Republican battleground-state legal blitz falters ahead of election  —  Donald Trump's Republican allies have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks in battleground U.S. presidential election states as Election Day draws closer, losses which could boost voter turnout and speed certification of the eventual winner.

Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’  —  DIRTY DEAL  —  Robert Kagan tells the Daily Beast that Donald Trump's meeting with Blue Origin executives the day its founder Jeff Bezos killed his paper's Kamala Harris endorsement is proof of a backroom deal.  —  EXCLUSIVE

Harris regains slight lead nationally yet Electoral College holds the cards: POLL  —  Harris has regained a slight lead with likely voters nationally, the poll finds.  —  Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally at James R. Hallford Stadium, Oct. 24, 2024, in Clarkston, Ga.

Harris and Walz will visit all the battleground states in the campaign's closing stretch  —  Kamala Harris told a church congregation Sunday that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division.”  The vice president's visit to Philadelphia's Church of Christian Compassion …

Donald Trump Will Never Be Done With New York  —  Sunday's rally at Madison Square Garden, the self-styled “world's most famous arena,” is a remarkable gambit, even by the former president's standards — and a show of force.  —  The seven-decade marriage between Donald J. Trump and New York City …

October 26, 2024  —  Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II.  Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”  —  Listen to a voiceover of this post, subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later.  —  When a major legacy news publication does something controversial, I sometimes hear my name.

Billionaire cowards at Washington Post, L.A. Times show what life under a dictator is really like  —  Do not obey in advance.  Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.  In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked.

Republicans Put Pressure on Democrats in ‘Blue Wall’ Senate Races  —  GOP is closing the gap in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in fight for majority  —  WASHINGTON—Republicans are starting to crack the solid “blue wall” formed by Democratic-held Senate seats Michigan …

Trust, Bewilderment and Billionairedom: Understanding the Backlash Against Bezos  —  It's part of the stock in trade of liberal American discourse: threatening or claiming to cancel a subscription to this or that once-revered journalistic institution in response to bad behavior, bad reporting …

Florida Democrat Blasts Republican Sen. Rick Scott Over State's Home Insurance Crisis  —  Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is hoping voters make the connection between Scott's eight years as governor and the escalating cost of home insurance.  —  LOADING  —  Wetter, more destructive hurricanes …

More than 1,000 faith leaders endorse Harris as vice president leans on her faith to turn out Black voters  —  More than a thousand religious leaders endorsed Kamala Harris on Sunday, bolstering the Democratic presidential nominee's push to emphasize how faith is informing her campaign ahead of next week's election.

Democracy |  As Fascism Looms, the Free Press Must Stand and Report in the Breach  — Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)  —  It was a cool, dark night in Berlin on May 10, 1933, as a mob of white Nazi college students pulled thousands of “subversive” …

A growing number of Americans are concerned with Trump's age, but still not as many who worried about Biden  —  Voters did not have the same concerns about age for Kamala Harris  —  Your support helps us to tell the story  —  This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls.

Who won the day?  Harris  —  For at least a couple hours Friday, Kamala Harris assembled a rally star-studded enough to drown out the growing chorus of doubters in her own party.  Those in the crowd wore light-up bracelets flashing red, white and blue, and the screens above the stage read …