Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …

Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit  —  WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal shooting …

Here Is Anthony Scaramucci's “Communications Plan” From Before He Was Fired  —  “Make it clear that horn tooting and denigrating colleagues is unacceptable,” Scaramucci's memo notes.  —  Recently ousted White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci had big plans for the job …

Oh, Wait.  Maybe It Was Collusion.  —  Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?  Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …

Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe  —  New White House chief of staff John Kelly, in one of his first acts in his new post, called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from President Donald Trump.

Those Calls to Trump?  White House Admits They Didn't Happen  —  WASHINGTON — Has President Trump told you about the time the head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the best speech ever delivered to the more than century-old organization?  What about when the president of Mexico picked …

Stephen Miller attacks Statue of Liberty poem, echoing popular white nationalist talking point  —  At Wednesday's White House press briefing, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was pressed on whether Trump's new immigration policy was in keeping with the spirit of the poem inscribed at the base of Statute of Liberty.

U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos.  Over Investment-For-Visa Program  —  Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …

A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics  —  VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican's good graces.

Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …

NAACP issues first-ever travel advisory for a state — and it's Missouri  —  NAACP officials say their recent travel advisory for Missouri is the first that the civil rights group has issued for any state.  —  But the warning follows a recent trend of similar alerts issued by other groups …

PODCAST: The story behind our Trump golf story (and a certain explosive quote)  —  The real Donald Trump is revealed through his golf game  —  Of the 7,424 words in Alan Shipnuck's deep dive into President Trump's ties to golf in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, seven words have caused a media frenzy:

He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college.  Now he and his brother have been deported.  —  Family members of the two deported brothers.  From left to right: Fatima Claros Saravia, 25, Jonathan Claros Saravia, 29 and their parents Lucia Saravia and Jose Claros Saravia.

Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed  —  Earlier today, Laura Loomer, Rebel Media journalist and former Project Veritas operative, had a tire to her car slashed in what appears to be a pretty clear act of vandalism.  —  Tweets by LauraLoomer

Sources: Michael Grimm eyes return to Congress  —  The Staten Island political world is buzzing with talk that a former Republican congressman may want his old job back.  NY1 Political Reporter Grace Rauh has that story.  —  For months now, there has been talk that Michael Grimm would try to get back into politics.

Border Patrol Ordered To Block Congressmen During Travel Ban … As chaos unfolded at the nation's airports, Trump administration officials issued clear directives: treat lawyers' calls like “protests” and keep duly elected representatives out.  —  On the chaotic day the Trump administration's …

Democrats Don't Actually Believe in Democracy  —  Yeah, we're a republic, but we also have democratic rules, norms, and traditions.  Too bad the Democratic Party doesn't believe in them.  —  Case in point - their bizarre embrace of illegal aliens.  Democrats seem to think that foreigners …

Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich says he's doing a “big pivot” away from Trump  —  Right-wing troll Mike Cernovich took to Periscope to announce that he's doing “a big pivot” away from “being a pro-Trump guy.”  Cernovich enthusiastically supported President Donald Trump throughout …