Trump's D.C. hotel made millions from foreign governments but still struggled, federal documents show  —  Hundreds of pages of the hotel's financial documents show that the federally leased hotel lost $71 million while Trump was in office  —  Donald Trump's luxury Washington hotel lost …

David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don't Want to Hear  —  President Biden's agenda is in peril.  Democrats hold a bare 50 seats in the Senate, which gives any member of their caucus the power to block anything he or she chooses, at least in the absence of Republican support.

Manchin to Schumer: Your speech was “f*****g stupid”  —  Just how badly has Senate control undermined Democratic unity?  And how far will it go?  Punchbowl reports this morning that four different sources say that Joe Manchin confronted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

De Blasio to Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted and Talented Program  —  The mayor unveiled a plan to replace the highly selective program, which has become a glaring symbol of segregation in New York City public schools, for incoming students.  It will be up to his successor to implement it.

The Nobel Peace Prize 2021  —  Announcement  —  The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.

Son of Afghanistan's Former Defense Minister Buys $20.9 Million Beverly Hills Mansion  —  He already owns a $5.2 million Miami Beach condo at the prestigious St. Regis Bal Harbour resort, but Daoud Wardak apparently also wants a West Coast outpost.  To that end, he's heading for Beverly Hills …

September's jobs creation comes up short with gain of just 194,000  — Nonfarm payrolls increased by 194,000 in September, compared with the Dow Jones estimate for 500,000.  — The unemployment rate dropped to 4.8%, better than the expected 5.1%.  — Leisure and hospitality along …

The Truth According to Kari Lake  —  The MAGA candidate for governor of Arizona believes some strange things.  —  The candidate Donald Trump endorsed to be the next governor of Arizona made a big show of quitting the job she held for decades as the face of Phoenix's Fox 10 news because …

Billionaire Peter Thiel has a Republican US Senate candidate on his corporate payroll who is earning more than $1 million, documents show  — Blake Masters made seven figures in salary and royalties from his work with Thiel Capital.  — Peter Thiel has given $10 million to a super PAC backing Masters' challenge of Sen. Mark Kelly.

Taliban official: At least 100 dead, wounded in Afghan blast  —  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A blast went off Friday at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said.

Defense Department warns climate change will increase conflicts over water and food  — Climate change poses a serious threat to U.S. military operations and will lead to new sources of global political conflict, the Department of Defense wrote in its new climate plan.

Ron Johnson says top 1% pay ‘fair share’ in taxes  —  A recent report showed that many billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the average person making $45,000.  —  Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a constituent on Wednesday that the very richest Americans already pay their fair share in taxes.

Trump-Loving Cousins IDed By Online Sleuths Are Arrested For Attacking Cops At Capitol  —  #MississippiFlagGuy and #KingstonAsh were identified by online sleuths back in February.  —  The FBI has arrested two cousins who attacked police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and were identified …

He Belongs To A Right-Wing Extremist Group — And Is Running To Represent Ultra-Liberal Park Slope, Brooklyn  —  Brett Wynkoop embodies many of the traits that have made his neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a stereotype of a liberal enclave.  He lives in a century-old brownstone on a leafy street …

Matthew McConaughey says politics is ‘a bag of rats’ in interview weighing run for Texas governor  —  In an interview on the Sway podcast, the Lone Star State native wavered on whether he could affect real change as a politician and called the state's abortion ban ‘juvenile in its implementation.’

The Cult of the Vaccine  —  Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of The Hill: Rising for more).  In the time it took to report and write that piece …

Biden's vaccine mandates are still in the works  —  Helloo, good morning, TGIF.  —  Below, Pfizer asks the FDA to greenlight its vaccine for kids and Texas abortion providers are wary despite a court ruling blocking the state's abortion ban.  But first:  —  Biden is defending …

Biden must apologize to the border agents he smeared  —  However he chooses to do it, Biden must address this situation  —  Biden, Harris denounce border agents after false claims of ‘whipping’ migrants  —  Two weeks ago, the Biden administration assured the nation that swift action …

The Covid Fable  —  When we treat Covid as a simple morality play, we can end up making bad predictions.  —  In the final weeks of this summer, with Covid-19 cases soaring and the rituals of autumn about to resume, many people assumed that the pandemic was on the verge of getting even worse.

The Battle of January 6th Has Just Begun  —  Nine months after the storming of the Capitol, Trump is more popular with the G.O.P. and his Big Lie is more widely believed.  —  Nine months to the day after the January 6th insurrection by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol, I received nine statements …

At the Heart of Our Divisions  —  Socialism is immoral—and it makes us hate one another.  —  The Social Order  —  Politics and law  —  We didn't need a new poll from The University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire to tell us that many Democrats see fascists …

Biden signs legislation to aid U.S. personnel suffering from ‘Havana Syndrome’  —  President Biden signed legislation Friday to provide financial aid to U.S. government personnel believed to be suffering from “Havana Syndrome,” the mysterious illness that began afflicting diplomats and intelligence officers in Cuba's capital in 2016.

Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book  —  The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is cracking down on the books teachers keep in their classroom libraries, drawing protests from educators who say the guidelines amount to censorship.

Billy Bush Says He Was Victim of Access Hollywood Tape: NBC ‘Sacrificed Me’ For ‘Their Own Political Gain’  —  Billy Bush celebrated a milestone this week: the five year anniversary of the release of the Access Hollywood tape, a day he described in an Instagram post as “the worst day of my life.”

Pence and Haley Aren't the Future of the GOP—They're Roadkill  —  DEAD ARMADILLOS  —  While they might have been formidable Republican presidential candidates in, say, 2012, the party has moved on.  —  There's a scene in The War Room, a documentary about the 1992 presidential campaign …

In disparaging Haitian migrants, Trump is done with pretending he isn't who he is  —  A few months after he took office in 2017, President Donald Trump was handed a list of visas granted by the United States that year.  He took the document (helpfully provided by aide Stephen Miller) …

Biden is tacitly endorsing Assad's normalization  —  Ever since he met President Biden at the White House in July, Jordan's King Abdullah II has been leading a rapid regional normalization of the Bashar al-Assad regime.  This runs counter to U.S.-Syria policy and counter to U.S. law.