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.

Kanye West's Twitter, Instagram accounts restricted after alleged anti-Semitic posts  —  Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over the weekend, with the social media platforms saying they removed the rapper's posts after online users condemned them as anti-Semitic.

Russia unleashes deadly strikes on cities across Ukraine after Crimea bridge attack  —  Russia unleashes missile strikes across Ukraine after Crimea bridge attack  —  Russia unleashed a barrage of deadly attacks on cities across Ukraine on Monday, hitting the heart of the country's capital …

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.

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 …

Iran Protests Are Proving a Durable Challenge to the Islamic Republic  —  Demonstrators' main tactic—women removing the mandatory headscarf—is a kind of everyday civil disobedience that is hard to contain  —  Three weeks after antigovernment protests erupted across Iran …

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.

Nobel Economics Prize Goes to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig for Research on Financial Crises  —  The final prize announced this year was given to the former Federal Reserve chair and others for their research “on banks and financial crises.”

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 …

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 …

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 …

Alabama's Tommy Tuberville injects the ghost of Bull Connor into 2022 midterms  —  In the morally downhill midterms of 2022, there are dog whistles ... and then there are just whistles.  Nowhere is that more obvious than a place called Minden, Nev. — a small town near the California border …