Hundreds of Trump supporters stuck in the cold for hours when buses can't reach Omaha rally  —  By the time President Trump finished speaking to thousands of supporters at Omaha's Eppley Airfield on Tuesday night and jetted away on Air Force One, the temperature had plunged to nearly freezing.

Biden Holds 8-Point Lead in Michigan as He Tries to Reconstruct the ‘Blue Wall’  —  The New York Times / Siena College poll  —  Joe Biden leads Donald Trump by eight points in Michigan, a battleground state that Mr. Trump flipped in 2016.  —  2016 result  —  NYT/Siena  —  <1 Trump  —  47.3-47.0

Biden's Path to 270 Widens, Trump's Path Narrows, as Texas Moves to Toss Up  —  Less than a week out from Election Day and President Donald Trump is playing catch-up.  In 2016, he won 30 states (and Maine's 2nd Congressional District) and their 306 electoral votes.

Jared Kushner bragged in April that Trump was taking the country ‘back from the doctors’  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April about how the President had cut out the doctors and scientists advising him on the unfolding …

Swing Toward The Democrats  —  But most voters still expect Trump to win  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Georgia's electoral votes remains very close, but Joe Biden has gained ground on Donald Trump in the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

MAGA scrambles to repair the Hunter Biden narrative  —  Weeks ago, when Rudy Giuluani first threw the contents of Hunter Biden's alleged laptop online, he promised a trove of even more damning information 10 days before the election.  —  Yet with less than a week to go, Giuliani …

Trump to strip protections from Tongass National Forest, one of the biggest intact temperate rainforests  —  President Trump will open up all 16.7 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest to logging and other forms of development, according to a notice posted Wednesday …

AOC's Next Four Years  —  The history-making congresswoman addresses her biggest critics, the challenges that loom no matter who wins, and what she's taking on next.  —  Her Republican colleagues had, up until then, been civil.  But one day in late July, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stood …

Russian in Cyprus Was Behind Key Parts of Discredited Dossier on Trump  —  A Wall Street Journal investigation points to the identity of ‘Source 3’ as a disgruntled PR executive with a ‘vast network’ of sources  —  in Washington and David Gauthier-Villars  —  In the nearly four years since …

The Stench of Trump's Racism Will Cling to His Enablers Forever  —  A month ago, President Trump added to his rally speech a new riff about Ilhan Omar, expressing indignation that the Democratic member of Congress would dare to express opinions about American government.

Trump's attacks on political adversaries are often followed by threats to their safety  —  The CIA's most endangered employee for much of the past year was not an operative on a mission abroad, but an analyst who faced a torrent of threats after filing a whistleblower report that led to the impeachment of President Trump.

How Biden's lead is different from Clinton's — and why the polls are different this time  —  Sound familiar?  —  On the surface, there's a lot about the 2020 presidential race that looks like the 2016 contest, when Trump shocked expectations, pollsters, and the media.  He might yet do it again.

Lev Parnas's Business Associate David Correia, Fraud Guarantee Co-Founder with Giuliani Ties, Will Plead Guilty  —  David Correia, a business associate of impeachment figure Lev Parnas who did business with Rudy Giuliani in the company Fraud Guarantee, plans to plead guilty on Thursday morning on unspecified charges.

The GOP's monstrous math problem  —  Republicans, win or lose next week, face a big — and growing — math problem.  —  The state of play: They're relying almost exclusively on a shrinking demographic (whites), living in shrinking areas (small, rural towns), creating a reliance on people …

Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats … Oath Keepers militia leader Stewart Rhodes said members of his militia will be at polling locations on Election Day to “protect” Trump voters during an appearance on far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' program.

How Far Might Trump Go?  —  No one is quite sure.  —  Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.  —  On election night and the days that follow, the country may be in for a roller-coaster ride, with ups and downs that raise and dash expectations …

2020 Election Preview: Bracing for History  —  By Nathan L. Gonzales & Jacob Rubashkin  —  No matter what happens, the 2020 elections will be historic.  With impeachment, a pandemic, economic crisis, a national conversation about racism, and the death of a Supreme Court icon …

'I'm Absolutely Expecting Him to Do Something Weird': How Trump Could End His Presidency  —  As we count down the days to Election Day, the pundit class is wringing its hands in worry over whether President Donald Trump will accept a possible win by Joe Biden and agree to leave the White House.

A guard asked two sisters to put on a mask.  They stabbed him 27 times instead, prosecutors say.  —  When Jessica Hill and her sister, Jayla, tried to walk into a shoe store in Chicago on Sunday, a security guard asked the pair to put on masks and use store-provided hand sanitizer.

Wall Street spent over $74 million to back Joe Biden's run for president, topping Trump's haul  — People employed in the securities and investment industry will finish the 2020 election cycle contributing a notch above $74 million toward Biden's candidacy, according to new data from the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics

Blackburn asks Google if employee who criticized her still has a job  —  Sen. Marsha Blackburn used a Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday to ask about the employment status of a Google engineer whose criticism of the Tennessee Republican has become fodder for right-wing media outlets over the past two years.

QAnon and a Rape Joke Spell Trouble for Republican Congressman in Florida … The Republican Party has engaged in a delicate dance with the sprawling movement known as QAnon, exploiting the energy behind it where possible, while working to keep a safe public distance elsewhere.

Mnuchin's awkward encounter with former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin's daughter  —  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was confronted by Yitzhak Rabin's daughter last week after a speech on the Arab-Israeli peace process in which he seemed to overlook the role of the late Israeli prime minister.

Democratic Senate candidates have ad spending advantage in nearly every competitive race  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic Senate candidates have outspent Republicans in TV and radio ad spending in nearly every competitive Senate race, according to data from Advertising Analytics.

Eight Individuals Charged With Conspiring to Act as Illegal Agents of the People's Republic of China  —  PRC Officials Directed Multi-Year Campaign of Harassment and Stalking; Directed at U.S. Residents to Force Their Return to PRC  —  A complaint and arrest warrants were unsealed today …