Pelosi Spokesperson Statement on Violent Assault on Paul Pelosi  —  Washington, D.C. — Drew Hammill, spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, issued this statement:  —  “Early this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi.

Welcome to hell, Elon  —  You break it, you buy it.  —  Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself, and there is no possible way to grow users and revenue without making a series of enormous compromises that will ultimately destroy your reputation …

‘Innuendos and baseless allegations’: Milwaukee claps back after Ron Johnson sows doubts about early voting in the city  —  As voters have already begun streaming to the polls, Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson this week raised doubts about early in-person absentee voting in Milwaukee and suggested …

Russia's elite begins to ponder a Putinless future  —  Once unthinkable, the president's removal can at least be contemplated  —  “What is next?  Is there life after Putin?  How does he go and who replaces him?”  Such are the questions that weigh heavily these days on the minds of the Russian elite …

Record-High 56% in U.S. Perceive Local Crime Has Increased  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are more likely now than at any time over the past five decades to say there is more crime in their local area than there was a year ago.  The 56% of U.S. adults who report an increase in crime …

Nearly half of Americans say they want a ‘Christian nation’  —  Welcome to The Daily 202!  Tell your friends to sign up here.  On this day in 1962, the Cuban missile crisis ended, with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev ordering the removal of the USSR's missile bases in Cuba …

The 2022 Race for the House, in Four Districts, and Four Polls  —  Swing-district polls by The New York Times and Siena College show how the midterm races are being shaped by larger, surprising forces, beyond the traditional red and blue divide.  —  President Biden is unpopular everywhere.

Inside the secretive effort by Trump allies to access voting machines  —  How rural Coffee County, Ga., became an early target in the multistate search for purported evidence of fraud after the 2020 election  —  A week after the 2020 election, as Donald Trump raged over what he claimed was rampant fraud …

St. Louis school shooter bought gun from private seller after dealer sale was blocked, police say  —  The shooter who killed two people at a St. Louis high school this week bought the rifle used in the attack from a private seller after he was blocked from buying a gun at a licensed dealer, police said Thursday.

What It Means to Be a Republican Today  —  Evan McMullin's lesson on what his former party now stands for—and what it can't stand.  —  The most interesting political race of 2022 isn't between a Democrat and a Republican.  It's in Utah, where incumbent Republican Sen. Mike Lee faces independent challenger Evan McMullin.

Where Our Model Thinks The Polls Might Be Biased  —  With less than two weeks until Election Day, Republicans now have a 48 percent chance of taking the Senate, according to FiveThirtyEight's Deluxe forecast, their highest figure since late July and putting the battle for Senate control officially in toss-up territory.

Fetterman Fades in Post-Debate Poll  —  Republican Mehmet Oz has pulled ahead of John Fetterman in the first Pennsylvania Senate poll released after this week's highly anticipated debate.  —  According to a survey of 1,000 likely voters from Wick Insights, 47.6 percent of respondents …

Exclusive: House Democratic Aide Fired after Ties to Chinese Embassy Revealed  —  Representative Don Beyer, who has been hawkish on China, moved swiftly to remove the employee after being notified of the activity by security officials.  —  A House Democratic staffer was fired after her outreach …

GOP Whip Steve Scalise predicts US will follow Italy's new far-right lead  —  WASHINGTON, DC — Italy's new far-right leader, Giorgia Meloni, has an ally in House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.  —  This week, in her first address to Parliament, Meloni downplayed the anti-LGBTQ …

Russia's security service works to subvert Moldova's pro-Western government  —  A trove of sensitive materials obtained by Ukrainian intelligence and reviewed by The Washington Post illustrates how Moscow continues to try to manipulate countries in Eastern Europe