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Key feature of GOP midterm ads: Half-truths and misleading claims; Early voters lament high prices and disunity, yet vote for opposite sides; House GOP will move quickly to lock down leadership team; GOP push to monitor voting in Texas's Harris County spurs outcry; Supreme Court seems open to ending affirmative action in college admissions; What we know about the Paul Pelosi attack and suspect David DePape; Accused Pelosi attacker's history shows blurry lines of radicalization; Mehmet Oz's medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban; The truth about election fraud: It's rare; Justice Dept. says ballot drop box monitoring in Ariz. is likely illegal; Inside the growing Republican fissure on Ukraine aid ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Try four weeks FREE, then $4 every four weeks the next year  Sign up for this newsletter Read online The most important politics stories today.     (Mark Makela/For The Washington Post) Jewish leaders call on GOP candidates to reject antisemitic comments A series of bigoted comments from GOP candidates' associates or supporters have raised alarms among many Democrats and Jewish advocacy groups. By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Isaac Arnsdorf ●  Read more »   Key feature of GOP midterm ads: Half-truths and misleading claims Campaign ads have always had a loose association with the nuances of governance. But as the midterm elections tighten into dozens of battlegrounds across the country, a number of GOP ads are showing a breathtaking disregard for accuracy and clarity. By Azi Paybarah ●  Read more »   Early voters lament high prices and disunity, yet vote for opposite sides Many voters share similar frustrations about the country's state, yet end up in different camps because some issues are more important to them than others. By Marc Fisher and Meagan Flynn ●  Read more »   ANALYSIS House GOP will move quickly to lock down leadership team The decision to quickly lock down the conferences' top slots is a strategic move to ride the high if Republicans retake the House and cement the top leadership team and pave the way for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to become speaker in January. By Tobi Raji, Theodoric Meyer and Leigh Ann Caldwell ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   GOP push to monitor voting in Texas's Harris County spurs outcry The conflict is focused on Harris County, where Republicans say more scrutiny of the process is needed. Democrats say GOP efforts could scare off voters. By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Amy Gardner ●  Read more »   Supreme Court seems open to ending affirmative action in college admissions After nearly five hours of oral argument, the admissions programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seemed endangered. By Robert Barnes, Ann E. Marimow and Nick Anderson ●  Read more »   What we know about the Paul Pelosi attack and suspect David DePape What we know so far about the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, after the break-in at their San Francisco home. By Adela Suliman and Ben Brasch ●  Read more »   Accused Pelosi attacker's history shows blurry lines of radicalization David DePape's online extremism mutated across fringe movements. Analysts say this "side switching" is increasingly common. By Hannah Allam and Souad Mekhennet ●  Read more »   Mehmet Oz's medical research was rejected in 2003, resulting in 2-year ban At issue were questions about the strength of the data used by Oz to reach an important medical conclusion, according to seven people who recalled the events. By Lenny Bernstein and Colby Itkowitz ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   ANALYSIS The truth about election fraud: It's rare By every single metric, election fraud is rare in the United States. By Glenn Kessler ●  Read more »   Justice Dept. says ballot drop box monitoring in Ariz. is likely illegal The Justice Department said that "vigilante ballot security measures," including filming voters at drop boxes, probably violates the federal Voting Rights Act. By Tom Hamburger and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez ●  Read more »   Inside the growing Republican fissure on Ukraine aid At first, Republicans enthusiastically supported aid to Kyiv. Now, some want to cut it. Inside the internal GOP fissure over helping Ukraine. By Yasmeen Abutaleb and John Hudson ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out Coronavirus Updates for news to help you stay safe and informed during the pandemic. Sign up »

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