Colorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot  —  The latest round of threats fits a familiar pattern: Trump faces a legal setback, and officials face threats.  —  In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off …

Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places  —  A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution …

Readout of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr.'s Video Teleconference with People's Liberation Army of China Chief of the Joint Staff Department Gen. Liu Zhenli  —  Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Public Affairs  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. …

A broken immigration system keeps workers out of jobs the U.S. needs to fill  —  North Dakota's hospitals are desperate for nurses, but backlogs and other problems in immigration agencies block the way  —  BISMARCK, N.D. — The leaders of Sanford Medical Center had waited all summer to learn …

U.S. House quietly investigated separate sex tape scandal  —  The Scoop  —  The high-profile Senate sex scandal that rocked Washington, D.C. this month, was, in fact, the time in less thantwo years that sexually explicit videos filmed in the U.S. Capitol prompted an investigation.

The NRA Is at Rock Bottom—And 15 Years of Tax Filings Tell the Story  —  Years of NRA tax returns obtained by The Daily Beast show that the gun group's revenue has been falling for years.  And last year was the NRA's weakest fundraising year since 2008. … Pay Dirt is a weekly foray into the pigpen of political funding.

GOP voter-fraud crackdown overwhelmingly targets minorities, Democrats  —  Black and Hispanic people made up more than 75 percent of defendants and Democrats nearly 60 percent in a controversial push by Republicans to prosecute election cheating, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Washington Post

Fetterman, Breaking With the Left on Israel, Rejects ‘Progressive’ Label  —  The Pennsylvania senator, who has angered liberal Democrats with his staunchly pro-Israel stance and position on immigration, assailed the left and said he no longer considers himself a progressive.

The English-Muffin Problem  —  A simple explanation for economic discontent  —  The economy is hot, but the people are bothered.  Americans think the country is in dreadful economic shape despite strong wage growth, low unemployment, and steadily declining inflation.  We know this from survey after survey.

12 states where the fate of abortion rights could be on 2024 ballots  —  Voters in about a dozen states in 2024 could decide the fate of abortion rights with constitutional amendments on the ballot in a pivotal election year — including in several battlegrounds that will be key to deciding …