Trump on China's Xi consolidating power: 'Maybe we'll give that a shot some day'  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump bemoaned a decision not to investigate Hillary Clinton after the 2016 presidential election, decrying a “rigged system” that still doesn't have the “right people” in place to fix it …

Mueller's Focus on Adviser to United Arab Emirates Indicates Widening of Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman, has hovered on the fringes of international diplomacy for three decades.  He was a back-channel negotiator with Syria during the Clinton administration …

‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …

Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.  —  Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …

Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it  —  Surprise action in extraordinary all-day Saturday session on gun measures  —  TALLAHASSEE — On a day filled with emotion, the Florida Senate Saturday debated measures in response to the Parkland tragedy to spend millions …

Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative  —  Michael Grunwald expressed his anger in Politico magazine at Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.  He is upset because Sheriff Israel's inept leadership and boastful manner has diverted attention away …

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast  —  Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies.  —  Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …

A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.

When Should Cultural Institutions Say No to Tainted Funding?  —  On Monday afternoon, Jerry Saltz, the longtime art critic at New York Magazine, went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he has gone nearly once a week for three decades.  After two hours of taking in “Golden Kingdoms …

Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute  —  On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight.  It shot through the proceedings like a comet.

Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel  —  Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories  —  Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …

Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked  —  Teacher: Philando Castile was a role model for kids  —  (CNN)One by one.  —  That's how Philando Castile, who was killed by a police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, used to help kids who couldn't afford lunch.

Trump's White House Is a Black Hole  —  Character is fate.  That's as true for a president as it is for anyone else, and so it's no surprise that the Trump presidency is engulfed in chaos.  —  The policy process is broken and incoherent, with the White House lurching from one position to another.

Eric Holder predicts Robert Mueller charges Trump with obstruction of justice  —  President Trump will face an obstruction of justice charge from special counsel Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted.  —  “You technically have an obstruction of justice case that already exists …

Man shoots himself near White House, law enforcement source says — live updates  —  A man apparently shot himself beyond the north fence line outside the White House Saturday, a law enforcement official told CBS News' Pat Milton.  U.S. Secret Service responded to the sound of shots fired.

Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be ‘worth it’ in the long run  —  (R-S.C.) said this week that a war with North Korea would be “worth it” in the long term.  —  Graham made the comments in an interview with CNN.  —  “All the damage that would come from a war would be worth …

How PragerU Is Winning The Right-Wing Culture War Without Donald Trump  —  A right-wing online “university” is on track for a billion views in 2018, its professors are some of the best-known conservatives in media, and its founder wants to put it in real schools.  So how come you've never heard of it?

36 women flood Texas races to flip male-dominated House seats blue  —  “We have a reached a tipping point.”  —  Fueled by anti-Trump backlash, a surge of women are putting their names on the ballot and running for office in Texas, with potentially momentous implications for the balance of power in the deep red state.