Economic Issues Outweigh Concerns About Rights in Midterm Vote  —  Biden gets poor marks on handling pivotal issues  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Economic issues are a bigger factor in this year's midterm elections than concerns about rights and democracy, according to the latest Monmouth ("Mon-muth") University Poll.

Why Biden world isn't overly worried about House GOP investigations  —  Congressional Republicans are talking more openly about their desire to investigate every aspect of the Biden administration — and family — should they regain control of one or both houses of Congress.

Supreme Court rejects Trump ally Mike Lindell's appeal in 2020 election lawsuit  —  The Supreme Court on Monday rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's bid to fend off a defamation lawsuit the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems filed over his far-fetched claims about the 2020 presidential election.

Press Release SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against Kim Kardashian for touting on social media a crypto asset security offered and sold by EthereumMax without disclosing the payment she received for the promotion.

Trump's ‘Death Wish’ Rhetoric  —  His latest tirade against Mitch McConnell courts potential violence.  —  WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the Week  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool. … 1x  —  We live in a polarized political age when rabid partisans don't need provocation to resort to violence.

EXCLU: Sanitation Department Hires McKinsey for Containerization Study  —  The city has hired the controversial consulting firm McKinsey & Company to study its waste containerization needs and design a citywide pilot program, Streetsblog has learned.  —  For the next 20 weeks …

The Story Behind DeSantis's Migrant Flights to Martha's Vineyard  —  Asylum seekers in Texas were recruited for the flights by a woman who appeared to be a former Army counterintelligence agent.  “We were tricked,” one migrant said.  —  SAN ANTONIO — In June, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed …

Alabama GOP chairman made the photo ID he used to vote  —  This is a column.  —  When you vote in Alabama, state law requires you to show a photo ID at the polls.  —  For most folks, this means a driver's license, but other forms of government-issued ID are permitted — a military ID …

The Guggenheim's Scapegoat  —  Defacement is a beautiful painting—and an ugly one.  Its alternative name, The Death of Michael Stewart, reveals its subject: a young Black man who died in police custody in 1983, after his arrest for allegedly writing graffiti on the wall of a subway station in New York City.

Oil prices could soon return to $100 as OPEC+ considers ‘historic’ cut, analysts say  — OPEC and non-OPEC producers, a group often referred to as OPEC+, will meet in Vienna, Austria on Wednesday to decide on the next phase of production policy.  — The oil cartel and its allies …

New book audio: Trump falsely claimed he gave Kim letters to Archives in 2021  —  Former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he had given the letters he exchanged with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to the National Archives last year when he was interviewed by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman …

Iranian students defy security forces as anti-regime protests continue  —  Human rights groups ‘extremely concerned’ about violent repression of demonstrations in Tehran  —  Iranian students have stepped up their protests in defiance of a crackdown by security forces who allegedly cornered …

Billy Eichner Seems to Blame Homophobia for ‘Bros’ Low Box Office  —  BILLY EICHNER SEEMS TO BLAME HOMOPHOBIA ... For ‘Bros’ Box Office Bomb  —  Billy Eichner's new romcom completely bombed at the box office — and he appears to be chalking it up to homophobia across the country.

Larry Summers has President Biden's ear — but not always his support  —  White House officials want the influential economist on their side, even if they don't take his advice all the time  —  President Biden spent more than an hour in the Oval Office in late August with former treasury …

Letters to Jeb Bush  —  In a moment of personal and professional failure, I began writing to someone who I thought might be in a position to understand.  —  In the fall of 2015, I moved from Brooklyn to Vermont for a month to try to write something new.  I had spent four years working on a novel …

Pennsylvania's Chief Justice, Part of a Court Majority to Shield Voting Rights, Died on Friday  —  Doug Mastriano could appoint a new justice on the state supreme court.  —  Max Baer, Pennsylvania's chief justice, passed away on Friday night after nearly two decades on a state supreme court …

The Supreme Court Is Blowing Up Law School, Too  —  Khiara Bridges remembers the exact moment she lost faith in the Supreme Court.  At first, at the start of Donald Trump's presidency, Bridges—a professor who now teaches at UC-Berkeley School of Law—held out hope that the court might be …

Scoop: Trump lawyer Eric Herschmann to represent Brett Favre  —  Eric Herschmann, a top White House lawyer to President Trump, confirms to Axios he is now lead counsel to NFL legend Brett Favre, who is embroiled in a welfare-funds scandal in his home state of Mississippi.

Truss, in Reversal, Drops Plan to Cut U.K. Tax Rate on High Earners  —  The announcement was a major capitulation by the government after tax cuts it announced roiled financial markets and drew widespread criticism.  —  LONDON — Bowing to intense opposition from Conservative lawmakers …

As TV doctor, Mehmet Oz provided platform for questionable products and views  —  Now a Republican candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania, Oz has made his medical background and his popular TV show a centerpiece of his campaign  —  Mehmet Oz looked directly into the camera and introduced …

What happened while Ron DeSantis was fighting the culture wars  —  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has had a busy year.  He has enacted legislation prohibiting teachers from acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people.  He has banned private businesses from conducting trainings about racial bias.

Petraeus: US would destroy Russia's troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine  —  Former CIA director and retired army general says Moscow's leader is ‘desperate’ and ‘battlefield reality he faces is irreversible’  —  The US and its allies would destroy Russia's troops and equipment in Ukraine …

Joe Biden's F-word problem  —  “Literally,” President Joe Biden said at a Democratic fundraiser last week, “there's a case being made around the world, not just here, because democracy and autocracy.”  That wasn't even a sentence, but you get the idea.  He continued, “You just saw what's happened in Italy in that election.