Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump is privately rejecting the growing consensus among Republican leaders that they may lose the House and possibly the Senate in November, leaving party officials and the president's advisers nervous that he does …

Trump sets Tester trap, calls for resignation  —  President Trump went after Sen. Jon Tester Saturday morning for releasing allegations against his pick for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson.  —  Why it matters: Jackson's confirmation process was already rocky before Tester's team released …

MSNBC's Joy Reid Says, “I Genuinely Do Not Believe I Wrote Those Hateful Things”  —  The host says she doesn't think she wrote the posts, but admits they don't seem to have been hacked.  —  On Saturday morning, five days after Joy Reid was accused of authoring a series of homophobic blog posts …

Why Trump's snubbing of White House correspondents' dinner matters  —  Trump's thinly veiled attack on Wash Post  —  For a second straight year, President Trump is using the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner to wage his war on the reporters who cover him.

Trump Tower is on fire in Azerbaijan capital Baku just weeks after deadly blaze at building in New York  —  Firefighters are desperately battling to contain a fire raging through a Trump hotel tower in Azerbaijan.  —  The fire broke out on the middle floors of the 33-storey Trump International Hotel …

Paying the Price for Not Being a Trump Humper  —  Yes, there is a price to be paid.  Yes, it is necessary some of us are willing to pay it.  —  Just a few thoughts on the purging at RedState today and the price to be paid for deviating from the tribe.  I know that price too well.

A lot of Americans think they'd probably try sex with a robot  —  Being a “sex machine” is about to take on a whole new meaning, because according to new research, four in 10 Americans say they would have sex with a robot.  —  A new study asked 2,000 Americans their thoughts around the concept of …

Rep. Devin Nunes is no longer ‘safe’ in his race for re-election, forecaster says  —  The race for congressional District 22, held by longtime GOP incumbent Devin Nunes, has been downgraded from “safely Republican” to “likely Republican” by a closely watched political forecasting website run …

Couple achieves ‘Diamond Status’ in Delta-themed wedding  —  It's the rare bride who can say with a straight face: “I actually told him I'd rather have Diamond Status than the diamond ring.”  —  Airline fanatics and Medallions Bess Wohlner and Jeremy Simons recently pledged their love in a Delta-themed wedding.

Hacked messages show Qatar appearing to pay hundreds of millions to free hostages … One morning last April, in the 16th month of a grueling hostage negotiation, a top Qatari diplomat sent a text message to his boss to complain about a brazen robbery being perpetrated against his own country.

Texas voter ID law can go into effect, appeals court panel rules  —  (CNN)Texas will be allowed to enforce its voter ID law in the upcoming elections, a federal appeals court has ruled.  —  In the 2-1 decision, a panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned …

VIRGINIA NEWSPAPER RUNS KKK RECRUITMENT FLYER IN FULL ON FRONT PAGE  —  A Virginia newspaper has come under fire from its readers after it ran a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flyer in full on its front page.  —  The Westmoreland News ran a story on how KKK recruitment flyers and DVDs …

Democrats were looking at suburban districts.  Now they're glancing toward rural ones too.  —  Last year, as a wave of special elections popped up, every smart Democrat wanted to focus on one seat.  “Watch the special election for Tom Price's seat in suburban Atlanta,” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney …

Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction  —  Dr. Fitzpatrick is director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology.  Dr. Senner is a scientist who studies migratory shorebirds.  —  A worldwide catastrophe is underway among an extraordinary group of birds — the marathon migrants we know as shorebirds.

GOP report: Clapper told CNN host about Trump dossier in 2017  —  Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper  —  has admitted to lawmakers that he discussed the “Steele dossier” about President Trump  —  and Russia with a CNN journalist in early 2017, according to a report …

Comey Confirms: In Clinton Emails Caper, the Fix Was In  —  He knew Obama's Justice Department would sweep Hillary's violations under the rug, so he played along.  —  While promoting his memoir, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership, former FBI director James Comey sat for what turned …

Golf course that called the police on black women loses business, faces call for state investigation … In the days after white golf course owners called the police on five African American women they said were not playing fast enough, a Pennsylvania state senator has called for an investigation …

Alfie Evans: Legal battle toddler dies  —  Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old toddler at the centre of a High Court legal battle, has died, nearly a week after his life support was withdrawn.  —  The boy from Merseyside, who had a degenerative brain condition, died at 02:30 BST, his father Tom Evans said.

Trump rebrands diplomatic norms as events in Asia, Europe and elsewhere spin on his axis  —  President Trump on Friday placed himself at the center of the remarkable summit between the leaders of North and South Korea, taking credit for bold and innovative diplomacy that may open a path to peace where other leaders failed.