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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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'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:

North Korea fires second ballistic missile over Japan  —  North Korea has fired a ballistic missile across Japan, creating new tension in the region after its nuclear bomb test less than two weeks ago.  —  The missile reached an altitude of about 770km (478 miles), travelling 3,700km …

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.

A white security officer told police he was shot by a black man.  Turns out, he'd shot himself.  —  In a dimly lit, wooded area on the southwest side of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minn., the handgun Brent Ahlers brought to work discharged.  —  As a security officer …

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.

U.S. Army kills contracts for hundreds of immigrant recruits.  Some face deportation.  —  U.S. Army recruiters have abruptly canceled enlistment contracts for hundreds of foreign-born military recruits since last week, upending their lives and potentially exposing many to deportation …

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 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 …

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.

Shellshocked Trenton police department hit with more brutality allegations  —  TRENTON >> A city man said he was beaten to a pulp this month, suffering a concussion, broken bones and head injuries, at the hands of Trenton police officers who pulled him over for allegedly blowing through a red light.

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.

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.

The Joy of Destruction  —  What explains the sudden mania for toppling statues?  —  Josh Cobin seems a good enough guy.  A little pudgy, maybe, with his hair thinning on top and a beard borrowed from a Civil War officer—one who forgot to get a trim before Mathew Brady showed up to take the battalion photograph.

'For first time in 300 years, there's not a single living person on the island of Barbuda'  —  Barbuda has been left completely devastated by Hurricane Irma.  An estimated 95% of Barbuda's structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated.

POLITICO-Harvard poll: Obamacare repeal still tops GOP voters' to-do lists  —  Republican leaders want to move past Obamacare repeal, but most GOP voters aren't ready to let them do it.  —  That's a key finding of the latest POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll …