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.

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 …

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.”

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Trump Will Sign Russia Sanctions Law ‘Very Soon,’ Pence Says  —  President Trump will “very soon” sign a law limiting his ability to lift sanctions against Russia, even though he has “concerns” about the measure, Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday.  —  The announcement during a visit …

‘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 …

Sarah Sanders Defends Trump for Reportedly Dictating Son's Russian Lawyer Statement  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced questions today about new reports suggesting that President Trump personally enunciated his son's initial, misleading statement about his meeting with a Russian lawyer last year.

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 …

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 …

US detects ‘highly unusual’ North Korean submarine activity  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — An ejection test examines a missile's “cold-launch system,” which uses high pressure steam to propel a missile out of the launch canister  —  Washington (CNN)The US military has detected …

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.

Democratic rising star Kamala Harris has a “Bernieland” problem  —  Freshman Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has recently become the subject of much speculation about a potential 2020 presidential run.  Several major news outlets have run feature-length profiles of Harris …