Sen. Scott says Trump's “moral authority is compromised”  —  For more of this interview with Sen. Scott, watch VICE News Tonight on HBO at 7:30 ET.  —  CHARLESTON, South Carolina — President Donald Trump has put his fellow Republican politicians in an awkward position after his Tuesday news conference …

Steve Bannon Detonates His Trump Survival Plan, Worrying Allies  —  “He's saying, 'I'm going to force you to fire me in a public way or we're going to follow the agenda we were elected for,'” an ally said.  —  Allies who spend too long in Donald Trump's doghouse usually get sent away for good.

Spanish police stop second attack after 13 killed in Barcelona  —  Spanish police say they have killed five people in the town of Cambrils to stop a second attempted van attack after an earlier one in Barcelona.  —  The attackers were wearing explosive belts, police said.

Trump Abandons Plan for Council on Infrastructure  —  President nixes council after ending two other business groups  —  Executives had started to quit after Virginia controversy  —  President Donald Trump will not move forward with a planned Advisory Council on Infrastructure, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

I Voted for Trump.  And I Sorely Regret It.  —  When Donald Trump first announced his presidential campaign, I, like most people, thought it would be a short-lived publicity stunt.  A month later, though, I happened to catch one of his political rallies on C-Span.  I was riveted.

WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During U.S. Presidential Campaign  —  The leak organization ignored damaging information on the Kremlin to focus on Hillary Clinton and election-related hacks.  —  In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents …

CNN's Angela Rye: Statues of Washington, Jefferson and Lee ‘All Need to Come Down’  —  It's happening just as Donald Trump predicted.  He said in a press conference Monday that if a confederate statue of Robert E. Lee comes down, what's next?  Statues of George Washington because he was a slave owner?

McCaskill, Clay and others call for Mo. senator to resign after post hoping for Trump's assassination  —  With five written words Thursday morning, one of Missouri's most controversial state lawmakers spawned a U.S. Secret Service investigation, potentially endangered her own political career …

Bubble Tea Purveyors Continue to Grow Along With Drink's Popularity  —  Editors' note: An earlier version of this article prompted criticism by readers and we have since revised the article in response.  We have discussed the concerns in further detail here.

Circling the Square of President Trump's Relationship With Race  —  WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship.

James Murdoch Pledges $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League as Trump Protest  —  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trump's, condemned the president's performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va. …

Abraham Lincoln monument torched in Chicago: ‘An absolute disgraceful act’  —  Abraham Lincoln has joined George Washington on the list of those targeted by Chicagoans in a national debate over Civil War-era monuments.  —  Alderman Raymond Lopez took to Facebook Wednesday night to decry …

Wasserman Schultz' ex-IT aide indicted on 4 counts  —  Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.  —  The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.

John Henry says Red Sox will lead effort to change name of Yawkey Way  —  The Red Sox have had enough.  —  At a moment when racial tensions have escalated rapidly and the removal of Confederate statues acts as a flashpoint for violent and racially divisive protests, the Red Sox are ready …

Longtime Trump business partner ‘told family he knows he and POTUS are going to prison’: report  —  Felix Sater, one of Donald Trump's shadiest former business partners, is reportedly preparing for prison time — and he says the president will be joining him behind bars.

Donald Trump has no grasp of what it means to be president  —  U-turns, self-regard and equivocation are not what it takes  —  DEFENDERS of President Donald Trump offer two arguments in his favour—that he is a businessman who will curb the excesses of the state; and that he will help America …

An open letter from the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.  —  Dear Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney and members of the Monument Avenue Commission,  —  We are native Richmonders and also the great-great-grandsons of Stonewall Jackson.  As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall …

GOP senator accuses mom worried about her kids' insurance of being a paid fake activist  —  The Republican Party is still reeling from the backlash of their disastrous plan to strip low-income people of health insurance, which came under fire for being written behind closed doors with no input from constituents.

Democrats Are Preparing To Run Against Mike Pence In 2020  —  A Democratic group has resources and staff dedicated to targeting Pence.  The initial research they've pitched to reporters confirms their strategy is to tie him to Trump as much as possible.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC

Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump's Supreme Court appointee, is scheduled to address a conservative group at the Trump International Hotel in Washington next month, less than two weeks before the court is set to hear arguments on Mr. Trump's travel ban.

Donald Trump's lie about John Pershing is not only ignorant; it's dangerous for the fight against radical Islamic terrorism  —  BAGHDAD — Nothing is quite as bad as the President of the United States equating white supremacists with their enemies and defending statues that glorify the slave-owning Confederacy.