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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Supreme Court limits cell phone searches  —  Police officers cannot retrace the location of your cell phone without a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled today — a narrow but critically important victory for privacy advocates as well as giant tech companies.  —  Why it matters …

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 …

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.

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.

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...

If We Want to End the Border Crisis, It's Time to Give Trump His Wall  —  You could think of the last week as a solid victory for the Democrats and for basic human decency.  An utterly indefensible and morally foul policy of separating children from their parents is over for now.

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 …

Oregon National Guardsman Disciplined For Facebook Post On ‘Executing’ Migrant Families  —  An Oregon Army National Guardsman is being disciplined for posting “they're lucky we aren't executing them” on a viral Facebook fundraiser for immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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.

The Daily 202: Under Trump, Americans are becoming more supportive of immigration  —  THE BIG IDEA: President Trump said Friday that Republicans should put off addressing immigration until after the midterm elections.  He suggested that the GOP can use the issue to pick up Senate seats …

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 …

I Sat on the Other Side of Stephen Miller's First Wall  —  It was third grade.  And things got messy.  —  Each time a new outrage emerges in the saga of Stephen Miller—author of the Muslim ban and chief architect of the child separation policy—I think of the year I spent with him.

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.

Protestors Outside Kirstjen Nielsen's House Play Audio Of Detained Migrant Children  —  The DHS secretary had to walk by protesters shouting “Shame!” as she left her house.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. Protestors gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's townhouse Friday morning …

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 …

Trump administration plans to use Coast Guard money to pay for border enforcement  —  The Trump administration, facing a growing immigration enforcement mission on the southern U.S. border, is considering a plan to shift money from the U.S. Coast Guard to other parts of the Department of Homeland Security …

‘Abolish ICE!’ is the new rallying cry for progressive Democrats  —  Doing away with the immigration agency has become an issue left-wing insurgents can use to differentiate themselves from established party rivals in midterm primaries.  —  WASHINGTON — Fueled by outrage …

Pentagon Had Spurned U.S. Space Force, Prompting Trump's Decree  —  After White House directive, military moderated previous concerns about cost, integration  —  President Donald Trump's call this week for a separate U.S. “space force” was the culmination of months of frustration over what he felt …

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.

Obama to meet with Kenyan and South African leaders  —  Former President Barack Obama will meet with the leaders of Kenya and South Africa on a trip overseas next month, his office said Friday.  —  Obama will meet with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa …

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 Military Drinking-Water Crisis the White House Tried to Hide  —  The Trump administration feared it would be a “public relations nightmare”: a major federal study that concluded contaminated groundwater across the country, especially near military bases, was more toxic than the government realized.

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 …

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 …

Elena Kagan Is Up to Something  —  What is Justice Elena Kagan doing?  So far this term, the liberal justice has crossed ideological lines at least three times to join the Supreme Court's conservatives.  Most recently, on Thursday, Kagan authored the majority opinion in Lucia v. SEC …

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 …

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 …