Evidence of Biden's wrongdoing is considerable  —  Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed this week that “there is precisely zero evidence of any wrongdoing whatsoever” by President Joe Biden.  The Associated Press asserted Republicans are “claiming without evidence that [Joe and Hunter Biden] engaged in an influence-peddling scheme.”

Congress is in crisis.  There's no clear escape.  —  “We've been seeing this coming ... I just didn't think we were dumb enough to get there,” Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) said.  —  The government is barreling toward a shutdown.  House Republicans threaten to impeach the president — though some of them don't see the evidence.

Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers in a battle for a bigger share of industry profits  —  About 13,000 U.S. auto workers stopped making vehicles and went on strike Friday after their leaders couldn't bridge a giant gap between union demands in contract talks and what Detroit's three automakers are willing to pay.

Biden Administration Aims to Trump-Proof the Federal Work Force  —  If Donald Trump wins a second term, he and his allies want to revive a plan to allow a president to fire civil service workers who are supposed to be hired on merit.  The Biden administration is trying to thwart it.

EXCLUSIVE: Married South Dakota governor Kristi Noem and Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having a years-long clandestine affair  — DailyMail.com uncovered evidence of Lewandowski and Noem's fling: Dozens of trips that mixed business with pleasure, private flights and luxury resort stays

Trump's New York Fraud Trial in Limbo After His Legal Gambit Works  —  Trump's lawyers are going after Judge Arthur F. Engoron, saying he's overstepped his bounds. … An appellate judge has taken the remarkable step of hitting pause on the New York Attorney General's upcoming bank fraud trial …

Trump says he'd testify under oath he never ordered Mar-a-Lago security video deleted  —  In a wide-ranging interview with NBC's “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker,” Trump said, “They were my tapes.  I could have fought them.”  —  Former President Donald Trump said Thursday that he did not order …

Some small businesses caught in culture wars face financial woes, employee fears: ‘Never been as bad’  —  Target and Bud Light draw attention but backlash also hurts small companies.  —  When Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a war on “woke” earlier this year with a proposal …

Man helping deer cross a busy street shot, killed by ‘scared’ driver  —  A man who was trying to slow traffic in his neighborhood because deer were crossing the street was shot and killed by another man who was driving past, authorities in western Washington state said.

Fox News Poll: Trump expands lead in GOP primary race  —  DeSantis continues to lose ground as Ramaswamy holds steady  —  Three weeks after the first Republican presidential primary debate, the latest Fox News survey finds Donald Trump has increased both his lead in the race and his strength of support.

What I saw at the Texas border shocked me  —  On Sept. 6, a federal judge in Austin ordered Texas to remove a floating “buoy barrier” wall in the Rio Grande outside Eagle Pass, which has become a symbol of Governor Greg Abbott's (R) Operation Lone Star border program.

With democracy on the ballot, the mainstream press must change its ways  —  US news organizations have turned Biden's age into a scandal and continue to cover Trump as an entertaining side show  —  Christiane Amanpour has reported all over the world, so she recognizes a democracy on the brink when she sees one.

By Asking for Tanya Chutkan's Recusal, Trump Invited a Lesson in His Centrality to January 6  —  Trump's motion for Tanya Chutkan to recuse was not designed to work.  Rather, it was designed as a messaging vehicle, to establish the basis for Trump to claim that a Black Judge was biased …

The spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine  —  This week's unanimous vote on phenylephrine's ineffectiveness was decades in the making.  —  After spending decades on pharmacy shelves, the leading nasal decongestant in over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines has met its downfall.

All thanks to ‘Big Yellow Taxi’: How State discovered Chinese hackers reading its emails  —  The State Department relied on a clever alert system to uncover and unravel an advanced Chinese spying campaign that involved breaches of officials' emails.  —  A recent Chinese-linked hack …

The state of right-wing extremism nearly 3 years after J6  —  “A January 6 can and will happen again, because the architects are still able to do their thing unimpeded,” Andy Campbell says.  —  ∙ Paid  —  🚨 WE'RE OFFERING FREE TRIALS FOR ALL NEW PUBLIC NOTICE SIGNUPS 🚨 …

Zelenskyy is expected to visit Washington as Congress is debating $24 billion in aid for Ukraine  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected at the White House and on Capitol Hill next week as he visits the U.S. during the United Nations General Assembly.