Justice Dept. Seizes Times Reporter's Email and Phone Records in Leak Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement officials secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records this year in an investigation of classified information leaks.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt asked members of his 24/7 security detail to run errands for him on occasion, including picking up his dry cleaning and taking him in search …

With Mueller Closing In, Manafort's Allies Abandon Him  —  WASHINGTON — The special counsel's accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort …

Fox News Poll: Democrats gain in congressional vote test  —  With five months until Election Day, Democrats hold the enthusiasm advantage — and that puts them ahead of Republicans in the congressional vote as well.  —  A Fox News poll released Thursday finds 48 percent of voters favor …

Iowa student killed after being deported to Mexico  —  An Iowa high school student was killed three weeks after he was deported from the U.S. back to Mexico, the country he left when he was 3 years old.  —  The Des Moines Register reported Thursday that Manuel Antonio Cano Pacheco was scheduled …

Giuliani says people in the porn business are not credible.  Trump has appeared in three softcore porn videos.  —  Trump pours champagne on limo in 2000 adult video  —  (CNN)When Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday that Stormy Daniels has no credibility because she is is a porn star …

'It's Horrendous': The Heartache of a Migrant Boy Taken From His Father  —  When he landed in Michigan in late May, all the weary little boy carried was a trash bag stuffed with dirty clothes from his dayslong trek across Mexico, and two small pieces of paper — one a stick-figure drawing …

What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself?  We Asked Them.  —  After Trump said he could pardon himself, HuffPost asked every GOP House member if they'd support impeachment if he did so.  —  WASHINGTON Four days before Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, the Justice Department told …

Former U.S. Senate Employee Indicted on False Statements Charges  —  Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Accused of Lying to FBI About Repeated Contacts with Reporters  —  WASHINGTON - A former staff employee of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence …

Why hasn't Bernie Sanders endorsed his son's run for Congress?  —  Senator Bernie Sanders has traveled to Iowa and narrated a 30-second ad to endorse one congressional candidate and journeyed to Allentown, Pa., on behalf of another.  He publicly backed a mayoral candidate in Omaha.

White House Analysis Finds Tariffs Will Hurt Growth, as Officials Insist Otherwise  —  WASHINGTON — A White House economic analysis of President Trump's trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump's tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research.

Trump dangled administration job to Judge Jeanine  —  Jeanine Pirro has a top-rated Fox News show and a forthcoming book — “Lies, Leakers, and Liberals” — but she still wants to be President Donald Trump's attorney general.  —  A former prosecutor and judge, Pirro has repeatedly told Trump's aides …

Let Trump Handle Brexit: An Explosive Leaked Recording Reveals Boris Johnson's Private Views About Britain's Foreign Policy  —  “I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump.  I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”  —  Theresa May will use the G7 summit …

MSNBC's Joy Reid threatened colleague with violence, was homophobic during her radio days, ex-bosses say  —  MSNBC star Joy Reid physically threatened a senior colleague, accused a Republican politician of being gay on air and often referred to her hateful blog during a short-lived stint …

Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe  —  An ex-congressman has attracted scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee, as it continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow to sway the 2016 presidential election.

Trump to depart G-7 summit early  —  President Donald Trump will leave the G-7 summit before its conclusion, the White House announced on Thursday night, following a day of back-and-forth with fellow world leaders that foreshadowed confrontations during the meeting of the world's largest advanced economies.

Exclusive: U.S. immigration authorities sending 1,600 detainees to federal prisons  —  WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. authorities are transferring into federal prisons about 1,600 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, officials told Reuters on Thursday …

Dennis Miller's new podcast is an incoherent marvel  —  The content of ‘The Dennis Miller Option’ exists in a strange purgatory between right-wing provocation and confused-grandpa doddering.  —  Culture  —  The content of ‘The Dennis Miller Option’ exists in a strange purgatory between …

New Book: Trump Team, Not Deep State, Revealed Flynn's Talks With Russians … The Trump transition team told Barack Obama's White House about Mike Flynn's fateful conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to a senior Obama aide's new memoir.

Mulvaney fires all 25 members of CFPB's advisory board  —  Acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney fired all 25 members of the agency's internal advisory board on Wednesday, following criticism of his leadership by several board members earlier this week.

Theresa May staggers over the line with Brexit plan  —  LONDON — She got there in the end — and just about held the line.  —  After a tortuous 24 hours of back and forth with her Brexit secretary, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May emerged Thursday lunchtime with an Irish “backstop” …

Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Faces His Ghosts in Parliament  —  DURING A NEARLY four-hour grilling before Parliament Wednesday, Alexander Nix, former CEO of the now defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica, faced the ghosts of his past.  —  In the green-carpeted room where the Digital …

#122 The QAnon Code  —  How to listen:  —  Subscribe (it's free!) in your favorite podcast app.  —  Show Notes  —  This week, to celebrate Alex Goldman's return from paternity leave, a Yes Yes No extravaganza.  Alex takes PJ and Alex Blumberg through the internet's most encompassing conspiracy theory …

45K.  Nearly 45,000 lives lost to suicide in 2016 .  —  30%.  Suicide rates went up more than 30% in half of states since 1999.  —  54%.  More than half of people who died by suicide did not have a known mental health condition.  —  Overview  —  Suicide is a leading cause of death in the US.

The Most Powerful Conservative Couple You've Never Heard Of  —  Few political donors are as influential, yet little known, as Liz and Dick Uihlein.  —  The Midwestern couple has joined the upper pantheon of Republican donors alongside names like Koch, Mercer and Adelson.

Facebook bug set 14 million users' sharing settings to public  —  Not just another Facebook data scandal  —  For a period of four days in May, about 14 million Facebook users around the world had their default sharing setting for all new posts set to public, the company revealed Thursday.