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.

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.

Trump's Right-Hand Troll  —  t's late on a Friday afternoon in March, and I'm sitting across from Stephen Miller in his spacious, sunlit West Wing office, trying to figure out whether he's trolling me.  —  This is no easy task.  A provocateur as skilled as Miller doesn't just announce …

Ross tries to reclaim ‘killer’ status with Trump in China trade talks  —  The commerce secretary has been increasingly marginalized in the administration in recent months amid jockeying over protectionism.  —  Investor Wilbur Ross was brought into the administration as one of President Donald Trump's …

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.

Rudy Giuliani booed at Yankee Stadium when announcer wishes him happy birthday  —  Yankee fans gave Rudy Giuliani the Giancarlo Stanton treatment.  —  The former NYC mayor was at the Stadium to celebrate his 74th birthday on Memorial Day, with the announcer wishing him a happy birthday to the crowd.

Europe's Fragility Is Exposed Again  —  So much for the return to stability.  —  The euro-region economy grew at its fastest lick in a decade last year and unemployment dropped to the lowest since the global financial crisis.  Summer has arrived early and the feel-good factor is set …

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.

WYFF News 4 anchor, photojournalist tragically die 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 …

NY21: Democrats say Ratigan voiced preference for Trump over Clinton  —  “He said, I would have voted for Trump.  There was silence and everyone's jaw dropped,” one Democrat recalled.  —  A Democratic women's luncheon, a surprising statement  —  Congressional candidate Dylan Ratigan told …

EXCLUSIVE: Chafee Out of U.S. Senate Race  —  Lincoln Chafee's on-again, off-again run for office in 2018 is now over.  —  In late April, former United States Senator and Governor of Rhode Island Chafee told GoLocalProv that he would challenge Sheldon Whitehouse in the Democratic primary for United States Senate in September.

Trump exposes the hypocrisy of Christian Republicans  —  Three recent news items:  —  At the Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said: “We see moral relativism becoming more and more pervasive in our culture.  Identity politics and tribalism have grown on top of this.”

When the President Testified: People in the Room Recall Clinton's 1998 Interrogation  —  The date was Aug. 17, 1998.  President Bill Clinton testified before a grand jury.  Twenty years later, people in the room and those waiting nearby share their memories.

Trump campaign vet: Informant used me to get to Papadopoulos  —  Sam Clovis, a former national co-chairman of the Trump campaign, is one of three Trump figures known to have been contacted by FBI informant Stefan Halper during the 2016 presidential campaign.

‘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 …

Belgium attacker stabs 2 cops in Liege, shoots them with their own guns  —  Two policewomen were among three people killed in Belgium on Tuesday when a man stabbed them, took their guns and shot them in what authorities have since deemed a terror attack.  —  The third victim was a 22-year-old passenger …

Trump says investigation of 2016 election interference is now interfering with 2018 elections  —  President Trump on Tuesday said that the ongoing special counsel's Russia investigation would amount to “MEDDLING” in this year's midterm elections, his latest effort to cast the probe as motivated by partisan aims.

Inside the Pro-Trump Effort to Keep Black Voters From the Polls  —  Breitbart News landed an election scoop that went viral in August 2016: “Exclusive: ‘Black Men for Bernie’ Founder to End Democrat ‘Political Slavery’ of Minority Voters... by Campaigning for Trump.”

Bob Mueller's White Hot Summer  —  The special counsel's investigation is likely hurtling toward a conclusion.  Buckle up.  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller may well be in the final stages of wrapping up his principal investigation.  Last week, I argued here in Politico that Mueller …

Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children From Parents and Lose Them?  —  President Trump over the weekend falsely blamed Democrats for a “horrible law” separating immigrant children from their parents.  In fact, his own administration had just announced this policy earlier this month.

The Latest: Trump confirms NKorean official headed to NY  —  The Latest on preparations for a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un (all times local):  —  President Donald Trump has confirmed that top North Korean official Kim Yong Chol is heading …

Anger as Syria heads global disarmament body  —  Members of the UN have expressed dismay over Syria becoming president of the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva.  —  The move comes just weeks after the latest reported chemical weapons attack, in which the Syrian authorities …