Austin bombing suspect, 24-year-old man, dies as police close in, chief says  —  5:50 a.m. update: The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.  —  The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old white man …

Trump's national security advisers warned him not to congratulate Putin.  He did it anyway. … President Trump did not follow specific warnings from his national security advisers when he congratulated Russian President Vladi­mir Putin Tuesday on his reelection, including a section …

Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes  —  Let's get one thing straight: I am not a fan of Facebook.  I'm confident that social media is a cancer on our private lives and a source of derangement in our politics.  I take it for granted that the tech barons are acquiring the power to tilt elections …

An “Ashamed” Fox News Commentator Just Quit The “Propaganda Machine”  —  “Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association,” Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues.  “Now I am ashamed.”  —  A retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Fox News contributor quit Tuesday …

New poll finds Bredesen with narrow lead over Blackburn in US Senate race  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a slight edge over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in a new poll on the U.S. Senate race from a Democratic-leaning firm.  —  The poll, conducted by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling …

Denounced by His Party as a Nazi, Arthur Jones Wins Illinois G.O.P. Congressional Primary  —  Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier described as a Nazi by the Illinois Republican Party, won the Republican primary on Tuesday in the state's Third Congressional District, a heavily Democratic district …

What The Dan Lipinski-Marie Newman Democratic Primary in Illinois Means  —  A race that was watched as a bellwether of the future of the Democratic Party, the contest between Rep. Daniel Lipinski and Marie Newman for the Democratic nomination to represent Illinois' 3rd Congressional District …

John Oliver OBLITERATES Children's Book Benefiting Human Trafficking Victims  —  About a year back, I remember seeing two tweets come across my feed that summed up perfectly the level of discourse some liberal comedy show hosts bring to the table. … To recap, then-Indiana Governor Mike Pence posted …

Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed  —  is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection.  There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration.

Lone resource officer's quick action stopped the Maryland school shooter within seconds  —  Two injured in Maryland school shooting  —  (CNN)The school shooting was over in seconds.  But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer.

Democrat: Whistleblowers say White House trying to oust broadcast board CEO  —  (CNN)The top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee says whistleblowers have come forward to allege a plot to remove the current CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency which controls US-funded media abroad …

The Latest: Dreamers help, insurer subsidies not in bill  —  The Latest on negotiations in Congress over a $1.3 trillion government spending bill (all times local):  —  Two sources close to congressional budget talks say an emerging government-wide spending bill won't renew protections …

On trial for causing climate change, oil companies don't plan to deny it's happening  —  A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday will preside over the nation's first-ever court hearing on the science of climate change, but don't expect it to be a “Scopes Trial” for global warming research.