Charlie Meyerson

Hottest. Month. Ever. It’s official: July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States …

Insurgent progressives’ win. That’s how the AP assesses the outcome in Minnesota’s Democratic Senate primary.

May cause ‘sudden death.’ 404 Media has found a user manual for those electric gloves Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to give thousands of its officers. (Link requires an email address, but 404’ s worth it.)

Flock squawk. Under fire for privacy violations nationwide, the surveillance tech company Flock Safety is clamping down on law enforcers abusing its license-plate monitoring network.

Too close for comfort? The Sun-Times reports that Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey has taken campaign money from—and has worshipped at a church service presided over by—a man convicted of

Chicago Public Square will take Wednesday off to join the Local Media Fest. Back Thursday.

Rising cost of going. For the first time in almost 15 years, the Illinois Tollway’s raising rates in January …

‘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.