Trump's Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head off a Historic Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice …

Trump allies gang up on Gowdy  —  The GOP lawmaker was once a conservative hero.  Now he's under fire on the right for balking at Trump's ‘spygate’ theory.  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years.  Now, he's is in President Donald Trump's doghouse …

Senate Republicans Are Newly Hopeful About the Midterms.  For Good Reason.  —  WASHINGTON — After a turbulent first year confronting friendly fire from President Trump, Senate Republicans are entering the summer before the midterm elections feeling more hopeful about retaining their narrow majority …

A Courtside View of Scott Pruitt's Cozy Ties With a Billionaire Coal Baron  —  Three Bodies Found at House Where Massachusetts Kidnapping Suspect Lived  —  Obama Soothed.  Trump Stirs.  How 2 Presidents Have Tackled Racial Flare-Ups.  —  Technology »  —  Worried About Big Tech?

Breaking from GOP orthodoxy, Trump increasingly deciding winners and losers in the economy  —  President Trump is increasingly intervening in the economy, making decisions about corporate winners and losers in ways that Republicans for decades have insisted should be left to free markets — not the government.

Duke Erodes Liberal Education  —  On May 8, the Duke University student newspaper published a stirring letter addressed to the school community that was co-signed by 101 students and former students.  The letter protested the decision of the university's Sanford School of Public Policy …

Trump Veers to a Korea Plan That Echoes Failures of the Past  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump never tires of pointing out that his predecessors left him the “mess” of a nuclear-armed North Korea — a legacy of errors he vows not to repeat.  —  But as Mr. Trump announced Friday …

Deadbeat son claims he's too broke to pay child support  —  He's not just a deadbeat son, he's also a deadbeat dad.  —  Michael Rotondo — the 30-year-old upstate man whose own parents sued him to get him out of the house — complained he was too broke to pay child support for his 8-year-old son …

THE HOUNDING OF THE BICYCLES Benedict ­Cumberbatch saves defenceless Deliveroo cyclist from brutal assault by gang of four muggers  —  The star leapt to the rescue near Sherlock's fictional home in Baker Street as the yobs ‘punched the cyclist and smashed him over the head’

A Woman Dedicated to Saving Lives Loses Hers in Gaza Violence  —  KHUZAA, Gaza Strip — She had become a fixture at the weekly protests along the fence dividing the Gaza Strip from Israel, a young woman in a white paramedic's uniform rushing into harm's way to help treat the wounded.

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows  —  WASHINGTON — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:  —  ABC's “This Week” — White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow.  —  ___  —  NBC's “Meet the Press” — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau; Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

NATO chief says alliance won't aid Israel if Iran attacks  —  BERLIN (AP) — NATO's secretary-general says the alliance wouldn't come to Israel's defense in case of attack by arch enemy Iran.  —  Jens Stoltenberg told the magazine Der Spiegel in comments published Saturday that Israel is a partner …

Some Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel  —  Generational split reflects concern over Palestinians, spurring outreach by some churches and groups  —  JERUSALEM—Growing up in evangelical Christian churches, Caleb Fitzpatrick learned quickly to be a steadfast supporter of Israel.

Did exactly 4,645 people die in Hurricane Maria?  Nope.  —  Few academic studies have received as much media coverage as a new report, published by the New England Journal of Medicine, that the death toll in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria was much higher than official estimates of 64.

Mattis Says U.S. Remains Committed to Allies in Asia  —  U.S. strategy in region rooted in ‘principled realism’ and shared interests, defense secretary says  —  SINGAPORE—The U.S. and China appear to be headed for a more confrontational relationship in Southeast Asia as Washington warns …

Trade Benefits Both Sides  —  President Trump is going to fail in any trade negotiations because he is a terrible negotiator.  But, even more important in this case, he literally does not understand trade, which makes it very hard to do well in a negotiation.  —  Trump is a bad negotiator.

Herbert Hoover's Ghost  —  In 2014 I published a book called “America in Retreat,” with the subtitle, “The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder.”  Though an entire chapter is devoted to a critique of Tea Party foreign policy, it was mainly a lament about what I saw …

Steel Tariffs Are Taxing Some American Companies  —  U.S. firms say some customers are opting to import finished goods rather than absorb price increases; ‘a nightmare for steel consumers’  —  New tariffs intended to bolster the American steel and aluminum industries are starting …

GOP Lawmaker Requested ‘Sensitive’ Email Audit Of His Own Staff  —  On Monday, freshman Rep. Tom Garrett, R-Va., announced he will not seek re-election.  On Wednesday, he requested an investigation into his own congressional staff.  —  “This is (a) SENSITIVE request on behalf of the member …

The case for quarantining extremist ideas  —  When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should consider ‘strategic silence’  —  George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi party, had a simple media strategy in the 1960s.  He wrote in his autobiography …

New Hampshire Police Charged and Arrested a Man for Criticizing Them on the Internet  —  On May 23, a police officer arrested Robert W. Frese in Exeter, New Hampshire and took him to the station for booking.  Frese is no stranger to law enforcement; in the past, he has been convicted of fraud, criminal trespassing, and a hit-and-run.

Another portion of the border wall is under construction in San Diego  —  SAN DIEGO — Construction started Friday on the US-Mexico border wall project at Border Field State Park, the third project in San Diego County.  —  The work will replace about 14 miles of scrap metal wall that stands …

Donald Trump and the erosion of democratic norms in America  —  For some, the president's efforts to undermine the justice department and the Mueller investigation represent a threat to democracy  —  Ask people with deep knowledge of the US justice department about the damage Donald Trump might …

Eric Holder: Trump's pardons will not “thwart” Mueller investigation  —  Eric Holder, Obama's former Attorney General, told an audience at a political event in New Hampshire Friday that even if Trump is using his pardon power to send a signal to potential witnesses in the Mueller probe …

This Factory Was Ready to Expand.  Then Came the Trump Trade Wars.  —  WASHINGTON — Andy Marsh's New York factory is trapped in the Trump trade wars.  —  As Mr. Trump threatens tariffs on America's economic allies and its adversaries, many of the domestic businesses that the president …