How A Random GIF From Reddit Probably Ended Up On President Trump's Phone  —  Last Wednesday, a Reddit user named /u/HanAssholeSolo posted a GIF titled “Trump takes down fake news (Colorized, 2017)” to Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, /r/The_Donald.  —  The post gained a few thousand upvotes and …

U.S. Vows Tougher Action on North Korea After Missile Test  —  SEOUL, South Korea — The United States responded Wednesday to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test by conducting a rare joint missile exercise with South Korea and pushing to impose tougher United Nations sanctions …

Aides' Biggest Worry on Trump's Europe Trip: A Meeting With Putin  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has been briefed repeatedly.  His advisers have alerted him to the web of potential risks, complex issues and diplomatic snags.  —  But even his top aides do not know precisely what Mr. Trump …

The Trump Administration's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring Badly  —  In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 44 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.  —  On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of Donald Trump's presidential commission …

Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests  —  A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.

NPR Tweeted The Declaration Of Independence And Some Trump Supporters Were Offended  —  In celebration of the 4th of July, National Public Radio tweeted out the Declaration of Independence in a series of more than 100 tweets on Tuesday. … Many people responded with praise for the historic document, and thanked NPR for sharing it.

Cruz's ObamaCare fix gets support from Hill conservatives  —  A low-flying proposal from Sen. Ted Cruz to overhaul a major component of ObamaCare is attracting the kind of conservative enthusiasm that could prove critical in the broader GOP push to repeal and replace the 2010 law.

Police Officer Is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ in the Bronx  —  A police officer was shot and killed early Wednesday while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx, in what the New York City police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack” and an assassination.  The gunman was killed, the police said.

A GOP Congressman Made a Selfie Video From Inside Auschwitz — It's as Bad as You Think  —  There are few places more hallowed than the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.  More than a million people, mostly Jews, were killed there during the second world war, many in the camp's infamous gas chambers.

U.S. Commandos Running Out of ISIS Targets … U.S. special operations forces have removed roughly 50 top ISIS leaders off the battlefield since President Donald Trump took office, down from 80 killed in the last six months of the Obama administration, according to figures obtained by The Daily Beast.

Seth Rich Murder Conspiracy Is Being Used to Sell Face Cream … Trump campaign email vendors are marketing an anti-aging cream with the help of conspiracy theories surrounding the 2016 murder of a Democratic Party staffer.  —  The ad hawking the wrinkle-fighting formula is very clearly a scam.

Judge tells Martin Shkreli: Keep your mouth shut  —  Martin Shkreli arrives for the first day of jury selection in his federal securities-fraud trial June 26 in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images)  —  The Washington Post  —  Martin Shkreli, the boisterous former hedge-fund manager …

Want to Get Rid of Trump?  Only Fox News Can Do It  —  KNOXVILLE, Iowa — President Trump's administration is in crisis, consumed by fears of what Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia's meddling in the election, might find.  Everyone's lawyering up — even the lawyers have lawyers.

Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' real 2020 frontrunner  —  He's staffing up, touring the country, and still drawing record crowds.  —  Amid a swirl of speculation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Cory Booker, and practically everyone else under the sun …

Investigators explore if Russia colluded with pro-Trump sites during US election  —  Questions raised as to whether Trump supports coordinated with Moscow to spread bogus stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton  —  The spread of Russian-made fake news stories aimed at discrediting Hillary Clinton …

Hated by the Right.  Mocked by the Left.  Who Wants to Be ‘Liberal’ Anymore?  —  “Liberal” has long been a dirty word to the American political right.  It may be shortened, in the parlance of the Limbaugh Belt, to “libs,” or expanded to the offensive portmanteau “libtards.”  But its target is always clear.