Records show FBI agents gave Andrew Gillum tickets to ‘Hamilton’ in 2016  —  The records, released by former lobbyist Adam Corey today, appear to refute what his campaign has said about the trip.  —  Undercover FBI agents were the ones who gave Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum a ticket …

‘In the service of whim’: Officials scramble to make Trump's false assertions real  —  The great election-eve middle-class tax cut began not as a factual proposal, but as a false promise.  —  When President Trump abruptly told reporters over the weekend that middle-income Americans would receive …

Brian Kemp owes more than $800,000 in insider loans to bank he helped start  —  ATLANTA - Sometimes it feels who owes what has become the central theme of the Governor's race.  Political Attack ads and counter-attack ads about debt have flooded the airwaves

“The Idea That He's Racist Is Absurd”  —  That Yale professor who knows “the real reason” liberals hate Trump defends his op-ed, the president, and birtherism.  —  In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, titled “The Real Reason They Hate Trump,” David Gelernter, a professor …

Trump Steps Up Attacks on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell  —  President says central banker 'almost looks like he's happy raising interest rates'  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump escalated his attacks on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, blaming him for threatening U.S. economic growth …

Senate slipping away as Dems fight to preserve blue wave  —  NEW YORK (AP) — In the closing stretch of the 2018 campaign, the question is no longer the size of the Democratic wave.  It's whether there will be a wave at all.  —  Top operatives in both political parties concede …

Same as It Ever Was...  Let's say that I put you on a desert island the day after the 2016 elections (don't worry, it would be one with wonderful amenities, just no contact with the outside world).  Then, let's say that the first piece of 2018 news I gave you was the latest polling …

A convenient omission?  Trump campaign adviser denied collusion to FBI source early on  —  Just weeks after the FBI opened a dramatic counterintelligence probe into Donald Trump and Russia, one of his presidential campaign advisers emphatically told an undercover bureau source …

White Nationalist Richard Spencer's Wife Says In Divorce Filings That He Physically and Emotionally Abused Her  —  “The only language women understand is violence,” Nina Kroupiianova said Spencer told her.  Spencer said, “I dispute many of her assertions.”  —  The wife of Richard Spencer …

Trump's Own Team Knows His Caravan Claims Are Bullshit  —  Asked for evidence supporting the president's claims about the caravan, a senior administration official told reporters to ask ‘the Mexican authorities.’  —  Donald Trump and his political allies have embarked on an aggressive …

‘I thought it was very nice’: VA official showcased portrait of KKK's first grand wizard  —  A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs is under fire for displaying a portrait in his Washington, D.C., office of the Ku Klux Klan's first grand wizard.

GOP Sen. Jeff Flake: 'I Don't Know if I Believed' Brett Kavanaugh  —  The senator admitted to ‘The View’ that Christine Blasey Ford's testimony was ‘very compelling’ and that he's not sure he believed Kavanaugh's denials.  —  Several weeks after delaying the confirmation …

Trump aides hounded in D.C. are smash hits on GOP stump  —  Loathed by liberals, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Sanders and Ivanka Trump are top draws for campaign events around the country.  —  In Washington, D.C., and progressive East Coast enclaves, Trump administration officials have been driven …

Exclusive: Priorities USA launches new ad campaign targeting McConnell entitlement talk … LATEST POSTS FROM THE RUNDOWN  —  October 23, 2018  —  Exclusive: Priorities USA launches new ad campaign targeting McConnell entitlement talk  —  Heidi Przybyla

Filings show RNC spent $1.5 million at Trump-owned properties this cycle  —  The Republican National Committee (RNC) has spent more than $1.5 million at President Trump's properties during the 2018 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

For parents of transgender children, Trump administration policy would be a ‘punch to the gut’  —  Since Jamie Harper's son began middle school in Loudoun County, the teenager has only been known as a boy.  His friends don't know that he was actually born a girl — and his family has had to fight to keep it that way.

Americans' anger may help Democrats in Nov. 6 vote: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ben Chico, 67, a Republican in California, says his annoyance with Democrats morphed into full-blown outrage when he heard they might try to impeach President Donald Trump after the Nov. 6 elections.

Mom with ‘gut feeling’ stops school shooter before planned attack  —  A suspicious mom who followed her instincts helped prevent a mass  —  school shooting.  —  On Wednesday,  —  Koeberle Bull of Lumberton, N.J., woke up to a  —  racist message on Facebook from a man in Kentucky.

Inside China's internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks  —  China has ramped up its security presence in Xinjiang in recent years  —  On state television, the vocational education centre in China's far west looked like a modern school where happy students studied Mandarin …

Democrats, beware: Overzealous investigations will come back to bite you  —  When it comes to wielding Congress's formidable investigatory power, it is hard to think of anyone in modern history who has done it as effectively as former representative Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).

Trump emasculates Ted Cruz, and the whole Republican Party  —  Ted Cruz is “beautiful.”  —  Don't take it from me — that's the President's own description of a man he once said “has accomplished absolutely nothing for [Texas].  He is another all talk, no action pol!”

Steve Bannon draws 38 to Staten Island speech, sceening of ‘Trump at War’ film  —  Just 38 people showed up when a man once touted as one of President Trump's most influential advisers spoke Monday in the reddest New York City borough.  —  Steve Bannon said he didn't mind the small crowd …

The British #MeToo scandal which cannot be revealed  —  A leading businessman has been granted an injunction against The Telegraph to prevent this newspaper revealing alleged sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff.  —  The accusations against the businessman, who cannot be identified …

Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro Scolded by Sitting Judge in Defamation Lawsuit  —  “You'd think she would know better,” said a New York judge at a hearing Tuesday in a case brought by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson.  —  “Should there be consequences to those people who promote falsehoods?”

Trump Is Celebrating Violence and Nationalism at His Rallies  —  Republicans aren't pushing back.  —  On Monday night, President Trump declared himself a nationalist.  At a rally in Houston, he distinguished nationalists from “globalists,” people who, according to Trump, care more about the world than about their own tribe.

Just 38% of Americans say their finances have improved since the 2016 election  —  A majority of Americans say their finances haven't improved since the 2016 general election, when Republicans added the White House to their control in addition to both chambers of Congress, according to the Bankrate 2018 midterm election survey.

A Fire Chief Burned by Progressive Piety  —  Atlanta's mayor gave Kelvin Cochran the sack for self-publishing a religion-themed book.  —  Kelvin Cochran was raised in Shreveport, La., in the 1960s and recalls always having the same answer when adults would quiz him about what he wanted to be when he grew up.