Trump: Nobody Could Have Predicted a Hurricane Would Hit Mid-Hurricane Season  —  OUT OF THE BLUE  —  The former president opined that nobody could have predicted Hurricane Helene making landfall “so late” in the hurricane season, which is set to last another two months.

Rudy Giuliani's Daughter: Trump Took My Dad From Me.  Please Don't Let Him Take Our Country Too  —  “Nothing I have experienced prepared me for the very public and relentless implosion of my father's life,” writes Caroline Giuliani, announcing her support for Kamala Harris.

Facts Need To Be Checked  —  So what's going on with CBS News?  —  Dan Rather and Team Steady  —  With our democracy being tested in unimagined ways, we are just over a month away from one of the most important presidential elections in U.S. history.  The only chance for voters …

Judge again strikes down Georgia abortion law, allowing abortions to resume … About the Author  —  Maya T. Prabhu is a government reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  Born in Queens, New York, and raised in northern Virginia, Maya attended Spelman College and then the University of Maryland for a master's degree.

Giant naked Trump effigy is ‘deplorable’, say Republicans  —  Sculpture of former US president has been erected near Las Vegas purely for ‘shock value’, say local politicians  —  Republicans have condemned as “deplorable” a 43-foot effigy of a naked Donald Trump that has been erected near Las Vegas.

The three phases of normalizing Trump's attack on Harris in Wisconsin  — The use of neutral language.  If you merely read about Donald Trump's deeply offensive rally this weekend in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, you probably thought it was about immigration.  And about Trump up to his usual tricks of disparaging his rivals.

An Ohio Businessman Faces Death Threats for Praising His Haitian Workers  —  The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.  —  For Jamie McGregor …

Democrats Sue Georgia Election Board Over Ballot Hand Counting Rule  —  The Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Georgia Democratic Party sued the State Election Board on Monday after three of its MAGA members approved a rule requiring poll workers to hand count all ballots, even after being tabulated by machines.

Crooked Cops, Stolen Laptops & the Ghost of UGNazi  —  A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, the government alleges.

Arkansas Judge Mandates Early Voting in Majority Black City  —  Early voting will be held at Seventh Street Church of Christ in West Memphis, Arkansas after a judge granted part of a request from two voters.  The voters in the majority-Black city initially requested at least two early voting locations.

California bans legacy admissions at all colleges  —  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a prohibition on the practice.  —  SACRAMENTO, California — It will soon be illegal for public and private universities in California to consider an applicant's relationship to alumni or donors when deciding whether to admit them.

Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights  —  In some states, that GOP number could even approach a majority.  —  The politics of abortion rights have shifted massively toward Democrats since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

The Coming Trump Revenge Tour  —  Trump has campaigned on a wave of retaliatory criminal prosecutions.  It's not the first time he's promised to lock up his rivals — but a second term would be different.  —  In the most volatile presidential campaign of the last 50 years …

Haley's endorsement of Trump doesn't mean her supporters will follow her  —  She drew voters from the former president during the primary even after she dropped out.  —  Nikki Haley has made clear she's on Team Trump.  Her supporters don't all feel the same.

Welcome Home, Hostages, and Pay Up  —  The IRS should stop targeting wrongfully detained Americans.  —  'Last month, I was in solitary confinement in Siberia.  Today, I'm here.  I can't believe it!  That's how Vladimir Kara-Murza began his remarks this month when he met with U.S. senators who fought for his release.

No, A Former Republican Congressman Now Backing Harris Did Not Author Project 2025  —  A right-wing conspiracy theory that the transition plan written by Trump alumni was actually a super secret sabotage effort has been disputed by those at the center of it.  —  LOADING

Schumer dumping $1M in surprisingly competitive Maryland Senate race … - The Democratic PAC WinSenate has already spent some ad money on the race, but the new bookings for the first two weeks of October are a significant jump, according to AdImpact data.  — “[I]f Hogan's Washington GOP friends …

Memoir contradicts Republican Senate candidate's ‘below the poverty line’ tale  —  Montana's Tim Sheehy claims he and wife lived in poverty but own book reveals he had $400,000 to build company  —  At a recent campaign event in Whitehall, Montana, the Republican US Senate candidate Tim Sheehy told voters …

UNRWA confirms Hamas leader in Lebanon was its employee  —  The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees confirms that Fateh Sherif, named by Hamas as its leader in Lebanon, was employed by UNRWA, but notes that he was being probed over his political activities.