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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hate on Jordan Peterson all you want, but he's tapping into frustration that feminists shouldn't ignore  —  One of the most controversial public intellectuals today is an eccentric, primly dressed professor who writes about esoteric mythology, dispenses old-fashioned wisdom such as …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

New internet accounts are Russian ops designed to sway U.S. voters, experts say  —  WASHINGTON  —  A new Russian influence operation has surfaced that mirrors some of the activity of an internet firm that the FBI says was deeply involved in efforts to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, a cybersecurity firm says.

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 …

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 …

U.S. in Early Talks for Potential Summit Between Trump and Putin  —  Meeting could ease tensions between two nations that have grown to Cold War proportions  —  The White House is planning for a possible summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin …

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 …

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 …

America's poor becoming more destitute under Trump: U.N. expert  —  GENEVA (Reuters) - Poverty in the United States is extensive and is deepening under the Trump administration whose policies seem aimed at removing the safety net from millions of poor, while rewarding the rich, a U.N. human rights investigator has found.

The Housewives of White Supremacy  —  In a podcast interview posted last spring, Nicole Jorgenson, a singer and former schoolteacher in North Dakota, explains to her host that she has never been happier since marrying and having children.  And yet between cute pastoral anecdotes of growing …

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 …

Mattis Accuses Beijing of ‘Intimidation and Coercion’ in South China Sea  —  SINGAPORE — Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis harshly criticized the Chinese government on Saturday for its continuing militarization of a string of islands in the South China Sea, calling the new presence …

In Florida, Long Fight for Restored Vote Often Ends in Minutes  —  This is the third installment of a four-part series on the effort overturn a 150-year old law in Florida that strips felons of their voting rights for life.  A proposal that would dramatically change the law will appear on the state ballot in November.

A society ripped apart by full-frontal incivility  —  Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee require us to keep numerous truths in mind simultaneously, which may be more than we can handle in this tribal moment.  —  What Barr said was racist and unforgivable.  ABC was right to fire her.

U.S. Close to Imposing Sanctions on European Companies in Russian Pipeline Project  —  The decision would test already fraught relations with Germany, other allies.  —  The Trump administration is edging closer to imposing sanctions on energy companies from Germany and other European countries …

Bannon predicts government shutdown over border wall  —  Washington (CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon predicts there will be another government shutdown in the near future.  —  “I believe the government will actually shut down in the run-up to the election,” …