Trump Rally Crowd Launches Into ‘Send Her Back’ Chant Over Ilhan Omar  —  We now have a new gross Trump rally crowd chant to replace “Lock Her Up!”  —  We now have a new gross Trump rally crowd chant to replace “Lock Her Up!”  —  During President Trump's Wednesday night rally in Greenville …

Rand Paul blocks Senate from approving 9/11 victim compensation fund  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass an extension of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.  —  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) tried to win the Senate's consent to approve …

“IT'S GOING TO BE STAGGERING, THE AMOUNT OF NAMES”: AS THE JEFFREY EPSTEIN CASE GROWS MORE GROTESQUE, MANHATTAN AND DC BRACE FOR IMPACT  —  The disgraced financier “collected people,” said a source.  Could some of them be implicated in his crimes?  Meanwhile, Alan Dershowitz ("He's a bad person" …

House Holds Barr and Ross in Contempt Over Census Dispute  —  WASHINGTON — The House voted Wednesday evening to hold Attorney General William P. Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in criminal contempt of Congress for their refusal to turn over key documents related to the Trump administration's attempt …

Gizmodo Media Staff Enraged at New CEO's ‘Insane’ Direction  —  High-level staffers at the company that now owns ex-Gawker sites like Jezebel and Deadspin complain their new leader is destroying a famously freewheeling culture.  —  Leaning on editors to be nice to advertisers.

Behind the scenes the night Trump partied at Mar-a-Lago with Jeffrey Epstein and NFL cheerleaders  —  Donald Trump was coming off a bruising few years: His casino and real estate business had teetered on the edge of collapse, awash in debt.  His marriage to Ivana Trump had disintegrated …

How to watch CNN's live debate drawing  —  (CNN)The candidate lineups for the upcoming Democratic presidential debates in Detroit will be decided by a live, random draw Thursday night during a special edition of Anderson Cooper 360 at 8 p.m. ET on CNN.  —  The CNN debate brings …

DNC warns 2020 campaigns not to use FaceApp ‘developed by Russians’  —  Washington (CNN)The Democratic National Committee sent a security alert to 2020 presidential campaigns Wednesday afternoon warning them not to use the popular smartphone application FaceApp, CNN has learned.

Border official in Clint accused of harassing mother of 12-year-old migrant who was in custody  —  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly sought out an undocumented Guatemalan woman living in California, sent her Facebook messages and asked her to watch a live video of him masturbating …

The Garbage Man Speaks  —  ClickHole, a sister site of the Onion that parodies the internet's most clickbaity content, launched in June 2014, but it arguably wasn't until later that year that the site dropped its first timeless classic.  This was a post so widely shared that New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino …

A Border Kept Him From His Daughter.  Now He's Here to Say Goodbye.  —  Heydi Gámez Garcia, a 13-year-old from Honduras, waited for her father to join her in the United States.  But he was repeatedly stopped at the border.  —  He came too late.  —  BRENTWOOD, N.Y. …

Trump and the dead end of conservative nationalism  —  A conference on “national conservatism” barely mentioned Trump — but gave voice to Trumpism.  —  President Trump's vicious attacks on four House Democrats this week — telling four American women of color to “go back” to their own countries …

Democratic lawmakers accuse their own party of proposing ‘deep’ cuts to health centers for poor  —  Several Democratic lawmakers are accusing members of their own party of advancing a plan that would have the effect of cutting health care services for millions of Americans in poor and rural parts …

Feds end investigation into Trump Org and hush money payments  —  New York (CNN)Federal prosecutors in New York have ended their investigation into the Trump Organization's role in hush money payments made to women who alleged affairs with President Donald Trump and have been ordered by a judge …

Michel Barnier: Theresa May ‘never’ threatened EU with no-deal Brexit  —  UK will have to ‘face the consequences’ if it leaves without a deal on October 31, EU's chief negotiator warns.  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May “never” attempted to threaten the EU with a no-deal Brexit during …

China's State-Driven Growth Model Is Running Out of Gas  —  Latest data suggest China may not match the trajectory of Taiwan, South Korea and Japan  —  New data showing the toll trade tensions are taking on China's economy are merely a symptom of a more serious malaise: The country's state-led growth model is running out of gas.

House Votes to Kill Trump Impeachment Resolution  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday killed an attempt to impeach President Trump for statements that the chamber condemned this week as racist, turning aside an accusation that he had brought “ridicule, disgrace and disrepute” to his office.

Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Declared a Global Health Emergency  —  The World Health Organization issued the order; the virus has infected more than 2,500 people and killed nearly 1,700.  —  The year-old Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now considered a global health emergency …

No, the Democratic Party hasn't lurched to the left  —  Rahm Emanuel is a former mayor of Chicago.  —  The most hyped theme of the 2020 election cycle is that the Democratic Party has lurched suddenly and dramatically to the left.  Not only has the party not lurched …