The Capitol Police on Wednesday arrested and charged an 80-year-old Georgia man who they said parked a van containing three firearms outside the Supreme Court.
Former President Trump answered questions under oath Wednesday for a defamation lawsuit filed by E. Jean Carroll, a writer who alleged that he raped her in the mid-1990s.
Why it matters: The deposition comes after Trump repeatedly attempted to delay the case proceedings.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) agreed this week to provide records related to the flights of migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, Mass. by Dec. 1, Politico reports.
Why it matters: DeSantis has faced scrutiny for transporting migrants last month. A Florida open-government group filed a lawsuit earlier this month in an attempt to get DeSantis to publicly release records about the flights.
When Robert Peterson's mother Yong Ae Yue died in the Atlanta spa shootings, he had to tell his brother, "Mom's not coming back." It was clear even then, though, that the murder of their mother — an Asian woman "targeted for who she was" — would serve as the linchpin for something much bigger.
Driving the news: The Atlanta spa shootings led to protests against anti-Asian hate across the U.S., but the momentum has faded, Peterson told Axios. A year and a half after a white gunman shot and killed eight people, six of them Asian women, a new PBS documentary aims to immortalize their legacy and the movement against anti-Asian hate.
President Biden announced on Wednesday that he is authorizing the release of more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in December in an effort to bring down gas prices.
Why it matters: The move comes at the close of a campaign season in which high gas prices — while far lower than their June peak — put Dems in political jeopardy.
A new lawsuit seeks to force the Biden administration and the National Archives to release all remaining government documents about former President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Why it matters: The lawsuit, filed by the Mary Ferrell Foundation, is the latest attempt to make public a trove of records related to Kennedy's murder, which has been the subject of conspiracy theories and speculation for decades.
Saudi Arabia privately pressed several Arab countries to issue statements supporting the recent OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, according to a former U.S. official and an Arab official.
Why it matters: The goal of the Saudi push was likely to avoid being isolated by the U.S. and show that the decision, which angered the Biden administration, was a collective decision by all Arab nations in OPEC+.
New York City's Randalls Island is opening its first tent camp for asylum seekers on Wednesday.
Driving the news: The new facility — spanning more than 84,000 square feet and the city's first outdoor migrant camp — will initially house 500 men and has room for 500 more, according to Gothamist.
With the midterms rapidly approaching, a majority of Americans have a bleak outlook on the state of U.S. democracy and just under half expressed strong confidence that the midterm election results will be counted accurately.
Driving the news: A mere 9% of Americans believe that U.S. democracy is working "extremely" or "very well," according to a new poll released Wednesday from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Former President Trump shared letters from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with Bob Woodward in a 2019 Oval Office sitdown and warned him not to "say I gave them to you."
Driving the news: When Woodward asked to see the letters sent to Kim, Trump acknowledged that "those are so top secret" — and implied they shouldn't be shared, according to the Washington Post.
Driving the news: "The enemy continually attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops" in the areas of Kupiansk and Lyman in the east and Mykolaiv-Krivyi Rih in the south, Gen. Sergei Surovikin told the state-owned Rossiya 24 television news channel, per a Reuters translation.
Nevada's Republican senatorial nominee, Adam Laxalt, has taken a hard-line stance against DREAMers and illegal immigration — despite his late father, Sen. Pete Domenici of New Mexico, once saying Laxalt's grandmother was undocumented.
Why it matters: Republicans are making illegal immigration a crucial issue in the midterm elections, and Laxalt is seizing on this in Nevada, where more immigrants have been moving to work in the casino and hotel industries.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Tuesday called her House Jan. 6 select committee work "probably the most important thing I've ever done professionally" and said the panel would "shortly" subpoena former President Trump.
What she's saying: "I'm very proud of the work that we've done and of my fellow members of that committee," said the panel's vice chair at a Harvard University event, calling their work investigating the U.S. Capitol riot "absolutely crucial for the functioning of our democracy going forward."
The State Department confirmed Tuesday that American citizen Saad Ibrahim Almadi remains imprisoned in Saudi Arabia after he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for posting tweets critical of the Saudi government.
The big picture: The confirmation comes after Almadi's son publicly criticized the State Department for neglecting his 72-year-old father's case, as was first reported by the Washington Post.
Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and his Democratic challenger Rep. Val Demings fired off their positions on abortion, voting access and gun control during a heated debate Tuesday night.
Why it matters: Demings and Rubio's debate — their first and only of Florida's U.S. Senate race — marks one of the last chances for candidates to sway voters less than three weeks before the Nov. 8 midterms.
