Handmaid's Tale?  U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny  —  (Reuters) - Some have likened People of Praise, a self-described charismatic Christian community, to the totalitarian, male-dominated society of Margaret Atwood's novel “The Handmaid's Tale.”

GOP senators' report calls Hunter Biden's board position with Ukraine firm ‘problematic,’ but fails to show how it changed U.S. policy  —  A pair of Senate Republican committee chairmen released a report Wednesday arguing that Hunter Biden's board position with a Ukrainian energy company was …

Cindy McCain Endorses Biden, Citing Trump's Disparagement of Troops  —  The widow of Senator John McCain praised Joe Biden's “character and integrity” and noted that both he and her family had children who had served in the military.  —  WASHINGTON — Cindy McCain, the widow of Senator John McCain …

The Russian Trolls Have a Simpler Job Today.  Quote Trump.  —  As part of their attempt to interfere with the 2020 election, Russians are grabbing screenshots of President Trump's tweets, or quoting his own misleading statements, analysts and officials say.

Kamala Harris Downplays Debate Skills as Buttigieg Stands In for Pence  — Former prosecutor known for withering attacks on opponents  — Harris created viral moments in presidential primary debates  —  Kamala Harris's team is working to manage public expectations that her upcoming debate …

Dutch lawmakers demand answers after U.S. ambassador holds party for right-wing populists at embassy  —  Dutch officials demanded answers from Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands, on Tuesday in light of reports that the Trump appointee had held a private event …

White House Accused of Intervening to Keep Bolton's Book From Becoming Public  —  A career official said political appointees “commandeered” the prepublication review process.  —  WASHINGTON — White House aides improperly intervened to falsely assert that a manuscript by the former national …

West Michigan man says yard signs were stolen.  So he put up Joe Biden freeway billboards.  —  After he said eight yard signs were stolen or vandalized, Marshall Stern had had enough.  —  Stern, a Democrat who lives in Newaygo County, a historically red area in west Michigan …

CIA clamps down on flow of Russia intelligence to White House  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel and President Donald Trump attend the swearing-in ceremony for Haspel as CIA director May 21, 2018, in Langley, Va. |  The CIA has made it harder for intelligence about Russia to reach …

The Election That Could Break America … There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11.  As November 3 approaches …

Scoop: Meadows puts agencies on notice about staff shake-up  —  White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told administration officials Monday to expect senior aides to be replaced at many government agencies, according to an internal email obtained by Axios.  —  Behind the scenes …

Colorado Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Democrat  —  With a Supreme Court nominee now all but certain to be confirmed by the GOP-controlled Senate this year (either before or after the election), it looks like there will only be two defections from Republican ranks — Maine Sen. Susan Collins …

Foreign Actors and Cybercriminals Likely to Spread Disinformation Regarding 2020 Election Results  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to raise awareness of the potential threat posed …

Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to federal contractors  —  President Trump on Tuesday extended his administration's ban on training involving race- and sex-based discrimination to include federal contractors, doubling down on an issue to appeal to his base, and white voters in particular.

US House passes forced labour bill that would bar Xinjiang imports  —  The legislation, which now goes to the Senate, would require any importer of Xinjiang-sourced products to prove they were not made using forced labour The bill, called the Uygur Forced Labour Prevention Act …

Reopening Colleges Likely Fueled Covid-19 Significantly, Study Finds  —  Research suggests in-person classes led to thousands of additional cases each day in the U.S.  —  Colleges and universities that reopened for face-to-face instruction might have caused tens of thousands of additional cases …

Five Things Biden and His Allies Should Be Worried About  —  Interestingly, the suburban vote may not be one of them.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  There are at least five reasons Joe Biden's consistent lead …

Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”  —  Thirty years ago, the philosopher Judith Butler, now 64, published a book that revolutionised popular attitudes on gender.  Gender Trouble, the work she is perhaps best known for, introduced ideas of gender as performance.

In apparent play for QAnon supporters, GOP attack ads claim Democrat lawmakers are defending ‘sex offenders’  —  WASHINGTON — The ad couldn't sound more ominous.  As darkened images of quiet suburban neighborhoods roll on the screen, a woman's voice delivers a scary message: “On every street …

Trump Says Reporters Covering Protests Deserve to Be Attacked  —  At his rally Tuesday night, President Trump delivered an extended riff on the glories of police attacking journalists.  First, he repeated a mangled version of a story that he told this weekend, about Ali Velshi being struck …

Trump-world clashes over Barrett vs. Lagoa  —  Donald Trump's looming Supreme Court decision is dividing the president's political orbit between the pragmatists and the purists.  —  One camp is dominated by the GOP operative class overseeing the party's electoral efforts, including the president's own campaign advisers and donors.

Trump falls into the trap he set for Biden  —  Donald Trump will face Joe Biden within days for the first of three presidential debates, and some of the president's supporters are already bracing for a humiliating loss.  —  White House allies, Republican donors and some of Trump's closest advisers worry …

Scientific American's Scientifically Indefensible Biden Endorsement  —  An editorial that begins and ends with lies is, by definition, not credible and unworthy of a purportedly “scientific” journal ...  Breaking with 175 years of nonpartisan objectivity, German-owned Scientific American endorsed Joe Biden …

More voters picked Jacobs than Gómez in 53rd Congressional District, poll shows  —  But “undecideds” are 38 percent of the vote, a new 10 News/San Diego Union-Tribune poll finds  —  If “undecided” were a candidate, it would be tied for first place with Sara Jacobs …

DHS awarded $6 million in contracts to firm where Acting Secretary Wolf's wife is executive … WASHINGTON — The consulting firm where the wife of acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is an executive has been awarded more than $6 million in contracts from the Department …

Demographic shifts since 2016 could be enough to defeat Trump.  But it's complicated. … Four years ago, President Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.9 million votes and still won the White House thanks to a near-perfect geographic vote distribution that allowed him to capture big Electoral College prizes by razor-thin margins.

‘Bidin’ his time': Joe Biden battles being chronically late  —  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden was running late.  Again.  —  On a recent Friday, he'd already apologized for the delayed start to a speech, then taken more questions than expected at a subsequent press conference.

Estimated Senate seats  —  Our model is updated every day, blending the latest data on polls and fundraising with “fundamental” factors like incumbency and each state's partisan lean.  Below is a chart over time of our best estimate of the most likely number of Senate seats each party will win …