Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online  —  Scott Beierle shot two women at a Florida yoga studio on Friday night.  He posted a series of videos and songs online and appeared to identify as an “involuntarily celibate.”

Racist robocall targets Stacey Abrams, Oprah in Georgia governor's race  —  Washington (CNN)A white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls is now targeting Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Amazon is in advanced talks about putting second headquarters in Northern Virginia, those close to process say  —  Amazon.com has held advanced discussions about the possibility of opening its highly sought-after second headquarters in Crystal City, including how quickly it would move employees there …

NYC Synagogue Vandalism Suspect Is Former City Hall Anti-Hate Crime Intern  — The suspect in a synagogue vandalism act that forced the cancellation of a Democratic event is reportedly a former City Hall employee who worked on anti-hate crime issues and is a Democratic activist, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism.  Now They Don't Know How to Stop It.  —  For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism.  In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.

Why Aren't Democrats Walking Away With the Midterms?  —  Democrats miss Trump's political gifts and the real threat he represents.  —  The night Donald Trump was elected was supposed to be, for most liberals and a few conservatives, the beginning of the end of the world.  The economy would surely implode.

Hawley won't answer questions about private emails; calls Star report ‘absurd’  —  COLUMBIA  —  Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Josh Hawley declined on Saturday to clarify why his government staff used their personal email addresses to organize meetings with campaign consultants …

Obama tends to hold back.  But he's getting aggressive for the midterms.  —  He slammed Trump for “constant fear-mongering” at a fiery campaign rally in Florida Friday.  —  Former president Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump went head to head in dueling rallies on Friday …

Gillum intern arrested in Florida for throwing chocolate milk at College Republicans  —  An intern for Democratic Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has been arrested and charged with battery after she threw chocolate milk on a group of College Republicans tabling on campus.

Arrest made after hate graffiti found written inside Brooklyn synagogue  —  Police have made an arrest after disturbing messages of hate were found inside a Brooklyn synagogue Thursday evening, the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents across the nation.

House and Senate Latest, Obama Asks a Question, Beto Video: 3 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.  —  Where things stand

Trump's border deployments could cost $200 million by year-end  —  The total price of President Trump's military deployment to the border, including the cost of National Guard forces that have been there since April, could climb well above $200 million by the end of 2018 and grow significantly …

Republicans are spreading two types of fear ahead of next week's midterm elections  — The upstairs-downstairs split within the Republican coalition requires more than hype about imagined threats of “invasion” from a bedraggled immigrant caravan.  GOP strategy involves two distinctly different kinds of fear.

Two new polls show Marsha Blackburn, Phil Bredesen in a dead heat in Senate race  —  A look at the several polls detailing the race of Marsha Blackburn and Phil Bredesen for U.S. Senate  —  Despite a series of recent polls saying otherwise, two surveys see Tennessee's U.S. Senate race between …

A Nation in Turmoil Prepares to Deliver a Verdict on Trump  —  The tumultuous 2018 midterm campaign, shaped by conflicts over race and identity and punctuated by tragedy, barreled through its final weekend as voters prepared to deliver a verdict on the first half of President Trump's term …

The 14th Amendment Does Not Mandate Birthright Citizenship  —  It was about removing vestiges of slavery, not regulating aliens.  —  Shortly after the Constitution went into effect, the first Congress enacted a naturalization law.  Lawmakers superseded this statute just five years later.

Asia Bibi: Deal to end Pakistan protests over blasphemy case  —  Pakistan's authorities have struck a deal with a hard-line Islamist party to end a protest over the acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.  —  As part of the deal, proceedings will begin to bar Asia Bibi from leaving the country.

New Jersey Democrats sound alarm over Menendez race  —  New Jersey Democrats are growing increasingly worried that Sen. Bob Menendez could lose his seat next week in an outcome that would undercut the party's effort to take back the Senate.  —  Democratic strategists working on races across …

Why Are People Fleeing Central America?  A New Breed of Gangs Is Taking Over.  —  Gangs such as MS-13 and Barrio 18 prey on their own neighborhoods in a violent, chaotic model spreading through the region  —  APOPA, El Salvador—The Congress of El Salvador agreed in April to extend …

We have no excuses now.  Our eyes are wide open.  —  This time, our eyes are wide open.  —  Exactly two years ago, many Americans held their noses and voted for Donald Trump.  Some were conservatives willing to tolerate his vulgar excesses in hopes of getting tax cuts, a repeal of Obamacare and a friendlier judiciary.

GOP super PAC rushes to save Alaska's Don Young from defeat  —  A super PAC aligned with House Republican leadership is mounting a surprise final-weekend effort to save Alaska Rep. Don Young from defeat on Tuesday.  —  On Saturday, Congressional Leadership Fund will launch a phone-based …

Trump administration appears in no hurry to judge Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi killing  —  The Trump administration is waiting to see the results of a Saudi investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, according to U.S. officials, and appears in no hurry to decide whether and how to punish Saudi Arabia.