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.

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.

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 …

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 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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

‘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.

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 …

What It's Like When Elon Musk's Twitter Mob Comes After You … Female journalists who cover Elon Musk have the same personal rule: Mention his name on Twitter at your peril.  —  That's because there is an army—mostly young, mostly white, almost entirely men—that marches behind him.

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.

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.

Donald Trump on Memorial Day: Dean Obeidallah Says Support Resistance  —  A left-wing radio host said America should honor its fallen heroes by joining together in a “resistance” movement against President Donald Trump, Jillian Mele reported on “Fox & Friends” Monday.

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 …

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.

‘Call them lies’?  Why we sometimes don't use the L-word when Trump is wrong  —  WASHINGTON - I fact-check everything U.S. President Donald Trump says.  Every week, the Star posts my updated list of Trump's false claims.  —  And then, every week, at least one Trump opponent scolds me for calling them false claims.

‘I did not really think,’ says Paris migrant who climbed building to save child  —  A West African migrant is being praised in France for scaling a building to save a boy hanging from a fourth-floor balcony in Paris.  The man, Mamoudou Gassama, will be made a French citizen, the Elysee Palace announced today.

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 …

Police report: Bonanza teacher threatened shooting at Las Vegas bar  —  A Bonanza High School teacher who was arrested this month on a terrorism charge had made threats to “poke a lot of holes in a lot of people” during a concert in downtown Las Vegas, a police document shows.

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 …

Another Taxi Driver in Debt Takes His Life.  That's 5 in 5 Months.  —  On a corner of 86th Street and East End Avenue in Manhattan on Sunday, three posters for a missing man were still hanging on a lamp post about a block from the East River.  —  That was where the police found the man's parked taxicab …