‘Deeply Problematic’: Experts Question Judge's Intervention in Trump Inquiry  —  A ruling by a judge appointed by former President Donald J. Trump surprised specialists and could slow the documents investigation.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge's extraordinary decision on Monday to interject …

Russia Is Buying North Korean Artillery, According to U.S. Intelligence  —  Moscow's purchase of millions of shells and rockets from North Korea is a sign that global sanctions have hampered the Russian military's supply lines.  —  WASHINGTON — Russia is buying millions of artillery shells …

Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach  —  A Republican county official in Georgia escorted two operatives working with an attorney for former President Donald Trump into the county's election offices …

Politico's new German owner has a ‘contrarian’ plan for American media  —  Mathias Döpfner has global ambitions for what he calls a more ‘nonpartisan’ kind of journalism — even as his own politics are hard to pin down  —  BERLIN — Months after his company bought Politico …

‘Fat Leonard,’ set to finally be sentenced in long-running Navy bribery scheme, is on the lam  —  Leonard Francis, who has been under house arrest in San Diego for years, cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet on Sunday  —  The military contractor known as “Fat Leonard,” who has been under house arrest …

Deal partner for Trump's Truth Social fails to get backing for SPAC extension: Reuters, citing sources  — The blank-check acquisition firm that agreed to merge with Donald Trump's social media company failed to secure enough shareholder support for a one-year extension to complete the deal …

'They're getting killed among women': Skeptical female voters stand in way of GOP Senate  —  Republicans this election cycle thought they had finally achieved a breakthrough with suburban women after years of losing support.  —  Now, as the primary season has all but ended …

GOP Senate hopefuls look to emerge from a summer slump, but fall recriminations are already flying  —  ASHLAND, Ohio — It was a summer of crises for Republican Senate hopefuls.  —  Celebrity TV doctor Mehmet Oz stumbled in his attempts to appeal to everyday voters in Pennsylvania and squandered …

What's Causing Black Flight?  —  Where did all the Black people go?  If you live in an urban neighborhood and don't spend your free time looking at the U.S. census, you might ask yourself this question, puzzled by the dissonance between the evidence of your eyes and your vague sense that most Black people live in cities, right?

Past Pentagon leaders warn of strains on civilian-military relations  —  The Pentagon's former defense secretaries and top generals warned Tuesday that political polarization and other societal strains are creating an “exceptionally challenging” environment for maintaining …

Meta Fined $400 Million for Treatment of Children's Data on Instagram  —  Irish regulators said Instagram violated European data protection rules.  It was the latest move by authorities in Europe and the U.S. related to child protection online.  —  LONDON — Meta was fined roughly $400 million …

Democrats weigh same-sex marriage vote in pre-election sprint  —  Susan Collins believes the Senate is on the cusp of enshrining same-sex marriage protections.  And she doesn't want to wait until after the election.  —  “My impression is that the majority leader is eager to put this bill …

Fox producer's warning against Jeanine Pirro surfaces in Dominion defamation suit  —  The November 2020 email from an anguished Fox News news producer to colleagues sent up a flare amid a fusillade of false claims.  —  The producer warned: Fox cannot let host Jeanine Pirro back on the air.