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Protesters in Hong Kong fear they are being monitored by the local government and potentially by China, a country at the cutting edge of mass surveillance. So demonstrators have developed hacks to avoid arrest and hide their digital tracks. Photo composite: Sharon Shi More from the Wall Street Journal: Visit WSJ.com: http://www.wsj.comVisit the WSJ Video Center: https://wsj.com/video On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/wsj/videos/On Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJOn Snapchat: https://on.wsj.com/2ratjSM #WSJ #HongKong #HKProtests

“If the President wants to use military force, he needs Congress, not the Saudi royal family, to authorize it,” Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, the chairman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, wrote on Twitter. Heather Hurlburt, a national security official under President Bill Clinton who is now at New America, a Washington-based research organization, said it would be perfectly normal for a president to consult an ally…

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Video Manhattan district attorney subpoenas Trump tax returns Looking into payments made to Stormy Daniels; John Roberts has the details. NEW YORK CITY – Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office has subpoenaed tax returns belonging to President Trump and the Trump Organization through their accounting firm, Fox News confirmed Monday. Jennifer Farrington, the chief marketing officer for the accounting firm Mazars USA, which has represented both Trump and the Trump Organization, told Fox…

Even if voters hand control of the Senate to Democrats, McConnell will still be able to use the Senate’s rules to delay, deflect and disrupt. In that eventuality, would the next president push Senate leaders to get rid of the filibuster? And if the Republicans retain Senate control, which is a very real possibility, do the Democratic candidates have ideas for going over, under, around or through McConnell to make…

New revelations about US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh — including details about a rushed FBI investigation into the 2018 sexual misconduct allegations against him — could be bad news for Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her reelection effort. Collins’s legacy in the age of President Donald Trump was cemented with her vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, after Kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault by his high…

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WASHINGTON — As the F.B.I. began looking into allegations of sexual assault against then-Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings last year, a Democratic senator wrote to the director of the F.B.I. saying he had “information relevant” to the inquiry, but the bureau apparently failed to follow up. The letter, sent early last October by Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, to Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I….

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City prosecutors have subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s tax returns, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office recently sent a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm seeking the last eight years of state and federal tax returns for Trump and his company, the Trump Organization, according to the person, who was not authorized to…

FARMINGTON, Maine (WCSH) – An explosion at a center for people with disabilities has left one firefighter dead and other people injured in Farmington, Maine on Monday morning, according to NBC News. 

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Video Carrie Severino: Latest Kavanaugh allegations a shameful attempt to reignite baseless smears Author of ‘Justice on Trial’ Carrie Severino weighs in on the controversy over the New York Times story. The short-lived new “allegations” against Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh were so weak that Senate investigators didn’t follow up on them during the confirmation process, author Carrie Severino said Monday. “This is the weakest of the weak type of allegations. It’s…

A maintenance employee, who works for the nonprofit agency whose building was the site of today’s explosion, was among the injured, according to LEAP (Life Enrichment Advancing People). In a statement posted on Facebook, the agency said there were many heroes today who saved lives today. “First responders and a LEAP maintenance person were injured in the blast. Our hearts go out to anyone injured or impacted today,” the agency…

The Working Families Party, the labor-aligned progressive group whose electoral influence has grown since the 2016 election, has endorsed Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for the Democratic presidential nomination, a boon to her candidacy as she attempts to position herself as the main challenger to former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. The party endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont during the last presidential cycle, at which time he described…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have seized a vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 250,000 litres of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates, Iran’s semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported on Monday. “It was detained near Iran’s Greater Tunb island in the Persian Gulf…the crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province,” ISNA said, without elaborating on the nationalities of the crewmen….

Some analysis here from CNN correspondents on the ground in Saudi Arabia and Iran: Saturday’s attacks strike “at the heart of the country’s lifeblood and the basis of its economy,” says CNN’s International Diplomatic Editor, Nic Robertson, from Riyadh. The 19 strikes at two facilities were the result of “very clear and careful precision and planning,” he adds Saudi Arabia is now expected to offset the impact of these attacks…

Apple is becoming a camera company Apple’s new iPhones can still send texts, download apps, and make video calls, but the company spends a lot of time and effort marketing its new phones as powerful photography… Technologyread more

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar fell while safe havens and currencies of oil-producing countries rallied on Monday, following an attack on Saudi Arabian refining facilities that disrupted global oil supply and heightened Middle East tensions. Oil prices surged nearly a fifth at one point following the strikes on two plants, including the world’s biggest petroleum processing facility in Abqaiq, which knocked out more than 5% of global oil supply. Yemen’s…

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