With less than three weeks to go before Election Day, the political atmosphere has shifted into something close to full-blown panic mode for Republicans. The polls aren’t moving in wild directions, but they are moving—and almost all of them are drifting toward Democrats. Host David Corn describes it as a “blue tsunami” that has GOP operatives scrambling, and the clearest sign of that fear is how Republican groups are starting to cut their losses. House incumbents who were once considered safe are suddenly being abandoned by their own party’s fundraising committees. In New Jersey, Iowa, and elsewhere, Republican leaders are…

In the often-chaotic world of football transfers, where a single whisper can spiral into a headline and a headline into a saga, clarity is a rare commodity. That clarity arrived this week in the form of a firm denial from the agent of Ronald Araujo. Eduardo Cranjar, the representative of the Uruguayan defender, moved decisively to quash reports from the British press that Liverpool were having second thoughts about making Araujo’s loan move permanent. The rumors, which had suggested that the club’s hierarchy was growing concerned over a perceived dip in form, were dismissed as “entirely inaccurate” and nothing more…