DEBATABLE: The first presidential debate proved that Donald Trump tells a lie more convincingly than Joe Biden tells the truth.   Trump, like he does in campaign appearances and press conferences, fired off fictions last night faster than Biden could respond other …

THE RUSSIA HOUSE: After 15 months in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich went on trial today behind closed doors on charges of espionage. If convicted he faces up to 20 years in prison.   After several hours of …

TERROR ATTACK: At least 15 Russian police officers and four civilians were killed in a coordinated terror attack in two cities of the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea. A priest was among the dead and five attackers …

THE WAR ROOM: As many as 25 people were killed and 50 wounded yesterday in an Israeli strike on a tent encampment for displaced Palestinians in a coastal community of the southern Gaza Strip, near the city of Rafah. The Israeli …

GETTING WARMER:  The National heat wave continues today with temperatures from 98 in Southern California to 107 in Arizona, 93 in Illinois, and 96 in Pennsylvania. The tip of Maine, which almost hit 100 earlier in the week, is cooling down …

THOU SHALT NOT: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in every public classroom in the state, making it the only state to do so and reigniting the debate about the separation of church and …

UP IN THE AIR: Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun admitted yesterday in a Senate hearing that his company has retaliated against whistleblowers. “I know it happens,” he said, also admitting that he has never personally spoken to any of the employees who have …

BABY IT’S HOT:  More 75 million people in the US are under extreme heat alerts as a massive heat wave moves into the mid-Atlantic and New England states where temperatures are expected to spike into the 90s.   Extreme heat is expected in Chicago, …

FULL AUTO: The Supreme Court yesterday shot down the Trump era ban on bump stocks, the attachment that can turn a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun. The ban was enacted after the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas in which …

THE SUPREMES: The Supreme Court yesterday issued a unanimous decision to protect access to the abortion drug mifepristone, but only by a technicality what’s known as “standing.” The court ruled that the group of doctors who sued to block use of the …