Michael Avenatti's Past Won't Stop Him From Running in 2020  —  The woman approached Michael Avenatti with obvious purpose.  A 79-year-old retired physicist with long blond hair, she wore a blue T-shirt that said AVENATTI IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL.  It was mid-August, and Avenatti had just finished giving …

New questions raised about Avenatti claims regarding Kavanaugh  —  “I do not like that he twisted my words,” one woman says of lawyer Michael Avenatti.  —  When Sen. Chuck Grassley referred attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the Justice Department for criminal investigation Thursday …

EXCLUSIVE: Megyn Kelly is OUT at NBC just 48 hours after defending blackface as she and the network fight over whether she will be paid out her $69M contract in full  — Her show aired a repeat on Thursday and will also be a repeat on Friday after she defended blackface on Tuesday's show and apologized Wednesday on air

Newt Gingrich: 'We'll see whether or not the Kavanaugh fight was worth it'  —  Megyn Kelly's rocky two years at NBC  —  Saudi Arabia concedes Khashoggi's murder was premeditated  —  Numerous pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of President Trump  —  CNN's New York offices evacuated after reports of a suspicious device

GOP sees new bomb scare victim: Trump  —  A day after several leading Democrats were found to have been targeted by package bombs, Republicans have identified one of their own as a victim: President Donald Trump.  —  As of Thursday afternoon, less than 36 hours after the first packages were discovered …

Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran  —  Mueller's investigators examined a series of meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi's murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn.  —  Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri, the Saudi intelligence chief taking …

Trump used charity money to buy his own portrait because no one else would: lawyers … Donald Trump had no choice but to blow $10,000 in charity money on a giant painting of himself — because no one else wanted it, his lawyers claimed in court Thursday.  —  Trump picked up the infamous painting …

How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’  —  The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero's farewell when he left the company in October 2014.

Mueller has evidence suggesting Stone associate knew Clinton emails would be leaked  —  Mueller's team is investigating whether Jerome Corsi knew stolen emails would be leaked and passed information about them to Trump associate Roger Stone.  —  WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office …

Kroger Shooting: Accused shooter tried to get into Baptist church minutes before attack  —  First Baptist Church on Watterson Trail has predominantly black congregation  —  LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - The man accused of killing two people at a busy grocery store was seen on surveillance video trying …

We recommend Beto O'Rourke for U.S. Senate  —  When, in the course of human events, a people become so divided among themselves that they can no longer engage in meaningful political discourse or even remain civil to one another, it is time to take bold steps forward.

Trump's tweet claiming he ‘only uses government phones’ was sent from an iPhone  — President Donald Trump routinely uses unsecured iPhones to speak with friends and associates instead of a secure White House line, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

I thought Trump would help the LGBTQ community.  I was wrong.  —  Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender rights advocate and author.  —  These past two years under President Trump have given me the opportunity to reflect on a lot of topics that have come up in the LGBTQ community and in our nation.

Pentagon plans to dispatch at least 800 more troops to U.S.-Mexico border in response to migrant caravan  —  The Trump administration is expected to deploy additional U.S. troops to assist in security operations at the southern border in response to a caravan of Central American migrants traveling north …

Instagram Removes Milo Yiannopoulos Post Praising Mail Bombs After Daily Beast Report  —  Instagram had first told The Daily Beast that Yiannopoulos' post regretting that the bombs didn't go off had not violated its standards.  —  Instagram deleted a post from right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos praising …

Ballot Applications in Georgia, and Senate and House Latest: 12 Days to Go  —  Welcome to The Tip Sheet, a daily political analysis of the 2018 elections, based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and voters.  —  Voter applications said to be missing in Georgia

‘False Flag’ Theory on Pipe Bombs Zooms From Right-Wing Fringe to Mainstream  —  Just hours after the news broke this week that explosive devices had been sent to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats, a conspiracy theory began to take shape in certain corners of conservative media.

New voters get notices listing wrong Dodge City polling site  —  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — After moving Dodge City's sole polling site outside city limits, county election officials sent newly registered voters an official certificate of registration that listed the wrong place to cast a ballot …

Trump's DEA Chief Vetted Candidates and Then Took the Job Himself, Riling Police Groups  —  Uttam Dhillon's rise to the top of the drug-fighting agency disappointed organizations seeking an administrator with law-enforcement experience  —  WASHINGTON—As one of President Trump's top compliance …

Holocaust memorial group unwittingly funded Rep. King's meeting with far-right Austrians  —  Rep. Steve King met with members of a far-right Austrian party with historical Nazi ties during a European trip financed by a Holocaust memorial group.  —  In an interview with a website associated with the party …

Elizabeth Warren Meets the Left's Circular Firing Squad  —  The release of her DNA test might not have been the best idea, but it shouldn't be disqualifying.  —  I recently spent an afternoon with some new friends in Connecticut, writing letters to registered Democrats in Georgia who hadn't voted in the past few elections.

How much a pint of beer costs around the world  — The price of a pint of beer varies from city to city.  — Deutsche Bank analyzed the price of beer in 50 cities worldwide and found Dubai was the most expensive, with the average pint costing $12.  — New York City and San Francisco …

Election Update: Romney-Clinton Districts Are Overrated.  Obama-Trump Districts Are Underrated.  —  This year's midterm hasn't really featured the “model wars” we saw in 2014 or 2016 — heated arguments between different election forecasters, whose projections sometimes showed very different results.

Exclusive: Chelsea Clinton mulling political office: If someone ‘steps down or retires’  —  Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said she wouldn't rule out a run for office herself, and said her mother has not spoken …

Trump changes plans to meet with Putin after Putin summons him  —  Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin the week after midterm elections — a major change in plans that came after Putin called for it.  —  Russian and U.S. officials announced this week that Trump will meet …

At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks  —  Buzzwords and anxiety fill the hallways as Hollywood giant tries to maintain a winning culture amid breakneck growth; ‘sunshining’ the ‘N-word’ scandal  —  At a Netflix Inc. corporate retreat in July …