Statement from Dean Elmendorf regarding the invitation to Chelsea Manning to be a Visiting Fellow  — HOME - NEWS - STATEMENT FROM DEAN ELMENDORF REGARDING THE INVITATION TO CHELSEA MANNING TO BE A VISITING FELLOW  —  Statement from Douglas W. Elmendorf, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School …

Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …

Inside Trump's dalliance with Democrats  —  After months of hammering Republicans over their failure to repeal Obamacare, President Donald Trump huddled this week with moderate House Democrats and Republicans who were trying to sell him on a fix to the health care law.

Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’  —  Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally?  Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you.  —  Until this week, when we asked Facebook about it, the world's largest social …

Trump Resurrects His Claim That Both Sides Share Blame in Charlottesville Violence  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump thrust himself back into the racial storms of Charlottesville on Thursday, repeating his charge that those resisting the neo-Nazis and white supremacists were as much to blame …

North Korea Launches Another Missile, Escalating Crisis  —  HONG KONG — North Korea fired a missile off its east coast on Friday, the South Korean military said.  —  It was the 15th such test this year and the first since North Korea detonated its most powerful nuclear bomb to date.

Democrats Follow Bernie Sanders Off a Cliff  —  How rudderless is the Democratic Party?  Its membership is so bereft of leadership and policy direction that 16 of its senators have signed on to a health care bill sponsored by a self-avowed independent democratic socialist from Vermont.

California legislature passes bill requiring presidential candidates to release tax returns  —  The California State Assembly on Thursday passed a bill that would require all presidential candidates to release their tax returns prior to being placed on the state's ballot.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher: Charlottesville protests a ‘setup’  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said leftists convinced Civil War re-enactors to protest the removal of a civil war statue and pretend to be white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., last month.

Parsons Green: London Underground blast is terror incident  —  An “improvised explosive device” was detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday's rush hour, Scotland Yard has confirmed.  —  Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said hundreds of detectives, working with MI5 …

Daily Caller reporter renounces racist, misogynistic writings  —  Back in 2010, some blogger wanted to vent about something.  “Small towns like the one I'm from in Texas have a fat girl problem.  The scent of cheap perfume, sweat, grease ... forms a troposphere-like force field surrounding …

Fanged creature found on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey  —  A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey has been identified.  —  Preeti Desai found the decaying fish on a beach in Texas City, and asked Twitter for help.

FT journalist presumed dead after being ‘dragged into water by crocodile’  —  Man, named as Paul McClean, had been taking surfing lessons in Sri Lanka, when witnesses say he was pulled into the lagoon after washing his hands … A British tourist is missing after witnesses saw him being dragged …

EXCLUSIVE: ESPN tried to kick Jemele Hill off the air and replace her with another black host  —  At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday evening, just three hours after the White House encouraged ESPN to fire her, Jemele Hill sat next to her co-host Michael Smith on the set of their daily SportsCenter show and …

The Cassini spacecraft just crashed into Saturn  —  PASADENA, Calif. — NASA scientists just received their last-ever message from the Cassini spacecraft, which plunged into Saturn early Friday morning.  Those final bits of data signal the end of one of the most successful planetary science missions in history.

Farmington Hills teacher accused of assaulting 6th-grader who sat during Pledge of Allegiance  —  Student at East Middle School in Farmington Hills doesn't stand for Pledge  —  FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. - Many NFL players have expressed their beliefs by kneeling for the national anthem before games …

Trump condemns Rice's unmasking: ‘What she did was wrong’  —  President Trump ripped former national security adviser Susan Rice on Thursday for unmasking the names of his top aides in an intelligence report.  —  “She's not supposed to be doing that, and what she did was wrong,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.

Sucking the Joy Out of Everything  —  Remember when people used to let things go?  When people would just get along, not hunt for secret meanings behind actions and ways to be offended for the sake of being offended?  Thanks to the progressive left that day is done.  —  These guys suck the joy out of everything.

The Loneliest President  —  “ISOLATED?” read the subject line.  —  “Friend,” Donald Trump wrote recently to supporters in a fundraising email.  “The fake news keeps saying, ‘President Trump is isolated.’ ... They say I'm isolated by lobbyists, corporations, grandstanding politicians, and Hollywood.

Fergie and Josh Duhamel Separate After 8 Years of Marriage: ‘We Are and Will Always Be United’  —  After eight years of marriage, Fergie and Josh Duhamel are going their separate ways, they confirm to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  “With absolute love and respect we decided to separate as a couple earlier …

Trump's new world  —  Over the past week or so, we've heard all kinds of theories from administration officials and President Trump's friends on the outside about why he's cutting deals with “Chuck and Nancy” and softening on his core issue of immigration.  —  The points we keep hearing:

The Nuclear Deal Is Only Half of It  —  Our Iran problems run far deeper, thanks to Obama.  —  Photo Credit: AFP / Getty Images  —  The Trump White House has yet to roll out its much-anticipated, comprehensive, government-wide Iran policy review, but administration principals have met …