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

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.

Harris calls on the US ‘to turn the page on hatred and division’ as she crisscrosses Philadelphia  —  Kamala Harris told a Philadelphia church congregation that the United States is “determined to turn the page on hatred and division” as she began crisscrossing the Democratic stronghold Sunday.

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.

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.

Will Rollins was written off in 2022.  Now, he could help deliver a Democratic majority.  —  Democratic groups are pouring millions into his rematch against Republican Rep. Ken Calvert in the Palm Springs-area district.  —  PALM SPRINGS, California — The last time Will Rollins took …

Nebraska is in the national spotlight.  An obscure education fight could tilt the election results.  —  Voters will decide whether to scrap a state-funded program that provides scholarships for students to attend private schools.  —  A fight to overturn Nebraska's $10 million school voucher law …

Advisers Propose That Trump Give Security Clearances Without F.B.I. Vetting  —  A memo circulating in Donald Trump's orbit says that if elected he should use private firms to check appointees' backgrounds and give them immediate access to classified secrets after taking office.

Amid Talk of Fascism, Trump's Threats and Language Evoke a Grim Past … Former President Donald J. Trump at a rally in Las Vegas on Thursday.Kenny Holston/The New York Times  —  When former President Donald J. Trump's longest serving chief of staff said the other day that his old boss …

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.”

CBS News Harris-Trump poll has closer look inside gender gap as Trump, Harris draw even  —  Amid an election-defining gender gap that is now tied for the largest this year, the already close presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has become closer still.

‘Yes, I was in a cult’: J6 rioter backing Harris after admitting being ‘all in with MAGA’  —  As part of interviews with three Donald Trump supporters who headed off to Washington, D.C. to attend the post-election “Stop the Steal” rally, one woman called it the biggest mistake of her life …

Appeals court rejects Virginia's request to continue its late voter-purge program  —  On Sunday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rejected Virginia's request to restart its late voter-purge program, with a three-judge panel unanimously concluding, “[Virginia] argue[s] …

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.

To understand the U.S. economic success is to love Harris's plan  —  Kamala Harris's economic proposals would build on the remarkable U.S. comeback since the pandemic.  —  Despite the compulsion of Republican MAGA voices to run down the country's economic strength, the U.S. recovery …

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 …