The hard truth: Americans don't trust the news media  —  A note from our owner.  —  Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.  —  In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.

Trump's Shock Comic Was Set to Call Harris a ‘C*nt’  —  DONALD TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN WAS LEFT scrambling Sunday night after roast-comic Tony Hinchcliffe made insulting jokes about Hispanic and black people on stage at the ex-president's Madison Square Garden rally.

Harris Aides Hopeful That Casting Trump as a Fascist Could Shift Election  —  While still cautious, advisers and allies believe that casting Donald Trump as a fascist is working, and that their expansive ground game and appeals on abortion rights may carry the day.

Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon  —  Incendiary devices were set off Monday at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — destroying hundreds of ballots in what one official called a …

A new Supreme Court case could change the result of the presidential election  —  Support independent journalism that matters — become a Vox Member.  —  On October 23, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that many voters who cast a mailed-in ballot improperly, thus rendering their vote …

Trump Wants You to Accept All of This as Normal  —  In the final week of this election season, the Republican Party is running two different campaigns.  One of them is an ugly and angry but conventional political enterprise.  Donald Trump and other Republicans make speeches …

NAACP poll: Trump's support among young Black men decreasing  —  A new NAACP survey found Republican Donald Trump's support among young Black men has dwindled with a little more than a week to go before Election Day.  The poll found Black men under 50 years old decreased their likelihood …

Trump: 'I'm not a Nazi.  I'm the opposite of a Nazi'  —  “I'm not a Nazi.  I'm the opposite of a Nazi,” former President Donald Trump declared at a campaign rally in Atlanta on Monday night — instead placing blame on Democrats for comparing him to one.  He claimed that Harris' campaign painted him as a Nazi.

Steve Bannon is released from prison in time for the last-week push to Election Day  —  Steve Bannon was released from federal prison Tuesday, according to a source with knowledge, emerging just a week before Election Day to retake the helm of his weakened right-wing media platform.

Elon Musk's America PAC uses crude, sexist attack against Harris in new ad  —  Elon Musk's America PAC shared a video calling Kamala Harris “the c-word” on X, the social media platform also owned by the tech billionaire.  The narrator in the 34-second ad repeatedly calls Harris a “c-word” …

How Trump Goes to Prison  —  If he loses the race for the White House, the big house awaits.  —  Donald Trump is facing an extreme sliding-doors scenario on Election Day.  If he wins, he would have the power to single-handedly scuttle the federal criminal cases against him …

Kamala Harris' VP choice Tim Walz had secret fling with daughter of top Chinese Communist official during teaching stint in China  — Tim Walz had a romance with Jenna Wang, daughter of a CCP official in 1989  — She said her father Bin Hui would disown her for fraternizing with a westerner

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