Election Day: Americans go to the polls today in an election considered a national referendum on Donald Trump’s presidency and the overall Republican political agenda. Even the President admits that’s what it is. “I’m not on the ballot, but in a …

Apocalypse Now: In the closing hours of the midterm political campaign, President Trump is presenting an apocalyptic vision of what will happen in the likelihood that Democrats take control of the House of Representatives. Philip Rucker writes in The Washington …

Check Your Watch: Daylight Savings ended at 2 am. No matter what time you think it is, you’re probably wrong by an hour. If you only use a smartphone to tell time, OK, fine, it knows the real time, but …

Mano a Mano: With three days left before the elections, former President Barack Obama and President Trump traded shots yesterday as Obama takes a more impassioned role in the campaign In a fiery speech in Miami, Obama said Trump’s own conservatives …

Borderline: After seeing video of migrants throwing rocks at Mexican police, President Trump announced that he plans to change the rules for asylum seekers and that he’s told the military that if anyone throws rocks, “consider it a rifle.” “This …

Troops and Tropes: As a small army of mothers and babies trudges north through Mexico hoping to reach asylum in the United States, President Trump yesterday said he may place as many as 15,000 troops on the border to defend the …

Invasive Species: As he continues to stir up election-eve fears about immigration, President Trump told the website Axios that he’s preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship in which anyone born in the US is automatically a citizen. Under the law, …

Jet Down: A Lion Air jet carrying 189 people went down today in the ocean shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia. It was headed to an island off Sumatra. Rescuers have found debris but expect there will be no survivors. …

Screw Your Optics: President Trump called for armed guards at so-called “soft targets” and a renewed enforcement of the death penalty after a gunman killed 11 people and wounded six at a Pittsburgh synagogue. “If there was an armed guard inside …

Anger Management: The man arrested for sending a string of mail bombs to political critics of President Trump is a big fan of the President with a criminal record, including a threat to blow up a utility company. He seems …