Have We Been Lied to About the Kate Steinle Case?  —  The illegal immigrant who killed Kate Steinle in 2015 was found not guilty of her murder by a San Francisco jury today.  Outrageous, right?  —  Before the killing, Garcia Zarate had been released from a San Francisco jail despite a standing federal deportation order.

Trump Pressed Top Republicans to End Senate Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump over the summer repeatedly urged senior Senate Republicans, including the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to end the panel's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election …

Senate GOP Working to Address Deficit Concerns (8:14 a.m.)  —  Senate Republicans made a lot of progress overnight in crafting a new approach to address deficit concerns in their sweeping tax legislation, according to a Senate GOP aide.  —  More work remains in the next few hours …

Trump White House Faces Prospect of More Senior Departures  —  Secretary of State Tillerson is most likely to leave as first anniversary approaches, say officials  —  WASHINGTON—The White House is facing the prospect of another round of senior departures in the coming weeks …

Trump tells confidants that a government shutdown might be good for him … President Trump has told others that a government shutdown could be good for him politically and is focusing on his hard-line immigration stance as a way to win back supporters unhappy with his outreach to Democrats this fall …

Conservative Megadonor Robert Mercer Funded Project Veritas  —  The Mercers, secretive billionaires who are among President Trump's most powerful donors, also helped to fund Project Veritas, the controversial activist organization, tax filings obtained by BuzzFeed News show.

Interrogators Blast Trump's ‘Clueless’ CIA Pick Tom Cotton … The Central Intelligence Agency is set to receive an advocate of waterboarding, sweeping surveillance powers, jailing journalists, and conflict with Iran as its next director.  —  A combat veteran and first-term Arkansas GOP senator …

IRS complaint filed against Roy Moore's non-profit, alleges the foundation illegally promoted his campaign  —  The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a non-partisan watchdog group, has filed an IRS complaint against the Foundation for Moral Law, the non-profit founded by Moore and currently headed by his wife.

Why Twitter didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets  —  Outrage after Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos  —  President Trump has been heavily criticized for his decision to retweet three graphic anti-Muslim videos.  —  But why did Twitter allow them in the first place?

Trump's mind-numbing media manipulation machine  —  There is a very specific — and dangerous — formula for manipulating the media and hijacking the Twitter/cable/conventional media industrial complex.  Trump sets this formulaic trap increasingly often.  And news organizations keep falling for it.

Congress secretly paid near $100,000 to settle harassment claims against disgraced congressman  —  The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former …

Obama: If I watched Fox News 'I wouldn't vote for me'  —  joked Friday that if he watched Fox News, he wouldn't have voted for himself.  —  Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi, Obama took shots at the network, which is widely criticized for its negative coverage of Democrats.

Matt Lauer's lawyers trying to get him $30M payout after firing  —  Lawyers for Matt Lauer are working on landing the shamed anchor a $30 million golden sexual parachute following his NBC firing.  —  Sources close to the disgraced newsman say his team is working on a plan to get him paid through …

Donald Trump's ‘working visit’ to UK dropped as tensions with Theresa May grow over president's far-Right retweets  —  US diplomats have dropped plans for Donald Trump to conduct a visit to Britain in January amid a war of words between the two countries' leaders.

To Be Sure, Nazis Are Evil  —  The New York Times's needy readers.  —  It's not always easy to sympathize with reporters for the New York Times, because so many of them act like .  .  . how to put it? .    .  . like reporters for the New York Times.

Maybe Trump knows his base better than we do  —  Watching the Republican tax plan race through Congress, one is reminded of a big apparent difference between President Trump's program and other populist movements in the Western world.  In the United States, Trump is leading something …

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation tops $5 million  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 election has cost more than $5 million, ABC News has learned.  —  Those expenses include money for a staff …

GOP may have no choice but to try health care again after taxes  —  Republicans have been asking themselves what they'll turn to next, after their tax overhaul wraps up.  If they repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, there's a good chance the answer will be health care — whether they like it or not.

The Neverending Foreclosure  —  GLENDORA, California—In retrospect, refinancing their home was a bad idea.  But the Santillan family never thought that it would lead them to foreclosure, or that they'd spend years bouncing among hotels and living in their car.