Lindsey O. Graham blasts White House aide's McCain remark as ‘pretty disgusting thing to say’ … Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) blasted White House officials Saturday for refusing to condemn a vile remark made about the mortality of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), with whom Graham spent several days …

Wife hung fake Picasso after taking real thing amid contentious divorce  —  A woman locked in a contentious divorce with her bond-trader husband took a Picasso off his wall — and replaced it with a forgery she made herself.  —  Sue Gross didn't wait until she and Wall Street titan Bill Gross …

Former Trump campaign aide is helping Russian firm shed sanctions  —  Washington (CNN)A former senior campaign and transition aide to President Donald Trump recently inked a deal to help a Russian oligarch's conglomerate shed sanctions the Trump administration slapped on them last month.

Indonesia church attacks: death toll rises after bombs target Sunday masses  —  Forty people also injured in the blasts in Surabaya, the country's second-largest city  —  At least eleven people have been killed and dozens injured in multiple suicide bombings at three churches in Surabaya …

Iraq PM Abadi appears ahead in poll, Sadr strong: sources  —  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's list appears to be leading in Iraq's parliamentary election, followed by influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's alliance, an election commission source and a security official told Reuters on Sunday.

Senator Grassley appears to be preparing to bust the frame-up of General Flynn  —  Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the laconic Midwesterner with a steel trap mind, dropped a bombshell yesterday with a letter (the full letter appears below - pdf here) to Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein …

Europe's antitrust cop, Margrethe Vestager, has Facebook and Google in her crosshairs  —  BRUSSELS — Margrethe Vestager is an avid Twitter user who likes to post photos of flowers and cityscapes from her native Denmark.  —  Her account is also a means of tracking her travels …

Confusion, calculation and fear keeping DACA recipients from renewing their status while they can … For thousands of young men and women living in the U.S. illegally, a judge's order in January amounted to a reprieve — a chance to renew their legal protections after President Trump's decision …

Mueller Indicted A Russian Company That Didn't Even Exist, Court Transcripts Say  —  This week, one of the Russian companies accused by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of funding a conspiracy to meddle in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was revealed in court to not have existed during …

Two dead in Paris knife attack  —  One person has been killed and five wounded in a knife attack in Paris, French police say.  —  They say the attacker - who has not been identified - was shot dead by police.  Two of the injured are in a serious condition.  —  The incident happened in the Opera district of central Paris.

Democrats, rights advocates are close to losing the battle over torture  —  WASHINGTON — Crying and pleading, he told them he couldn't recall the answer to their question.  —  But the CIA interrogators believed that Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, then 37, was lying.

Dinner diplomacy: Netanyahu's unusual run-in with UAE envoy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officially, their governments don't speak.  The United Arab Emirates doesn't even formally recognize that Israel exists.  —  But an impromptu bit of dinner diplomacy between Israel's prime minister …

The Deep State Mob Targets Nunes  —  In an absurd tweet on Wednesday, Lawfare's executive director suggested that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) should be replaced as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: … That wasn't even the most moronic tweet in Susan Hennessey's arsenal.

Salem Media's Effort to Purge Anti-Trump Conservatives Tells You How the Business Really Works  —  Since the very beginning of Donald Trump's takeover of the “conservative” movement, I have been writing about the perfect storm of factors which has caused the “conservative” media to help facilitate this coup.

In wide-open 2020 presidential field, Democrats are road-testing messages — and trying to redefine their party  —  The future of the Democratic Party has been booking late night TV gigs, waking up for morning drive-time radio and showing up at watering holes in rural counties to try out new material.

Clashing Views on Iran Reflect a New Balance of Power in the Cabinet  —  WASHINGTON — Five days before President Trump pulled out of what he called the “horrible” Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told diplomats from Britain, France and Germany that he believed the pact could still be saved.

Bloomberg warns of ‘epidemic of dishonesty’  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Americans are facing an “epidemic of dishonesty” in Washington that's more dangerous than terrorism or communism.  —  That's according to former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who warned in a commencement speech …

Greitens' fateful affair began during crossroads of his military life  —  In February 2015, former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens signed a four-year commitment to return to active reserve status.  Two months later, he told the Navy he was backing out of it.  —  What happened in between …

When Spies Hack Journalism  —  WASHINGTON — For decades, leakers of confidential information to the press were a genus that included many species: the government worker infuriated by wrongdoing, the ideologue pushing a particular line, the politico out to savage an opponent.