Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile  —  Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.  —  Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.

Billionaire Koch brothers' network launches digital ad blitz supporting Democrat Heidi Heitkamp as midterms near  — Americans for Prosperity is unleashing a digital advertising campaign on Friday thanking North Dakota Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp for cosponsoring the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protect Act.

Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight's Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee  —  In the wake of the Samantha Bee controversy whereby she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t”, the Television Academy has put the kibosh on any press tonight attending its 11th Annual Television Academy Honors ceremony …

Your defenses of Dinesh D'Souza are garbage  —  “Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else noticed?” asks the character of Bob Loblaw, an attorney, in the sitcom “Arrested Development.”  —  That line, which was written as a joke, is being repurposed to defend President Trump's pardon …

Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student  —  Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …

US gains 223K jobs; unemployment at 18-year low of 3.8 pct.  —  Just now  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers extended a streak of solid hiring in May, adding 223,000 jobs and helping lower the unemployment rate to an 18-year low of 3.8 percent.  —  The Labor Department …

Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.

Jared Kushner close friend Rick Gerson now under scrutiny from Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — A close friend of Jared Kushner has come under scrutiny by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for his proximity to some key meetings between Trump associates and foreign officials, according to five people familiar with the matter.

Stormy Daniels's Lawyer Sought Help From Democrats in Fight With Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the pornographic film actress who says she had a sexual encounter with President Trump, has sought help for his legal battle against Mr. Trump from leading Democratic operatives.

Trump breaks protocol, sends markets a clear signal on jobs report before numbers are released  —  President Trump on Friday broke with decades of protocol and commented publicly about the highly anticipated jobs report data 69 minutes before they were released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Kim's Letter to Trump Expresses Interest in Nuclear Summit  —  North Korean official aims to hand-deliver the letter to Trump on Friday  —  WASHINGTON—One of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's top lieutenants is expected to hand-deliver a letter to President Donald Trump in the White House …

Trump's trade policy is stuck in the '80s — the 1680s  —  President Trump often seems as though he's stuck in the '80s.  But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era.  —  Consider his announcement Thursday of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.

Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying.  BSO said no.  —  During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.

Signs of sophisticated cellphone spying found near White House, U.S. officials say  —  A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year.

Santa Fe Victim's Mom Challenged President Trump in Private Meeting for Calling Shooter ‘Wacky’  —  The mother of a teenage girl killed earlier this month in a massacre at Santa Fe High School in Texas tells PEOPLE she challenged President Donald Trump's views on gun violence during …

I will speak out until integrity returns to the White House  —  John Brennan served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 to January 2017.  —  My first visit to the Oval Office came in October 1990, when I was a 35-year-old CIA officer.

‘He Pretty Much Gave In to Whatever They Asked For’  —  Trump says he's a master negotiator.  Those who've actually dealt with him beg to differ.  —  In 1985, Tony Schwartz, a writer for New York magazine, was sitting in Donald Trump's office in Trump Tower interviewing him for a story.

The Curious Case of Mr. Downer  —  His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question.  —  To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …

Trump Ran as a Renegade.  Now He's Trying to Keep Them at Bay.  —  IUKA, Miss. — When Chris McDaniel first ran for Senate four years ago, his campaign became a cause for disaffected and restless Republicans across the country.  Activists waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags flooded Mississippi.

President Trump, cut the celebrity shenanigans and commute the sentences that actually matter  —  President Trump says he is considering commuting sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.  —  One of the absolute powers that rests with the presidency is pardon power.

I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman.  It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.  —  Let's start at the beginning.  —  I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.”  I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.