NY vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge border crossing is attempted terror attack: sources  —  Rainbow Bridge, which connects Niagara Falls, New York to Niagara Falls, Canada, is currently shut down as the investigation unfolds  —  The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday …

The Head of Ron DeSantis's Never Back Down Super PAC Resigns  —  Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of the Never Back Down super PAC, stepped down as internal disputes among supporters of Ron DeSantis intensified.  —  Chris Jankowski, the chief executive of Never Back Down …

Top Netanyahu aide announces delay in hostage releases, which won't start until Friday  —  In a surprise delay, National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi announces that the first hostages will not be released until Friday.  —  Senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk said earlier today …

Witnesses saw smoke, fire from vehicle at Rainbow Bridge  —  The Rainbow Bridge has been closed to all traffic amid reports of a vehicle explosion just outside the border inspections plaza on the American side.  —  Traveling down Niagara Street, the car sped onto the bridge plaza …

Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?  —  He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants.  —  In 2019, Kennedy Ndahiro, the editor of the Rwandan daily newspaper The New Times, explained to readers of The Atlantic how years of cultivated had hatred led to death on a horrifying scale.

Chris Christie Predicts Political ‘Fallout’ for Trump's Trials … Dispatch Politics will be back in your inboxes on Monday. … - The Commission on Presidential Debates on Monday announced dates and locations for three general-election presidential debates next year: one in Texas in September, two in Virginia and Utah in October.

Ohio Walmart shooter may have been inspired by racist ideology, FBI says  —  The 20-year-old gunman wounded four people in the shooting in Beavercreek on Monday and then shot himself, police said.  —  The gunman who opened fire at Ohio Walmart this week, injuring four people …

GOP official's wife convicted in months-long 2020 voter-fraud scheme  —  As Tam and Thien Doan tried to file for absentee ballots in Iowa in 2020, they were surprised to find out that votes had already been cast in their names.  The siblings, both Democrats, were even more astonished to learn …

Democrats can't quit Elon Musk's X  —  X is becoming more toxic for liberals.  But they're still posting — and it's not clear where they'd go next.  —  For politicians, it turns out an addictive social media platform is hard to quit, in spite of any moral qualms they might have about its owner.

Vermont discriminated against Christian school over transgender athlete rules: Lawsuit  —  A Christian school in Vermont has filed a lawsuit against the state's education agency after the school was banned from participating in intercollegiate sports for refusing to play a game against a girl's basketball team with a trans girl on it.

The Red State Brain Drain Isn't Coming.  It's Happening Right Now.  —  On Memorial Day weekend in 2022, Kate Arnold and her wife, Caroline Flint, flew from Oklahoma City to Cabo San Lucas for a little R&R. They had five kids, the youngest of them five-year-old twin girls, and demanding jobs as obstetrician-gynecologists.

Cogswell claims victory in Charleston mayor race  —  Charleston will have a new mayor.  —  William Cogswell won in a nail-biter runoff election on Nov. 21, delivering a stunning defeat to incumbent Mayor John Tecklenburg after a hard-fought campaign.  —  Cogswell declared victory shortly …

Johnson Learns on the Job, Drawing the Ire of the Republican Right  —  The new House speaker is facing complaints from his members that his leadership is no different from his predecessor's.  His style, however, is in stark contrast.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson struggled to defend himself …

‘You should be assassinated’: Officials flag ‘credible’ threats against Trump fraud judge  —  Judge Arthur Engoron, the New York jurist overseeing former President Donald Trump's fraud trial, has been targeted by a series of “credible” death threats, reported Frank Runyeon of Law360.

Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent's $700,000 exit deal  —  A Pennsylvania school board that banned books, Pride flags and transgender athletes slipped a last-minute item into their final meeting before leaving office, hastily awarding a $700,000 exit package …

Donor allegedly offered $20M to recruit a Tlaib primary challenger  —  The lucrative proposal to Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Hill Harper arrived on Oct. 16, according to a source with direct knowledge — and got rejected.  —  A Michigan businessman called Democratic Senate candidate Hill Harper …

Lawmakers ‘mystified’ after NASA scales back Mars collection program  —  The space agency's cut could “cost hundreds of jobs and a decade of lost science,” the bipartisan group says.  —  Lawmakers from both parties are taking aim at NASA's recent decision to cut funding for its own mission …

Terry Richardson sexually abused a model after Trump's modeling agency dismissed her concerns about him, lawsuit says  — Terry Richardson sexually abused a model on two separate occasions in 2004, a new lawsuit alleges.  — Donald Trump's modeling agency waved off her concerns, according to the suit.