How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans  —  The campaign arm of Senate Republicans had collected $181.5 million by the end of July — but spent 95 percent of it.  A big investment in digital, and hyperaggressive tactics, have not paid off.  —  It was early 2021, and Senator Rick Scott wanted to go big.

How Many Of ‘Her Emails’ Were Classified?  Actually, Zero  —  Nearly every day fresh revelations emerge in the federal investigation of the national security and presidential records that Donald Trump purloined from the White House.  So far, his alibis have been exposed one after another as empty …

What the F.B.I. Seized From Mar-a-Lago, Illustrated  —  A court filing unsealed on Friday included a detailed inventory of the material that the F.B.I. removed in its Aug. 8 search of former President Donald J. Trump's office and storage area at Mar-a-Lago, his residence and private club in Florida.

CNN staffers are ‘terrified’ that new boss Chris Licht is launching a purge of the woke after Brian Stelter and John Harwood were unceremoniously fired - as network tries to win back ‘most trusted name in news’ title  — CNN staffers are afraid of a purge of woke talent following the firings …

POLITICO Playbook: How Biden's democracy speech came together  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Months ago, with the economy in flux, his legislative agenda adrift and his approval ratings mired in the 30s, President JOE BIDEN was ill-positioned …

Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has history of employing convicts  —  Powerful Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has welcomed at least three hard-core criminals on to his campaign and office staffs in recent years, shelling out over $100,000 in compensation to them, courtesy of taxpayers and campaign donors, records show.

Lee Zeldin trails Gov. Kathy Hochul by just 4 points, new poll finds  —  Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is closing in on incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul in New York's tightening gubernatorial race, a poll released Saturday found.  —  The survey, conducted by the independent Trafalgar Group …

Support for Legalized Abortion Grows Since Dobbs Ruling, WSJ Poll Shows  —  More than half of voters said the issue made them more likely to cast ballots in the midterm elections; majorities oppose 6-week and 15-week abortion bans  —  WASHINGTON—Voters have grown more supportive …

Biden Brings the War on Terror Home  —  President Biden in his primetime speech Thursday sure sounded like a man preparing to criminalize Trumpism.  Is the White House expanding the great policy error of our time?  —  He looked shaky as he hobbled onstage Thursday night …

THE FBI SEIZED NO BOXES WITH PRESS CLIPPINGS THAT POSTDATE NOVEMBER 2020 THE FBI SEIZED NO BOXES WITH PRESS CLIPPINGS THAT POSTDATE NOVEMBER 2020  —  As I noted in this post, the government wrote their May 11 subpoena to cover all government records in Trump's possession …

Trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in GOP as double-edged sword  —  Republican campaigns hope rallies, robo-calls and virtual appearances by the former president can boost excitement in the party base without turning off moderates and independents  —  Donald Trump's political advisers …

Pastor Timothy Keller Speaks to the Head and the Heart  —  The founder of New York's Redeemer Presbyterian Church preaches conservative Christianity to a cosmopolitan flock … As a first-year student at Bucknell University in 1968, Rev. Timothy Keller began having doubts about his faith.

Women Are So Fired Up to Vote, I've Never Seen Anything Like It  —  I've watched Americans in recent years acclimate to some very grim realities.  Especially since the ascension of Donald Trump, numerous tragedies and extreme policies have been met with little political consequence …

How Trump's promised perks for Jan. 6 rioters could help form the next mob  —  Former President Donald Trump is all but certain to run for president again.  And he's sending increasingly clear signals that he'd like to form another Jan. 6-style mob to help him secure the White House.

A Chesapeake Bay lighthouse is up for auction.  So far, no one has bid on it.  —  Nobody wants it.  —  Not the nonprofits or preservationists.  Not education agencies or community development groups or fishermen or lighthouse enthusiasts.  —  Maybe that's because the price …