MAGA Republicans are seething with rage because Biden hit his target  —  Republicans are in a rage over President Biden's speech in Philadelphia, in which he flatly declared that the American democratic experiment is in serious danger due to Donald Trump and the Republicans who remain allied with his political project.

Trump search inventory released, reveals new details on docs  —  FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump's Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.

Farewell to Hot Air  —  Last night I got to thinking about how many posts I've written for Hot Air.  I've looked at the total before but it never sticks in my mind.  Big numbers seldom do.  —  My guess was 15,000.  The reality: 36,590.  That's six per day, every day.  For 16 years.

Putin declines to honor Gorbachev with state funeral  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's funeral and will not designate it a state funeral, the Kremlin announced on Thursday.  —  The Kremlin's top spokesman said that Putin's …

Labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, a bright spot in the economy  —  A stellar 20 consecutive months of sustained job growth more than recovered the millions of jobs lost during the pandemic  —  The U.S. labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, hitting a 20-month streak …

A Mar-a-Lago Showdown in Federal Court  —  It is 1:07 p.m. ET at the federal courthouse in Palm Beach, Florida, and it's time for the first big courtroom showdown between former President Trump and federal prosecutors over the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.  —  Judge Aileen Cannon enters the courtroom …

The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors  —  Almost half of humanities and arts majors regret their choice — and enrollment in those disciplines is shrinking rapidly  —  Nearly 2 in 5 American adults have major regrets.  —  That is, they regret their college major.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner: Gun jams during bid to kill Argentina vice-president  —  Argentina's vice-president has narrowly avoided assassination after a gunman's weapon jammed as he aimed at her.  —  Footage shows the moment Cristina Fernández de Kirchner found herself face-to-face with the loaded weapon.

Don't Believe the Generals  —  A T-shirt that was popular with veterans for much of America's nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed a helicopter in flight with the caption We Were Winning When I Left.  U.S. generals seem to be the only ones who didn't get the joke.

Trump's Tastes in Intelligence: Power and Leverage  —  President Donald J. Trump's interests during classified briefings have a new resonance amid the Justice Department's criminal investigation into his handling of sensitive documents.  —  WASHINGTON — As president, Donald J. Trump showed …

There's no bad time to get a new COVID booster if you're eligible, CDC director says  —  Americans will now have access to updated COVID booster shots after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on reformulated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Thursday night.

How Trump Taught Everybody to Be Obnoxious and Cruel  —  The closing days of summer have yielded a crop of new contenders for the next edition of the Anthology of American Insult.  —  There was the Arizona Republican Party, in a Twitter post apparently intended to be humorous …

Trump Embraces Conspiracy Theories He Only Winked at Before  —  The former president's activity on his social network, Truth Social, openly promotes far-right and conspiratorial ideas that are usually confined to corners of the internet.  —  In a 24-hour period this week …

How To Stay Out Of The Right-Wing Outrage Machine  —  On Monday, at around 10:30 a.m., Slate courts and law reporter Mark Joseph Stern tweeted a link to a document concerning an upcoming Supreme Court case.  In a reply to his tweet, another journalist asked him about how he found it.

Top Med Schools Weed Out DEI-Skeptical Applicants, New Report Finds  —  The best medical schools in the country are weeding out applicants who are insufficiently devoted to the leftist creed of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), according to a new report released by the non-profit Do No Harm.