Trump makes false claims about federal response as he campaigns in area ravaged by Hurricane Helene  —  Donald Trump repeatedly spread falsehoods Monday about the federal response to Hurricane Helene despite claiming not to be politicizing the disaster as he toured hard-hit areas in south Georgia.

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 …

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.

Hundreds of citizens wrongly stripped of voting rights in botched effort to legitimize Trump's conspiracy theory  —  One of the central narratives that former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing is that Democrats are planning to steal the election by using undocumented immigrants to pad their vote totals.

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.

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.

Playbook: What Vance and Walz both want to do tonight  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE CARTER CENTURY — President JIMMY CARTER turns 100 today.  He'll celebrate in his Plains, Georgia, home where he has spent the past 19 months in hospice care …

Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike, a standoff risking new shortages  —  Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.

Israel launches a ‘limited’ ground offensive in southern Lebanon  —  TEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has launched what it called a “limited, localized” ground offensive in southern Lebanon against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.  —  “These targets are located …

Why the “vetting” of JD Vance was a spectacular failure  —  The Trump campaign focused on exactly the wrong things. … More evidence came to light last week confirming that the Trump campaign was blindsided by JD Vance's recent history of expressing misogynist, homophobic, xenophobic …

A Year of Fury and Feuding: GOP Lawmakers Are Still Reeling From McCarthy's Removal  —  “In the history of politics, it was the single stupidest thing I've ever seen,” New York Rep. Mike Lawler said.  — Copy  —  On a normal day, the House of Representatives is chaotic, loud and full of members jockeying for power.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 …