Actually, John Fetterman's Debate Performance Was Fine  —  Pennsylvania has one of the most contentious Senate races in the country this term, and on Tuesday night, during the one and only debate between candidates, eyes were on Democrat John Fetterman, who had a stroke in May just days before his party's primary.

Kanye West Shows Up Uninvited to Skechers Headquarters in Wake of Adidas Fallout  —  Kanye West is making a quick move to find a new home for his Yeezy shoes ... hitting Skechers headquarters to talk with the company's honchos, but immediately got turned away.

New Woman Alleges Herschel Walker Urged Her to Have Abortion  —  High-profile attorney Gloria Allred hosted a press conference Wednesday with an anonymous woman who says she had an abortion at Herschel Walker's urging.  —  A second woman has come forward to say Herschel Walker urged …

University of Nevada, Reno election poll shows Sisolak and Lombardo in a close race for governor, Cortez Masto leading Laxalt for U.S. Senate  —  Nevadans begin to vote in state and national competitive races  —  As Nevadans begin voting in the 2022 midterm election, a new University of Nevada …

Trump lets the truth slip about the MAGA base — and today's GOP  —  Donald Trump has long harbored a tendency to confess to his sins in public.  Now he's done it again, revealing a large truth about today's Republican Party in the process: He declared that his lies about the 2020 election …

The Impeachment of Joe Biden  —  Sometime next year, after an interval of performative investigations, Republicans in the House are going to impeach Joe Biden.  This may not be their present plan, but they will work themselves up to it by degrees.  The pressure from the MAGA base will build.

EXCLUSIVE Tesla faces U.S. criminal probe over self-driving claims-sources  —  Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is under criminal investigation in the United States over claims that the company's electric vehicles can drive themselves, three people familiar with the matter said.

Lindsey Graham says there are ‘gonna be people jumping off bridges in San Francisco by the thousands’ if Jim Jordan becomes chair of the House Judiciary Committee  — GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham campaigned in Ohio for Senate candidate JD Vance.  — During a speech at a Republican Party dinner in Lima …

CNN chief Chris Licht has big ideas, but employees are nervous, and more job cuts are coming  — CNN CEO Chris Licht talked to CNBC about why he took the job, why he thinks some coverage of him has been “painfully inaccurate,” and how he's hoping to restore a brand he says has been tarnished.

Judge to consider unsealing Trump grand jury filings  —  A federal judge is considering whether to unseal secret court documents detailing Donald Trump's effort to prevent former aides from providing testimony to a grand jury investigating efforts to subvert the 2020 election.

Senator Robert Menendez is under investigation again  —  Kadia is a Political Reporter for Semafor, joining us from BuzzFeed News.  Sign up for the daily Principals newsletter to get our insider's guide to American power.  —  Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. faces a new federal investigation …

Fox News offered to host a U.S. Senate debate in Utah.  Evan McMullin said yes.  Mike Lee said no.  —  Lee's campaign said they agreed to a one-on-one interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, but not a joint appearance with McMullin.  —  Republican incumbent Sen. Mike Lee has turned …

Air Force takes ‘full responsibility’ for Jennifer-Ruth Green sexual assault leak, GOP congressmen say  —  Indiana Reps. Jim Banks and Larry Bucshon said the records were provided to ‘an opposition research firm’ ahead of the state's Nov. 8 election  —  Jennifer-Ruth Green takes aim …

The C.I.A. director visited Ukraine this month.  —  Yevgen Honcharenko/EPA, via Shutterstock … Putin repeats unfounded accusations that the West has labeled disinformation.  —  President Vladimir V. Putin on Wednesday repeated Russia's unsubstantiated warning that Ukraine was preparing …

3 men convicted of providing aid to terrorists in Whitmer kidnapping plot  —  Jackson — Three men have been found guilty by a Jackson County jury of materially aiding a terrorist and being a member of a gang as part of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Vows Revenge on Companies That Stopped Donating to GOP Election Deniers: ‘Not Going to Be Forgotten’  —  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) hasn't forgotten that some corporations halted donations to Republican lawmakers who didn't vote to certify the 2020 presidential election.

Amazon puts January 6 in the rearview mirror: “It's been more than 21 months”  —  After January 6, 2021, Amazon released a strongly worded statement announcing it would stop contributing to members of Congress that voted to overturn the election.  It said those members were part of an …

Texas Goes Permitless on Guns, and Police Face an Armed Public  —  A new law allowing people to carry handguns without a license has led to more spontaneous shootings, many in law enforcement say.  —  HOUSTON — Tony Earls hung his head before a row of television cameras, staring down, his life upended.

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial  —  A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.  —  Co-published with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel