President Trump ‘probably does’ have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani  —  President Trump's lead attorney said the president “probably does” have the power to pardon himself.  —  Rudy Giuliani was discussing with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” …

CBS News Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up  —  Dems 219- Reps 216 in tight contest for control  —  In the race for Congress, most polls report one national percentage for Democrats and Republicans.  But that's not very helpful - because this is a race for seats.  435 of them, in fact.

Trump's Right Hand Man in Europe Rick Grenell Wants To ‘Empower’ European Anti-Establishment Conservatives  —  BERLIN, Germany: Trumpian U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has expressed great excitement over the wave of anti-establishment conservatism in Europe, saying he wants to “empower” leaders of the movement.

Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent  —  DENVER - Police are investigating an accidental shooting that sent a man to a hospital early Saturday morning.  —  The apparent, accidental shooting happened just before 12:45 a.m. at the Mile High Spirits club …

Obama — Just Too Good for Us  —  WASHINGTON — It was a moment of peak Spock.  —  Hours after the globe-rattling election of a man whom Barack Obama has total disdain for, a toon who would take a chain saw to the former president's legacy on policy and decency, Obama sent a message …

Trump's 500-day coup of the GOP, conservatism  —  Donald Trump has been President Trump for 500 days as of noon today.  Jonathan Swan writes that everything has changed, and nothing has changed.  —  Be smart: In 500 days, Trump's hijacking of the formerly conservative GOP is complete — an astonishing accomplishment.

Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-author a political beach read  —  A political thriller has to convincingly blend both fact and fiction, which is just what a certain debut novelist with plenty of White House experience says he has to offer.  He and his writing partner are talking with Mo Rocca:

Trump thinks he's saving trade.  The rest of the world thinks he's blowing it up.  —  President Trump appears prepared to unravel 70 years of pain­staking effort that the United States has led to build an inter­national system of trade based on mutually accepted rules and principles.

Jon Tester, a Democrat in Deep-Red Montana, Isn't Sweating Trump's Threats  —  BIG SANDY, Mont. — Under a nearly cloudless sky on the sun-speckled northern prairie last Tuesday, Jon Tester, this state's senior senator, had his hands deep inside a 25-year-old grain auger.

Syria's Assad says will visit North Korea, news agency reports  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media reported on Sunday, potentially the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang.

We need to talk about the woke droid  —  Solo addressed the ugly metaphor at the center of the Star Wars universe — and not particularly well.  —  Minor spoiler for Solo below.  —  The very first Star Wars film (A New Hope, 1977) contained a few depictions of robots that look especially jarring with the passage of time.

The NDA Protected Our Predator.  I'm Breaking My Silence, Because Women Deserve Better. … I received this message from a woman in my small town of Stowe, Vermont.  We had never met, but I knew instantly what her message meant: I was not the predator's only survivor.

From gouging out his wife's eyes because she was ‘the Islamic anti-Christ’ to genital mutilation and a gruesome murder that left a corpse detectives could not identify: The case of the Melbourne jihadi that horrified even a supreme court judge  —  The identity of the man who slaughtered …

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