Trump's Threat to North Korea Was Improvised  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Trump delivered his “fire and fury” threat to North Korea on Tuesday with arms folded, jaw set and eyes flitting on what appeared to be a single page of talking points set before him on the conference table at his New Jersey golf resort.

Ex-Trump staffers reveal love child after campaign trail sex scandal  —  The very first sex scandal of Donald Trump's presidency has just resulted in the birth of a love child.  —  Married former White House communications director Jason Miller has fathered a son with Trump transition adviser …

Unarmed Russian Air Force jet overflies the Pentagon, Capitol, CIA  —  (CNN)An unarmed Russian Air Force aircraft overflew the US Capitol, the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and Joint Base Andrews at low altitude on Wednesday as part of a longstanding treaty that allows the militaries …

Male prostitute, 26, dies of meth overdose at Hollywood home of high-profile Democrat donor  —  A 26-year-old man was found dead at the home of a well-known Democratic party donor late last month of a drug overdose.  —  The incident occurred on July 27 around 7.22pm at the West Hollywood home of Ed Buck …

Uncle John Taught Trump About Fire and Fury  —  When the president reflects on nuclear weapons, he likes to remind listeners that he's the nephew of an MIT physicist.  —  President Donald Trump returned this week to a recurring and favorite theme of his over the years: nuclear war and annihilation.

Poll: Trump finances fair game in Russia investigation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Seventy percent of Americans believe the federal investigation into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election in the US should be able to look into President Donald Trump's finances …

Inflatable chicken resembling Trump placed near White House  —  A large inflatable chicken meant to resemble President Trump was placed near the White House on Wednesday.  —  The inflatable chicken, which features a golden coif of hair and hand gestures similar to Trump's …

Feds sought cooperation from Manafort's son-in-law  —  Federal investigators sought cooperation from Paul Manafort's son-in-law in an effort to increase pressure on President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, according to three people familiar with the probe.

Price booed as he throws out first pitch at Nationals game  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price  —  was booed as he threw out the first pitch at the Washington Nationals Game on Wednesday.  —  Price was reportedly met with boos and only a few cheers when he took the mound …

The First Amendment (Literally) Banned in DC  —  Can the government ban the text of the First Amendment itself on municipal transit ads because free speech is too “political” for public display?  —  If this sounds like some ridiculous brain teaser, it should.  But unfortunately it's not.

GOP And Trump's Transgender Attacks Backfire In Iowa Special Election  —  In the midst of a new national debate on transgender soldiers serving in the military, voters in Southeast Iowa were seeing their TVs inundated with campaign ads about transgender bathrooms.

Did Cuba launch acoustic attack on U.S. diplomats?  —  WASHINGTON — The two-year-old U.S. diplomatic relationship with Cuba was roiled Wednesday by what U.S. officials say was a string of bizarre incidents that left a group of American diplomats in Havana with severe hearing loss attributed to a covert sonic device.

Joe Biden and the Revenge of the Septuagenarians  —  From the Aug. 14, 2017, issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD.  —  In the past half-century, there have been two presidential elections that Democrats should have won by a landslide but did not.  —  The first was in 1976.

Top Trump donor ponies up to take out Flake  —  One of Donald Trump's most generous political benefactors is providing a six-figure donation to a super PAC devoted to unseating Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican who has been fiercely critical of the president.

Trump's Immigration Agenda Makes a Fundamental Miscalculation  —  Like many of President Trump's policies, the White House's recent embrace of a plan to cut legal immigration in half rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the economic relationship between “the brown and the gray.”

Trump's Legal Team Is No Match for Mueller's  —  The president could learn from Bill and Hillary Clinton's years of litigation.  —  When news broke on Aug. 3 that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had begun using a grand jury in Washington to gather evidence related to his Russia probe, it appeared to catch the White House off guard.

‘Disgusting’: Walmart draws fire over back-to-school banner placed over gun display … Walmart is apologizing after a photo of a back-to-school sign over a glass firearms display in one of its stores rocketed across social media.  —  “Own the school year like a hero,” the Walmart sign read.

Mitch McConnell's ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comment Draws Trump's Ire  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump lashed out on Wednesday at the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who suggested this week that the president harbored “excessive expectations” about the pace of congressional progress.

Our Revolution Takes Issue With The “Dictatorial,” “Arrogant,” “Pompous” DNC  —  Turner and Sanders last year.  —  “Dictatorial.”  “Arrogant.”  “Pompous.”  “Superficial.”  “Tone-deaf.”  “Tone-dead.”  “Out of line.”  “Insulting” — “absolutely insulting.”

YouTube Stars Who Met With Feds to ‘Grow’ Trump-Themed Business Were Paid by Trump Campaign  —  A pair of familiar faces from the 2016 campaign trail randomly popped up on the US Commerce Department's Twitter account Monday afternoon.  But by Tuesday morning they were gone.