Racist remarks in leaked audio of L.A. council members spark outrage, disgust  —  Behind closed doors, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made openly racist remarks, derided some of her council colleagues and spoke in unusually crass terms about how the city should be carved up politically.

Ye locked out of Twitter due to ‘violation’ of policies  —  Ye has traded public barbs with fellow rappers on social media  —  Kanye West sets the record straight on his clothing line  —  Ye's Twitter account was locked on Sunday due to a violation of the social media platform's policies, according to the company.

Two shot outside NY gov. hopeful Rep. Lee Zeldin's Long Island home while twin daughters inside  —  Two people were shot outside the Long Island home of GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. Lee Zeldin on Sunday while his teenage twin daughters were at home, he confirmed to The Post.

Putin's Regime Faces the Fate of His Kerch Strait Bridge  —  The attack on the crucial link between Russia and Crimea matters less for its tactical significance and more for what it says about the course of the war.  —  On Saturday, the Ukrainians hit the Kerch Strait Bridge …

Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles  —  Meta's push to develop virtual and augmented reality technology has had a bumpy year.  —  Last October, when Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, announced that the company would change its name …

Nikki Finke, Deadline Founder and Iconoclastic Journalist, Dies at 68 … Nikki Finke, a tenacious journalist who revolutionized entertainment reporting with what became the Hollywood trade website Deadline, died Sunday morning in Boca Raton, Fla. after a prolonged illness.  She was 68.

How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails  —  America's first experiment with high-speed rail has become a multi-billion-dollar nightmare.  Political compromises created a project so expensive that almost no one knows how it can be built as originally envisioned.

The polling website where Republicans are winning in a landslide |  #206 - October 9, 2022  —  A math and history lesson on why “unskewing” the polls is so hard  —  Over the weekend, a new series of charts appeared on the webpages of RealClearPolitics.com, the right-leaning news aggregation website …

House Republican defends Tuberville over reparation remark  —  Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) on Sunday defended Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) after the senator said Democrats want reparations for minorities because their party is “pro-crime.”  —  Bacon told NBC's “Meet the Press” …

The politics of Biden's marijuana pardons  —  President Biden's marijuana pardons are a small policy change to entice young voters, but they've immediately become a political lightning rod in at least one battleground state. … In Pennsylvania, Lieutenant Gov. and Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman …

The war in Ukraine has battered the reputation of Russian spies  —  As they take greater risks, they are getting caught  —  Viktor muller ferreira was a young Brazilian with impressive credentials and a big break.  Fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington …

NYC feels unsafe ‘for the first time in my life,’ ex-Gov. Paterson says  —  Former Gov. David Paterson said Sunday that he has never felt less safe in the Big Apple — and warned local Democrats they could be in for an electoral “monsoon” if they don't get crime under control.

Parties starving weak candidates in final midterm crunch  —  With 30 days until the midterms, party leaders are making ruthless calculations to cut funding for underachieving candidates in a push to sharpen their top targets.  In other cases, party committees and super PACs aren't spending …

Ron Johnson and Mandela Barnes in tight Senate race in Wisconsin — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  It seems like Wisconsin elections are always pretty close these days, and here are two more following that trend.  The Senate race has incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson running …

Abortion measure brings a hint of uncertainty to California's midterms  —  Proposition 1 would add the right to abortion to the state's constitution.  Will it also impact tight congressional races?  —  SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — This is quintessential Southern California suburbia …