him.  If it did, it will be a disaster for the regime of Mohammed bin Salman.  —  Last Nov. 7, I wrote a column about the new Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.  It ended this way: “As a veteran Saudi journalist remarked …

The press helped build Donald Trump's lie; now it has to reckon with that  —  Blog ››› October 8, 2018 ››› MATT GERTZ  —  Donald Trump rose to prominence and the presidency on the strength of his self-proclaimed mastery of “The Art of the Deal.”

Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040  —  INCHEON, South Korea — A landmark report from the United Nations' scientific panel on climate change paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought …

Google Exposed User Data, Feared Repercussions of Disclosing to Public  —  Google opted not to disclose to users its discovery of a bug that gave outside developers access to private data.  It found no evidence of misuse.  —  Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users …

CNN Poll: Majority oppose Kavanaugh, but his popularity grows with GOP  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)The wrenching battle over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the high court left the public with sharply negative impressions of the new Supreme Court justice and raised questions about his truthfulness …

Hope Hicks to Head Communications for New Fox  —  Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director who served during the chaotic first year of the Trump administration, has been named head of corporate communications for New Fox, the company to emerge after 21st Century Fox completes …

The corruption of the GOP is complete: So what's Plan B?  —  The Republican Party's Trumpization is complete.  It's not a conservative party, or a small government party or an anti-authoritarian party (to the contrary!).  It has become the caricature of the left from days gone by …

Democrats have unleashed a red wave of Brett Kavanaugh-believing women voters  —  Democrats' partisan treatment of Christine Blasey Ford's accusations against Brett Kavanaugh shows women just who is really on their side.  —  CONNECT  —  The Democrats declared war on Brett Kavanaugh in the name of women's rights.

We're getting ready to poll voters.  —  Can Democrats turn Texas blue?  —  Beto O'Rourke Congressman  —  This survey was conducted by The New York Times Upshot and Siena College.  —  Where we'll call:  —  Vote choice: Dem.  Rep. Don't know Didn't answer  —  Explore the 2016 election in detail with this interactive map.

Busy Philipps Claims James Franco Assaulted Her on the Set of Freaks and Geeks  —  In a new excerpt from her upcoming memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, obtained by Yahoo Entertainment, Busy Philipps is claiming her Freaks and Greeks co-star James Franco assaulted her while they were filming a scene for the series.

Life on the Dirtiest Block in San Francisco  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The heroin needles, the pile of excrement between parked cars, the yellow soup oozing out of a large plastic bag by the curb and the stained, faux Persian carpet dumped on the corner.  —  It's a scene of detritus that might bring …

In a Mississippi Restaurant, Two Americas Coexist Side by Side  —  SOUTHAVEN, Miss. — Crystal Walls and Lovetta Green have the easy warmth that comes with working together 23 years, Ms. Walls as a waitress and Ms. Green in the kitchen of the restaurant where everyone in town seems to gather.

Second Skripal Poisoning Suspect Identified as Dr. Alexander Mishkin  —  In the preceding report from the current investigation into the two suspects in the Skripals poisoning case, Bellingcat and its reporting partner the Insider disclosed the identity of one of the two suspects.

FBI's smoking gun: Redactions protected political embarrassment, not ‘national security’  —  To declassify or not to declassify?  That is the question, when it comes to the FBI's original evidence in the Russia collusion case.  —  The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI have tried …

Feds freeze Russian oligarch's assets, Upper East Side mansion … A sprawling mansion on the Upper East Side has been frozen as part of a hard-core battle between the US government and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, The Post has learned.  —  US officials say Deripaska, an aluminium billionaire …