LIFERS: California’s outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is expected to run for president,  commuted the death sentences of the state’s 548 condemned prisoners, about a quarter of all death row inmates in the country in the largest mass commutation in history.   Saying …

THE LONG COUNT: It could be days before a winner is declared in the Mississippi Senate race and even weeks for Alaska. In Mississippi Democrat Scott Colom leads incumbent Cundy Hyde-Smith by just 1,138 votes. Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola leads incumbent …

SEISMIC SHIFT: President Trump pleaded with Americans to vote as if he was on the ballot and they did. They voted for Democrats.   Without all returns final, Democrats have taken control of both the House and Senate with some dramatic pickups. …

CLOSING ARGUMENTS: It’s election day and 57.5 million people have already voted.  President Trump delivered his closing message yesterday in a campaign of fear and self-aggrandizement to forestall a Democratic takeover of both the House and Senate. But he spent much …

PARTY ON: A federal judge in Alaska dismissed the Trump administration lawsuit that pre-emptively challenged the results in the state’s US Senate contest that has two Republican candidates with the same name differentiated only by a middle initial.   In Michigan, Haley …

FAST TRACK: The number of people killed in the high speed train wreck south of Madrid in Spain has reached 80 with 145 injured. One train hit the rear of another on the same track.   Initial reports suggest that around 9 …

ELECTION WATCH: President Trump is dispatching 1,000 observers across the country to monitor next Tuesday’s vote as he and the Justice Department continue to cast doubt on the honesty and integrity of elections. Repeatedly on the campaign trail Trump has claimed …

CAMPAIGN OF FEAR: President Trump previewed his campaign trip to Michigan last night  saying he was going “to fight a Jihadist Member of the Muslim Brotherhood — A man who should never be allowed inside the Halls of our Great and Beautiful …

BLOCK THAT VOTE: The Trump administration made the highly unusual request to a federal court to block certification of the Alaska Senate election if Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan loses by a narrow margin. The Justice Department filing set off alarm …

LIAR, LIAR: President Trump jumped in to support Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in running an ad in which his opponent’s estranged mother says her daughter lied about being raped by her stepfather as a child.   Counter to widespread objections to the …