Ukraine's Starlink restrictions raise suspicions of Musk, Trump retaliation  —  The rupture between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over last week's diesel deal deepened Wednesday after an Elon Musk-owned satellite system used by Ukraine unexpectedly restricted service …

House control all but gone, top Republicans privately concede  —  Some top congressional Republicans have privately concluded that it is likely impossible for them to keep control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections, and they are now focused on limiting the scale of the defeat …

Exclusive: Judge limited Justice Department access to Rep. Ilhan Omar's records in sprawling immigration fraud probe  —  Donald Trump Federal agencies Immigration politics Immigration  —  The Trump administration pushed for an unusually aggressive search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's house in recent days …

Exclusive: White House probes claims of missing Kennedy Center money in “MAGA blood feud”  —  President Trump has directed his White House counsel to examine explosive allegations dropped on him Friday in the Oval Office:  — Former Trump attorney Alina Habba told the president that another …

Trump doubling down on Russian diesel deal as Republicans run from it  —  President Donald Trump is pushing ahead with his deal to import Russian diesel, blowing past his party's growing complaints about taking help from Vladimir Putin.  —  “The president's main priority and commitment …

Trump adviser sees ‘a whole bunch of good news’ in inflation report  —  Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council (NEC), said Wednesday he sees a “bunch of good news” in the latest inflation report, which measured prices as up 3.7 percent year over year in September.

'I'm Not Going to Have Blood on My Hands'  —  Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.  —  For years, ESPN wanted nothing to do with sports gambling.  That stance had softened a bit as of 2018, when the Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on bookmaking …

Katie Zacharia's disastrous response to Popular Information's report  —  For years, President Trump's new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, has publicly claimed she is a lawyer.  Zacharia has repeatedly said she was “outside counsel” to the World Bank and “general counsel” to a California non-profit.

Kimberly Guilfoyle's burn book revealed.  Her MAGA secrets kept in a journal so potent it has nervous Trump insiders fearing revenge: ‘She knows where the bodies are buried’  —  Trump advisers had been wrangling to save Kimberly Guilfoyle's job as US ambassador to Greece before she was asked …

Whatley campaign is currently dark on TV as GOP groups retreat from North Carolina  —  Michael Whatley's campaign has temporarily gone dark in North Carolina.  The Republican Senate nominee does not currently have future linear TV ad reservations booked in the race, a highly unusual move less …

2 Senate Republicans tell Supreme Court to review John Eastman's disbarment over Jan. 6  —  Two prominent Senate Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to review the disbarment of John Eastman for helping orchestrate the plot to overturn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.

Ramaswamy Campaign Ad Accidentally Featured a Sex Offender  —  PROPERTY TAXES ARE A HOT-BUTTON ISSUE in Ohio, where Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is trying to run as a change candidate for governor in a state long run by Republicans.  And in his latest campaign ad, he tried to press the button hard.

U.S. Is Sending Hundreds of Troops to Latin America  —  The Pentagon is expanding its fight against drug traffickers, even as the plans recall a long and bloody history of U.S. intervention in the region.  —  The United States is sending several hundred Army soldiers to train and conduct exercises …

Freedom Caucus Chair Freaks Out Over Being Recorded in Public  —  Republican Rep. Andy Harris demanded that police remove a journalist from a press availability he was holding Tuesday night after a campaign forum with a Democratic challenger in Maryland, erroneously citing the state's wiretap law.

Trump Didn't Know Fort Hood Killer is Paralyzed as He Weighs Execution Livestream: CNN  —  President Donald Trump reportedly did not initially know convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down as his administration moved toward livestreaming his execution by firing squad.

Fox News: Where Ken Paxton partying with fugitives is much less interesting than James Talarico getting the flu  —  Just a minute and a half of coverage after days on Talarico's campaign trail absence  —  Fox News barely covered Monday's report that Texas attorney general and GOP nominee …

AI killed the climate star  —  With help from Benjamin Storrow and Sara Schonhardt in the U.S., Brian Dabbs in Singapore, Charlie Cooper in the United Kingdom, Zia Weise in Belgium, Elena Giordano, Alexandre Léchenet and Nicolas Camut in France, and Mike Blanchfield in Canada.  —  SURGE PREVIEW

Americans are losing faith in their fellow voters  —  Americans' trust in their fellow citizens' democratic judgment has fallen to its lowest recorded level in more than five decades, according to a new Gallup survey. … - That's the lowest reading since Gallup began tracking the measure in 1974.

Nancy Mace's Ex-Fiance Charged With Sex Crimes She Detailed in a House Speech  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiance and two of his business associates were charged with sex crimes and voyeurism on Wednesday over an episode the South Carolina congresswoman described …

Tillis mocked the Comey seashell prosecution.  He OK'd Trump's judicial nominees who worked on it.  —  Two North Carolina lawyers recently tapped by President Donald Trump for lifetime posts on the federal bench managed to get sign-off from GOP Sen. Thom Tillis — despite their involvement …

Washington girls walk off cross country meet in protest of male athlete, parents reveal how it came to this  —  About a dozen Camas High School runners sat out after learning a competitor had switched from the boys' team  —  Holly Burns and about a dozen other girls walked away from a cross-country race in Washington on Tuesday.

Ohio early in-person voting nearly quadruples from 2022 midterms  —  Nearly 195,000 Ohioans have voted in person as of Oct. 13, compared with about 50,000 at the same point in 2022.  But mail ballot requests are down as Ohio's closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races draw national attention.

Fact-Checking Senate Debates in Georgia, Maine and Michigan  —  With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals' records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.  —  Senate nominees are making their cases in the final stretch …

DOJ faces legal threats after pushing California to match voter list with USB drive  —  A voting rights group warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it plans to sue if the department doesn't back away from a demand made to various California voting authorities which ordered them to cross-reference …

Democrats ask for AI air traffic control tool pause until questions answered  —  Several House Democrats are asking the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pause its new AI air traffic control tool until their questions are answered.  —  The group of lawmakers — led by Rep. April McClain Delaney …

Supreme Court Again Sides With Republicans in Political TV Ad Fight  —  The Trump administration had filed an emergency application asking the justices to intervene in a long-running dispute over political ad rates.  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration …

'I think Alaska's turning blue': Republicans fret Sullivan's path to reelection  —  WASILLA, Alaska — Three weeks out from Election Day, President Donald Trump took a helicopter to a plane to another helicopter to a motorcade to an ice hockey rink in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Valley …

Senate Dems will send over 100 election observers to nine states for midterms  —  With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber.

Trump says leakers should be shot: 'They're the scum of the earth'  —  President Trump suggested Wednesday at a campaign rally in Arizona that leakers should be shot, in an apparent reference to leaks surrounding U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.  —  “Somebody leaked, some sleazebag.