Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale  —  The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department's civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed …

Anthony Scaramucci Mum On Goodbyes to Trump, Send-off Message for Gen. Kelly  —  Anthony Scaramucci is not done with D.C. yet — the morning after he bolted from the White House, he was cruising out of the Trump Hotel ... and talking about his future.  —  This is the first time the Mooch …

First Golfer: Donald Trump's relationship with golf has never been more complicated  —  [This article appears in the Aug. 7, 2017, edition of Sports Illustrated.]  —  With special reporting by Michael Bamberger, Ben Baskin and Pete Madden.  —  Playing golf with the 45th President …

Full transcript: Trump's Wall Street Journal interview  —  President Donald Trump called his son-in-law a “good boy” while thanking Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker for a positive editorial about Jared Kushner and said the leader of the Boy Scouts told him his jamboree speech was “the greatest speech ever made to them.”

Exclusive: Former Justice Department official joins Mueller team  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Justice Department official has become the latest lawyer to join special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, a spokesman for the team confirmed.

Kushner On Middle East Peace: “What Do We Offer That's Unique?  I Don't Know.”  —  ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior advisor Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series.  During the question-and-answer portion of the event …

Debt-ceiling talks between White House, Senate break up with no progress  —  Talks between the White House and the Senate's top Republican and Democrat broke up Tuesday with no progress on raising the country's debt ceiling, an impasse that threatens a financial crisis if left unresolved.

An anti-immigrant group mistook empty bus seats for women wearing burqas  —  Last week, a photograph that appeared to show six women wearing burqas on a bus sparked a heated debate in a private Facebook group for Norwegians critical of immigration.  —  For many members of the group …

Republicans in Congress Bypass Trump to Shore Up Health Law  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans moved on Tuesday to defuse President Trump's threat to cut off critical payments to health insurance companies, maneuvering around the president toward bipartisan legislation to shore …

‘Black America’: Amazon Alt-History Drama From Will Packer & Aaron McGruder Envisions Post-Reparations America  —  EXCLUSIVE: A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the U.S., the wounds left by one of the darkest periods in American history are far from healed …

Flake makes waves with Trump takedown  —  Jeff Flake's scathing critique of Donald Trump roiled the Capitol — and potentially his own reelection bid — on Tuesday as the first-term senator pressed his case that the GOP aided and abetted the president's rise.

President Trump's reference to ‘paddy wagon’ insults Irish Americans like me  —  The use of the derogatory phrase “paddy wagon” wasn't the worst thing President Trump said last week.  But it shouldn't get lost amid the litany of objectionable utterances.  —  In a speech on Long Island Friday …

Trump Came In As A Weak President, And He's Made Himself Weaker  —  In the last week, the Republicans' Obamacare repeal effort failed on the Senate floor despite President Trump urging GOP senators to vote yes.  The White House underwent rapid and chaotic staff changes.

Senate confirms Wray as next FBI director  —  The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Christopher A. Wray as the next FBI director, filling a critical post that has remained vacant since President Trump fired James B. Comey in May.  —  The vote was 92 to 5.

Former Obama Aide Ben Rhodes now a person of interest in unmasking investigation  —  Former Obama White House National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes is now an emerging as a person of interest in the House Intelligence Committee's unmasking investigation, according to a letter sent Tuesday …

Sasse rebuffs Heritage for top job  —  The conservative think tank has made a run at one of the Senate's top anti-Trump Republicans.  —  The Heritage Foundation has approached one of the Senate's leading anti-Trump Republicans, Ben Sasse, to gauge his interest in serving as president …

Not a shot!  Anti-vax movement prompts Brooklynites to withhold inoculations from their pets  —  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.  —  Brooklyn Paper  —  Call it an outbreak of stupidity.  —  Brooklynites are refusing to vaccinate their pets against virulent and potentially deadly illnesses …

56 retired generals, admirals warn against Trump's transgender ban  —  Fifty-six retired generals and admirals are coming out against President Trump's ban on transgender troops, arguing it would be disruptive and degrade military readiness, rather than improve it as the president asserted.

Acting DEA Chief Rebuts Trump's Remarks on Police Use of Force  —  Rosenberg memo to agency staff says to disregard suggestion that suspects should be roughed up  —  WASHINGTON—The nation's top narcotics officer repudiated President Donald Trump's remarks about police use of force …

When Progressives Embrace Hate  —  A mere half-year ago, before collusion and Comey, before Mika's face and Muslim bans and the Mooch, there was a shining moment where millions of Americans flooded the streets in cities across the country to register their rage that an unapologetic misogynist had just been made leader of the free world.