Scoop: Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation  —  President Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation as UN Ambassador, according to two sources briefed on their conversation.  The timing of her departure is still unclear.  —  What we're hearing: Haley discussed her resignation …

Superior ruthlessness isn't why Republicans control the Supreme Court  —  They had some good luck — and, most importantly, they had the votes.  —  A strange explanation for Brett Kavanaugh's ascension to the Supreme Court emerged soon after the Senate confirmed him.

CNN poll: Democrats are fired up and maintain a strong 2018 lead  —  Washington (CNN)Four weeks out from Election Day, Democrats remain well ahead of Republicans in a generic ballot matchup, with 54% of likely voters saying they support the Democrat in their district and 41% backing a Republican …

Infamous St. Petersburg ‘Troll Factory’ Set on Fire  —  The office of Russia's infamous troll factory believed to be at the vanguard of Russia's information war has been set on fire in St. Petersburg overnight.  —  An investigation revealed last year that the secretive troll factory …

POLITICO race ratings: The GOP House is crumbling  —  There are now 209 seats either firmly or leaning in the Democratic column — only 9 shy of the 218 needed to win control.  —  The Republican House majority continues to show signs of collapsing, with Democrats steadily gaining ground toward erasing …

Treasure hunters challenge FBI over dig for Civil War gold  —  DENTS RUN, Pa. (AP) — Surrounded by dozens of stone-faced FBI agents on a frigid winter's day, Dennis and Kem Parada stared down at the empty hole and knew something wasn't right.  —  The father-son duo spent years combing …

Turkey prepares to search Saudi Consulate for missing journalist  —  ISTANBUL — With diplomatic tensions boiling over a missing and presumed dead Saudi journalist, a team of Turkish police waited outside the heavily guarded Saudi Consulate in Istanbul Tuesday as officials from the kingdom …

‘This is MY son’: Navy vet horrified as mom's tweet miscasts him as #HimToo poster boy — and goes viral  —  Pieter Hanson was in the middle of a marketing exam when his phone started blowing up, buzzing and buzzing until he was convinced something terrible had happened.

The one conspiracy theory that Republicans won't believe  —  The Party of Trump has proved itself keen to propagate any conspiracy theory, no matter how ridiculous or racist.  —  Well, almost any conspiracy theory.  —  There were the microwave ovens that surveil your every move.

Taylor Swift's Instagram Post Has Caused A Massive Spike In Voter Registration  —  Since Taylor Swift flexed her star power Sunday with an Instagram post that encouraged her 112 million followers to register to vote, Vote.org has experienced an unprecedented flood of new voter registrations nationwide.

US student detained in Israel for alleged boycott support  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — In a first-of-its-kind case, Israel has held an American graduate student at its international airport for a whole week, accusing her of supporting a Palestinian-led boycott movement against the Jewish state.

‘They Told Me I Would Never See Her Again’: Deported Parents Lose Kids To Adoption  —  As the deportees were led off the plane onto the steamy San Salvador tarmac, an anguished Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst into tears, her face contorted with pain: “They want to steal my daughter!”

Exclusive — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy Introducing Bill to Fully Fund Border Wall, Making Midterm Immigration Referendum  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will introduce a bill this week that will fully fund President Donald Trump's planned wall along the U.S. border with Mexico …

Weiner on track for early release … Disgraced ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner has finally found something he can do without screwing it up.  —  Nearly a year after he began his 21-month prison sentence for sexting with an underage girl, Weiner, 54, is set to be released early for good conduct.

U.S. top court rebuffs appeal of Kavanaugh ruling nixing climate rule  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned aside appeals of a 2017 lower court ruling by its newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh, that struck down an environmental rule imposed under former President …

11Alive poll: Georgia voters split on governor's race, approve of legal pot, arming teachers  —  Republican candidate for governor Brian Kemp has a nominal 2-point advantage but African-American turnout could easily propel Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams to the Statehouse, according to the poll.

Kirchick '06 fails to get on the alumni fellow ballot  —  Journalist and author James Kirchick '06 announced Monday that he failed to gather the required number of signatures to enter the alumni fellow election, annulling his monthslong campaign to join the University's highest governing body.

Heidi Heitkamp was ready to vote ‘yes’ on Kavanaugh.  Then she watched him with the sound off.  —  Sen. may lose seat after voting no on Kavanaugh  —  Bismarck, North Dakota (CNN)Sen. Heidi Heitkamp was ready to vote ‘yes’ on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Kanye West Expected to Visit Trump at the White House  —  President Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are expected to meet with the musician Kanye West on Thursday at the White House, two people familiar with the plans said.  —  Mr. West, who has faced a backlash over his vocal support …

The Mueller Investigation Is Bigger Than Rod Rosenstein  —  Even if he got fired, a replacement dead set on shutting down the investigation would find it nearly impossible to pull off.  —  Ms. Rangappa was an F.B.I. special agent focusing on counterintelligence investigations.

Trump country had bad football  —  A flailing home team dampens interest in football in a market, regardless of politics.  —  Take a look at those five Trump-leaning markets with the worst NFL ratings drops and you'll find bad football.  —  The worst plunge happened in Phoenix.  There, Trump was strong.

Is Ted Cruz “Tough As Texas”?  —  Is Ted Cruz really “Tough as Texas”?  Hardly.  Here's one Texan's take on that Ted Cruz fella... - Directed by Richard Linklater

Beto O'Rourke May Benefit From an Unlikely Support Group: White Evangelical Women  —  DALLAS — After church on a recent Sunday, Emily Mooney smiled as she told her girlfriends about her public act of rebellion.  She had slapped a “Beto for Senate” sticker on her S.U.V. and driven it to her family's evangelical church.

I discovered the rest of America on my summer holiday  —  Economists like me see the world through the prism of models, fitted to statistical data and tested against market realities.  Economic models provide uniquely powerful perspectives: I have used them to argue that had the economy been left to itself …

Shock report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump's wall  —  Americans are paying more to cover the costs of illegal immigrants having children in the United States than Congress plans to give President Trump in border wall funding this year, according to an explosive new analysis of Census Bureau data.

Kavanaugh will be on the US supreme court for life.  Here's how we fight back  —  We are in, it seems, for decades of misery for labor unions, voting rights and regulation of businesses.  Or are we?  —  Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, and he will serve as a justice on the supreme court for the rest of his life.

Sinema announces raising nearly $7 million in third quarter  —  Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) says she raised nearly $7 million in the third fundraising quarter of the year, shattering her previous fundraising records in the Senate race against Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.).

Kavanaugh catapults Marsha Blackburn into lead in key Tennessee Senate race  —  GERMANTOWN, Tenn. — Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn holds her first sustained lead in the race for an open Tennessee Senate seat, catapulted ahead of Democrat Phil Bredesen by the partisan battle …