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 …

Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy  —  If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy  —  A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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.

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 …

U.S. Embassy Staff in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Blinken Visit  —  U.S. official said there were at least two known cases of the mysterious neurological affliction  —  The U.S. Embassy in Colombia is investigating several cases of the mysterious neurological affliction known …

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” …

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.

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.

A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage  —  4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce.  —  The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …

Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister  —  Nothing in my 30-year diplomatic career prepared me for this Trump administration event  —  In mid-May of 2017, Robert Lighthizer, the new U.S. trade representative, came to Vietnam for an APEC ministerial-level meeting.

House Budget Committee Chair John Yarmuth announces he won't seek re-election  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Kentucky, chairman of the powerful House Budget Committee, will announce Tuesday that he won't seek re-election in 2022, NBC News has learned.

Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” … To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.

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 …

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 …

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,” …

A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …

Prince Charles says his Aston Martin runs on wine and cheese byproducts  —  Prince Charles says that his Aston Martin runs on environmentally friendly cheese waste and surplus white wine, the BBC reported.  —  The car — given as a 21st birthday gift almost 51 years ago …

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;

Biden taps veteran diplomat as new point person for Afghan relocation efforts  —  The Biden administration is tapping Elizabeth Jones to be its new coordinator for Afghan relocation efforts, the State Department announced Tuesday.  —  Jones, a veteran diplomat who served as the ambassador …

Lincoln Project creates mock AT&T ad promoting the company's funding of ‘white nationalist’ on OAN  —  The Lincoln Project just released a video of a mock AT&T commercial bragging about their phone service while funding white nationalist hosts at the far-right network OAN.

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.

Republicans Are Rehabilitating the Participants in Trump's Attempted Coup The campaign to defend John Eastman.  —  Last week, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee published their report on new revelations into Donald Trump's efforts to discard the election results and remain in power.

Franklin Graham Is Secretly Bankrolling the National Prayer Breakfast  —  One of a series about the Fellowship Foundation, the secretive religious group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast and is popularly known as The Family.  This series is based on Family documents obtained by TYT …

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 …

Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core  —  By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue.  For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …

Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won  —  PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming that he won, the former reality-show host has confirmed.  —  Speaking to reporters, Trump said that campaigning in 2024 would be …

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 …

Popular-ism and the Democratic Messaging Deficit  —  The raging debate over what Democrats should say ignores the fact that people aren't hearing what we are saying.  —  Ever since Donald Trump came disturbingly close to defeating Joe Biden, an online and offline debate continues …

Marist New York State Poll: Governor Hochul Approval, October 2021  —  Governor Kathy Hochul: So Far New Yorkers Approve, But No Guarantees for 2022  —  Fifty days after being sworn in, New York Governor Kathy Hochul enjoys positive support from state residents.