New questions raised about Avenatti claims regarding Kavanaugh  —  “I do not like that he twisted my words,” one woman says of lawyer Michael Avenatti.  —  When Sen. Chuck Grassley referred attorney Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the Justice Department for criminal investigation Thursday …

Trump Considers Closing Southern Border to Migrants  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is considering taking executive action to bar migrants, including asylum seekers, from entering the country at the southern border, according to people familiar with the plan.

Newt Gingrich: 'We'll see whether or not the Kavanaugh fight was worth it'  —  Megyn Kelly's rocky two years at NBC  —  Saudi Arabia concedes Khashoggi's murder was premeditated  —  Numerous pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of President Trump  —  CNN's New York offices evacuated after reports of a suspicious device

Why was MBS so afraid of Jamal Khashoggi?  —  Why was Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman so afraid of Jamal Khashoggi that he reportedly gave orders this past summer to bring the Post contributing columnist back to Saudi Arabia?  —  We'll still be left with that question after the Saudi …

Megyn Kelly was making racist comments long before ‘blackface.’ NBC hired her anyway.  —  Megyn Kelly is reportedly on her way out of the Today Show and maybe NBC.  Her past racial demagoguery should have disqualified her in the first place.  —  CONNECT  —  “Megyn Kelly said something really racist …

F-Bombs and Real Bombs  —  Our problem isn't “incivility.”  It's right-wing violence.  —  On Wednesday night, after bombs were sent to a number of Donald Trump's most prominent enemies, he held a rally in Mosinee, Wis. A president with even a pretense to statesmanship would have canceled it …

Trump used charity money to buy his own portrait because no one else would: lawyers … Donald Trump had no choice but to blow $10,000 in charity money on a giant painting of himself — because no one else wanted it, his lawyers claimed in court Thursday.  —  Trump picked up the infamous painting …

Ballot Applications in Georgia, and Senate and House Latest: 12 Days to Go  —  Welcome to The Tip Sheet, a daily political analysis of the 2018 elections, based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists and voters.  —  Voter applications said to be missing in Georgia

Simona Mangiante has been reported to ICE, sources close to George Papadopoulos say  —  Simona Mangiante, the wife of convicted ex-Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, has been reported to federal immigration authorities by those close to Papadopoulos, per 2 sources with knowledge of the situation …

Trump's tweet claiming he ‘only uses government phones’ was sent from an iPhone  — President Donald Trump routinely uses unsecured iPhones to speak with friends and associates instead of a secure White House line, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

Housing Is Tanking in the Northeast.  Guess Why.  —  Losing big deductions for state and local property taxes is having the expected effect.  —  Sales of new single-family houses were down 13.2 percent in September from a year earlier, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.

New voters get notices listing wrong Dodge City polling site  —  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — After moving Dodge City's sole polling site outside city limits, county election officials sent newly registered voters an official certificate of registration that listed the wrong place to cast a ballot …

Judge denies Nunes access to secret depositions on Steele dossier  —  The chairmen of two congressional committees, including House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Cal., who sought sealed testimony in a South Florida court case from key players in the Trump-Russia investigation ran afoul …

I thought Trump would help the LGBTQ community.  I was wrong.  —  Caitlyn Jenner is a transgender rights advocate and author.  —  These past two years under President Trump have given me the opportunity to reflect on a lot of topics that have come up in the LGBTQ community and in our nation.

Package Found At Sen. Dianne Feinstein's LA Office Building Cleared  —  LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/CBS News) - A package that was discovered Thursday at a building that houses one of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's state offices was ruled safe by investigators.  —  SKY2 was over the scene at the intersection of Santa Monica and Sepulveda boulevards.

There's Just No Way That a Terrorism-by-Mail Scheme Targeting the Political-Media Establishment Could be a False Flag.  I Mean, It Couldn't Happen Again, After The Last False Flag Mail Terror Attack in 2001  —  Everyone remember the Anthrax mailings?  —  Real anthrax, by the way.  Not fugazi.

Careless cruelty  —  Civil servants said separating families was illegal.  The administration ignored us.  —  The meeting was way overdue, and it wasn't going well.  —  It was May 21.  The Department of Homeland Security, where I worked as a senior adviser in the Office for Civil Rights …

Instagram Removes Milo Yiannopoulos Post Praising Mail Bombs After Daily Beast Report  —  Instagram had first told The Daily Beast that Yiannopoulos' post regretting that the bombs didn't go off had not violated its standards.  —  Instagram deleted a post from right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos praising …

Exclusive: Chelsea Clinton mulling political office: If someone ‘steps down or retires’  —  Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said she wouldn't rule out a run for office herself, and said her mother has not spoken …

Here's how many times Trump attacked pipe bomb targets  —  Stelter: Trump on Twitter is a Fox News host  —  John Avlon is a CNN senior political analyst and anchor.  The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.  View more opinion articles on CNN.  —  (CNN)Words matter.

How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’  —  The internet giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 million and praised him, while keeping silent about a misconduct claim.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Google gave Andy Rubin, the creator of Android mobile software, a hero's farewell when he left the company in October 2014.

Hundreds of Thousands of Wisconsin Voters Purged from Rolls Since 2016 General Election  —  A review of the latest voter registration tallies by Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) finds that almost 700,000 Wisconsin voters have been removed from the voter rolls since the end of December 2016 …

GOP sees new bomb scare victim: Trump  —  A day after several leading Democrats were found to have been targeted by package bombs, Republicans have identified one of their own as a victim: President Donald Trump.  —  As of Thursday afternoon, less than 36 hours after the first packages were discovered …

Bernie Sanders Isn't Tired.  He's “Just Waking Up.”  —  AMES, Iowa — For 20 minutes on Sunday night, inside the Lied Recreation Athletic Center at Iowa State University, activity comes to a sudden halt.  Students on the rock wall glance across the room, suspended in midair.  A pickup game stops.

The Open Border Activists Behind the Illegal Immigrant Caravans  —  You may have heard about the caravan of immigrants from Central America making its way through Mexico in the hopes of illegally crossing the border into the United States.  The group of perhaps 4,000 to 7,000 people …