Herschel Walker's Wife Reaches Out to His Abortion Accuser  —  Herschel Walker still maintains he doesn't know who the woman is who's accusing him of having an abortion.  His wife seems pretty clear on the matter. … Herschel Walker has maintained that he still doesn't know the identity …

Crimea bridge blast damages key Russian supply route; 3 dead  —  An explosion caused the partial collapse of a bridge linking the Crimean Peninsula with Russia on Saturday, damaging a key supply artery for the Kremlin's faltering war effort in southern Ukraine.  Three people were killed in the blast, Russian authorities said.

How Trump Deflected Demands for Documents, Enmeshing Aides  —  The former president exhibited a pattern of dissembling about the material he took from the White House, creating legal risk not just for himself but also some of his lawyers.  —  Late last year, as the National Archives ratcheted …

Kremlin, shifting blame for war failures, axes military commanders  —  Russian Ground Forces Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, who over a 44-year military career was best-known for scorched-earth tactics in campaigns he led in Syria and Chechnya, was named overall operational commander of the war in Ukraine in April.

‘The Army Gave a Hunting Permit to Radical Partisans’: What a General's Bout with Fox Could Mean for Women  —  The Army's top enlisted leader says he is steadfast in his commitment to his promise of crafting a more inclusive environment for women as the service has been rocked …

Valeriy Tarasenko, associate of fake heiress who wandered Mar-a-Lago and posed with Donald Trump, shot outside Canadian resort  —  A close associate of a woman who posed as a member of a famous banking family and spent days at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home was shot Friday outside …

Himars Transform the Battle for Ukraine—and Modern Warfare  —  The mobile, high-precision U.S. rocket system is thwarting Russia's invasion as it revolutionizes military strategy  —  MYKOLAIV REGION, Ukraine—A global revolution in warfare is dramatically tipping the scales …

STAMPED OUT: Letitia James protects the mail with huge judicial win against DeJoy  —  “After he assumed leadership in June 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pushed through drastic changes to the U.S. Postal Service's operations that slowed mail operations nationwide, harmed everyday Americans, and made a mockery of the right to vote.

Howard Schultz's fight to stop a Starbucks barista uprising  —  Starbucks's CEO saw his unionizing baristas as a threat to his life's work.  They said he didn't understand how the country and their lives had changed.  —  SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks …

Trump ally Lindsey Graham told ex-cop Capitol rioters should be shot in head  —  Michael Fanone recounts meeting with South Carolina Republican senator in book to be published next week  —  Republican senator and Trump ally Lindsey Graham told a police officer badly beaten during …

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Pro-Trump Rally-Goers Blame Mysterious Bogeymen for Latest Event Flop  —  Speakers bent over backwards to explain the low turnout, blaming “paid agitators,” the government, and would-be attendees' spam folders.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—Right-wing activists assembled on Capitol grounds Friday afternoon …

Elon Musk: 'Aren't you entertained?' … Dinner with Elon Musk begins with a drive in a Tesla.  I am seated in the back, next to X, the billionaire's two-and-a-half-year-old son.  It's around 7pm in Austin, and X is, as one would expect, cranky.  We had set off to Fonda San Miguel …

Many of Hurricane Ian's Victims Were Older Adults Who Drowned  —  The storm, Florida's deadliest since 1935, has been linked to the deaths of at least 119 people in the state, many of them older residents who lived near the coast.  —  A 57-year-old woman in the Sarasota area developed hypothermia …

Fetterman's Blue-Collar Allure Is Tested as Pennsylvania Race Tightens  —  John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate, says he can win over working-class voters in deep-red counties.  Some evidence suggests he can, but partisan loyalties may prove more powerful.

Are Putin's nuclear threats really likely to lead to Armageddon?  —  The realities underlying the menacing vocabulary are a grey area - it is far from certain that Putin would be prepared to use nuclear weapons  —  he past week has seen a rapid escalation in nuclear rhetoric …

Karamo makes abortion and religion the centerpieces of her secretary of state campaign  —  A Republican running a family values campaign is certainly not a headline.  —  But Michigan GOP Secretary of State nominee Kristina Karamo has combined that message with her penchant for conspiracy theories …

The chilling numbers that reveal the scale of Joe Biden's border disaster  —  Democrats are napping peacefully through the US-Mexico “border” crisis they engineered.  Perhaps these data will snap them from their slumber:  —  The US Department of Homeland Security reports that the Mexican cartels' income …

Biden's inside man in Trump land  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration. … In the spring of 2020, JOE BIDEN's transition team viewed CHRIS LIDDELL skeptically.  —  As a deputy chief of staff to DONALD TRUMP …

Why Trump's last-minute super PAC spending doesn't go as far  —  Former President Donald Trump's new super PAC is hitting the airwaves backing GOP Senate candidates in five key races.  But his paid media efforts are unlikely to reach as many viewers as the campaigns and even some other outside groups.

CNN Misrepresents Representative Tom Emmer  —  The Minnesota congressman who heads the National Republican Congressional Committee is the lead example of Republican hypocrisy in a CNN story: … I read that lede and thought, Did Emmer really say that?  That seems like a pretty hyperbolic description …