Texas sheriff will investigate Florida flying Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard  —  Authorities in Texas have opened a criminal investigation into Gov. Ron DeSantis' operation to fly roughly 50 Venezuela migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard last week.

Trump Was Warned Late Last Year of Potential Legal Peril Over Documents  —  A former White House lawyer sought to impress on him the need to return material he had taken with him upon leaving office.  —  A onetime White House lawyer under President Donald J. Trump warned him late last year …

Judge Vacates Murder Conviction of Adnan Syed of ‘Serial’  —  Mr. Syed, 41, had been serving a life sentence for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate Hae Min Lee.  The judge gave prosecutors 30 days to proceed with a new trial or drop the case.  —  Michael Levenson reported …

Scoop: McConnell's closed-door confidence  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) expressed cautious optimism in closed-door remarks Monday to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the GOP can win back control of the Senate, Axios has learned.  —  Why it matters: McConnell …

Revenge?  Republicans weigh tanking Manchin's permitting plan  —  Senate Republicans say Joe Manchin can't count on them to save his energy permitting deal with Democratic leaders, potentially upending efforts to attach the centrist's proposal to a must-pass government funding bill.

Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium  —  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A food company executive was arrested on a pair of charges after reportedly biting a man's nose in a parking garage in Fayetteville on Saturday night.

Republicans' choice for 2024 should be abundantly clear  —  Whatever debate there is about the 2024 presidential race, and about whether Republicans should nominate former President Donald Trump or Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, it is not much of a debate at all.

Trump discovers he's not in Cannon-land anymore  —  Donald Trump put the Justice Department on its heels, courtesy of a single federal judge who gave him the benefit of almost every doubt as he fought against the FBI's probe of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Some People Are Finally Getting Their First Dose of a Covid-19 Vaccine  —  Job mandates and easing safety concerns are among the reasons newly vaccinated people say they got their shots  —  FDA Authorizes New Covid Boosters Aimed at Omicron Subvariants  —  Created with sketchtool.

BREAKING: Police Report: Mike Franken's Former Campaign Manager Accused Candidate of Assault  —  Former Campaign Manager Alleges Franken is a Serial Perpetrator of Unwanted Advances Toward Women … According to a Des Moines Police Department incident report filed in April …

Arrests at Southwestern Border Exceed 2 Million in a Year for the First Time  —  The historic pace of undocumented immigrants entering the country continued as the Biden administration tried to steer clear of immigration issues with the midterm elections approaching.

EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance tears into ‘shameless fraud’ Tim Ryan for attending a WEDDING on Saturday night - after Democrat repeatedly attacked him for holding a rally with Trump during an Ohio football game  — Democrat House Rep. Tim Ryan is locked in a tight race with Trump-backed Republican JD Vance …

UWS Synagogue Refuses to Rent Space to Republican Club for Speech by Election Denier  —  The Society for the Advancement of Judaism had rented to the Upper West Side Republican Club before the pandemic, but after Jan. 6 they weren't interested in letting the group return for an event with Dick Morris.

Trump ally Mike Lindell must face defamation suit over election-rigging claims  —  MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Mike Lindell must face a defamation lawsuit brought by a voting machine company that the Trump ally falsely accused of rigging the 2020 U.S. election, a Minnesota federal judge ruled on Monday.

In Wisconsin, Election Skeptics Deploy as Poll Watchers for Midterms  —  Typically mundane duty becomes flashpoint after Trump falsely claimed fraud cost him the White House  —  GREEN BAY, Wis.—Republicans here are recruiting a fresh batch of poll watchers to monitor voting in November …

Regarding comments made by US President Joe Biden during a CBS 60 Minutes interview that US forces would assist Taiwan's defense in the event of an attack by China, MOFA responds as follows:  —  During a CBS 60 Minutes interview broadcast on September 18, US President Joe Biden said that the United States had committed to defend Taiwan.

The Right to Not Be Pregnant  —  I've never wanted to be pregnant, and I've been pregnant three times.  Each time I learned the news, my commitment to what I'd already known was confirmed viscerally and instantaneously—with the unshakable certainty of no. I say “no” often.  I think “no” frequently.

Scholars Ask Congress to Scrap Winner-Take-All Political System  —  More than 200 political scientists wrote an open letter to lawmakers proposing sweeping changes to federal elections.  The overhaul would be a heavy lift.  —  If there's one thing we know about America's creaking democracy …

Greg Pollowitz, Twitchy's ‘rock’, has passed away after fight with leukemia  —  It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of Twitchy's Managing Editor, Greg Pollowitz.  —  Greg was our rock and always kept a steady head regardless of what the news (or Twitter) threw at us.