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 …

POLITICO Playbook: Why the White House isn't sweating GOP probes  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THIS WEEK — Monday: Supreme Court opens its 2022-23 term.  President JOE BIDEN heads to Puerto Rico to survey hurricane damage ... Tuesday …

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.

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 …

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.

Judge Laurence Silberman Shaped Second Amendment Jurisprudence  —  The influential jurist, who has died at age 86, sat for decades on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit  —  Laurence Silberman, an influential conservative during a long career as an appeals court judge …

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 …

Brazil Presidential Election Headed To Runoff After Surprisingly Strong Vote For Far-Right Bolsonaro  —  The head-to-head battle will have massive implications for the world's fourth-largest democracy, as right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro seeks to undermine Brazil's election.

Capitol attack officer Fanone hits out at ‘weasel’ McCarthy in startling interview  —  Michael Fanone makes candid and profane remarks about Republicans in Rolling Stone interview as he promotes memoir  —  In an extraordinarily candid and profane interview with Rolling Stone, Michael Fanone …

GOP Leads On Image, Handling Terrorism, Nation's Prosperity  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' views of the two major U.S. political parties remain more negative than positive, but the Republican Party's favorability is now slightly better than the Democratic Party's.

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.

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 …

New York judge rules in favor of polyamorous relationships  —  The judge concluded that polyamorous relationships are entitled to the same sort of legal protection given to two-person relationships.  —  New York City's eviction court - the venue of a landmark same-sex relationship decision long …

Democrats' new Senate struggles  —  Democrats are facing fresh problems in two pivotal Senate battlegrounds in which their nominees are facing attacks for being too progressive. … In Pennsylvania, recent polling suggests Democrat John Fetterman's double-digit advantage over Republican Mehmet Oz has shrunk to a statistical tie.