She Had an Abortion With Herschel Walker.  She Also Had a Child With Him.  —  Herschel Walker has claimed he has no idea who this woman could be.  Here's why that's surprising. … After a woman revealed that Republican senatorial candidate Herschel Walker had urged her to have an abortion …

VP was in car accident; Secret Service first called it ‘mechanical failure’  —  A motorcade taking Vice President Harris to work was in a one-car accident on a closed roadway in D.C. Monday morning, an incident that concerned both the Secret Service director and the vice president and revived worries …

U.S. Plans to Ease Venezuela Sanctions, Enabling Chevron to Pump Oil  —  The proposed deal would require Caracas to open talks with political opponents, with the aim of free elections in 2024  —  The Biden administration is preparing to scale down sanctions on Venezuela's authoritarian regime …

A majority of GOP nominees — 299 in all — deny the 2020 election results  —  Experts say their dominance in the party poses a threat to the country's democratic principles and jeopardizes the integrity of future votes  —  A majority of Republican nominees on the ballot this November for the House …

Ian is probably Florida's deadliest hurricane since 1935.  Most victims drowned.  —  FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — The water was rising quickly, so the women ran to the top floor of the vacation house they had rented for Nishelle Harris-Miles's 40th birthday and huddled together on a bed.

EXCLUSIVE: CNN's Jim Sciutto is absent from the air after it was revealed he suffered a ‘serious fall’ in Amsterdam and was ordered by network bosses to ‘address personal issues’  — Long time CNN news anchor Jim Sciutto has been absent from the air after it was revealed network told him to address ‘personal situation’

A more strategic Russian retreat signals long fight ahead in Kherson  —  MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine — The drone operator ignored the occasional thunder of outgoing artillery in the distance and kept his eyes focused on the computer monitor in front of him, waiting for the burst of smoke to appear.

U.S. Gasoline Prices Are Climbing Again and May Get Worse  —  After weeks of price declines, drivers are paying more at the pump as refinery outages—planned and unplanned—combine with global trends to pinch consumers  —  U.S. gasoline prices are ticking up after a roughly 100-day decline …

Colorado baker fighting ruling over gender transition cake  —  The Colorado baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after refusing on religious grounds to make a gay couple's wedding cake a decade ago is challenging a separate ruling he violated the state's anti-discrimination law …

How the GOP counts on Democrats' goodwill to conceal its own cruelty  —  In a world where Republicans set political standards, one could expect that migrants would be abandoned in remote places without hope of succor and that funding for infrastructure construction and disaster relief would be provided only to GOP-led communities.

U.N. Agency Renews Plea to Secure Nuclear Plant After Russian Takeover … The head of the U.N.'s nuclear agency is visiting Kyiv to discuss security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.  —  The director of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog was expected to visit Kyiv on Thursday to continue talks …

100 Days Post-Roe: At Least 66 Clinics Across 15 US States Have Stopped Offering Abortion Care  —  Marielle Kirstein, Guttmacher Institute  —  The time is now.  Will you stand up for reproductive health and rights?  —  Donate Now  —  October 2, 2022 marked 100 days since …

House GOP amps up talk about impeaching Biden's border chief, posing a test for McCarthy  —  House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy will be swiftly confronted in a Republican majority with a politically dicey proposition gaining steam within his conference: Launching impeachment proceedings …

Cheney warns Arizona voters that the GOP nominees for governor and secretary of state are threats to democracy  —  TEMPE, Ariz. — Rep. Liz Cheney urged voters to reject Arizona's Republican nominees for governor and secretary of state in next month's midterm election, casting them as existential threats to U.S. democracy.

Vladimir Putin's botched mobilisation triggers blame game in Russia  —  Failures by officials have become apparent as war in Ukraine drags on  —  In Dagestan, a poor Russian region in the north Caucasus that has seen some of the biggest protests against Vladimir Putin's mobilisation drive …

FBI charges multiple individuals for peaceful protests at abortion facility  —  In early March of 2021, a group of individuals committed to saving the lives of preborn children visited the Carafem abortion facility in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, as part of a “rescue” — an event meant …

The Instagram capital of the world is a terrible place to be  —  Just because you can (sort of) afford to go somewhere doesn't mean you'll enjoy it.  —  This time last week I was wandering the stony streets of Positano, a small village on Italy's Amalfi Coast.

Medical Care Alone Won't Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say  —  Now experts are calling for walkable communities, improved housing, and access to health care and better food, particularly in minority communities.  —  Over the past 50 years, medical advances have led …

How the war in Ukraine has remade Europe  —  WARSAW — For Europe, Ukraine is the good war — a moment when brave Ukrainian patriots have partially rolled back a brutal Russian invasion and, in the process, reignited belief in the values of democracy and common defense.

Thai Daycare Center Shooting Leaves 32 Dead, Mostly Children  —  A mass shooting that began with a daycare center in northeastern Thailand left 38 people dead, the majority of them children, according to officials.  —  A 34-year-old former cop used an automatic weapon to fire at the center located …

Eleven Defendants Indicted for Obstructing a Reproductive Health Services Facility in Tennessee  —  A federal indictment unsealed today charges 11 individuals with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.  —  Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow …

In key battlegrounds, GOP onslaught of crime ads tightens Senate races  —  MILWAUKEE — Republicans have unleashed a barrage of negative ads in the final weeks of the midterms that hammer Democrats on crime.  —  In at least two states, the strategy appears to be taking hold.