Exclusive: Russians Impersonated Real American Muslims to Stir Chaos on Facebook and Instagram … The Facebook group United Muslims of America was neither united, Muslim, nor American.  —  Instead, sources familiar with the group tell The Daily Beast, it was an imposter account …

Trump Tax Plan Benefits Wealthy, Including Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The tax plan that the Trump administration outlined on Wednesday is a potentially huge windfall for the wealthiest Americans.  It would not directly benefit the bottom third of the population.  As for the middle class, the benefits appear to be modest.

Roy Moore's Alabama Victory Sets Off Talk of a G.O.P. Insurrection  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Republicans are confronting an insurrection on the right that is angry enough to imperil their grip on Congress, and senior party strategists have concluded that the conservative base now loathes …

American Icon and Playboy Founder, Hugh M. Hefner, Has Died  —  Hugh M. Hefner, the American icon who in 1953 introduced the world to Playboy magazine and built the company into one of the most recognizable American global brands in history, peacefully passed away today from natural causes at his home …

Donald Trump Jr.'s Great Escape  —  On the evening of Sept. 14, a man who looked an awful lot like Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the president of the United States, boarded Air Canada Jazz Flight AC 8889 in Vancouver, British Columbia.  He made his way down the aisle of the Bombardier CRJ 900 …

Why didn't TV networks show angry, booing NFL fans Sunday or Monday?  —  With President Donald Trump's attacks against protesting NFL players still reverberating, the league's TV partners decided to air live coverage of the national anthem before Week 3 games.

White House is restricting lawmakers from visiting Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, aides say  —  The Trump administration is restricting lawmakers in both parties from visiting storm-ravaged Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands aboard military aircraft this weekend in order to keep focused …

Pro-Confederate activists held ‘Secession Day’ event at Roy Moore's foundation two years in a row  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Pro-Confederate activists twice held events to commemorate Alabama's 1861 secession from the United States at the headquarters of the foundation led at the time by Roy Moore …

EPA's Pruitt took charter, military flights that cost taxpayers more than $58,000  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has taken at least four noncommercial and military flights since mid-February, costing taxpayers more than $58,000 to fly him to various parts of the country …

Is the Steele Dossier About to Have Its Moment of Truth?  —  In a defamation suit, BuzzFeed is trying to compel testimony from James Comey or James Clapper to establish the document's centrality to the Russia investigation.  —  The now famous Trump-Russia dossier, filled with explosive …

The Ugliest Line in Trump's NFL Attack  —  It wasn't what you think.  —  Donald Trump's frothing critique of Colin Kaepernick and the players, coaches, and teammates who have come to his side has garnered many revelatory reactions.  Some of these responses tell us more about ourselves …

It's Official: ‘The View’ Adds Meghan McCain as Conservative Co-Host (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Elizabeth Wagmeister  —  Elizabeth's Most Recent Stories  —  Meghan McCain has officially signed onto “The View” as a regular co-host, Variety has learned exclusively.  —  McCain's hire comes just days …

California moves its presidential primary to March in push for electoral relevance  —  Backing an effort for California to claim a bigger share of the attention from presidential candidates, Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill moving the state's primary elections to early March.

Recent Trends in Wealth-Holding by Race and Ethnicity: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances  —  Lisa J. Dettling, Joanne W. Hsu, Lindsay Jacobs, Kevin B. Moore, and Jeffrey P. Thompson with assistance from Elizabeth Llanes  —  Newly released data from the Survey of Consumer Finances …

The agony of Alger  —  A review of Alger Hiss: Framed: A New Look at the Case That Made Nixon Famous by Joan Brady  —  Over the past two decades, as new information about Cold War espionage cases has trickled out of American and former Soviet archives, the impassioned defenders of such accused spies …

Big 6 Tax Framework Could Cost $2.2 Trillion  —  The so-called “Big 6” today released their framework for comprehensive tax reform.  While significant detail still needs to be filled in, enough exists for a very rough and very preliminary estimate of the details presented.

Trump preparing executive order to let Americans purchase health insurance across state lines  —  President Trump is preparing an executive order to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines, a reform conservatives have long championed as a way to bring costs …