The Ballot: Voters decided state and local races yesterday, giving an indication of the direction they are headed for the mid-terms a year from now. In Virginia, Democrat Ralph Northam trounced the Trump-backed Republican candidate, Ed Gillespie, the former Republican …

Mass Murder: The Air Force admits that it failed to enter the court martial conviction of the Texas shooter into a national database, thereby failing to block him from buying the assault rifle he used to kill 26 people and …

The American Cancer: Twenty-six people are dead after a shooting in a Baptist church in tiny Sutherland Springs southeast of San Antonio, Texas. The dead range in age from 5 to 72, including the pastor’s 14-year-old daughter. One woman said …

Saudi Roundup:  Arrests and a missile. In what’s described as an anti-corruption sweep that may really be a consolidation of power, Saudi Arabia has arrested one of the world’s richest men, 10 other princes, and perhaps dozens of current and …

Death and Taxes: The Republicans revealed a plan yesterday to cut taxes by $1.5 trillion, mostly in corporate and business taxes. “With this plan, we are making pro-growth reforms, so that yes, America can compete with the rest of the …

Lock Him Up, Lock Them Out: Indignant that an immigrant is accused of killing eight people, President Trump said he might consider plucking the New York terror suspect out of the civil justice system and handing him over to the …

Street Terror: The driver of a pickup truck that ran down and killed eight people on a West Side Manhattan bike path yesterday wrote a note mentioning the Islamic State, investigators say. He left behind a trail of mangled bodies …

The Russia Thing: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his former business associate Rick Gates were ordered to surrender to federal authorities this morning as the first shoe drops in the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election. …

The Russia Thing: A federal grand jury in Washington has brought the first criminal  charges in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller, CNN reported last night. The network said that, according to its sources, the charges are still …

Opioid Induced: Despite previously calling the opioid epidemic “a national emergency,” President Trump yesterday directed the Department of Health and Human service to declare it a “national health emergency,” which comes with no money to fight it. The Public Health …