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 …

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.

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.

With Battle Over, Kavanaugh Quickly Gets to Work as a Supreme Court Justice  —  WASHINGTON — A day after the bitter fight over his nomination ended in his elevation to the Supreme Court, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was in his new chambers on Sunday, preparing for the arguments the court …

Astronaut Scott Kelly apologizes after quoting, praising Winston Churchill  —  Scott Kelly, a retired American astronaut with multiple space flights under his belt, apologized Sunday after quoting Winston Churchill and calling the 20th century British prime minister “one of the greatest leaders of modern times.”

Rod Rosenstein to Join Trump Aboard Air Force One  —  WASHINGTON — Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and President Trump planned to travel to Florida together on Air Force One Monday morning, a week and a half after the two were scheduled to discuss remarks Mr. Rosenstein …

Can Taylor Swift, revered by young Americans, help lead Democrats out of the woods?  —  “Youth vote” can seem almost a contradiction in terms given the tendency of young people to stay home on Election Day, perhaps more enthralled by social networking and celebrities like Taylor Swift than by elections and the fate of the republic.

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.

Former Cambridge Analytica chief used N-word to describe Barbados PM  —  Exclusive: leaked papers reveal racist slur by Alexander Nix, who is pitching to run election campaigns in Caribbean  —  Alexander Nix, the former chief executive of the elections consultancy Cambridge Analytica …

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 …

Jamal Khashoggi chose to tell the truth.  It's part of the reason he's beloved.  —  This column has been updated.  —  George Orwell titled a regular column he wrote for a British newspaper in the mid-1940s “As I Please.”  Meaning that he would write exactly what he believed.

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 …

Presidential Proclamation on Columbus Day, 2018  —  In 1492, Christopher Columbus and his mighty three-ship fleet, the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, first spotted the Americas.  His historic achievement ushered in an Age of Discovery that expanded our knowledge of the world.

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 …

Survey of battleground House districts shows Democrats with narrow edge  —  Likely voters who live in 69 battleground House districts across the country narrowly prefer Democratic candidates, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School survey, a potentially worrying sign for Republicans given …

Viral “Manspreading” Video is Staged Kremlin Propaganda  —  A young woman walks up to a man in a subway train and pours liquid over him from a plastic bottle.  —  The scene is repeated a number of times with different men who all react with anger and bewilderment.

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 …

This website will tell Georgia voters if they were purged... but they must reregister by Tuesday  —  Journalist Greg Palast has created a website so that voters in Georgia can learn if they were wrongly purged  —  If you're a voter in Georgia, there is a 1 in 10 chance that you were purged from the voting rolls at some point in 2017.

Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova killed in Ruse  —  Police in Bulgaria are investigating the killing of journalist Viktoria Marinova.  —  Her body was found in a park in the northern city of Ruse, near the River Danube, on Saturday.  —  Interior Minister Mladen Marinov later confirmed she had also been raped.

On Africa Trip, First Lady Reveals a Trump-like Side  —  CAIRO — Back home, Washington was in turmoil, but the first lady had something on her mind.  —  On one of the most consequential days of her husband's embattled presidency, as the Senate approved his controversial choice for the Supreme Court …