‘Sadistic lie.’ Venezuelans flown to Martha's Vineyard search for a way off the island  —  Standing on a cobblestone sidewalk in a touristy downtown neighborhood of this island thousands of miles from his native Venezuela, a young man used a cellphone Thursday night to record a message to Florida's governor.

Justice Dept. asks appeals court to restore access to Trump raid documents  —  The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking criminal investigators from accessing about 100 documents with national security classification markings recovered …

Trump team claimed boxes at Mar-a-Lago were only news clippings  —  The 2021 assertion to the National Archives vastly misrepresented the scale and variety of documents, including classified records, later recovered from Trump's property.  —  Months before National Archives officials found hundreds …

Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive  —  It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographs of relevant Civil War manuscripts.  But, he continued, those weren't very helpful to him …

Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee was registered to vote in N.J. until 2021  —  Mastriano, Oz both come from New Jersey  —  New Jersey is serving as an incubator for Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, with two statewide candidates being New Jersey natives and longtime residents.

Read the weird email Marco Rubio sent after Insider asked him about Lindsey Graham's abortion ban bill he's co-sponsoring  — Marco Rubio's team sent Insider's Warren Rojas a bizarre email after being asked about an abortion bill.  — The email, which looked like an assignment, included a deadline of September 19.

Yeshiva University Halts All Student Clubs to Block L.G.B.T.Q. Group  —  Earlier in the week, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a ruling to stand for now that required the university to recognize the group.  —  Yeshiva University abruptly announced on Friday that it had placed …

Iran's Supreme Leader Cancels Public Appearances After Falling Ill  —  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is currently on bed rest under observation by a team of doctors, according to four people familiar with his health situation.  —  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei …

Trump's Team of Lawyers Marked by Infighting and Possible Legal Troubles of Its Own  —  Several of the former president's lawyers are under scrutiny by federal investigators amid squabbling over competence.  —  To understand the pressures, feuds and questions about competence within former …

Some Jan. 6 defendants accused of other crimes since Capitol attack  —  The U.S. Capitol attack was a crime unlike any in American history.  But for some of the defendants accused of crimes related to the riot, it's only been the beginning of their legal troubles.

Grifting to Loss  —  I don't need to write a ton here.  I just want to direct you to this piece in the Wall Street Journal.  Blake Masters is losing Arizona, and it should be winnable.  —  But the reality is that Peter Thiel and Donald Trump went to bat for Masters in a crowded primary …

The curious case of the strange man who was nearly attorney general  —  The threat of losing his law license might be the least of Jeffrey Bossert Clark's problems.  Clark is the environmental lawyer who came just one contentious Oval Office meeting away from being installed as attorney general …

Warnings From Authors Who Track Domestic Extremism  —  Luke Mogelson and Andy Campbell have followed groups like the Proud Boys for years.  They are terrified at what they see as a growing threat.  —  It is rare that a chill runs down my spine when I'm interviewing someone.

Video Reveals How Russian Mercenaries Recruit Inmates for Ukraine War  —  In a video posted on social media on Tuesday, the de facto leader of a Russian mercenary group explained to Russian convicts how they could earn their freedom by fighting in Ukraine.  —  In a video that emerged on Tuesday …

Lindsey Graham called Trump ‘a lying motherf***er’ during Ukraine impeachment, book reveals  —  Authors Peter Baker and Susan Glasser report that Mr Graham used the vulgar phrase to describe Mr Trump in the midst of the inquiry that led to his first impeachment trial

Appeals court upholds Texas law regulating social media moderation  —  The decision likely sets up a Supreme Court showdown over the future of online speech  —  The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a controversial Texas social media law that bars companies from removing posts based …

‘Mean Girls, But with Racist, Antisemitic Extremists’: Hitler-Posing Ex-Army Reservist Convicted for Jan. 6 Is Organizing Behind Bars, Feds Say  —  A white supremacist former Army reservist who dressed up as Adolf Hitler before joining in the siege of the U.S. Capitol should spend six …

Marjorie Taylor Greene shares a video in which she appears to kick a youth activist  —  Early Thursday evening, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a video on Twitter of her in a heated exchanged about gun control with three young activists outside the Capitol earlier that day.

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people  —  When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut  —  Where would you rather live?  A society where the rich are extraordinarily rich and the poor are very poor …