Oath Keeper charged in Jan. 6 attack texted with Andrew Giuliani about election  —  A high-ranking member of the far-right Oath Keepers organization who has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot exchanged messages in November 2020 with former Trump White House aide Andrew Giuliani about election issues.

Mastriano's Sputtering Campaign: No TV Ads, Tiny Crowds, Little Money  —  As he runs for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano is being heavily outspent by his Democratic rival and trails badly in polling.  National Republicans show little desire to help him.

Meadows texts reveal direct White House communications with pro-Trump operative behind plans to seize voting machines  —  As allies of then-President Donald Trump made a final push to overturn the election in late-December 2020, one of the key operatives behind the effort briefed …

Putin Ally Acknowledges Founding Wagner Mercenary Group  —  Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, a Russian businessman and close associate of President Vladimir V. Putin, acknowledged on Monday that he is the founder of the Wagner Group, a shadowy private military company that has fought on Russia's side in the war in Ukraine.

Hell Is a World in Which Everybody Writes Like Axios  —  In 1936, The New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs published a celebrated profile of Henry Luce, co-founder with Briton Hadden of Time magazine.  The piece was written entirely in parodic Time-ese.  In those days Time's house style favored Homeric epithets …

NASA's DART mission successfully slams into an asteroid  —  A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense.  —  The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in Laurel, Maryland.

Putin grants citizenship to Edward Snowden, who disclosed U.S. surveillance  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin granted citizenship on Monday to Edward Snowden, the former security consultant who leaked information about top-secret U.S. surveillance programs and is still wanted by Washington on espionage charges.

Retired wrestler says GOP Gov. Phil Bryant cut welfare funding to nonprofit because of Democratic support  —  A former professional wrestler and defendant in the Mississippi welfare scandal is alleging that he personally witnessed Republican Gov. Phil Bryant instruct an appointee …

Pennsylvania school district accused of banning Girls Who Code book series  —  Pen America says Central York school district banned the books but officials strongly deny it in statement  —  A school district in Pennsylvania has banned the Girls Who Code book series for young readers …

Top State Judges Make a Rare Plea in a Momentous Supreme Court Election Case  —  In a surprising filing, state chief justices opposed an argument pressed by Republicans — that state legislatures may set federal election rules unconstrained by state constitutions.

Costs of Suspending Student Loan Payments and Canceling Debt  —  This letter responds to some questions about the effects of President Biden's August 24, 2022, announcement on executive actions affecting student loans.  — The cost of outstanding student loans will increase by $20 billion …

Trump-linked SPAC changes address to UPS Store as investors pull over $130 million  — DWAC, the blank-check company set to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, changed its address to a Miami UPS Store in a filing Friday.  — As of Friday, DWAC had lost $138.5 million of its $1 billion in private financing.

Does It Matter That Investigators Are Closing In on Trump?  —  Gail Collins: Bret, which do you think is more of a threat to Donald Trump's political future, the classified document drama at Mar-a-Lago or the legal challenge to his businesses in New York?  —  Bret Stephens: Gail …

More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’  —  Small studies suggest that breast removal surgery improves transgender teenagers' well-being, but data is sparse.  Some state leaders oppose such procedures for minors.  —  Michael, 17, arrived in the sleek white waiting room …

What just happened in Italy?  —  Much the same as what's happened in France, Great Britain, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, and the U.S.  —  What happened in yesterday's election in Italy?  —  At the purely factual level, a coalition of right-wing and center-right parties won big in an election trigged …

Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It's the 1970s  —  U.S. manufacturing is experiencing a rebound, with companies adding workers amid high consumer demand for products.  —  WASHINGTON — Ever since American manufacturing entered a long stretch of automation and outsourcing in the late 1970s …

17 dead, 24 wounded in school shooting in Russia  —  A gunman opened fire in a school in central Russia on Monday, killing 17 people and wounding 24 others before shooting himself dead, authorities said.  The shooting took place in School No. 88 in Izhevsk, a city 960 kilometers (600 miles) east of Moscow in the Udmurtia region.

Cayler Ellingson's alleged killer not under house arrest, no curfew after posting ‘very low’ bond: court docs  —  Former assistant US attorney says the ‘very low’ bond is ‘woefully inadequate’  —  Cayler Ellingson's former North Dakota high school holds moment of silence at Homecoming football game

Jim Florio, former governor of New Jersey, dies at 85  —  Democrat served four years as governor and 15 years as a congressman  —  James J. Florio, a respected former Governor of New Jersey and an eight-term congressman who courageously tackled tough issues, sometimes to his political detriment, died tonight.