POLITICO barred from White House after court ruling restoring access  —  A POLITICO reporter was denied access to the White House Thursday and his press credentials confiscated after a judge ordered the Trump administration overnight to immediately restore access for news organizations …

Mary Peltola's Campaign in Alaska Senate Race Is Rocked by Tumult, With Angry Outbursts and Slurs  —  Democrats hope that Mary Peltola can flip a Republican Senate seat in Alaska.  Former aides describe a campaign and congressional office marked by chaos.  —  National Democrats cheered …

No president has gone into a midterm election this unpopular.  Not even George W. Bush in 2006.  —  Democrats hit new midterm high as Trump's approval rating reaches a new low  —  Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump stood in front of a crowd of supporters at a first-of-its-kind midterms convention …

Trump, 80, Mocked for Telling Choice of Clothing at Xi Jinping Meet  —  HIDING SOMETHING?  —  A photographer revealed what the president was hiding.  —  President Donald Trump has been mocked after pulling out his winter wardrobe to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in pleasant fall weather.

The blue wave is mostly in red states.  That's a little weird.  —  Still Counting Episode 3 is out.  Video version above, audio below.  We'll be publishing these each week here at the newsletter.  But for faster access, please subscribe on YouTube or follow us on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

You should be skeptical of JD Vance's claims about Obamacare fraud  —  A government task force led by Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that it will remove 760,000 allegedly improper enrollments from the Affordable Care Act's marketplaces.  The move is the latest in the administration's efforts …

Kyrsten Sinema's ex-bodyguard accused of causing $200K in damage at her Cave Creek home  —  Matthew Ammel allegedly threw artwork into pool  —  CAVE CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — The former bodyguard accused of having an affair with former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing felony charges …

Texas counties are receiving tens of thousands of unprocessed voter registration applications due to state error  —  Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Texas' free newsletter here.

Donald the Deadbeat Does Diesel  —  Trump gets ready to stiff more contractors  —  There's a strong whiff of desperation coming off the Republican Party these days, and it smells a lot like diesel fumes.  All indications are that the G.O.P. is headed for a huge defeat in the midterms …

Canada's Carney says he studied risk of US invasion  —  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he studied the possibility of U.S. military action, following President Donald Trump's repeated musings about making Canada the 51st state.  —  As Canada's leader, he has the responsibility to …

Iowa Judge Dismisses Trump's Lawsuit Against The Des Moines Register  —  The suit challenged a poll that showed Trump trailing Kamala Harris in the final weeks of the 2024 race.  A judge warned that similar legal challenges could have a chilling effect on news reporting.

Young men are swinging away hard from Republicans, pessimistic about economy, new poll finds  —  Republicans' 2024 gains among young men have evaporated — and that could have instant ramifications this November, according to a new Cygnal poll.  —  President Donald Trump narrowly carried young men in 2024 …

Sen. Tommy Tuberville claims ‘many’ airline pilots, air traffic controllers are ‘part of the furry community’  —  Fly the furry skies.  —  Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville claimed the airline industry is full of members of the “furry” subculture in a bizarre speech from the Senate floor connecting transgenderism to mental illness.

A Reclusive G.O.P. Billionaire Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans  —  Timothy Mellon, one of the party's biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.

'Don't owe the old guys anything': Backlash builds to GOP chairs clinging to power  —  House Republicans for decades have prided themselves on their strict three-term limit for committee leaders, saying it promotes fresh blood in the party ranks.  —  But that limit has grown less strict in recent years …

OpenAI's A.I. Tried Breaching 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting  —  In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.  —  OpenAI's artificial intelligence went rogue this year …

Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations  —  Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump's attempt to block Mike Pence's grand jury testimony.  —  In a previously secret opinion unsealed on Wednesday …

Senate GOP eyes data center vote next week  —  Senate Republicans are discussing whether to call up a data center utility costs bill as they make plans to stay in Washington next week rather than beat an early exit before the midterms.  Two GOP aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity …

Energy Department will spend $2 billion to squeeze more electricity from the aging power grid  —  The Energy Department announced on Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation's aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald Trump's …