Documents at Mar-a-Lago Were Moved and Hidden as U.S. Sought Them, Filing Suggests  —  The filing by the Justice Department paints the clearest picture to date of its efforts to retrieve documents from the former president's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sought …

Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91  —  Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the U.S.S.R.

Charlie Crist resigns from Congress as campaign for governor heats up  —  Democratic U.S. Rep. Crist has been representing Pinellas County in Congress since 2016.  —  U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, is resigning early from Congress …

US Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback  —  The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting American Indian and Native Alaskan communities particularly hard.  —  The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021 …

West Point Has a K.K.K. Plaque Mounted Above Entrance to Science Hall  —  A special congressional commission that recommends the removal of Confederate symbols at U.S. military sites flagged the bronze plaque in a new report.  —  For decades, the students at the U.S. Military Academy …

Is Dr. Oz done?  Republicans still see a path to a comeback against Fetterman  —  Mehmet Oz remains behind John Fetterman in the race for Pennsylvania's open U.S. Senate seat 10 weeks until Election Day.  —  But Republicans now see seeds for a potential rebound against the Democratic front-runner …

Inside the novel voting system that could sink Palin's comeback bid  —  Alaska's experiment with ranked choice elections will determine whether Sarah Palin becomes a member of Congress on Wednesday — and advocates of the system are already plotting where to expand it next.

Digital Revenue Dies in Drumpfness  —  How the Washington Post tripped over the Trump trap (and the New York Times did not)  —  When Wordle was for sale earlier this year, I figured the buyer would be the Washington Post or the Wall Street Journal.  My reasoning was that the Times already …

Democrats emphasize Herschel Walker's threats against ex-wife in new Georgia ad  —  Democrats are escalating their attacks on Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker with a new television ad that calls attention to the violent episodes in Walker's past.

A device that can turn a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun in moments is wreaking havoc on American streets  —  The number of shootings involving automatic weapons in the US has skyrocketed in recent years, suggesting a troubling resurgence in the use of machine guns by criminals …

Real Money, Fake Musicians: Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram …

Ex-Federal Prosecutor: Trump's Attorneys Need To Lawyer Up After New DOJ Filing  —  Andrew Weissmann said if he were advising Trump's attorneys, he'd tell them to “stop talking” and “get the best defense counsel you can possibly get.”  —  A former federal prosecutor suggested …

MLB's Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions  —  At least 20 teams have promoted or funded groups that advocate or are directly involved in child gender transitions, an NR analysis finds.  —  Like most of the nation's major sports leagues, Major League Baseball (MLB) has embraced a number of left-wing causes in recent years.

Republicans in key races scrap online references to Trump, abortion  —  Attempts by GOP candidates in competitive contests to pivot away from these issues have emboldened Democrats to mount an aggressive offense  —  Yesli Vega, a Republican running for the U.S. House in a competitive Virginia district …

Maria Bartiromo will be deposed in defamation case against Fox News  —  Maria Bartiromo will be the next Fox News star to appear for a deposition in Dominion Voting Systems' defamation case against the network over its airing of false claims made about the company during 2020 presidential election coverage.

MIGOP restricting access to Capitol lawn for rally raises 1st Amendment issues, experts say  —  Capitol Commission vice chair would vote to deny permits if attempted again  —  The Michigan Republican Party held a rally on the Capitol lawn Saturday — but not everyone was welcome at the festivities on public land.