Elon Musk Spoke to Putin Before Tweeting Ukraine Peace Plan: Report  —  The world's richest man spoke directly with Vladimir Putin, Eurasia Group's Ian Bremmer wrote.  —  MC  —  Elon Musk spoke directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin before tweeting a proposal to end the war …

Watch the Disturbing Kanye Interview Clips That Tucker Carlson Didn't Put on Air  —  Motherboard obtained footage of Ye making bigoted statements about Jewish people and bizarre claims about “fake children,” as well as describing visions of “kinetic energy” cities sent to him by God.  —  Anna Merlan

Biden's Folksiness Can Veer Into Folklore, or Falsehoods  —  President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.  —  WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during Hurricane Ian …

Republicans Plan Debt Crisis to Force Cuts to Medicare, Social Security … The November elections will likely give Republicans control of the House of Representatives as a platform from which to oppose the Democratic-controlled White House.  And one thing Republicans will do with this power …

Biden calls on Nury Martinez, other L.A. councilmembers to resign after audio leak  —  President Biden believes Nury Martinez and other councilmembers should resign from the Los Angeles City Council over racist remarks heard in leaked recordings that were made public this week, a White House spokesperson said Tuesday.

Biden says Putin ‘totally miscalculated’ by invading Ukraine but is a ‘rational actor’  —  Watch Jake Tapper's exclusive interview with President Joe Biden on CNN Tonight with Jake Tapper at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday.  —  CNN —  President Joe Biden said in an exclusive CNN interview Tuesday …

Bennet Leads O'Dea in Colorado Senate Race... Polis with Double-Digit Lead Over Ganahl in Governor's Contest  —  In the race for U.S. Senate in Colorado, Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet has a 7-point advantage over his Republican challenger Joe O'Dea among registered voters statewide.

What does Madison Cawthorn do now?  —  The defeated congressman's next chapter may offer insight into how redemption works, or doesn't, for a scandal-plagued Republican who still loves Trump  —  Madison Cawthorn left his Capitol Hill office on a recent afternoon like a man with a purpose …

Joe Biden Just Crushed China's Semiconductor Industry  —  Dark Brandon strikes again.  —  1. Chips  —  There was some big, important news on Friday and no one really noticed: The Biden administration hit China, hard, with a series of export controls that are going to hurt.

Supreme Court declines to hear fetal personhood case  —  The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to wade into the so-called fetal personhood debate, deciding not to take up a case out of Rhode Island over whether fetuses should have constitutional rights.  —  A Catholic group and two pregnant women wanted …

Bolduc raises unsubstantiated possibility of 2022 election impropriety ahead of New Hampshire Senate contest  —  New Hampshire Senate nominee Don Bolduc, a Republican who has pushed the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen, raised the unsubstantiated prospect that the same could happen …

She Went Out on a Limb for Trump.  Now She's Under Justice Dept. Scrutiny.  —  Christina Bobb is a former Marine and a fervent believer that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump.  She went to work for him and quickly found herself enmeshed in an obstruction investigation.

Archives pushes back on Trump claims that other presidents mishandled records  —  The National Archives, without naming former President Trump, pushed back Tuesday on claims he made over the weekend that other past presidents had mishandled their White House records with the help of the agency.

Fetterman says his stroke recovery ‘changes everything,’ but that he's fit to serve as senator  —  BRADDOCK, Pa. — John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee in a crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, still struggles to understand what he hears and to speak clearly following a stroke in May.

Exclusive: McConnell ignores Trump's attacks and says ‘I have the votes’ in quest to make history  —  It's become a throwaway line at former President Donald Trump's campaign rallies: GOP senators must boot Mitch McConnell from the leadership position he's held longer than any Republican in American history.

G7 Statement on Ukraine, 11 October 2022  —  1. We, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7), convened today with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.  Our meeting took place against the backdrop of the most recent missile attacks against civilian infrastructure and cities across Ukraine, leading to the death of innocent civilians.

Iranian journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini pays heavy price  —  Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, got away with hard-hitting stories for years - until the day she took a photo of Mahsa Amini's parents hugging each other in a Tehran hospital where their daughter was lying in a coma.

How Trump's legal expenses consumed GOP donor money  —  As some Republican candidates face a fundraising shortfall, the former president, the RNC and key state parties have all spent significant sums on legal fights  —  Donald Trump's political operation has spent more money since he left office …

How Ron DeSantis Blew Up Black-Held Congressional Districts and May Have Broken Florida Law  —  A User's Guide to Democracy  —  Congress Works For You.  Here's How to Be a Better Boss.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was incensed.  Late last year, the state's Republican legislature …

The Biden administration acknowledges biological reality  —  To President Joe Biden's administration , men are men, and women are women — at least in one instance.  —  While Biden may be a part of the political party that thinks gender is limitless and people are whatever …

Statement by President Joe Biden on Breakthrough Diplomacy in the Middle East  —  Today, I am pleased to announce a historic breakthrough in the Middle East.  After months of mediation by the United States, the Governments of Israel and Lebanon have agreed to formally end their maritime boundary dispute …

The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump  —  As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy.  As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law.

Herschel Walker claims ex-girlfriend, whose identity he says he knows, is lying about abortion  —  Walker said he's had no conversations with her since reports of the allegation.  —  Herschel Walker talks to ABC's Linsey Davis, Oct. 11, 2022, in Atlanta.  —  Senate hopeful Herschel Walker …

Starbucks Ex-Manager Says He Was Told to Punish Pro-Union Employees  —  A former Starbucks Corp. store manager in New York said he was instructed to single out and discipline pro-union employees for unrelated reasons, such as wearing purple pants.  —  David Almond, who managed a series …

NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success  —  NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense — succeeded beyond its expectations.  —  The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) slammed a spacecraft into one asteroid to see if it could change its orbit around another asteroid.

Hand-counting ballots would cause “downright chaos” in an Arizona county, experts say  —  Cochise County officials consider plan for manually tallying votes in November — a method that produces inaccurate results and takes much longer, research shows.  —  Cochise County officials …

U.K. Businessman Arrested For Sanctions Evasion Benefitting Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska  —  Deripaska's Property Manager Arrested in U.K. for Funding U.S. Properties for Deripaska's Benefit and for Attempting to Expatriate Deripaska's Artwork from U.S. through Deception