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 …

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.

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 …

Alaska GOP to weigh potential action against Murkowski  —  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican party leaders plan to consider whether to reprimand U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski for opposing Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation.  —  The party has asked Murkowski to provide …

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.

Independents disapprove of Democrats' handling of the Brett Kavanaugh nomination by a 28-point margin  —  After a blistering confirmation battle, Justice Brett Kavanaugh will take his seat for oral arguments on the U.S. Supreme Court with a skeptical public, a majority of which opposed his nomination.

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 …

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.

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 …

After selling off his father's properties, Trump embraced unorthodox strategies to expand his empire  —  In 2005, Donald Trump kicked off a decade-long buying and spending spree, vastly expanding his hotel and golf-course empire and cementing his image as a brash impresario.

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 …

The dark side of American conservatism has taken over  —  You know how, after you watch a movie with a surprise ending, you sometimes replay the plot in your head to find the clues you missed the first time around?  That's what I've been doing lately with the history of conservatism …

‘A betrayal beyond words’: The far right melts down over Taylor Swift's endorsement of Democrats  —  Taylor Swift's declaration that she plans to vote for Democrats next month fell like a hammer across the Trump-worshipping subforums of the far-right Internet, where people had convinced themselves …

Migrant Children in Search of Justice: A 2-Year-Old's Day in Immigration Court  —  The youngest child to come before the bench in federal immigration courtroom No. 14 was so small she had to be lifted into the chair.  Even the judge in her black robes breathed a soft “aww” as her latest case perched on the brown leather.

Another Trump Golf Course Is Losing Millions of Dollars  —  Both of Donald Trump's Scottish golf courses are in the red, and business shows little sign of improving. … Not only is Donald Trump's Turnberry golf course losing money, but new filings in the United Kingdom show …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …