Scoop: Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation  —  President Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation as UN Ambassador, according to two sources briefed on their conversation.  The timing of her departure is still unclear.  —  What we're hearing: Haley discussed her resignation …

CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead  —  Washington (CNN)Four weeks out from Election Day, Democrats remain well ahead of Republicans in a generic ballot matchup, with 54% of likely voters saying they support the Democrat in their district and 41% backing a Republican …

Clinton: ‘You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for’  —  Clinton: Civility starts by electing Democrats  —  Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that civility in America can only begin again if Democrats win back the House or Senate this fall.

‘They Told Me I Would Never See Her Again’: Deported Parents Lose Kids To Adoption  —  As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: “They want to steal my daughter!”

Infamous St. Petersburg ‘Troll Factory’ Set on Fire  —  The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.  —  An investigation revealed last year that the secretive troll factory …

Gov. Larry Hogan leads Democrat Ben Jealous by 20 points, Post-U. Md. poll finds  —  With less than a month until Election Day, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has built a formidable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealous, with few voters undecided and most preferring the incumbent Republican …

EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler Engaged With Racist, Conspiratorial Posts On Social Media  —  Exclusive: The agency head brushed off his interactions with a Pizzagater and said he doesn't remember liking a racist picture of the Obamas.  —  Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator …

Khashoggi case: CCTV disappears from Saudi consulate in Turkey  —  Security footage removed and Turkish staff told to go home on day missing journalist visits  —  Security camera footage was removed from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and Turkish staff were abruptly told to take a holiday …

New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in U.S. Telecom  —  A major U.S. telecommunications company discovered manipulated hardware from Super Micro Computer Inc. in its network and removed it in August, fresh evidence of tampering in China of critical technology components bound for the U.S. …

GOP official on Davids: radical socialist, lesbian will be sent back to reservation  —  A local Kansas GOP official lashed out at Democratic congressional candidate Sharice Davids on social media earlier this week, saying “your radical socialist kick boxing lesbian will be sent back packing to the reservation.”

Superior ruthlessness isn't why Republicans control the Supreme Court  —  They had some good luck — and, most importantly, they had the votes.  —  A strange explanation for Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court emerged soon after the Senate confirmed him.

Two Students Hooked Up.  It Was Clearly Consensual.  He Still Spent $12,000 Defending Himself.  —  James, a freshman at the University of California-Davis, was on his way to math class when he received an email that would derail his life for the next few months: The university's Title IX office …

White woman calls police on black man babysitting children  —  It's a case of babysitting while black.  —  A white woman called the police on a black man as he babysat two white children.  —  Corey Lewis documented the entire ordeal on Facebook Live.  —  In an exclusive interview …

Taylor Swift's Instagram Post Has Caused A Massive Spike In Voter Registration  —  Since Taylor Swift flexed her star power Sunday with an Instagram post that encouraged her 112 million followers to register to vote, Vote.org has experienced an unprecedented flood of new voter registrations nationwide.

Anger Recedes As Normalcy, Good Humor Characterize Kavanaugh's First Day On The Supreme Court  —  Justice Brett Kavanaugh appeared at oral arguments for the first time Tuesday, where the bitterness attending his confirmation appeared to break, if only a little.

POLITICO race ratings: The GOP House is crumbling  —  There are now 209 seats either firmly or leaning in the Democratic column — only 9 shy of the 218 needed to win control.  —  The Republican House majority continues to show signs of collapsing, with Democrats steadily gaining ground toward erasing …

Owner of popular burger restaurant fires woman; his comments spark outrage  —  CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - The owner of Terry's Turf Club in the East End is under fire after a video surfaced of him on social media where he allegedly made sexual remarks after he fired a worker.

US student detained in Israel for alleged boycott support  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — In a first-of-its-kind case, Israel has held an American graduate student at its international airport for a whole week, accusing her of supporting a Palestinian-led boycott movement against the Jewish state.

Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for Civil War gold  —  DENTS RUN, Pa. (AP) — Surrounded by dozens of stone-faced FBI agents on a frigid winter's day, Dennis and Kem Parada stared down at the empty hole and knew something wasn't right.  —  The father-son duo spent years combing …

Sinema announces raising nearly $7 million in third quarter  —  Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) says she raised nearly $7 million in the third fundraising quarter of the year, shattering her previous fundraising records in the Senate race against Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.).

‘This is MY son’: Navy vet horrified as mom's tweet miscasts him as #HimToo poster boy — and goes viral  —  Pieter Hanson was in the middle of a marketing exam when his phone started blowing up, buzzing and buzzing until he was convinced something terrible had happened.

I discovered the rest of America on my summer holiday  —  Economists like me see the world through the prism of models, fitted to statistical data and tested against market realities.  Economic models provide uniquely powerful perspectives: I have used them to argue that had the economy been left to itself …

The Mueller Investigation Is Bigger Than Rod Rosenstein  —  Even if he got fired, a replacement dead set on shutting down the investigation would find it nearly impossible to pull off.  —  Ms. Rangappa was an F.B.I. special agent focusing on counterintelligence investigations.

Exclusive — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Introducing Bill to Fully Fund Border Wall, Making Midterm Immigration Referendum  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will introduce a bill this week that will fully fund President Donald Trump's planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico …

The Dilemma for Red-State Democrats … Democratic senators in states that President Trump won had concluded that their best path to re-election was to campaign on local issues.  Then came the confirmation fight over Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.  Guest: Jonathan Martin, who covers national politics for The New York Times.

Beware Kavanaugh Narratives, Final-Month Musings Unlikely to Change November Outcomes  —  During a brief period when I was working for the political unit of CBS News around the 2006 midterm elections, I attended a pre-election meeting run by Sean McManus and Paul Friedman.

Kirchick '06 fails to get on the alumni fellow ballot  —  Journalist and author James Kirchick '06 announced Monday that he failed to gather the required number of signatures to enter the alumni fellow election, annulling his monthslong campaign to join the University's highest governing body.