Vote against the GOP this November  —  Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something.  Occurring less than 140 days before elections …

Arguments, confusion, second-guessing: Inside Trump's reversal on separating migrant families  —  The White House's hastily crafted executive order to end child separations spurred confusion and fights within the federal government, and second-guessing from the president who had demanded the order in the first place.

The original source for Trump's claim of 63,000 immigrant murders?  Bad data from Steve King in 2005.  —  All right.  Settle in for a bit and maybe swipe over to the calculator app on your phone.  We're about to go on quite a numeric roller coaster ride.  —  President Trump shifted …

Mueller signals outside prosecutors may eventually take over Russian trolls case  —  A handful of new federal prosecutors have joined one of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's cases — an indication that he is preparing to hand off at least one prosecution to others when his office completes …

An utterly disastrous week for Donald Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Fresh off one of the best — or, at the very least, most consequential — weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump just experienced one of his worst weeks in the White House.  —  The week was totally defined by the botched handling …

Katie Arrington seriously injured in deadly wrong-way wreck in Charleston County  —  Lowcountry elected official Katie Arrington is in a local hospital after she and a friend were seriously injured in a deadly wreck in Charleston County late Friday night, authorities say.

Why Are Parents Bringing Their Children on Treacherous Treks to the U.S. Border?  —  President Trump hopes to deter the flow of migrants into the United States, but near the busy border crossing in Arizona, some said that the threat of separation from their children would not deter them.

Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them  — Young Trump administration staffers are having a hard time dating in Washington, one of the most Democratic cities in the country.  — Even after leaving their administration jobs …

I lost because I wasn't Trump enough.  All Republicans should worry.  —  Mark Sanford, a Republican, represents South Carolina's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives.  —  They say elections have consequences, and if this is so, we should all be concerned over the recent primary along the coast of South Carolina.

Britain Has a Russia Collusion Scandal Now.  It Looks Exactly Like Trump's.  —  The most important thing to understand about the Russia scandal is that it perfectly fits a clear pattern of behavior.  What Vladimir Putin is accused of doing to help Donald Trump win the presidency …

Lobsters, Small-Batch Whiskey and Trump's Trade War  —  WASHINGTON — The effects of President Trump's trade war are beginning to ripple through the United States economy as steel tariffs disrupt domestic supply chains and global trading partners retaliate against a wide variety of American products …

Trump, again and again, describes a world detached from reality  — Over and over, he painted fundamentally false portraits of people and events to flatter himself, discredit predecessors and rivals, and promote his political objectives.  — Some highlights from Trump's week include …

Trump Reaffirms North Korean Nuclear Threat After Saying It Was Gone  —  President Donald Trump told Congress in a letter on Friday that North Korea's “provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions...continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States.

Donald Trump and the 1930s playbook: liberal democracy comes unstuck  —  “I really don't care.  Do u?” said graffiti on the back of Melania Trump's coat as she boarded the plane for Texas to visit encaged child migrants.  No one, except Donald Trump, who tweeted that her garb was meant as a criticism of the …

Trump business dealings raise ‘serious concerns,’ ethics office says  —  The government's top ethics official said some of President Trump's business dealings “raise serious concerns” but that the office lacks the authority to launch an investigation requested last month by congressional Democrats.

Detention of Migrant Families as “Deterrence”: Ethical Flaws and Empirical Doubts  —  Everyone knew that separating children was about deterrence, using them as pawns in a grownups' game to send a message that those seeking to migrate to the United States should stay out.

Washington, D.C.: the Psychopath Capital of America  —  A new study ranks each state, plus D.C., by their psychopathic tendencies.  The race for first?  It isn't even close.  —  As Washington's shock over winning the Stanley Cup demonstrates, the nation's capital isn't used to being first in anything.

Seven Ways Alabama Has Made It Harder to Vote  —  Five years ago, the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act.  Since then, Alabama has enacted a slew of restrictive voting laws and policies.  —  Five years after the Supreme Court invalidated …

Man charged in bike path killings speaks in court of ‘Allah’  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The man charged with murdering eight people on a New York City bike path and injuring many more spoke out in court Friday over a prosecutor's objection, invoking “Allah” and defending the Islamic State.

The four times Trump signed tax returns for his foundation that contained incorrect information  —  For years, President Trump personally signed the tax returns for his charitable foundation, scrawling his signature just below a stern warning from the IRS: Providing false information could lead to “penalties of perjury.”

Can the Border Patrol ask for your papers?  This tool shows if you're in the ‘border zone.’  —  The government's crackdown on illegal immigration came to an unexpected place on Wednesday: central Maine — about as far from the border with Mexico as it is possible to get.

USA TODAY tracking where separated children sent  —  Since the Trump Administration established a “zero tolerance” policy over illegal border crossings, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their families after crossing the country's Southwest border.

Poll: Public approval of Mueller is declining  —  A new poll conducted by CNN finds that only 41 percent of Americans approve of Robert Mueller's handling of the Russia investigation. 39 percent disapprove.  1,012 people participated in the survey.  —  At the start of the year …

Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks by authorities  —  Cedella Roman, visiting mom from France, says border patrol held her for crossing into Blaine, Wash.  —  Cedella Roman says she was jogging along the beach in White Rock, B.C., when she crossed the U.S. border without realizing it.