Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …

Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …

Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …

Covid and Age  —  An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.  —  Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry.

What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized  —  New images show what areas of the world can be saved or lost if carbon emissions aren't curbed  —  The land on which 10% of the world's population lives could be lost to sea level rise if carbon emission trends continue, new maps and visualizations show.

Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter  —  Rep. Liz Cheney's House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune.  The donations came on the heels of Cheney's all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.

Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …

The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech  —  The message is clear: if you exercise your First Amendment rights for a cause that those in power have not approved, you will be targeted.  —  A third round of subpoenas issued last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee …

Loudoun County Schools Tried To Conceal Sexual Assault Against Daughter In Bathroom, Father Says  —  On June 22, Scott Smith was arrested at a Loudoun County, Virginia, school board meeting, a meeting that was ultimately deemed an “unlawful assembly” after many attendees vocally opposed a policy on transgender students.

The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens  —  You're reading an excerpt from the Today's WorldView newsletter.  Sign up to get the rest, including news from around the globe, interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday.  —  Toward the end of last month …

Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …

Obama to campaign for Virginia Democrats ahead of off-year elections  —  Terry McAuliffe to Democrats: Get it done, do your job  —  (CNN)Former President Barack Obama will campaign for Terry McAuliffe and Virginia Democrats ahead of the November elections, the gubernatorial nominee announced on Tuesday.

Kim Jong-un displays “invincible” weapons  —  The diminutive dictator of North Korea is back up to his old tricks this week.  Kim Jong-un released video of his tour of a number of strategic weapons yesterday, something that he hasn't done in quite a while.  He gave a speech accusing …

The Little-Known Power Brokers at the Federal Reserve  —  Individual senior staffers play a huge role, and may explain the Fed's insularity and governance problems.  —  Michelle Smith hands out copies of Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's speech to reporters at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, August 2012.

‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push  —  During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story.  —  For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …

I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.  I'm asking them to stop telling *the same* trans jokes over and over.  —  How many variations on “I identify as...” do we need in this world?  —  To be entirely honest, I didn't know Dave Chappelle had a new stand-up special out until …

Texas Gov. Abbott issues order banning Covid vaccination mandates in rebuke of Biden  —  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday prohibiting any entity, including private businesses, from imposing Covid-19 vaccination requirements on employees or customers.

Large Majorities Across Parties Favor Allowing the Federal Government to Negotiate Drug Prices, Even After Hearing Common Arguments About It  —  Few Buy Argument that Drug Makers Have to Charge High Prices to Invest in Research into New Drugs  —  Most of the Public Lacks Confidence that President Biden …

Schiff calls House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy an ‘insurrectionist in a suit and tie’  —  (CNN)Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Tuesday referred to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as an “insurrectionist in a suit and tie,” as he slammed the House Republican leader for having “absolutely no reverence for the truth.”

Sally Rooney turns down Israeli translation on political grounds  —  The writer has refused to sell Hebrew translation rights to her latest novel Beautiful World, Where Are You due to her stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict  —  Sally Rooney has turned down an offer from the Israeli publisher …

Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination  —  aDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;  —  bUniversity of Virginia Equity Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;

EPA head says he'll act on climate even if Congress doesn't  —  Hello and welcome to the very first edition of The Climate 202!  🎉 I'm Maxine Joselow, a veteran climate reporter, and I'm excited to meet you in your inbox every morning.  As always, feel free to reach out with tips and feedback.

Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots  —  The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.  —  Vaccinated people have been burning …

Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden is losing COVID trust  —  Americans' trust in President Biden has eroded as they've slowed their expectations for how quickly they can get back to their pre-pandemic lives, according to the latest installment of the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index.

Biden's policies impact millions of Americans who don't know it  —  New polling shows a majority of people don't know who's responsible for the financial aid that came from President Biden's American Rescue Plan - legislation that received zero Republican support.

Another Facebook whistleblower says she is willing to testify before Congress  —  San Francisco (CNN Business)Sophie Zhang, who said she felt like she had “blood on her hands” after working at Facebook, is willing to testify before Congress about her former employer, she told CNN Sunday.

Clear Differences Remain Between France and U.S., French Minister Says  —  Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says the two countries remain at odds over China and various security issues, even if they had effectively cooperated on overhauling the international tax system.

Kamala Harris's NASA video featured child actors  —  The first installment of Vice President Kamala Harris's YouTube Originals space series featured child actors who auditioned for their roles in the project.  —  Trevor Bernardino, a 13-year-old actor from Carmel, California …

Restoring America  —  America is going wrong.  That is the stark but necessary starting point for this editorial.  Many people know it to be true; they can feel our politics and culture turning ever more sour, taste the bitter reality of national decline.  —  But fewer people acknowledge it …