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.

With ‘Spygate,’ Trump Shows How He Uses Conspiracy Theories to Erode Trust  —  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.

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 …

TMZ Goes MAGA: How Harvey Levin's Gossip Empire Became Trump's Best Friend … When the Access Hollywood tape of Donald Trump emerged in the home stretch of the 2016 election, it should have been a gift from the tabloid gods for TMZ.  —  Instead, the celebrity gossip website went into overdrive to help Trump.

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 …

WYFF News 4 anchor, photojournalist killed when tree falls on SUV  —  WYFF News 4 anchor and photographer killed when tree falls on SUV in Polk County  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  POLK COUNTY, N.C. —  WYFF News 4 anchor Mike McCormick and WYFF News 4 photojournalist Aaron …

‘The only one’: In new West Wing season, Trump calls the shots and aides follow  —  The White House communications director's job has been vacant for two months.  But in practice, it has been filled since the day Hope Hicks said farewell to her unofficial replacement — President Trump himself.

The Measure of Trump's Devotion  —  Memorial Day is for the living: for those who mourn, for those who remember, for those who carry upon their bodies and souls the scars of war.  It is the opportunity for society to express gratitude.  That is not only a duty to the past.

Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Michael Avenatti Complicates Michael Cohen Probe  —  Vocal critic of Mr. Trump's personal lawyer seen as slowing down investigators  —  A lawyer for former adult-film star Stephanie Clifford has frustrated efforts by federal prosecutors to obtain information …

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?

U.S. Holds Off on New North Korea Sanctions as Summit Talks Progress  —  White House decides not to move on tougher measures as talks about Trump-Kim meeting continue  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. decided to hold off on implementing a major new sanctions push against North Korea while it looks …

Ivanka mocked for ‘tone deaf’ tweet - CNN Video  —  Ivanka Trump is facing backlash for posting a photo of herself embracing her 2-year-old son amid reports of families being separated at the Mexican border.  CNN's Kate Bennett and Sarah Westwood discuss.

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.

How 7 million people have been penalized for being poor  —  DAMIAN STINNIE, a 24-year-old lymphoma patient, was forced into homelessness because he could not pay his traffic fines.  A Ferguson, Mo., woman ended up spending six days in jail and owing more than $1,000 because she could not pay a $151 parking ticket.

The Right-Wing Millennial Machine  —  Conservatives are building an army of fired-up young people.  How?  By offering them salaries.  —  After he graduated from college, it took Nathan two years, three unpaid internships and six bartending and retail jobs before he got his first paid gig in progressive politics.

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 …

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.”

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 …

The Teachers' Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma  —  A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.  —  Craig Hoxie, an Army veteran and a father of two, still teaches physics at Booker T. Washington High School …

Markets hit as Carlo Cottarelli named as Italy's new prime minister  —  Investors ditched Italian bonds and equities on Monday as Sergio Mattarella, Italy's president, sought to head off political and market tensions by asking Carlo Cottarelli, a former IMF official, to run a technocratic government.

Millennials take on Trump in the midterms  —  Younger candidates are flooding Democratic congressional primaries — and winning.  —  DALLAS — When Colin Allred, a 35-year-old former NFL linebacker-turned-congressional candidate, addressed two dozen student volunteers at a rooftop restaurant last week …