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 …

Mayorkas says he was ‘horrified’ by images of horse-mounted Border Patrol agents confronting Haitian migrants  —  Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday that he was “horrified” by images of horse-mounted Border Patrol agents attempting to grab Haitian migrants and use …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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.

Apple Is Working on iPhone Features to Help Detect Depression, Cognitive Decline  —  Company is working with UCLA, Biogen to see if sensitive data like facial expressions, typing metrics could signal mental-health concerns  —  Apple Inc. is working on technology to help diagnose depression …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

‘Devastating’: Florida Republicans worried about 2022 as they crafted election law  —  TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republicans this spring insisted a contentious new election law curtailing access to ballot boxes was needed to prevent electoral fraud.  It was not, they said, an attempt to gain a partisan advantage.