Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film  —  Trump's personal attorney has indiscreet encounter with actor playing Borat's daughter in hotel room during pandemic  —  • This article contains spoilers about Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Trump weighs firing FBI director after election as frustration with Wray, Barr grows  —  President Trump and his advisers have repeatedly discussed whether to fire FBI Director Christopher A. Wray after Election Day — a scenario that also could imperil the tenure of Attorney General William P. Barr …

Texas In Play: Biden And Trump In A Dead Heat, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; In Pennsylvania, Biden's Lead Returns To Single Digits  —  In the home stretch of the 2020 presidential election campaign, former Vice President Joe Biden is in a tied race with President Donald Trump in the reliably red state …

Senate Democrats to boycott Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday  —  Senate Democrats plan to boycott Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's Judiciary Committee vote Thursday in an act of protest, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday.

I Should Have Worn a Mask  —  It's not a partisan or cultural symbol, not a sign of weakness or virtue.  —  For seven months I was very careful about mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.  As someone with asthma, I knew I faced heightened risk.

Feds say Russia and Iran have interfered with the presidential election  —  (CNN)Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Wednesday both Iran and Russia have obtained US voter registration information in an effort to interfere in the election, including Iran posing …

Obama: Trump emboldens people to be “cruel and divisive and racist”  —  In his first campaign rally appearance on behalf of Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama urged Americans to vote, saying “we can't afford another four years” of a Trump presidency.  —  Why it matters via Axios' Hans Nichols …

Inside the Week That Shook the Trump Campaign  —  Polls show that Trump has only partly recovered from his performance in the first debate and his management of the coronavirus at the White House  —  WASHINGTON—In the days after the first debate Sept. 29 between President …

U.S. weighs labeling leading human rights groups ‘anti-Semitic’  —  The Trump administration is considering declaring that several prominent international NGOs — including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam — are anti-Semitic and that governments should not support them, two people familiar with the issue said.

Nasa to make major announcement of ‘exciting news’ about the moon  —  Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes  —  Nasa will hold a major event to announce an “exciting new discovery” about the Moon, it has said.

Jeffrey Toobin and the m-word: Let's be honest about what makes this scandal so scandalous  —  So let's suppose Jeffrey Toobin had been caught on camera having sex with a partner instead of touching himself.  Would he be the most mocked man in the United States right now?  —  Of course not.

Trump envoy Richard Grenell met with Venezuelan politician in bid to oust Maduro: report  —  It's unclear whether the meeting was authorized.  —  Ric Grenell: Career intelligence officials lied to the American people  —  Richard Grenell, the Trump administration's special envoy for Serbia …

Wall Street donors keep their distance from cash-strapped Trump in campaign's final days  — President Donald Trump is apparently no longer considered a worthy investment for several prominent Republicans and conservatives in the finance community.  — People in the industry gave $20 million to back Trump in 2016.

Fox News Poll: Trump gains in Ohio, Biden ahead in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin  —  Donald Trump holds a narrow advantage in Ohio, while voters in the three battleground states that put him over the top in 2016 prefer Joe Biden  —  How the campaigns are preparing for presidential debate changes

The news media helps Trump avoid the stench of death  —  As President Donald Trump heads into his final sprint to Election Day, nearly every news report notes that he is running behind in the polls.  Journalists aren't shying away from describing his wilder rhetoric as “studded with lies and falsehoods.”

Around Atlanta, Many White Suburbanites Are Sticking With Trump  —  Nationwide, such voters are tilting toward Biden.  But in Georgia, the president's law-and-order message seems to be keeping the bulk of them in his column.  —  Natalie Pontius is an interior decorator, married with two children and a University of Georgia alumna.

Ex-Spy Was Central to Project Veritas Hiring Effort, Testimony Shows  —  A British former intelligence officer was said to have recruited and interviewed potential hires as the conservative group sought to have former spies train employees.  —  WASHINGTON — A British former spy recruited by Erik Prince …

Potential courtroom showdown in Trump defamation case fizzles  —  An expected courtroom showdown over the Justice Department's move to have the federal government step in for President Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit was a bust on Wednesday, after a government lawyer was denied access …

Facebook Manipulated the News You See to Appease Republicans, Insiders Say  —  For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.  —  Near the close of the first year of the Trump presidency, executives at Facebook …

‘Not a fair fight’: In Kansas, GOP frustrated as money rolls in for Democrat and Senate race tightens  —  TONGANOXIE, Kan. — In any other year, Rep. Roger Marshall would have been a slam dunk to fill the state's open Senate seat, held by Republicans since 1932.

A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview  —  William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books brought up a strange Joe Biden interview from 1974 I hadn't seen before in which Biden emerges as arrogant and determined to make more money, one way or another.  Biden also speaks of his first wife Neilia …

Biden Campaign Takes Down Ad After Struggling Bar Owner Revealed As Wealthy Tech Investor  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign took down an ad from its YouTube channel featuring a Michigan bar owner saying his business may fail because of President Donald Trump's COVID-19 response who was revealed to be a wealthy tech investor.

Pompeo's Use of Personal Email While CIA Director Highlights State Department's Failure to Produce His Emails as Secretary  —  Last week, as the president dredged up his favorite accusations about Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised to release the former secretary's emails ahead of the November election.

Supreme Court puts curbside voting on hold in Alabama  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court order that would have permitted curbside voting in Alabama in November.  —  The justices' vote was 5-3, with the court's three liberals dissenting.