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 …

‘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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Publicly slighting millions of NRA members isn't good for business - or America  —  Remember when companies tried to stay out of politics?  I'd imagine Delta Air Lines is recalling those days very fondly.  The airline bowed to pressure from liberal activists to stop offering a group discount …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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?

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 …

Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn't seem so preposterous … MERRIAM, Kan. — And now, a report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.

Shortly before Trump announced tariffs, his former adviser dumped millions in steel-related stocks … President Trump's decision Thursday to impose crippling tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminum took many by surprise — particularly investors, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed …