Page 1 Roundup (10/25)

The Daily News: Phillies nab Joe Girardi as new manager while Mets continue to schedule candidate interviews

The feel-good story of the year

Late Rep. Elijah Cummings is honored as ‘North Star’ of Congress -- easing partisan impeachment drama for a day

KIT212: Vintage beef in tiny briefs

The Stranger: Sandra Bernhard talks about impeachment, Ukraine, social media, being a mother, and the future of the free world

Towleroad: Pete Buttigieg moves up to second place in new Iowa poll

Video of transgender woman who died in ICE custody was deleted amid active investigation

Gay man paralyzed after shooting outside LGBTQ-friendly nightclub in Asheville, N.C.

USA Today: 1969 albums: 20 classics that turn 50 this year

Greg in Hollywood: Darren Criss is heading back to Broadway!

Instagram: J. Reuban Appleman's new podcast about the unsolved Oakland County Child Killer case is coming in November

Gothamist: Kellyanne Conway threatens and belittles reporter in leaked phone call

Newsweek: Fox News judge calls House impeachment inquiry "consistent with the rules" that GOP signed into law when they had majority

New York Post: Smear campaign against bisexual Democrat continues

Court rules in favor of beauticians who refused to wax transgender woman

More needlessly salacious coverage of a child-custody dispute involving a transgender-curious 7-year-old (at least the tabloid stopped calling puberty blockers “hormone-replacement therapy)

ES: It’s bad enough for Djokovic and Nadal fans that neither is fighting for the year-end rankings this week, both skipping Vienna and Basel in favor of an exhibition. But did it have to be an exhibition in Kazakhstan, where LGBTQ people frequently live in fear?

Axios: Turkey's Erdogan calls on U.S. to hand over top Kurdish commander

The Guardian: U.S. plans to send tanks to Syria oil fields, reversing Trump troop withdrawal -- yet again

Baseline: Max Mirnyi is the only thing I care about in this post about Roger Federer's one Challenger victory

Max's famed Speedo pic

The Washington Post: Federal judge holds DeVos in contempt in loan case, slaps Education Department with $100,000 fine

High-voltage power line broke near origin of massive California fire that forced thousands of evacuations

The New York Times: Vulnerable Senate Republicans shrink from defending Trump

Bill Barr opens criminal inquiry into his own agency's Russia investigation: “These re­ports, if true, raise pro­found new con­cerns that the De­part­ment of Jus­tice un­der At­tor­ney Gen­eral William Barr has lost its in­de­pen­dence and be­come a ve­hi­cle for Trump’s po­lit­i­cal re­venge,” said Reps. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) and Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), chairmen of the Ju­di­ciary and In­tel­li­gence com­mit­tees, re­spec­tively.

And when not casting doubts on his own employees, our fine attorney general was visiting Italy to follow a conspiracy theory that was repeatedly shot down by the Italian prime minister -- how is this not another abuse of power?

The Wall Street Journal: She’s the face of the 2024 Paris Olympics, and France is aflutter

My IQ just lost a few more points reading this headline