READ: Trump lawyer's memo on six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election  —  (CNN)John Eastman, a conservative lawyer working with then-President Donald Trump's legal team, outlined in a two-page memo a scheme to try to persuade then-Vice President Mike Pence to subvert the Constitution …

Dems fear Biden's domestic agenda could implode  —  Internal Democratic discord has wounded President Joe Biden's massive social spending plan, raising the prospect that the package could stall out, shrink dramatically — or even fail altogether.  —  Myriad problems have arisen.

Where are the tests?  —  Your daughter wakes up with a scratchy throat, and you can't decide whether she should go to school.  —  You can't shake a runny nose and start wondering whether it's really because of allergies.  —  You're planning a family gathering, but you are nervous about your aging parents being there.

Iowa Poll: 62% of Iowans disapprove of the job Joe Biden is doing as president  —  Fewer than one third of Iowans approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as president, a steep drop from earlier this year.  —  Thirty-one percent of Iowans approve of how Biden is handling his job …

DHS chief pushes back on claim whips used against Haitian migrants  —  Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas denied Monday that Border Patrol agents used whips to prevent Haitian migrants from crossing the Rio Grande to reach an encampment set up under a Texas bridge where thousands of other migrants have gathered.

Two GOP operatives indicted for allegedly routing money from Russian national to support Trump campaign  —  A political strategist who was pardoned by the former president after being convicted in a 2012 campaign finance scheme is facing new charges related to an alleged 2016 plot …

Google to Buy New York City Office Building for $2.1 Billion  —  Manhattan deal is priciest sale of a U.S. office building since pandemic began  —  Google said it is buying a Manhattan office building for $2.1 billion, one of the clearest signals yet of Big Tech's growing appetite for office space …

Gov. Greg Abbott signs more Texas abortion restrictions, penalties into law  —  The law, set to go into effect in December, could further restrict access to abortion-inducing medication.  —  AUSTIN — A bill adding more restrictions and raising criminal penalties for the use …

Democrats Begin Effort to Curb Post-Trump Presidential Powers  —  But to appeal to Republicans, a bill being introduced in the House to impose checks on executive authority may be broken into pieces in the Senate.  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats are planning to introduce a package of proposed …

Oregon House Republicans furious after redistricting committee changes during special session  —  House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, reneged on a deal Monday that gave House Republicans equal representation on the chamber's redistricting committee in an attempt to pass new congressional district maps …

US was better with President Trump than with President Biden  —  President Joe Biden was supposed to bring welcome change from Donald Trump.  He was going to be the “nice guy” president.  He was not going to lie.  He was going to be competent and respected.

Democrats release debt ceiling bill that funds government through Dec. 3  —  House Democrats unveiled legislation on Tuesday that would keep the federal government funded through Dec. 3 and suspend the debt limit into next year, as the deadlines to avert both crises loom in a matter of days.

The Middle-Aged Sadness Behind the Cancel Culture Panic  —  “The Chair,” a Netflix comic drama about academia starring Sandra Oh, turns on a particularly absurd and unfair cancellation.  In the first episode Bill, a onetime superstar English professor who's falling apart after the death of his wife …

Jeff Bezos pledges $1 billion to protect 30 percent of the Earth's land and sea  —  Bezos's large donations are transforming climate philanthropy — even as Amazon's cloud-computing business and shipping operations have a significant carbon footprint  —  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos earmarked $1 billion …

Rubin Is Not Good for the Jennifers  —  Jennifer Rubin is not an ideologue.  She is an emotive teenager.  —  A Marxist, for instance, is someone with a deadly serious worldview.  Rubin, the Washington Post columnist, is a middle-schooler picking her favorite and most hated boy bands.

Tucker Bizarrely Claims Military Vax Mandate Is Plot to Root Out ‘Men With High Testosterone’  —  “The point of mandatory vaccination is to identify the sincere Christians in the ranks,” Carlson added.  “It's a takeover of the U.S. military!”  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson continued …

Eric Trump Signs Up to Hype Daddy's Record at Anti-Vax Event  —  Eric Trump said the vaccine push during his dad's tenure could end up “one of the greatest accomplishments of any president in history.”  His hosts called it a “SHOT OF POISON!”  —  Donald Trump's son Eric Trump will give …

Dem plot to ‘Steele’ the White House: Anatomy of a political dirty trick  —  There is a long game and a short game going on in special counsel John Durham's indictment of Democratic Party lawyer Michael Sussmann on a false-statements count.  —  The short of it is this …

Kent Co. health director tells commissioners after almost being run off the road: ‘I need help’  —  Email details abuse after department issued school mask mandate  —  After a woman attempted to run Kent County Health Department director Adam London off the road just hours after he issued …

Federal Govt Whistleblower Goes Public with Secret Recordings: 'Government Doesn't Want to Show the [COVID] Vaccine is Full of Sh*t'; ‘Shove’ Adverse Effect Reporting ‘Under the Mat’  — Dr. Maria Gonzales, ER Doctor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: “All this is bullshit.

Rule-Breaking Elites Let the Mask Slip on COVID Protocols  —  It turns out that all those onerous health-and-safety requirements were only for the regular people this whole time.  —  ay what you will about the WASPs of old; at least they tried to keep up appearances.  Our current set of carriage-trade elects?

Trumpists Don't Need Rallies Anymore  —  A pro-Trump protest at the Capitol flopped.  What if the former president's movement doesn't need insurrections anymore?  —  In the days leading to Sept. 18, federal officials warned that violence was a possibility in the area around the United States Capitol.

‘Private Funding’ Fueled Nazis in Charlottesville: Lawsuit  —  A lawsuit brought by the victims of violence at Charlotteville's hate rally has exposed how white supremacists paid for their activities.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Organizers of a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally had “private funding …

Billionaire Leon Black Allegedly Raped a Woman in Epstein's New York Mansion, New Legal Documents Claim  —  The woman, identified in the documents as “Jane Doe,” says Black brutally assaulted her in the third-floor massage room of Jeffrey Epstein's townhouse in 2002.  “Complete fiction,” says Black's spokesperson.

Bill Maher, Isiah Thomas score over the NFL's playing of ‘Black national anthem’  —  “I saw last night on the football game, Alicia Keys sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing,’ which now I hear is called the ‘Black national anthem.’ Now, maybe we should get rid of our national anthem, but I think we should have one national anthem.