Trump's proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional  —  George T. Conway III is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Neal Katyal is a partner at Hogan Lovells and former acting U.S. solicitor general in the Obama administration.  —  Sometimes the Constitution's text …

A Supreme Marriage Proposal  —  Some personal secrets are so well-kept that even family and friends are oblivious.  So it is with the story of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's marriage proposal to a Stanford Law School classmate in the early 1950s.

Has Mueller Subpoenaed the President?  —  Nelson W. Cunningham has served as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York under Rudolph Giuliani, general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee under then-chair Joseph R. Biden, and general counsel of the White House Office of Administration under Bill Clinton.

Oprah Is Going To Georgia To Campaign With Stacey Abrams  —  Oprah Winfrey, the Oscar-nominated, self-made billionaire and media icon, is heading to Georgia to campaign for Stacey Abrams.  —  The star will join Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, on Thursday.

Turkish prosecutor says Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered in Saudi Consulate  —  ISTANBUL — Turkey's public prosecutor said Wednesday that Jamal Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered upon arrival at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month as part of “advance plans” …

Steve Bannon draws crowd of tens to rally for Steve Watkins in Topeka  —  “Any honeybuns left over from the continental this morning?”  —  Sherman Smith Twitter  —  I highly recommend that you take a look at Topeka Capital-Journal managing editor Sherman Smith's Twitter thread about attending …

Our descent into vitriol began long before Trump — and Democrats are culpable too  —  After a deranged Democrat living in his van nearly assassinated Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) firing more than 70 rounds at House Republicans practicing for the Congressional Baseball Game …

Jews assail ‘Christian rabbi’ who appeared with Pence, and so does his own movement  —  Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.  —  The “Messianic rabbi” who outraged many Jews by invoking the name of Jesus …

New polls: Democrats lead marquee Florida races; Arizona Senate, Kansas governor effectively tied  —  The final pre-election Reuters/Ipsos/University of Virginia Center for Politics state-level polls of this election cycle shows Democratic candidates leading for the Sunshine State's high-profile gubernatorial …

Freddy Geas, suspected killer of Whitey Bulger, didn't like informants  —  When private investigator Ted McDonough heard that Freddy Geas was suspected by authorities of taking part in the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger, he knew immediately why Geas might have done it.

Donald Trump Launches Operation Midterms Diversion  —  By early afternoon on Tuesday, Donald Trump's latest piece of political chicanery, Operation Midterms Diversion, could be considered a partial success.  After a week in which the media narrative was focussed on pipe bombs …

Authorities probing immigrant Saudi sisters' mystery deaths  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating the mysterious deaths of two sisters from Saudi Arabia whose bodies, bound together with tape, washed up on New York City's waterfront last week.  —  The sisters, Tala Farea, 16 …

Not Much Change IN CD07  —  Higher Dem enthusiasm helps challenger maintain edge  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Democrat Tom Malinowski maintains a narrow lead over Republican Leonard Lance in the race for New Jersey's 7th Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Shape Trump's Pittsburgh Response … The guns used in the synagogue attack were purchased legally by the suspect, an investigation found.  —  WHITEY BULGER  —  Whitey Bulger, Boston Mobster and Informant, Is Dead at 89 … A Mobster of Many Enemies, Bulger May Have Been Killed in a Hit

Standing ‘Against White Supremacy,’ G.O.P. Campaign Chief Rebukes Steve King  —  WASHINGTON — As Pittsburgh began burying the victims of Saturday's synagogue massacre, the head of the House Republican campaign arm all but jettisoned Representative Steve King of Iowa from the House Republican Conference …

Sen. Joe Donnelly says he has black and Indian American staffers, ‘but’ they're terrific  —  Sen. Joe Donnelly (Ind.), a conservative Democrat in one of the tightest reelection battles in the country, made a cringeworthy and puzzling statement about some minorities on his staff during a debate Tuesday night.

Interior watchdog referred Zinke probe to Justice days before move to replace agency IG  —  The Interior Department's internal watchdog referred its investigation of Secretary Ryan Zinke to the Department of Justice (DOJ) more than two weeks ago, just days before it was announced that Interior …

Mueller refers sex assault scheme targeting him to FBI for investigation  —  “We immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Peter Carr, spokesperson for the special counsel.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller last week asked the FBI to investigate a possible scam …

Letters: We can no longer be silent about King's white supremacist views  —  No longer silent about Steve King's supremacist views  —  We are writing from the depths of our grief, in horror at the news of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh.  We feel we must speak …

Record turnout?  Not for millennials — just a third say they'll vote.  —  That number has remained steady since August, according the results of a new NBC News/GenForward survey.  —  About a third of millennials say they will definitely vote in November, according to results …

The Faces of Change in the Midterm Elections … The efforts of these candidates and others like them point to a major shift in the kinds of Americans choosing to pursue public service through elected office.  Their candidacies are likely to have long-lasting impacts on political representation …

Americans Are Easy Marks for Russian Trolls, According to New Data  —  A Daily Beast analysis of Twitter data shows the Kremlin troll farm's English-language propaganda is nine times more effective than its disinformation in Russian.  —  You don't need to read the federal indictments to spot …

WATCH: Trump's motorcade forced to turn around after thousands of protesters flood Pittsburgh streets  —  On Tuesday, despite many people's wishes, President Donald Trump traveled to Pittsburgh to pay his respects to the lives lost in the synagogue massacre.

Kellyanne Conway removes White House title from Twitter bio  —  Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway has removed her White House title from her Twitter bio, leaving her profile blank.  —  It's uncertain why the title was removed from Conway's account, and the White House declined …

The radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist  —  Woman warned Twitter about bomb suspect  —  New York (CNN)Cesar Sayoc's social media accounts read like a blueprint for the radicalization of an alleged domestic terrorist.  —  A CNN KFile analysis of thousands of tweets sent …

Former Sen. John Warner, longtime dean of Virginia's GOP, says he supports Cockburn  —  Former Sen. John Warner, who spent 30 years representing Virginia as a Republican, is lending his support to Leslie Cockburn, a Democrat and former investigative journalist vying to represent the 5th District in the U.S. House.

A Mandarin Duck Mysteriously Appears in Central Park, to Birders' Delight  —  On the crescent-shaped pond in the southeast corner of Central Park, a spectacularly colorful duck floats on the surface with an air of majesty.  —  His head looks like a punk rocker's multicolored mohawk.

How an internet meme became a Trump campaign slogan  —  It used to take a fancy degree and political connections to become a presidential speechwriter.  In the era of President Donald Trump, all you need is a tweet.  —  On a Thursday morning earlier this month, a Twitter user in Georgia …

Republican mailer depicts a Jewish candidate gripping cash and grinning.  The GOP is defending it.  —  A campaign mailer sent out by a Republican candidate for a state Senate seat in Connecticut is being widely denounced for using anti-Semitic tropes in an illustration of his Democratic challenger, who is Jewish.

GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally: 'I'm getting my ass kicked' because of vote to repeal Obamacare  —  Republican Senate candidate Martha McSally (R-AZ) complained in a recent interview that she is getting her “ass kicked” because she voted to repeal President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

Milo Yiannopoulous' NYU appearance a no-go  —  Milo Yiannopoulos, the far-right conservative commentator whose shtick is purposefully anti-politically correct, has had his NYU speaking date postponed.  —  The 34-year-old speaker had been invited to discuss the “identity politics of Halloween” …