Tillerson's Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence  —  WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on the verge of resigning this past summer amid mounting policy disputes and clashes with the White House, according to multiple senior administration officials who were aware of the situation at the time.

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud  —  New York prosecutors were preparing a case.  Then the D.A. overruled his staff after a visit from a top donor: Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz.  —  In the spring of 2012, Donald Trump's two eldest children …

My Proposal to Repeal the Second Amendment and Replace It With This:  —  PROPOSED 28th AMENDMENT TO THE US CONSTITUTION  —  “A well regulated State National Guard, being helpful to the safety and security of a State in times of need, along with the strictly regulated right of the people …

RETRACTED: PADDOCK'S GIRLFRIEND USED TWO SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND WAS MARRIED TO TWO MEN AT THE SAME TIME  —  Newsweek has retracted its story that reviewed the public records of Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.  —  The initial report was based …

AP-NORC Poll: Low marks for Trump's Puerto Rico response  —  Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump's handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane relief effort.  —  According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research …

‘Trump dossier’ on Russia links now part of special counsel's probe: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy's dossier of allegations of Russian financial …

Black Lives Matter Students Shut Down the ACLU's Campus Free Speech Event Because ‘Liberalism Is White Supremacy’  —  Students affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement crashed an event at the College of William & Mary, rushed the stage, and prevented the invited guest …

Fighting The Battle for Truth To A Draw  —  There is something uniquely obscene about President Donald Trump's character—evinced in his ignorance, abusiveness, lust for dominance, and magnetic effect on other sleazy individuals—that leaves his opponents in a constant struggle to recall …

A tale of two Puerto Ricos: What Trump saw — and what he didn't  —  CAGUAS, Puerto Rico — The Puerto Rico that President Trump saw during his four-hour visit on Tuesday afternoon was that of Angel Pérez Otero, the mayor of Guaynabo, a wealthy San Juan suburb known …

Roy Moore's Facebook page shared inflammatory memes, article praising Russia's anti-gay laws  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — “Want to stop riots?  Play the National Anthem.  They'll all sit down,” a meme shared on Moore's Facebook page read.  — Moore's page also shared an article with the headline …

Someone dressed like the Monopoly guy is photobombing the Senate's Equifax hearing  — A person dressed in a black top hat and bushy white mustache, occasionally putting a monocle on, sat in the audience of the Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Equifax data breach.  —  The Monopoly guy has gone to Washington.

Santa Claus's tomb may have been uncovered beneath Turkish church  —  Archaeologists say they have found almost fully intact temple and burial grounds of Saint Nicholas in Antalya  —  Turkish archaeologists have dashed the hopes of millions of children by claiming to have uncovered the likely burial place of Saint Nicholas.

Ex-Trump adviser Paul Manafort conspired to mislead bankruptcy court, son-in-law charges  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued two new subpoena in the investigation into President Trump's campaign ties to Russia.  Nathan Rousseau Smith (@FantasticMrNate) reports.  Buzz60  —  CONNECT

Jared Kushner fined again for late ethics form, Ivanka Trump fined too  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, senior advisers to President Donald Trump, were both fined $200 for missing deadlines to submit financial reports required by government ethics rules, according to documents and interviews.

Pro-Life Rep. Tim Murphy Will Not Seek Re-Election After Reports Of Urging Abortion  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Congressman Tim Murphy, the Upper St. Clair Republican, has reached a decision about his political future.  —  In a statement to KDKA's Jon Delano, the embattled pro-life Republican said:

The path to Trump 2020 is paved with Democrats' racist accusations  —  White Middle Americans are sick of accusatory identity politics, and if the left doesn't stop, they'll do what needs to be done to stop it.  —  CONNECT  —  Way too early for this kind of stuff, but I had been thinking …