The rate of Texas students forgoing vaccinations has soared over the past decade, with more parents questioning the wisdom of vaccinating their children, even as public health experts warn of the dangers of opting out.

Trump’s deadline has passed, but the two sides will keep negotiating.

Bloomberg did not initially report the remarks, which Trump had said were off the record. A Canadian newspaper, the Toronto Star, published the remarks early Friday, and Bloomberg did not dispute them.

“Attending these summits would have been helpful in tending to these relationships and buttressing unity against China, with whom Trump has launched a trade war.”

...presidential tweets accusing China of hacking Hillary Clinton’s emails were an effort to “divert public attention from the troubles the White House has become mired in.”

Anti-intellectualism has a long tradition in American politics. Pence was part of its resurgence at the start of the new millennium.

During his remarks, Trump derided “fake news,” a term he said applies to “85 percent” of the media — up from his estimate of 80 percent last week.

Carr said that neither Dickey nor Richardson left the office because of political allegations, the appearance of bias or any other wrongdoing.

Speaking “off the record,” Trump said he is not compromising at all in trade negotiations with Canada — but could not say this publicly because “it’s going to be so insulting they’re not going to be able to make a deal.”

The sudden rocky patch came after days of optimism from negotiators in both countries

As part of a plea agreement under which he pledged to cooperate with federal prosecutors, the lobbyist, Sam Patten, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent

Amidst all the latest melodramas—the Paul Manafort conviction, the Michael Cohen flip—Pence has rarely been seen or heard, and his name has rarely pierced the news cycle.

Essentially, conservatives want to create a world where objective information and right-wing disinformation are treated equally.

But the bigger picture is that a week after Cohen pleaded guilty to tax, bank fraud, and campaign finance charges — and implicated Trump in the latter of those — Cohen’s role in the larger Trump-Russia saga remains a question mark.

...decades later, it is nearly impossible to distinguish between the relatively small number of fraudulent birth certificates and the swell of legal ones.

Small leak [...] Russian side

"You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every f—ing one of you. Hey, why don’t you call the F, why don’t you call Mueller, maybe he can help you out buddy. Still there f—–? Alright, why, you going to trace my call? What are you going to do motherf—–? You ain’t going to do s—. I’m going to shoot you in the f—— head later today, at 4 o’clock. Goodbye."

‘In light of our nation’s fiscal situation, federal employee pay must be performance-based,’ the president wrote

It is not known how much of the material on Mr. Trump is still in American Media’s possession or whether American Media destroyed any of it after the campaign.

How a hypothetical accusation could actually play out in practice, if the Education Department’s proposed rules become law

A Texas judge denied the motion by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against him and his Infowars operation by the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim

The president falsely claimed Google did not link to State of the Union addresses

Attorney-client privilege doesn’t apply when the client enlists a lawyer’s help to commit a crime — and that’s what Mueller’s team is arguing that Manafort did.

This afternoon, President Donald Trump once again accused Google, Facebook, and Twitter of vaguely defined censorship that “may not be legal”

The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown.

He hasn’t followed through yet — and North Korea talks may have stalled because of it.

The House has passed legislation making no mention of a raise, effectively endorsing the freeze that Trump originally proposed in February.

...and renewed questions about his continued work for foreign clients while representing the president.

...saying it had found no evidence that the private servers she used while secretary of state had been compromised.

While China lags in projecting firepower on a global scale, it can now challenge American military supremacy in the places that matter most to it: the waters around Taiwan and in the disputed South China Sea.

"We recognize that there is a possibility of getting there by Friday, but it is only a possibility, because it will hinge on whether or not there is ultimately a good deal for Canada"

“If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an Oval Office interview

The White House has secretly amassed a committee of federal agencies from across the government to combat public support for marijuana and cast state legalization measures in a negative light, while attempting to portray the drug as a national threat

That employee ultimately did not receive immunity after prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York decided against granting such protection.

The FCC can "choose which evidence to believe," court says.

Stone-throwing, insults and dangerous manoeuvres on the high seas: French and British fishermen clashed in the English Channel over a hoard of scallops

Instead of fixing its diversity problem, the White House would rather just keep it under wraps

One likely candidate to replace McGahn is Emmet Flood, who joined the president's legal team in May to focus on the Justice Department's Russia investigation.

The 33-year-old policy adviser has made unprecedented power grabs as he seeks to slash immigration to America.

The deal [...] also will allow senators who missed most of their August recess to go home for a couple of days

A day after President Trump threatened to exclude Canada from a revised North American Free Trade Agreement, top Canadian officials raced to Washington and said they were moving “full steam ahead”

Senate Republicans are sending decidedly mixed messages about how they feel about the future of Attorney General Jeff Sessions

The Republican senator from Arizona, who planned his own funeral, chose Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza as one of the dignitaries to carry his coffin to the front of the Washington National Cathedral

In recent days, one of Michael Cohen's lawyers has repeatedly changed his account of what Cohen knew about President Donald Trump's involvement in a controversial meeting during the 2016 campaign.

...after his lawyers said they need more time to prepare after just finishing Manafort’s trial in Virginia.

To varying degrees, Republicans are now unabashedly campaigning on this idea — that if Republican voters don’t show up to keep the GOP in charge of Congress, a Democratic-led House will exercise real oversight on Trump.

Giuliani isn’t just saying that the investigation is illegitimate — as he has many times before — or that he’s preparing for the after-action. He’s admitting that job No. 1 is to undermine the man in charge of it.

4Chan has a brand-new imaginary girlfriend, and she might look a little bit familiar to you.

McCain never had cancer, either. Instead, all that "cancer" talk was simply McCain laying the groundwork for his eventual suicide, so he wouldn't be taken off to Guantanamo

Shunned at two funerals and one (royal) wedding so far, President Trump may be well on his way to becoming president non grata.

To hear Donald Trump tell it, he and his team achieved a historic breakthrough on trade policy yesterday. I wish that were true, but it’s not.

Nunes [...] sought unsuccessfully to meet chiefs of Britain’s three intelligence agencies on a recent visit to London

The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House’s crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.

Another possibility is that Trump just had a historically bad week

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one.

The Republican lawmaker in charge of the plan said it was crafted to maintain Republican dominance because “electing Republicans is better than electing Democrats.”

With his closest allies defecting, the president increasingly trusts only his instincts. He “got joy” from stripping former C.I.A. director John Brennan’s security clearance. And after betrayals by Allen Weisselberg and David Pecker, a former White House official says, Trump “spent the weekend calling people and screaming.”

Mariee did not die in ICE confinement. [...] But Mariee did ultimately die from an infection that was first detected at Dilley, which has a history of complaints of inadequate medical care for children.

There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade relationship as part of the NAFTA talks.

The arrival of huge numbers of migrants from the Middle East three years ago has fueled support for far-right groups such as PEGIDA and the Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the main opposition party in parliament.

It had been lowered to half-staff Sunday but then raised again on Monday morning

Since FCC abandoned net neutrality, Democrats say FTC must probe Verizon.

The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Monday it had noticed Washington was building up its military forces in the Middle East in preparation for what Moscow feared was a possible strike on Syrian government forces

It might even keep the special counsel from sending a report to Congress, shaking Democrats’ hopes that such a document could provide the impetus for impeachment proceedings.

–David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic

Yet while Mr. Trump may try to change the name, the agreement reached with Mexico is simply a revised Nafta

Presidential protocol says that Trump should have issued a proclamation regarding McCain's death, reports NBC News, and traditionally, White House flags would have remained lowered until the senator is buried. McCain is set to be interred Sunday in Maryland.

Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn’t abide Manafort’s pro-Russian clients—and told him so.

Since Trump's summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un, the U.S. has called off its military exercises with South Korea while China and Russia have softened pressure on North Korea.

Publicly, House Republicans are putting on a brave face about the midterms. But privately, they are scrambling to prepare for the worst. This document, which catalogs requests Democrats have already made, is part of that effort.

Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.

“Later on, when he became a US Senator, he and Senator John Kerry greatly contributed to promote Việt Nam-US relations so I was very fond of him,” Duyet added.

...the prevalent theory is that he looked at the recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which shows him with a 52 percent disapproval rating.

Another mass shooting was unfolding in Florida, this time at a tournament for competitive players of the football video game, Madden, in Jacksonville.

Following Sen. McCain’s wishes for his funeral, widely reported earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence — not President Donald Trump, who publicly disparaged McCain on numerous occasions — is expected to attend

President inexplicably adds a blue stripe to his version of the star spangled banner

McCain, the proud naval aviator who climbed from depths of despair as a prisoner of war in Vietnam to pinnacles of power as a Republican congressman and senator from Arizona and a two-time contender for the presidency, died on Saturday at his home in Arizona.

The former counsel to Newt Gingrich has been in charge of the administration’s compliance with ethics and conflicts-of-interest rules.

Under the new plan [...] superdelegates retain their power to back any candidate regardless of how the public votes. They will now be largely barred, however, from participating in the first ballot of the presidential nominating process at the party’s convention — drastically diluting their power.

Manafort’s trial in the District, set to begin Sept. 17, will cover much of the same ground but will scrutinize more closely his political work from 2006 to 2017

But it turns out that, deep down, Sessions has a redeeming characteristic: a quaint faith in the rule of law.

“This president is a president for all Americans,” one joked, including conspiracy theorists.

Nearly 4.8 million people voted in North Carolina’s 2016 general election, and election officials said last year that about 500 of those ballots had been cast by ineligible voters

...a sign that the Republican war hero is most likely entering his final days.

As the president renewed his attacks on his attorney general, two Senate Republicans indicated they’d be open to replacing him — sparking a quick smackdown from GOP leaders.

As with the money for Syria, the administration intends to redirect the funds intended for Palestinians to higher-priority projects elsewhere

State charges against the company or its executives could be significant because Mr. Trump has talked about pardoning some of his current or former aides who have faced federal charges. As president, he has no power to pardon people and corporate entities convicted of state crimes.

The Education Department could face a legal challenge if it moves forward with a plan allowing states to spend federal funds on guns for school employees.

“Think of something!!” he replied. “Sex with you does not interest me.”

"We have seen no clear signs of an acceleration above 2%, and there does not seem to be an elevated risk of overheating"

Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, whose entanglements with Trump's finances are extensive, was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen.

Trump said the negotiations had been hindered by a lack of support from China

Movie supervillains often commit a grave tactical error when, in a moment of overconfidence, they tell the hero all the details of their evil plan. That is in essence what President Trump has done

Many posted both pro- and anti-vaccination messages to create "false equivalency"

"She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did that'll be looked at too, I'm sure," Hunter said of his wife, Margaret. "But I didn't do it. I didn't spend any money illegally."

On an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, the Senate voted 85 to 7 to pass a package of bills to fund the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies.

The Senate easily defeated an attempt by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday to strip money from Planned Parenthood

“You know, I guess it says something like ‘high crimes’ and all. . . . I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job”

It’s now clear that the president’s statement was a lie — and that the people speaking for him repeated it.

Paula Duncan tells NBC News the evidence against Paul Manafort was overwhelming, but she still wants Robert Mueller to wrap up his investigation.

Pompeo announced on Thursday that he'll be traveling to North Korea next week along with Stephen Biegun

...a key witness in their monthslong investigation into payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump

Such a move would reverse a longstanding position taken by the federal government that it should not pay to outfit schools with weaponry.

Trump told Fox News he paid hush money to two women out of his own pocket. Federal election law requires that kind of expense to be reported publicly.

The spectacle of the chief executive feuding with the nation’s top law enforcement officer marked the latest argument in the long-soured relationship between the two.

Earlier, Trump attacked him on television, asking "what kind of a man is this?"

Warren said, “Is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.”

"I don't know if you know this, and I don't know if you're going to believe me when I tell you this, but what's happening right now in America is witchcraft is trying to take this country over"

Raab announced that the government would today be publishing the first batch of "technical notices" explaining how the U.K. will mitigate the risks that may come with a no deal scenario.

While Hunter initially resisted the idea, he finally agreed “to be temporarily removed” from his committee positions

But he added that forcing out Sessions before November “would create havoc” with efforts to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as well as with the midterm elections on Nov. 6

These were not, I now realize, the best people. I get this sense from how frequently they keep being forced to quit, getting charged with and admitting to crimes.

Reality Winner, 26, was accused of taking a report about a 2016 Russian military intelligence cyberattack from the NSA facility where she worked and sending it to an online news outlet.

While Trump is who he said he was, the authors write, Pence’s “pious and cautious exterior hid a desire for power equal to Trump’s.”

There’s no evidence of a genocidal campaign against white farmers.

The tweet gives prominence to a false narrative pushed by some right-wing groups in South Africa that there have been numerous seizures of white-owned land and widespread killings of white farmers.

Two days after the president praised Paris Dennard as ‘wonderful’ on Twitter.

What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.

Because Hunter is refusing to give up his committee assignments following the indictment, the House GOP Steering Committee will move to strip him of his assignments

It took the White House less than a day to use Tibbetts’s murder to push Trump’s immigration agenda.

“I’m not sure why that would change my support for the president,” said Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) of the past day’s events.

The effort began when Sen. Mazie Hirono canceled her meeting with Kavanaugh and called the president 'an unindicted co-conspirator.'

Russia is buying lots of gold to shield it from sanctions

Iowa law enforcement officers have charged a man believed to be in the country illegally with first-degree murder in the case of Mollie Tibbetts

It’s a bit baffling that Trump would assert that criminal charges accepted by Cohen aren’t a crime.

Over the past decade, as Earth has warmed, global shipping companies have increasingly eyed the Arctic as a way to cut precious — and expensive — travel time.

The announcement is also expected to include details of when Canadian officials will be returning to Washington to resume talks with the other two nations.

By convincing a jury that he has uncovered criminal behavior, the special counsel has likely insulated his larger probe from political threats.

The conviction of Trump’s former campaign chairman, guilty plea of his former personal lawyer and indictment of a leading congressional supporter raise Trump’s risks.

Brimelow, 70, [...] has become a zealous promoter of white-identity politics on Vdare.com, the anti-immigration website that he founded in 1999.

Rather than focusing on what is perhaps the most significant news of Trump's presidency so far, the right-leaning network's hosts discussed the news that police charged an undocumented immigrant with murder in the death of Mollie Tibbetts.

Two of the president's former associates were in court Tuesday. Both guilty of multiple felonies. What happened to draining the swamp?

Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.

The Trump administration has hailed its overhaul of federal pollution restrictions on coal-burning power plants as creating new jobs, eliminating burdensome government regulations and ending what President Trump has long described as a “war on coal.”

Hunter and his wife were charged Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to disguise the illegal spending in federal records

Towns where Facebook use was higher than average, like Altena, reliably experienced more attacks on refugees. That held true in virtually any sort of community — big city or small town; affluent or struggling; liberal haven or far-right stronghold — suggesting that the link applies universally.

Cohen ... pleaded guilty to eight counts and said that he made illegal campaign contributions "in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office."

Manafort was found guilty on the eight counts of the special counsel’s 18-count indictment.

A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking into the computers of people who were tricked into visiting

The report [...] said Turkey asked the U.S. to drop an ongoing investigation into Halkbank, one of the biggest state-owned Turkish banks.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he was “not thrilled” with the Federal Reserve under his own appointee, Chairman Jerome Powell, for raising interest rates and said the U.S. central bank should do more to help him to ...

...according to recently released phone logs

The Democrats are reclaiming language they ceded to the GOP decades ago—and putting a liberal spin on it.

Kavanaugh told her he agrees that the court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion is “settled law” during a key meeting ahead of confirmation hearings early next month.

“After reflecting this evening, I am strongly opposed to giving the President any ‘break’ in the questioning [...] He has lied to his aides. He has lied to the American people. He has tried to disgrace you and the Office with a sustained propaganda campaign that would make Nixon blush.”

Efforts by the remaining signatories - EU members Britain, France and Germany plus China and Russia - to avoid the agreement’s collapse are struggling as Washington has said any firms dealing with Teheran will be barred from doing business in the United States.

As her husband continued to rip into his adversaries on Twitter, first lady Melania Trump on Monday warned that social media can be used in a “destructive and harmful” manner

Trump’s accusation that the probe could have an impact on the fall elections comes as his lawyers and Mueller’s team continue a lengthy back-and-forth over whether Trump will sit down for an interview with the special counsel’s team.

"My statement was [...] referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements, the classic 'he said,she said' puzzle."

The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the United States in Iraq and other conflict zones

The Trump deficits are the result of changes in federal spending and revenues that will continue to be in place until some president and Congress decide to reverse them, that is, to increase taxes and make cuts to popular programs.

Conservatives are vastly outspending liberals and targeting vulnerable senators in the fight to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

Russia accused the United States of trying to break the spirit in jail of Maria Butina, a woman U.S. authorities say is a Russian government agent, and complained she was being subjected to “borderline torture.”

There are 43 Republican seats now without an incumbent on the ballot. That's more than one out of every six Republicans in the House — a record in at least a century,

With the exception of a few Republican elected officials at the periphery, Congress has worked to enable Trump’s abuses

Rather than getting Dean’s legal advice for Cohen, Davis said he has been asking about Dean’s experiences during Watergate to refresh his own memory of the investigation.

Once White House officials were informed about CNN’s pending report, Beattie reportedly was confronted and urged to step down immediately.

Many fellow Twitter users pointed out to McCarthy that he was unable to view Ingraham's tweet because he had the "Hide Sensitive Content" setting turned on.

President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan visited Houston over the weekend, her second brief stop in the United States in one week

Erdogan, for the moment, appears unbowed.

The inquiry has entered the final stage and prosecutors are considering filing charges by the end of August

After Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, was initially interviewed by the special counsel’s office in November, President Trump’s lawyers never asked for a complete description of what Mr. McGahn had said.Credit

Giuliani not only disputed the special counsel’s tactics, but the very notion of reality.

"And when you tell me that he should testify because he’s going to tell the truth and he shouldn’t worry, well that’s so silly because that’s somebody’s version of the truth, not the truth," Giuliani said.

People who have actually studied the disgraced Wisconsin senator describe a man who bears similarities to some of the president’s most notable attributes.

Because he fears Trump may be setting him up to take the fall on potential obstruction of justice and that he’d then wind up like John Dean, former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon who eventually flipped: in prison.

In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s fury toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it.

The secrets they have aren’t secrets anymore. They’re evidence

The seven locations they want to close are not in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires wheelchair accessibility to all public buildings.

"The defendant's crime was serious and caused damage to the government's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election"

The Treasury Department says the government is on track to have a total budget deficit of about $850 billion in the current fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.

Manafort's team left court on Friday pleased that deliberations would spill into a third day, with Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing telling reporters it favored his client.

“The whole Manafort trial is very sad. When you look at what’s going on there, I think it’s a very sad day for our country.”

On Friday, the United States and Mexico appeared close to agreeing on how to revise the 24-year-old Nafta deal. Canada [...] was not party to the talks.

Trump has told advisers that he is eager to strip more security clearances as part of an escalating attack against people who have criticized him or played a role in the investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign

Retreating from his parade plans, the president also took a jab at the local government in Washington, saying the city is “poorly” run.

Trump’s decision to declassify competing congressional memos about the validity of the so-called Steele dossier means the FBI has lost its authority to rebuff Freedom of Information Act requests

Telling no one, the chairman has known all year.

“I want this to stop in my room, Jason,” he shouted. “This is my room.”

The rally comes after the Arkansas legislature approved the placement of a Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds.

—William H. McRaven, retired Navy admiral, commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The perceived betrayal of a longtime female ally, and her perfectly executed Trumpian tactics, made the feud too personal to ignore.

The other questions suggested that the jury was trying to grapple with some of the complexities of the financial laws that Mr. Manafort [...] is accused of breaking.

It was not the commander in chief, however, but one James Trump (no relation), an assistant U.S. attorney there for a supervised release hearing in an unrelated case.

That’s why the president revoked my security clearance: to try to silence anyone who would dare challenge him.

If a policy principle were to display erratic conduct and behavior, increasingly frenzied commentary, make wild outbursts on the internet and television, monetize his official position, and lie repeatedly, well, by now you should be fully aware of the punchline to this joke.

He confessed that his true motivation for revoking former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance was the “rigged witch hunt” that Brennan once “led.”

Why some Trump allies think his path to reelection runs through an effort to kick him out of the Oval Office.

...alleging religious discrimination over his refusal to make a cake celebrating a gender transition.

Newspapers and media outlets across the U.S. launched a widespread effort Thursday aimed at combating the constant attacks from President Donald Trump as well as negative feelings about the media's role in society.

“I’m sorry for the mistake, but no apologies for the 700,000 jobs for African Americans created under President Trump.”

Brennan [...] has emerged as one of Trump’s fiercest critics, denouncing his performance at a summit with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin last month as “treasonous.”

Here at the Conways’, it’s a house divided. She is Trump’s loyal adviser, the woman who carried him over the finish line to the White House. He is one of the president’s most notable conservative critics and wishes he had never introduced his wife to Trump in the first place.

Conway has become an increasingly public voice of dissent against the president.

Government ethics experts immediately sounded the alarm, suggesting it may have been a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity while on the job.

"[The satellite's] behaviour on-orbit was inconsistent with anything seen before from on-orbit inspection or space situational awareness capabilities, including other Russian inspection satellite activities,"

Stone [...] posted an image that depicted himself and other Trump allies wearing space suits with swastika patches

Trump aides are suffering from the same type of psychological warfare that gripped Clinton’s campaign during the WikiLeaks dumps.

Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the economy added only 195,000 jobs for African-Americans under President Barack Obama. In fact, it added about three million.

Manafort is letting the case go to the jury because he and his lawyers “do not believe that the government has met its burden of proof”

Pai's FCC claimed for more than a year that a May 2017 outage in the public comments system was caused by multiple DDoS attacks. In reality, the FCC system crashed because it was unable to handle an influx of comments

If the trade war escalates [...] some worry that the public’s faith in the economy could be shaken, exposing the nation to much more serious problems than a drop in exports.

"Everyone says one thing one day, and they change their story the next day"

Faithfully executing the laws requires the president to act reasonably and in good faith. It does not countenance the deliberate sabotage of an act of Congress.

The press secretary “can’t guarantee” the president didn’t use a racial slur, but she would like everyone to note that Trump has been better for African-Americans than Obama.

His comments have so far failed to quell a crisis that economists say is largely self-inflicted, owing to an overheated economy and the debt exposure of Turkey’s companies and banks.

The risk of a no-deal Brexit has been increasing and the European Union commission needs to change its attitude if a deal is to be reached, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday.

Metropolitan Police in London were investigating the event -- in which a car crashed into security barriers outside of the Houses of Parliament during rush hour Tuesday morning -- as a terrorist incident. [...] He was alone in the car and no weapons were recovered at the scene.

West Virginia lawmakers completed the extraordinary move of impeaching all four state Supreme Court justices Monday night for spending issues, including a suspended justice facing a 23-count federal indictment.

“It is one of the great ironies of all time that the Trump presidency has given us more books than ever before.”

"If his office calls again ... anything they want I’ll share"

Kavanaugh accrued as much as $200,000 in debt buying tickets to Washington Nationals baseball games.

The prosecution rested its case in chief, and the defense will argue its motion to acquit on Tuesday

Trump and McCain are engaged in a long-running feud that dates to Trump’s 2016 presidential run.

While signing the annual funding bill, President Trump inaccurately claimed that the amount was “historic” and the military had “never” previously received funding.

Turkey’s worst economic crisis since 2001 [...] has confronted Mr. Erdogan with the limits of his authoritarian approach and could end his long run of success.

Ross may have violated three laws by delivering false statements and omissions about his holdings in congressional testimony and financial disclosures

Importantly, staffers must give up recording devices or cell phones when entering the room. Omarosa managed to get a recording out of the situation room and play it on national television this week.

Both Trump and Kushner can be heard wishing Manigault Newman the best and telling her they had no idea her head was on the chopping block

I have watched with dismay and increasing horror as my nephew, an educated man who is well aware of his heritage, has become the architect of immigration policies that repudiate the very foundation of our family’s life in this country.

For months, officials in the West Wing have refused to confirm reports [...] that aides were ordered to sign nondisclosure agreements, which legal experts say are essentially unenforceable for government employees.

With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation. This is not normal.

Saudi's attacks on Canada a "new normal within the Arab world since the failing of the Arab Spring," [...] "You're just being made aware of it now because the sewers have overflown"

“He was like, ‘What is this stuff in between and these other countries?’”

In the purported recording, which would constitute a serious breach of White House security, Kelly is heard complaining about her “significant integrity issues”

After weeks of hype, white supremacists managed to muster just a couple of dozen supporters on Sunday

In addition to Kessler’s event, there are two counter-demonstrations planned for Sunday, one organized by a coalition of anti-fascist or “antifa” groups, who are traveling from all over the country to attend, and another by a coalition of groups that includes Black Lives Matter.

Manafort's role managing the Trump campaign helped him win millions of dollars in loans at a time he was badly short on cash.

Rosenstein must have done something truly and utterly horrible, because these guys don’t impeach just anybody. In fact, they impeach nobody.

The surge in fire activity has led California to call for help to at least 17 other states and two countries.

“water treatment was applied”

Trump Jr. shared a doctored image that makes his father's Gallup presidential approval rating look 10 points higher than it actually is

The US has made repeated proposals to North Korea on denuclearization, all of which have been rejected

That aide, Andrew Miller, lost a lawsuit earlier this month in U.S. District Court challenging Mueller's subpoena requiring him to appear before a grand jury.

“Inflation has been climbing and wage growth, meanwhile, has been flat as a pancake”

In practice however, there is little Russia can do to hit back at the United States without damaging its own economy.

Judge T.S. Ellis III began the day by admitting he was wrong when criticizing prosecutors in front of the jury Wednesday.

The crew laminated the vinyl stars and placed them on blank squares on the Walk of Fame, though kept them covered until all were secured into place so that onlookers would not know exactly what was happening.

...a figure that is more than 20 times the official death toll.

Trump’s legal team is doing all it can to keep the president from lying

...after learning that the Trump administration started to remove a woman and her daughter while a court hearing appealing their deportations was underway.

...the Trump administration had put a mother and a daughter who are plaintiffs in the lawsuit on a flight to Central America.

...and said the reason for the new restrictions — allegations it poisoned a former spy and his daughter in Britain — were far-fetched.

Americans are quite favorable to a set of policies that the Koch network opposes.

Former Manafort partner Rick Gates wrapped up his testimony as defense lawyers hinted that he had had four adulterous affairs.

The sanctions again highlighted the gap between President Trump’s conciliatory language toward Russia and the tough position taken by many in Congress and within the administration itself.

Lawyers for Paul Manafort attacked the government’s star witness as a thief, serial adulterer and possible forger

“It would be an easy choice, wouldn't it?”

Multiple sources familiar with the “Omarosa tapes” described the recorded conversations between Trump and Manigault as anodyne, everyday chatter

...despite being a candidate in the race.

The president rails against China over dinner with execs and senior White House staff.

They lack the wiggle room to absorb cost increases or shift production, and many are re-evaluating plans and strategies

“We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.”

“If you and I fall into bad moral habits, we can harm our families, our employers and our friends. The President of the United States can incinerate the planet. Seriously, the very idea that we ought to have at or less than the same moral demands placed on the Chief Executive that we place on our next door neighbor is ludicrous and dangerous”

You know what would be surprising? If Rick Gates and Paul Manafort had suddenly suspended their apparently deeply ingrained habits of fraudulence and thievery during the three months they ran the Donald Trump campaign.

Riyadh has stopped sending patients to Canadian hospitals and told hundreds of trainee doctors to leave Canada with only weeks’ notice.

The U.S. government has declined to come to Canada’s defence in the growing diplomatic crisis over its criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human-rights' record.

The White House is planning to add new restrictions to green card and citizenship applications for a wide range of legal immigrants who have used public services in their time in the United States

Because the Walk of Fame, which holds 2,500 stars, is the property of the City of Los Angeles, the city has the final decision.

What’s the most worrisome foreign intrusion into the United States—unauthorized immigrants, Chinese imports, or interference in our democracy?

Pai acknowledged Monday that the FCC lied about its public comment system being taken down by a DDoS attack during the net neutrality repeal proceeding.

Misinformation is fine — but hate speech isn’t

Georgia is one of four states that uses voting machines statewide that produce no paper record for voters to verify, making them difficult to audit

No one would mistake President Trump for an expert on climate change or water policy

“We have plenty of water to fight these wildfires, but let’s be clear: It’s our changing climate that is leading to more severe and destructive fires”

Saudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador, withdrew its ambassador from Canada and froze new business deals and investment with Canada.

Amid a U.S.-China trade war, the two major stock indexes in China have lost one-quarter of their value from highs this year.

It’s not clear how many people will attend Unite the Right 2 — many white nationalists have already said they have no interest in going, while others who might otherwise attend are enmeshed in legal troubles stemming from last year’s rally.

It’s not clear what Mueller’s team questioned Davis about, though it likely has something to do with her close ties to Stone.

Saudi Arabia's state media on Monday tweeted a graphic appearing to show an Air Canada airliner heading toward the Toronto skyline in a way that recalled the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

U.S. officials said the sanctions that have been waived for the past two and a half years will be snapped back officially on Tuesday morning at one minute past midnight.

...asserting that “facts develop” and saying that the president “misspoke” — while saying something he has said dozens of times.

In fact, the economy and jobs are nowhere close to historic bests based on several measures.

"And as a historian, my natural tendency is to always try to stop people from invoking Hitler. In most cases it was not appropriate to make such a comparison. But now, with Trump, my resistance and that of other historians to making that comparison is being overcome."

Facebook finally took action Monday because it says the Infowars content broke its standards by "repeatedly" posting hate speech that "attacks or dehumanizes" others.

Apple's decision to remove all episodes of Jones' popular show — rather than just specific offending episodes — is one of the largest enforcement actions intended to curb conspiratorial news content by a technology company to date.

Whom to believe — the accused liar, or the admitted one?

The ability of a single industry to exert so much influence over the exclusions process is striking even in Mr. Trump’s business-friendly White House

Gibson rejects any association with white supremacists, but they keep showing up to his events, sometimes at his invitation.

The President’s Sunday-morning tweet should be seen as a turning point. It doesn’t teach us anything new [...] But it ends any possibility of an alternative explanation.

At rare moments of introspection for the famously self-centered president, Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe

...her attempts at connecting with prominent American conservatives extended beyond making inroads with the gun-rights group.

...setting a 20-day deadline for the administration to do so.

"It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today"

Republicans have been working for decades to get to where they are now — on the cusp of cementing a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for a generation.

“The reality is that for every parent who is not located, there will be a permanently orphaned child,” [...] “And that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.”

A federal judge called the Trump administration's slowness to track down migrant parents it had separated from their children and then deported "unacceptable," saying the responsibility is "100%" on the government.

'They never told us about any income deposited in foreign accounts'

Butina repeatedly bragged about her work as a spy for the Russian government while drunk

After just six months on the job, first lady Melania Trump’s top policy aide has left the White House

The National Rifle Association says it's suffering grave financial harm that's threatening the group's ability to pursue its advocacy mission because of actions by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York regulators.

One Manafort accountant, Cindy Laporta, said she went along with falsifying his tax records because she feared confronting her longtime client.

Ferriero said that the National Archives and Records Administration has traditionally responded only to “special access” requests from committee chairmen, not from the senior member of the minority party on the panel.

“You see the Nazi platform in the early 1930s … and you look at it compared to like, the DNC platform of today, you’re saying, man, those things are awfully similar,” said Trump Jr.

Alejandra Juarez forced to leave husband and daughters in Florida after exhausting all options to stop her deportation

...“a last-minute visit to New York by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia” increased revenues for room rentals by 13 percentage points.

Four cities have just filed suit, arguing that Trump’s attempts to undermine the law violate the Constitution.

The Trump administration agreed to reunite all the parents it deported without their children — it just wants non-profits and other organizations to do the leg work.

For the first half of 2018, the trade deficit in goods and services hit $291.2 billion, the federal government reported Friday, which is higher than last year and puts the nation on track to have the largest annual deficit since 2008.

One of the thorniest issues between the United States and Mexico has been the rules that govern whether automobiles qualify for zero tariffs under Nafta.

No credible evidence has ever been produced, by the White House, or anyone else, to substantiate the claim.

...a move designed to match the Trump administration’s tariff threats blow-for-blow that is bound to further intensify trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

...accusing its government of refusing to respect a promise to President Trump to stop, or even slow, Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a Russian bank it said had facilitated a transaction with a person blacklisted by Washington for involvement with North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Justice Department lawyers wrote in a court filing Thursday that the ACLU should use its “considerable resources,” its network of advocacy groups, and information from the government to locate parents removed to foreign countries.

The event is being organized by the white supremacist group behind last summer’s rally in Charlottesville that led to protests, violent clashes and the death of a counterprotester.

Mr. Brunson’s imprisonment has threatened to plunge fraught relations with Turkey, a vital NATO ally, into crisis.

The previous gold standard in Presidential lying was, of course, Richard Nixon.

The unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma fell to 5.1 percent in July

A lot of this rage is obviously performative. The people heckling the protesters can't deliver their burns without turning around and seeing who's laughing and which one is a winner.

It is not clear how long the temporary halt will last, but one of the sources said Unipec has no new bookings of U.S. crude until at least October.

The protests began on July 16 after Trump made controversial comments he later clarified that appeared to support Russia's explanation for election meddling over the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies.

Manafort’s bookkeeper described how Manafort’s finances hit a rough patch around 2015 and — with unpaid bills mounting — he and partner Rick Gates tried to inflate income to get a loan.

US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart of the American embassy in Moscow for more than a decade

Talks on resuming field operations, which ran for a decade before they were suspended by the Bush administration in 2005, could take place soon

“I'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in Helsinki”

Whether it’s confidence or delusion, Trump has dropped any pretense of patience with Robert Mueller and is taking his legal defense into his own hands. West Wing advisers fear he is careening toward disaster.

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, declined to say when pressed by CNN's Jim Acosta whether she considered the press to be the "enemy" of the American people, something President Donald Trump has asserted in the past.

The remark comes a day after another federal prosecutor floated the possibility that Gates "may not" be called as a witness in Manafort's criminal trial on financial fraud charges.

Now, it’s possible you may recall the June 12 agreement a bit differently. You may have thought it had something to do with North Korea agreeing to “denuclearize”—to give up its nuclear weapons.

“I am writing to request an Inspector General review of when and how individuals are provided tours of and access to Air Force One”

...in a rejection of denials of meddling that Russian President Vladimir Putin made directly to Trump.

The son of a Russian oligarch helped set up the now infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

In her lengthy ruling, Howell said that the “witness raises legitimate questions, but his concerns are not legally sustainable.”

...significantly weakening one of President Barack Obama’s signature policies to combat global warming.

"We should no longer be talking about if the Russians attempted to interfere with American society. They've been doing it since the days of the Soviet Union, and they're still doing it today."

The late al-Qaeda leader’s communication to aides via satellite phone had already been reported in 1996

Republicans fear loss of financial support and growing rift over trade could hurt the party in November.

Four cities are charging that the president is failing to execute the law by actively undercutting the Affordable Care Act.

The latest proposal by the special counsel comes as Trump has stepped up his attacks on his investigation and Mueller personally.

Short-term health plans are often dismissed as junk insurance, and for good reason. They were originally meant as a temporary option for people who found themselves with a brief break in their coverage, such as after losing a job.

The National Rifle Association typically portrays itself as an indomitable force. But an ongoing court case has the gun group taking inventory of its wounds.

Trump directed the increase from a previously proposed 10 percent duty because China has refused to meet U.S. demands and has imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.

Under Trump, conspiracy theories and an all out assault on the truth have created a strange new reality

The midterms are approaching, and the president has yet to get serious about protecting the nation’s electoral system from cyberinvasion.

As security looked on, supporters wearing MAGA hats and holding signs peddling popular rightwing conspiracy theories jeered and swore at the assembled press, with many of the mainly white crowd holding up a middle finger.

She denied that Trump was obstructing the probe. “He’s fighting back,” she said.

What President Donald Trump‘s Wednesday morning tweets potentially represent is the president digging himself into a deeper hole.

“U.S. pressure and blackmail won’t have an effect. If the United States takes further escalatory steps, China will inevitably take countermeasures and we will resolutely protect our legitimate rights”

“Q” feeds disciples, or “bakers,” scraps of intelligence, or “bread crumbs,” that they scramble to bake into an understanding of the “storm”

Manafort’s ostrich jacket became yet another symbol of the Washington elite, the latest of many luxury items associated with Trump’s inner circle.

“The child died following her stay at an ICE Detention Center, as a result of possible negligent care and a respiratory illness she contracted from one of the other children.”