Judge: Trump signed court document that knowingly included false voter fraud stats  —  Former President Donald Trump signed legal documents describing evidence of election fraud that he knew were false, a federal judge indicated on Wednesday.  —  U.S. District Court Judge David Carter wrote …

Democrats' Feared Red October Has Arrived  —  Many Democrats hoped it would be a “weird election.”  But with Election Day just three weeks away, the midterms aren't shaping up that way.  —  Here's the thing about elections: When they break, they usually break in one direction.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump considers allowing federal investigators to search Mar-a-Lago again  —  Donald Trump's legal team is weighing whether to allow federal agents to return to the former President's Florida residence, and potentially conduct a supervised search, to satisfy the Justice Department's demands …

Two democracies are forming in the U.S. Zip code determines which one you're in  —  For a brief time in 2020, it seemed as though the vote-by-mail movement was having a bipartisan moment.  —  Red and blue states that had offered the option only to a relatively small number of residents …

The Conservative Stalwart Challenging the Far-Right Legal Theory That Could Subvert American Democracy  —  J. Michael Luttig is opposing Republican groups in one of the most momentous cases that the Supreme Court is considering this term.  —  A powerful new litigant has joined …

Texts from Loeffler's phone shed light on activities ahead of Jan. 6 and 2021 runoff  —  Tricia Raffensperger's text message, six days after the 2020 elections, was as blistering as it was direct.  —  Hours after Kelly Loeffler, then Georgia's junior U.S. senator, called for her husband …

US busts network providing technology to Russian military  —  The Biden administration on Wednesday announced a round of criminal charges and sanctions related to a complicated scheme to procure military technologies from U.S. manufacturers and illegally supply them to Russia for its war in Ukraine.

Braverman rebukes Truss in blistering resignation letter  —  Play video Watch: BBC News live coverage  —  Summary  — Suella Braverman resigns as home secretary in a face-to-face meeting with the prime minister  — It's unclear exactly why but the BBC has been told PM Liz Truss …

State Department funding ‘drag theater performances’ in Ecuador to ‘promote diversity and inclusion’  —  State Dept. awards $20,600 grant for cultural center in Ecuador to host ‘12 drag theater performances’

Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino  —  The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.  —  Times Square, New York City's famed Crossroads …

In 2021 Video, Trump Asks, ‘Is This a Good Jewish Character Right Here?’  —  Donald Trump made bigoted remarks about Jews and Persians at an event in 2021, in a new video provided by a British documentary filmmaker.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump inquired whether a documentary filmmaker recording …

Whites now more likely to die from covid than Blacks: Why the pandemic shifted  —  SOMERVILLE, Tenn. — Skill Wilson had amassed more than three decades of knowledge as a paramedic, first in Memphis and then in Fayette County.  Two places that felt like night and day.

S.F. is spending $1.7 million on one public toilet: ‘What are they making it out of — gold?’  —  San Francisco politicians will gather at the Noe Valley Town Square Wednesday afternoon to congratulate themselves for securing state money for a long-desired toilet in the northeast corner of the charming plaza.

‘No, I will not resign’: Kevin de León defends himself in TV interview  —  Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin De León said in a television interview airing Wednesday night that he “will not resign,” according to a partial transcript of the interview released by Noticiero Univision.

USCP Clear Suspicious Van, Arrest Driver for Bringing Guns to Capitol Grounds  —  This afternoon the United States Capitol Police (USCP) Hazardous Incident Response Division cleared a suspicious vehicle, which was illegally parked on Capitol Grounds.  —  USCP Officers arrested the driver …

‘The World According to Fox’: A C.E.O.'s Vision Gets Tested in Court  —  Suzanne Scott remade Fox News Media into a lucrative consumer brand.  But a $1.6 billion defamation suit against the company is testing her strategy and leadership.  —  Before the committee investigating …

Vladimir Putin's Place in the Culture Wars  —  The columnist Christopher Caldwell discusses conservative admiration for the Russian leader, and whether election denialism is just politics.  —  “Not merely is his cultural range perhaps without equal,” the Marxist historian Perry Anderson once wrote …

Ex-UCLA student linked to extremists gets Jan. 6 prison term  —  A former UCLA student who stormed the U.S. Capitol while waving a flag promoting a far-right extremist movement was sentenced on Wednesday to three years and six months in prison for his role in a mob's attack on the building.

Appeals court finds CFPB funding unconstitutional  —  An appeals court on Wednesday ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism is unconstitutional, in a victory for lenders that have targeted the agency's structure in a years-long bid to tamp down regulation.

Arizona GOP Candidate Arrested For Allegedly Masturbating In Truck Near Preschool  —  Maricopa County officials say it's too late to remove Randy Kaufman from the ballot in the race for a college district board.  —  A GOP candidate running for an Arizona college district's governing board …

Why I'm Joining CNN as an Analyst  —  I have signed a contract to be a contributor with CNN.  —  I'm excited about the opportunity to work with many solid reporters and reach a new audience.  I've long criticized how major media outlets have reported on firearms.

What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks - in pictures  —  In 13 US states, abortion is banned even in the earliest stages of pregnancy.  But we rarely see what such tissue really looks like  —  bortion is now banned or severely restricted in 14 states in the US …

Pence warns of ‘unprincipled populists,’ ‘Putin apologists’  —  Former Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday warned against the growing populist tide in the Republican Party as he admonished “Putin apologists” unwilling to stand up to the Russian leader over his assault on Ukraine.

The attacks on LGBTQ people — especially trans people — aren't stopping  —  A new anti-LGBTQ bill in Congress, federal court rulings that sidestep the Supreme Court's 2020 Bostock ruling, court fights over anti-transgender state laws, and attacks on private trans individuals.

GOP candidate and immigration hardliner had a grandmother who faced deportation  —  Nevada's Republican senatorial nominee, Adam Laxalt, has taken a hard-line stance against DREAMers and illegal immigration — despite his late father, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, once saying Laxalt's grandmother was undocumented.