Denis Javier Varela Hernandez (far right) spoke out about his wife Sandra and daughter, Yanela  —  Two-year-old Yanela, a Honduran asylum seeker, has become the face of the child separation crisis after she was photographed crying in McAllen, Texas, as Border Control agents searched her mother

Trump to GOP: Wait until after midterms to pass immigration bill  —  As House Republicans scramble for votes on its comprehensive immigration bill, President Trump tweeted Friday that Republicans should “stop wasting their time” and punt the immigration fight to after the midterms.

Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and intellectual provocateur, dies at 68  —  Charles Krauthammer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist and intellectual provocateur who championed the muscular foreign policy of neoconservatism that helped lay the ideological groundwork …

National Enquirer sent stories about Trump to his attorney Michael Cohen before publication, people familiar with the practice say  —  During the presidential campaign, National Enquirer executives sent digital copies of the tabloid's articles and cover images related to Donald Trump …

Young Trumpies Hit D.C.  —  ... And D.C. hits them right back.  —  When Matt Mowers moved to Washington in November 2016, he wasn't expecting a hero's welcome.  The young political operative had worked for Donald Trump's campaign in New York, where you can hardly walk down the block …

The chaotic effort to reunite immigrant parents with their separated kids  —  BROWNSVILLE, Tex. — Each of the mothers had a different memory of the moment she was separated from her child.  —  For some, it was outside a Border Patrol station just north of the Rio Grande, shortly after being apprehended.

Behind Trump's Plan to Overhaul the Government: Scaling Back the Safety Net  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, spurred on by conservatives who want him to slash safety net programs, unveiled on Thursday a plan to overhaul the federal government that could have a profound effect on millions of poor and working-class Americans.

New Pruitt question: Where are his emails?  —  The EPA administrator wrote only one email in 10 months to anyone outside the agency, if the official paper trail is to be believed.  Watchdog groups don't believe it.  —  An examination of Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's …

Rage in Spain after ‘wolf pack’ set free  —  Spain  —  Front pages focused on the mass protests in Spain in response to the news that a court has ordered the release on bail of five men, dubbed the “wolf pack,” who were convicted of sexually assaulting a woman during the San Fermin bull-running festival.

What does the British government know about Trump and Russia? … When the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu visited London in 1978, the British government did some serious sucking up.  Ceausescu was an egomaniac and possibly crazy.  When he went hunting outside Bucharest …

Trump's Cynical Immigration Strategy Might Work for Him—Again  —  The lesson Trump learned was not that saying shocking, untrue, and arguably racist things about immigrants was politically dangerous but that doing so helped him become President.  —  On Sunday, June 3rd, Senator Jeff Merkley …

Six Months After Tax Reform, Something Big Is Happening  —  The economy is back in the fast lane—but Democrats want to undo it all.  —  Six months ago, Republicans in Congress joined with President Trump to redesign America's tax code and enact sweeping tax cuts.

A Night Among the Trump Believers Way Up North  —  The president's Wednesday night rally in Duluth proved the more things change, the more they stay the same  —  Minnesota's lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump's upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds …

Tom Arnold tweets picture with Michael Cohen, says he ‘has all the tapes’  —  Arnold is hunting for ‘incriminating’ tapes of Trump as part of a show for Vice.  —  President Donald Trump's embattled personal attorney, Michael Cohen, retweeted a photo of himself with comedian Tom Arnold …

AP-NORC Poll: Americans say no to presidential self-pardons  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Even in an era of deep political division, Democrats and Republicans agree presidents should not pardon themselves.  And if the nation's chief executive ever does so, majorities of Americans in both parties believe Congress should impeach that president.

Consumer bureau setup defies Constitution, federal judge rules  —  The structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutional, according to federal district Judge Loretta Preska of the Southern District of New York.  —  Preska ruled Thursday that having the agency's setup …

Who Is Dolly Gee, the Judge Deciding the Fate of Trump's Executive Order?  —  LOS ANGELES — Judge Dolly M. Gee has called the treatment of immigrant children in detention “deplorable” in a legal opinion.  She has castigated the federal government for “fear mongering” when it argued …

Fox & Friends host: “These aren't our kids. ...  It's not like [Trump] is doing this to the people of Idaho or Texas”  —  Brian Kilmeade: “Like it or not, these aren't our kids”  —  From the June 22 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:  —  Loading the player reg...

EXCLUSIVE: Emails Reveal Effort to Disown Stonewall Pride Flag By Trump Administration Official  —  As they march through America's national monument to LGBT rights near the end of this weekend's Pride parade, tens of thousands will pass a flag that, at a glance, is just like countless others.

Judicial Watch Obtains IRS Documents Revealing McCain's Subcommittee Staff Director Urged IRS to Engage in “Financially Ruinous” Targeting  —  McCain minority staff director Henry Kerner to IRS official Lois Lerner and other IRS  —  officials: “the solution is to audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous”

The Heartbreaking Case Of The Three-Year-Old Boy In Immigration Court  —  “What is your name?” the judge asked.  “Es un avion!”  — it's a plane, Roger responded, pointing to a picture book.  —  Reporting From  —  EL PASO — The two little boys squeezed next to each other on the studded leather chair …

For a 6-Year-Old Snared in the Immigration Maze, a Memorized Phone Number Proves a Lifeline  —  As the U.S. attempts to reunite migrant families, children will bear the burden of helping to identify who and where their parents are.  The 6-year-old girl heard asking to call her aunt …

How soybeans — yes, soybeans — could impact the midterm elections  —  China is hitting the US where it hurts: Soybeans  —  Easton, Minnesota (CNN)President Donald Trump touted his aggressive approach to trade policy Wednesday at a rally miles from Minnesota's famed Iron Range …

The most damning element of this tragic American tale  —  There was a time when conservatives supported limited government, balanced budgets and less debt.  Not so long ago, conservatives also championed free trade, lower tariffs and the spread of democratic institutions across Europe and the world.

WH proposal would disband security details for Pruitt and at other agencies  —  A new proposal from the White House to streamline security personnel for government agencies would do away with embattled Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt's controversial and costly security detail.

Hundreds of separated migrant families reunited  —  Hundreds of families that were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border after crossing illegally have been reunited, a source has told ABC News.  —  And in the wake of Donald Trump's signing of an executive order to halt families being torn apart …

All Politics Is Trump  —  Column: The only issue on the ballot this November?  The president.  —  What's your favorite political cliché?  Mine is the quip of former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill: “All politics is local.”  Might be true for congressmen, whose longevity …

Nikki Haley: ‘It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America’  —  A United Nations report condemning entrenched poverty in the United States is a “misleading and politically motivated” document about “the wealthiest and freest country in the world,” the Trump administration's top U.N. official said.

Return of the Blood Libel  —  The speed of America's moral descent under Donald Trump is breathtaking.  In a matter of months we've gone from a nation that stood for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a nation that tears children from their parents and puts them in cages.

Lorain police officer fired after stopping and detaining daughter and her boyfriend (VIDEO)  —  LORAIN - A Lorain police officer was fired after an internal investigation found he abused his authority by conducting a traffic stop on his daughter's boyfriend without cause and temporarily detained …

DeVos Has Scuttled More Than 1,200 Civil Rights Probes Inherited From Obama  —  Whether schoolchildren in DeSoto County, Mississippi, are paddled varies by their race.  Black students are almost two and a half times more likely than whites to endure the corporal punishment permitted under …

Barry Blitt's “Yearning to Breathe Free”  —  In recent years, the artist Barry Blitt has become known for his satire, which skewers, in soft watercolors, those in or adjacent to power.  But Blitt, who began working for the magazine in 1992, has always been more than a comic artist, and this week's cover features a sombre touch.