In fiery midterm speech, Biden says GOP's turned toward ‘semi-fascism’  —  It was some of the strongest language used by Biden, a politician long known — and at times criticized for — his willingness to work with members of the opposite party  —  President Biden on Thursday night launched …

Inside Trump's public bravado and private resistance over Mar-a-Lago documents  —  Not long after the National Archives acknowledged in February that it had retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, Trump began fielding calls …

Dr. Oz shifts strategy as campaign ails  —  PHILADELPHIA — Mehmet Oz sees an opening to rescue his floundering Senate campaign: After largely refraining from making his opponent's health an issue, the celebrity doctor has decided to go there.  —  Oz's Democratic opponent, John Fetterman …

Democrats in tough races distance themselves from Biden's student loans decision  —  CLEVELAND — When President Joe Biden announced student loan debt relief this week, his allies celebrated.  —  But a string of Democrats in tight races across the country want little to do with it.

In Arizona, Blake Masters backtracks on abortion and scrubs his campaign website  —  Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters softened his tone and scrubbed his website's policy page of tough abortion restrictions Thursday as his party reels from the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Jared Kushner's memoir is only inadvertently revealing  —  All memoirs are self-serving — it's just a matter of degree.  But Jared Kushner's memoir, “Breaking History,” is, at its core, an extended news release that exists primarily to exculpate its author after his role …

Flip the Script  —  Earlier this cycle, a seasoned Democratic strategist argued that his party's success in the midterms wouldn't be predicated on policy successes but by turning out the 2018/2020 coalition of anti-Trump voters.  This strategy, however, of trying to turn the midterms …

Trump Golf Course in New York City Will Host Saudi-Backed Event  —  The Aramco Team Series women's event, separate from the LIV Golf tour that upended the PGA Tour, will be held at Trump Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx in October.  —  A New York City-owned golf course managed …

Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families  —  The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.  —  Sandy Hook victims' families asked a federal bankruptcy court on Thursday to order …

How Fracking Billionaires, Ben Shapiro, and PragerU Built a Climate Crisis-Denial Empire  —  PragerU and the Daily Wire, two of the internet's biggest spreaders of climate crisis denial, got seed money from two ultra-religious fracking brothers from Texas.  —  GD

Trump's social media app facing financial fallout  —  Truth Social's finances may be in significant disarray, sources say  —  Rove says Trump's demand for special review not ‘likely’ to happen  —  Former President Donald Trump's social media outfit, Truth Social, is locked in a bitter battle …

Newly released memo to Barr was just cover for exonerating Trump  —  In response to a court order, the Justice Department has released a 2019 internal memorandum to then-Attorney General William P. Barr concerning whether the evidence gathered by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …

With Plant Offline, Humanitarian Woes Add to Nuclear Fears … The Zaporizhzhia plant remains disconnected from the national power grid, leaving people without power.  —  KYIV, Ukraine — With Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant still disconnected from the national power grid on Friday morning …

Biden's Job Rating Rises to 44%, Highest in a Year  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — After hitting a record low in July, President Joe Biden's job approval rating is up six percentage points to 44%, his highest in a year.  While this uptick represents a significant improvement on the heels …

Trump campaign rejected offer to buy Biden daughter's diary  —  Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign rejected an offer to buy President Biden's daughter's stolen diary, federal prosecutors say.  —  Why it matters: The revelation comes amid a criminal investigation into how the diary …

DC Mayor Says No Virtual Learning, Giving Unvaccinated Black Teens Zero Alternative Options  —  The District of Columbia does not appear to have a contingency plan for unvaccinated students, who are banned from attending schools in person this fall after the first 20 days …

The iceman cometh: Biden creates an Arctic ambassador  —  President Joe Biden plans to establish a new ambassador-at-large position focused on the Arctic region, an area of growing geostrategic concern to the United States — as well as Russia and China.  —  The decision will be unveiled …

Tesla Supplier Panasonic Plans Additional $4 Billion EV Battery Plant in U.S.  —  Oklahoma is top contender for new site after Kansas won earlier investment  —  Taking Apart an EV Battery Illustrates Why ‘Made in America’ Will Be Tough  —  Created with sketchtool.

The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis  —  Did America produce too many frustrated college graduates in the 2000s and 2010s?  —  “We're talented and bright/ We're lonely and uptight/ We've found some lovely ways/ To disappoint” — The Weakerthans  —  Here's an eye-opening bit of data …

Removal of 327 Books with LGBTQ+ Themes by TN School District Is “Heartbreaking” Censorship  —  Removed Books Include Titles By Notable Authors Rick Riordan, Audre Lorde  —  (NEW YORK) - The literary and free speech organization PEN America is raising the alarm about Tennessee's Collierville …

Endangered Democrat turns to abortion as opening argument on TV  —  Endangered Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) is going on air Friday with a TV ad focusing on abortion rights — the latest sign that a growing number of swing-district Democrats view it as a winning issue in the fall.

Castro shops won't pay taxes unless San Francisco addresses crime and homelessness  —  Castro merchants say they won't pay taxes unless SF addresses crime and homelessness  —  Castro merchants say they won't pay taxes unless SF addresses crime and homelessness.

Mark Meadows ordered to testify in Fulton County probe of Trump election overturn efforts  —  The Atlanta-area grand jury investigating Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election is demanding testimony from Trump's former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, about his involvement in the effort.

Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan FBI warned Facebook of ‘Russian propaganda’ before Hunter Biden laptop story  —  Mark Zuckerberg defended Facebook's actions in limiting the reach of the Hunter Biden laptop story  —  Hunter Biden laptop repairman calls out FBI's double standard after Trump raid

Lydia and the Vlads  —  An Estonian's changing relationship with Russia.  —  When I lived in the Estonian capital of Tallinn in the mid-'90s, I worked at a university called Eesti Humanitaarinstituut (the “Estonian Institute of Humanities").  This was the Estonian version of a Dream Academy …

When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home  —  After an investment firm bought St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, in Richmond, Virginia, the company reduced staff, removed amenities, and set the stage for a deadly outbreak of COVID-19.  —  When St. Joseph's Home for the Aged …

BACK INTO THE MATRIX  —  There is a moment in the 1999 film The Matrix when Joe Pantoliano's character Cypher Reagan asks to be reinserted into the simulation that consumed almost all human life on Earth.  “Ignorance is bliss...re-insert me into the Matrix.  I'll get you what you want.”

Fetterman Opposes School Vouchers for the Poor.  He Sends His Kids To One Of PA's Priciest Prep Schools.  —  Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) opposes vouchers that let children in failing public school districts attend private and charter schools.