- There are gubernatorial races up for grabs in Virgina and New Jersey on Tuesday night [Politico].
- President Trump signaled he was willing to negotiate with North Korea to defuse rising tensions with Kim Jong Un’s regime [Associated Press].
- A new poll finds support for President Donald Trump is eroding in many of the counties he won in 2017, but Democrats are not gaining ground in those same places [Wall Street Journal].
- A federal government shutdown in December is a real possibility [Axios].
- Lobbyists are rushing to negotiate changes to the GOP tax reform proposal before it moves to the Senate, which could be as early as next week [Politico].
- Whoops! The non-partisan Tax Policy Center has retracted their analysis of the GOP tax reform proposal because of an error in their model. Previously, the group said the plan would disproportionally benefit the wealthiest Americans [Washington Post].
- Support for Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign by Russian “troll farms” on social media started just a few weeks after he announced his bid for the White House, which is much earlier than previously thought [Wall Street Journal].
- An aide to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross kept her spot on the board of a shipping company with ties to the Kremlin [Politico].
- An error by the U.S. Air Force kept the man who killed 26 people at a church in Texas off a federal database that could have prevented him from buying the guns he used during the massacre [New York Times].
- The Sutherland Springs church massacre on Sunday claimed the lives of 8 members of one family [San Antonio Express-News].
- Well worth a read! How Harvey Weinstein tried to block the publication of an explosive story detailing allegations of sexual assault by him [New Yorker].
- A landscaping dispute is reportedly at the heart of the assault on Sen. Rand Paul by a neighbor over the weekend. Paul had five cracked ribs and bruised lungs following the attack [New York Times].
On this day in history:
- 1874 -A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper’s Weekly is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party.
- 1893 – Women in the state of Colorado are given the right to vote, the second state to do so.
- 1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in Bolivia.
- 1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to Congress.
- 1917 – October Revolution. Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Russia.
- 1973 – Congress overrides President Richard Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
