Charlie Meyerson

‘Election emergency’? Journalist Aaron Parnas says President Trump’s laying the groundwork for a declaration that would give his team unprecedented authority over who votes—and how.

Election ‘chaos’? That’s what Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson foresees arising from the court’s decision preliminarily clearing President Trump’s authority to restrict mail-in voting —a thing almost a third of the nation’s eligible population uses …

R.I.P., Dolly. Immediate family planned a small, private service for entertainment titan Dolly Parton—who reportedly will be laid to rest in her signature high heels following her death of cancer yesterday at age 80.

Tow schmucks. A new report from Chicago’s inspector general finds no shortage of customer hardship and vehicle damage in operation of the city’s auto pounds.

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Today marks the fourth anniversary of The Conversation’ s weekly news quiz.

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‘Trumpapalooza.’ MS NOW looks ahead to the president’s midterm convention opening today in Dallas—an event “ some Republicans would rather skip.”

In what The Associated Press charitably dubs a “dubious promise” and what lawyer and columnist Robert Hubbell dubs “ an act of desperation without parallel in American history,” President Trump’s pledging that much cash for every U.S. adult if Republicans keep control of the House and the Senate in November.

‘U.S. under attack.’ That was the subject line atop one of four email alerts the Chicago Tribune dispatched on Sept. 11, 2001—25 years ago today.