U.S. Ambassador Haley Loses Two Key Aides at United Nations  —  Chief of staff and communications director both resigned  —  Haley said on Twitter the men were leaving for family reasons  —  U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has lost two of her top aides …

In a new poll, half of Republicans say they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump proposed it  —  Critics of President Trump have repeatedly warned of his potential to undermine American democracy.  Among the concerns are his repeated assertions that he would have won …

The Note: Republican progress grinds to halt with infighting at fever pitch  —  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY  — Trump, McConnell pick a public fight: After Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vented about Trump's “excessive expectations” for Congress, President Trump hit back on Twitter.

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 …

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.

Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items  —  5 stunning stats about Walmart  —  Walmart has condemned a display inside one of its stores that appeared to market firearms as back-to-school items.  The company said Wednesday it was working to identify which of its stores put up the exhibit.

Democratic Fight in California Is a Warning for the National Party  —  SACRAMENTO — For Democrats across the nation, California has offered a bright if lonely light this year.  The party controls every statewide office and commands supermajorities in the Legislature.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

Stop Equating “Science” With Truth  —  Evolutionary psychology is just the most obvious example of science's flaws.  —  It's 2017, and people are still debating whether or not women are intellectually inferior to men, and whether we are entitled to a workplace that isn't toxic to people simply based on their gender and sex.

Google's ‘tolerance’ requires repression  —  Would a fair society have exactly the same percentage of men and women, of whites and blacks and Hispanics and Asians, in every line of work and occupational category?  If your answer is yes, and you think that any divergence from these percentages …

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.

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.”

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.