O'Connor, Rehnquist And A Supreme Marriage Proposal  —  Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.  So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.

Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional  —  George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  Sometimes the Constitution's text …

Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?  —  Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudy Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-Chair Joe Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.

Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate  —  ISTANBUL — Turkey's public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of “advance plans” …

Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams  —  Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams.  —  The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.

Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement  —  Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.  —  The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …

CNN Polls: Tight Senate contests in Arizona, Nevada in final week  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)The Democratic Party's two best pickup opportunities in the Senate playing field are close contests in the final days of campaigning, according to new CNN Polls conducted by SSRS.

Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka  —  “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?”  —  Sherman Smith Twitter  —  I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …

Interior watchdog referred Zinke probe to Justice days before move to replace agency IG  —  The Interior Department's internal watchdog referred its investigation of Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice (DOJ) more than two weeks ago, just days before it was announced that Interior …

Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week.  —  The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …

Judge declines Kemp's request to pause absentee ballot injunction  —  A federal judge has declined to pause an injunction she ordered that changes how Georgia elections officials evaluate certain absentee ballots.  —  Secretary of State Brian Kemp had requested that U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin …

Don't let your sons play for DJ Durkin  —  Parents, don't send your kids to Maryland to play football.  Just don't do it.  It's not a university, it's a canker sore with a couple of dormitories strapped to its suppurating side.  Don't let your son so much as look at an application.

Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion  —  By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success.  After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …

New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied  —  The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …

Not Much Change IN CD07  —  Higher Dem enthusiasm helps challenger maintain edge  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrat Tom Malinowski maintains a narrow lead over Republican Leonard Lance in the race for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.

Record turnout?  Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote.  —  That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey.  —  About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …

Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants  —  When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.

Colorado governor says he's ‘leaning strongly’ toward presidential run  —  Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Wednesday that he is “leaning strongly” toward a White House bid, marking his latest hint that he could run for president.  —  “I'm the governor of Colorado and I'm gonna run for president …

Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn  —  Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.

A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight  —  On the crescent-shaped pond in the southeast corner of Central Park, a spectacularly colorful duck floats on the surface with an air of majesty.  —  His head looks like a punk rocker's multicolored mohawk.

Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data  —  A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian.  —  You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response … The guns used in the synagogue attack were purchased legally by the suspect, an investigation found.  —  WHITEY BULGER  —  Whitey Bulger, Boston Mobster and Informant, Is Dead at 89 … A Mobster of Many Enemies, Bulger May Have Been Killed in a Hit

Sen. Joe Donnelly says he has black and Indian American staffers, ‘but’ they're terrific  —  Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), a conservative Democrat in one of the tightest reelection battles in the country, made a cringeworthy and puzzling statement about some minorities on his staff during a debate Tuesday night.

Andrew Gillum Is Ready.  Is Florida?  —  The man hoping to be Florida's first black governor just wants to get to work  —  The street is blocked off south of Bethel A.M.E. Church.  Young marching-band members clog the road, reviewing their formations.  Majorettes take their final stretches …

How a lie about George Soros and the migrant caravan multiplied online  —  This is the life of a lie.  —  Three weeks ago, a caravan of Hondurans began walking nearly 2,000 miles to the United States.  Their ranks grew as they inched north and, along with them, falsehoods grew, too.

‘Moving day’: White House staffers set to split for 2020 campaign  —  The White House is poised for a wave of post-midterm departures as staffers leave for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, an indication that the administration is shifting its focus to 2020.

Gayle King Has the Spotlight All to Herself  —  Known for decades as Oprah's best friend, the CBS anchor has become a celebrity in her own right.  Even — especially — with the network's men imploding all around her.  —  Gayle King doesn't so much enter a room as envelop it.

U.S. workers see fastest wage growth in a decade, outpacing inflation  —  U.S. workers are seeing the largest wage increase in a decade, the Labor Department reported Wednesday, as companies compete harder for employees than they did in recent years.  —  The typical worker received …

How Dare People Accuse Trump of Fomenting Hatred and Violence With His Rhetoric!  —  The president was the real victim of this past week's attacks.  —  By now we're all sadly familiar with the terrible crime that was committed last week: President Donald Trump was accused of fomenting violence.

How a Democratic Dark-Money Group Flooded the 2018 House Map  —  BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. — The billboard flickered from the side of a truck, displaying an image of Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, wearing a yachtsman's cap.  Keith Fitzgerald, a local dignitary invited …

The Faces of Change in the Midterm Elections … The efforts of these candidates and others like them point to a major shift in the kinds of Americans choosing to pursue public service through elected office.  Their candidacies are likely to have long-lasting impacts on political representation …

Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump — and Democrats are culpable too  —  After a deranged Democrat living in his van nearly assassinated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) firing more than 70 rounds at House Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game …

Unlikely Democratic House candidates are gaining momentum, even in GOP strongholds … Democrats' path to seizing the House may very well run through small, suburban wine bars such as the one in downtown Wauconda, Ill., 50 miles outside of Chicago, where a group of mostly white …