The GOP's Immigration Meltdown  —  Restrictionists may cost Republicans their majorities in Congress.  —  Are Republicans trying to lose their majorities in Congress this November?  We assume not, but you can't tell from the party's internal feuding over immigration that is fast becoming …

Nielsen becomes face of Trump's border separations  —  The Homeland Security secretary has been seen as weak on enforcement, but on Monday she defended decisions that have left kids warehoused on the border.  —  Kirstjen Nielsen, President Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland Security …

Erik Prince: I ‘Cooperated’ With Mueller … Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, has found himself embroiled in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.  —  During the campaign …

China says the US ‘has initiated a trade war,’ and Beijing isn't afraid to fight back  — China's Commerce Ministry said Tuesday morning that it will take counter measures if the U.S. publishes an additional tariffs list.  — China's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, said the country …

Buyers tied to Russia, former Soviet republics paid $109 million cash for Trump properties  —  WASHINGTON  —  Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who engaged in a health care scheme that cost the federal government $26 million and was sentenced to a decade in prison, paid $725,000 cash for a condo …

Joshua Adam Schulte Charged With The Unauthorized Disclosure Of Classified Information And Other Offenses Relating To The Theft Of Classified Material From The Central Intelligence Agency  —  Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers …

How Anti-Immigration Passion Was Inflamed From the Fringe  —  WASHINGTON — Jeff Sessions and Stephen Miller spent years on the political fringe in the nation's capital as high-decibel immigration hard-liners, always warning about the dangers of open borders but rarely in a position to affect law or policy.

Judge strikes down Kansas voter law, orders Kobach to take classes  —  TOPEKA  —  A federal judge has struck down a Kansas voter citizenship law that Secretary of State Kris Kobach had personally defended.  —  Judge Julie Robinson also ordered Kobach, who is seeking the Republican nomination for governor …

Migrant kids are ‘child actors,’ Ann Coulter says on Fox News, telling Trump not to be fooled  —  In the flourishing world of baseless conspiracy theories, this one, part hoax, part smear, has been having its moment.  —  The idea that people whose experiences speak to some of the consequences …

What separation from parents does to children: ‘The effect is catastrophic’  —  This is what happens inside children when they are forcibly separated from their parents.  —  Their heart rate goes up.  Their body releases a flood of stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline.

Impeach Rod Rosenstein  —  How Congress can remind the unelected government it answers to the elected part.  —  The long-awaited showdown between the Justice Department and Congress is finally here.  —  It started late Friday afternoon.  While the rest of the country was parsing …

Call to suspend Mueller probe was just posturing, Giuliani says  —  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said on Monday that he was actually just bluffing last week when he called for Justice Department leaders to suspend special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation within 24 hours.

The SPLC Has Its Nose Rubbed in the Dirt  —  Belated justice.  —  Few left-wing pressure groups are as vicious and mendacious as the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Founded in 1971, the SPLC today mainly exists to smear opponents of full-spectrum progressivism as “bigots” and “extremists.”

Bob Dole's final mission  —  Each Saturday, before Bob Dole sets off on his latest vocation, he has cornflakes, a little sugar on top, and a bottle of chocolate Boost.  —  It takes less time to get dressed now that the 94-year-old finally allows a nurse to help him, but it remains a rough half-hour on a body racked by injury and age.

U.S., South Korea Cancel Major War Game Planned for August  —  Move comes after President Trump's promise at Singapore summit to halt maneuvers on Korean Peninsula  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said Monday that it had agreed with South Korea to cancel an important military exercise …

Senate rejects Trump's rescue of Chinese firm ZTE  —  The Senate voted Monday to reimpose the U.S. ban on Chinese telecom giant ZTE, in a rebuke to President Donald Trump and his efforts to keep the company in business.  —  The provision targeting ZTE was part of the National Defense Authorization Act …

Elon Musk emails employees about ‘extensive and damaging sabotage’ by employee  — Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.  — Musk alleged this employee tweaked code on internal products and sent company data out without authorization.