Rep. Garrett announces he is an alcoholic and will not seek re-election.  —  RICHMOND — Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-Va.) announced Monday that he is struggling with alcoholism and will abandon his run for a second term in Congress so he can focus on recovery and his family.

Rudy Giuliani gets booed at Yankee Stadium on his birthday  —  Yankee fans gave Rudy Giuliani the Giancarlo Stanton treatment.  —  The former New York City mayor was at The Stadium to celebrate his 74th birthday on Memorial Day, with the PA announcer sharing the news with the crowd and wishing him a happy birthday.

Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE  —  BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions.  —  At around the same time, President Trump vowed to find …

Trump Pulls Conspiracy Theories From the Fringes to the Oval Office  —  WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks.  He hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice who died in his sleep two years ago, had been murdered.

The Latest: Trump panned for ‘tone-deaf’ Memorial Day tweet  —  The Latest on President Donald Trump honoring veterans on Memorial Day (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump is being criticized for his self-congratulatory tone in a Memorial Day tweet in which he said …

Hero climbs up outside of Paris building to save child dangling from balcony  —  Man shown scaling four floors within a few seconds to help a boy hanging in mid-air  —  Lava from Hawaii volcano covers potentially explosive well  —  Bale ready to quit Real, but are United, or anyone, ready to sign him?

Black Defendants Get Longer Sentences From Republican-Appointed Judges, Study Finds  —  WASHINGTON — Judges appointed by Republican presidents gave longer sentences to black defendants and shorter ones to women than judges appointed by Democrats, according to a new study that analyzed data on more than half a million defendants.

Anger Spreads as Syria Leads Global Disarmament Body  —  GENEVA — The Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad has been accused of using chemical weapons, barrel bombs and torture against its own people during a seven-year civil war.  —  On Monday, it took up the rotating presidency of the United Nations-backed Conference on Disarmament.

Democrats Are Running a Smart, Populist Campaign  —  Stacey Abrams and Conor Lamb are supposed to represent opposite poles of the Trump-era Democratic Party.  She is the new progressive heroine — the first black woman to win a major-party nomination for governor, who will need a surge of liberal turnout to win Georgia.

NFL should play ‘Negro National Anthem’ to make amends for no-kneeling policy  —  Now that the patriot police have turned what was a peaceful protest about police brutality and social injustice into a flag-waving, jingoistic shame fest, the NFL can make amends with the black players it has insulted …

UK: You're Not Allowed to Talk about It.  About What?  Don't Ask.  — “I am in a country that is not free... I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America.  You don't know how lucky you are.”  — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.

Fake News: Top Liberals Blame Trump for ‘Awful’ Photos of Obama's Migrant Detention Centers  —  Democratic politicians, journalists, and top staffers in Barack Obama's White House whipped themselves into a frenzy Sunday, attributing “disturbing” photos of migrant detention centers to President Donald Trump …

Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history  —  When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration.  Now, on Memorial Day, he's reaping the wreckage of talks about Iran, and the North Korea process is in limbo.

A pilot kidnapped a foreign student and tried to deport him back to China, police say  —  California police say they thwarted a vigilante deportation attempt last week - in which a pilot allegedly kidnapped a foreign student, took him to an airport and tried to send him “back to China.”

Maryland police officer's death ignites a racial firestorm  —  BALTIMORE - It's hard to think of a more volatile mix: Four young black males from Baltimore City, accused in the death of a white female police officer in Baltimore County.  Authorities say three of the teenagers were breaking …

Donald Trump Jr: revered by the right, and building his own political base  —  Trump Jr's fanbase sees him as an authentic political figure, but many conservatives are waiting for the next shoe to drop  —  Donald Trump Jr is a man under pressure, but also in fierce demand.

Media Double Down After New York Times Gets Busted Peddling Fake News  —  On the path to the June 12 summit with North Korea, journalists claimed President Donald Trump would not be willing to walk away from the negotiating table because he was too desperate for a win.

What Drove a Man to Set Himself on Fire in Brooklyn?  —  Sometime before dawn on April 14, David Buckel left his small brick house on the edge of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, pulling a shopping cart.  He passed the magnolia tree in the garden, the stone sculptures he had made.

EU proposes to ban plastic straws, stirs, and cotton buds  —  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has proposed banning plastic products like cotton buds, straws, stirs and balloon sticks when alternatives are easily available in an attempt to reduce litter spoiling beaches and ocean beds.

Here's How the FBI Investigation Into Russia and Trump Campaign Actually Started  —  No story is hotter across America this Memorial Day weekend than what the Federal Bureau of Investigation did—and did not do—in 2016 about Russian connections to Donald J. Trump.

Scoop: Israeli national security adviser to meet with Bolton on Iran  —  Israel's national security adviser, Meir Ben-Shabat, will arrive in Washington tomorrow for talks at the White House with his U.S. counterpart John Bolton, sources briefed in the trip told me.

How I remember my lost military comrades  —  Too often, Memorial Day becomes just another three-day weekend, a holiday that marks the beginning of summer, the opening of public pools, the excitement of children who know that the school year is about to end.  —  The holiday doesn't have to be this way.