Why The Mooch Lost His Cool  —  Anthony Scaramucci tells HuffPost about the highs and lows of his fiery stint at the White House and what that cuss-filled rant was really about. … I received a call Monday night from Roger Stone, the infamous political prankster and Donald Trump confidant.

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 …

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 …

Sen. Jeff Flake Sells Out Republicans to Be Accepted at DC Cocktail Parties  —  Conservatives don't moderate—they fight to restore power to the people  —  Sen. Jeff Flake says Republicans are in denial about Trump, but I think my party may be in denial about Never Trump Republicans …

Trump's missing vote  —  President Trump needed the vote of just one more Republican senator to keep the repeal-and-replace process alive — and he could easily have had it.  —  Party sources tell us that during the transition, Senate Republicans heavily lobbied Trump to nominate red- state Senate Democrats …

What John Kelly's final ICE raid tells us about Trump's new chief of staff  —  Seventy percent of immigrants ICE arrested weren't the people ICE was supposedly targeting.  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement launched a nationwide sweep — ostensibly designed to catch Central Americans …

Tillerson spurns $80 million to counter ISIS, Russian propaganda  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is resisting the pleas of State Department officials to spend nearly $80 million allocated by Congress for fighting terrorist propaganda and Russian disinformation.

John Kelly closes the Oval Office door  —  The door to the Oval Office used to be wide open, with favored officials drifting in and out — even in the middle of meetings — to kibitz with Trump.  —  Now, the door is closed.  Gen. John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff …

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.

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.”

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 …

Trump's Real Personnel Victory: More Conservative Judges  —  While the tragicomic fall of Anthony Scaramucci was playing out at the White House on Monday, the mood was business as usual at the Capitol.  There, the Senate was dealing with its own kind of personnel matter, one that …

Donald Trump Is Pushing America's Special Forces Past the Breaking Point  —  America has never had more counterterrorism raids — and less of a counterterrorism strategy.  —  With little policy guidance or public attention, the Donald Trump administration has further expanded former President …

They trashed their wedding photographer over a $125 fee, so a jury told them to pay her $1 million  —  An autumn affair at the Petroleum Club in downtown Dallas, the union of a full-time beauty blogger and the love of her life, appeared to be a gorgeous thing — marred by one misfortune.

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears  —  Imagine, if you will, that there is a shadow government.  —  The actual government, the administration of Donald Trump, is coming off the worst week of his presidency, although there haven't been any smooth weeks.

If the President Lies, Does It Matter?  —  The president was talking about the speech he had given to the Boy Scouts.  He said, “I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.”  The Scouts organization says there was no call.

The D.C. Circuit just made it harder for Trump to stop the cost-sharing payments  —  This afternoon, the D.C. Circuit granted a motion from a group of fifteen states, led by California, to intervene in the pending appeal in House v. Price.  As I explained when the motion was filed …

Poll: Democrats surge ahead on generic ballot  —  Republicans trail Democrats by 7 percentage points on the generic congressional ballot, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, the Democratic Party's greatest advantage on the generic ballot since the poll began asking the question this past spring.

In Minneapolis, response to police shooting of white woman by Somali officer has been different  —  MINNEAPOLIS — Kim Handy-Jones stands at the front of a meeting room in a working-class portion of southeast Minneapolis, large pieces of butcher paper labeled “Body Cams,” “Accountability” and “Training” hanging behind her.

Trump: Foxconn CEO said ‘off the record’ that he may invest $30B  —  President Trump said Tuesday that the head of electronics manufacturer Foxconn had privately told him that the company may invest as much as $30 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations — three times as much as what it had promised last week.

If Trump blows up the Iran deal, he'll cause a meltdown in Europe, too  —  According to reports, President Trump was having “a bit of a meltdown” when his advisers could not present him with a plan for scuttling the nuclear deal with Iran.  —  Trump (with extreme reluctance) …

Trump Loyalist Mixes Businesses and Access at ‘Advisory’ Firm  —  Three months ago, Corey Lewandowski, President Trump's first campaign manager, quit a new Washington lobbying firm he had helped start after the election, amid scrutiny over his firm's clients and his extraordinary access to Mr. Trump.

Senior official quits, decrying ‘triumph of myth over truth’  —  A senior U.S. EPA official is resigning her post today, saying in a scathing exit memo that the Trump administration has led to “the temporary triumph of myth over truth.”  —  Elizabeth “Betsy” Southerland worked at EPA for 30 years …