Saudis' Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider  —  Each morning, Jamal Khashoggi would check his phone to discover what fresh hell had been unleashed while he was sleeping.  —  He would see the work of an army of Twitter trolls, ordered to attack him and other influential Saudis who had criticized the kingdom's leaders.

Senator Mitch McConnell Confronted at Restaurant by Angry Customers  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was confronted Friday night by some angry diners who loudly berated him for his politics.  —  The Kentucky Senator was eating dinner with his wife at Havana Rumba in Louisville, when 4 men confronted Mitch.

G.O.P. Candidates Struggling in Key Battlegrounds, With House at Stake  —  ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Republican leaders are increasingly worried that their candidates for governor and Senate are in political trouble across Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and other states that the party prizes …

Rep. Steve King Goes Full White Nationalist In Interview With Austrian Site  —  A shocking interview with a far-right propaganda site offers the clearest look yet at the congressman's racist ideology.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) visited Austria in August and gave an extensive interview …

Missouri GOP sent 10,000 voters false absentee voting information  —  The Missouri Republican Party sent mailers to 10,000 voters across the state with false information about when their absentee ballots are due, the party's executive director acknowledged Friday.

Georgia's ‘exact match’ law could disenfranchise 909,540 eligible voters, my research finds  —  Recently, there's been an uproar about Georgia's approach to voter registration.  The state's “exact match” law, passed last year, requires that citizens' names on their government-issued IDs must precisely match …

Early voting hints at huge turnout  —  More than 4.3 million Americans have already cast their ballots in the midterm elections, and early signs point to a huge increase in turnout from the last midterm elections in 2014, when overall voter participation hit a 70-year low.

Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls  —  Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is accused of seeking to suppress the black vote ahead of his big election  —  Georgia has removed over 300,000 voters from the state's voter rolls over the past two years …

Attacks on public figures are growing  —  Recently, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner boarded a flight from D.C. to New York.  This type of flight is termed a shuttle flight due to its quick and direct link between D.C. and New York.  Business people, power brokers and decision makers who need …

FBI Acknowledges Using Multiple Informants In Investigation Of Trump Campaign Aide  — The Justice Department revealed Friday that it used multiple informants to obtain information against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.  — In court filings, government officials …

Disinformation Spreads on WhatsApp Ahead of Brazilian Election  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past few months, the 120 million Brazilians who use WhatsApp, the smartphone messaging application that is owned by Facebook, have been deluged with political messages.

Did Michael Flynn Have a Back Channel to Email Hackers During the Campaign?  —  The alliance between the Trump campaign and Russia had many nodes of contact.  One of the least known, but potentially most significant, is the work that ran through Republican operative Peter W. Smith.

GOP women's group backs Dem candidates in Michigan  —  A Michigan Republican women's PAC is backing two Democratic candidates in November over their Trump-supporting opponents, pointing to President Trump's rhetoric and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings as key reasons for the move.