The crying Honduran girl on the cover of Time was not separated from her mother, father says  —  The photo of the little girl crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent patted down her mother became a symbol of the families pulled apart by the Trump administration's “zero tolerance” policy at the border …

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 …

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.

Huge Win for Everyone With a Cellphone (and for the Fourth Amendment) at the Supreme Court  —  In a blockbuster 5-4 decision issued today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violates the Fourth Amendment.

Steve King singles out Somali Muslims over pork  —  The Iowa congressman says they shouldn't work in his district's meat-packing plants because they won't eat pig products.  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Friday that he doesn't want Somali Muslims working at meat-packing plants in his district …

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 …

“The Images Are Out of His Control”: How Trump Lost His Grip on the Child-Detention Narrative  —  Trump has done plenty of ugly things.  In the past, he's outrun the narrative—this time, he can't get past the imagery.  —  BY - PETER HAMBYJune 22, 2018,  —  Rarely has Donald Trump been on his heels as he has over the past week.

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...

WaPo Begins Krauthammer's Obituary By Blaming Him for the Iraq War  —  Charles Krauthammer was a Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist, best-selling novelist, and Fox News commentator, and that was in addition to an admirable medical career, graduating from Harvard Medical School after a 14 month break …

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 …

Migrant mother separated from son on his sixth birthday bares agony  —  Honduran migrant Iris Yolany Eufragio-Mancia doesn't know if she will see her son, Ederson, before she is deported.  —  EL PASO, Texas — The morning before her son's sixth birthday, Iris Eufragio-Mancia crossed the Rio Grande by foot …

After Nevada GOP push, Treasury quietly changed lucrative policy benefiting one county  —  The Treasury Department last week quietly reversed itself after lobbying by Nevada Republicans and agreed to let a previously ineligible county reap huge benefits from the new tax law.

In age of Trump, evangelicals back self-styled top U.S. pimp  —  PAHRUMP, Nev. (Reuters) - He styles himself as America's best-known pimp, a strip-club owner who runs multiple brothels and looks set to win a seat as a Republican in the Nevada legislature with the blessing of many conservative Christian voters.

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 …

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.

NYPD sued for not disclosing info on Trump family gun permits  —  The NYPD is refusing to disclose information about handgun licenses held by Donald Trump and his two eldest sons, citing privacy and safety concerns, according to a new lawsuit.  —  A news and opinion website called …

Italy's deputy PM Salvini called for ‘mass cleansing, street by street, quarter by quarter’, newly resurfaced footage reveals  —  Minister's comments recirculate after leader of far-right League party announces ‘census’ of Roma community  —  POPULAR VIDEOS

Study: male political reporters retweet other dudes 3 times more than their female colleagues  —  A new study reveals why female journalists are so much less influential on Twitter than men.  —  Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated …

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.

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.

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.

Protesters 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. Protesters gathered outside Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's townhouse Friday morning …

Democratic Senate Candidate Arrested at Texas Detention Center While Trying to Deliver Toys and Food … Zak Ringelstein, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, was arrested Friday morning outside a U.S. Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas.  —  Ringelstein, who is challenging …

Inside Family Detention, Trump's Big Solution  —  The administration is no longer separating them.  Now more parents and children will be held at places like this. … At first glance, it resembles a doctor's office, or perhaps a rec center.  Security footage depicts sterile gray hallways leading …

Senator Jeff Merkley, a Quiet Stalwart of the Left, Has a Breakout Moment at the Border  —  WASHINGTON — It did not exactly make for riveting video this month when Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, was turned away from a converted Walmart at the Texas border that is housing hundreds …

CREW FILES CRIMINAL, ETHICS COMPLAINTS AGAINST WILBUR ROSS  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington—Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross should be investigated for possible violations of the STOCK Act or other insider trading laws and false statements to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) …

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 …

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.

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 …

Ex-Trump campaign manager loses bid to dismiss money laundering charge  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday refused to dismiss a money laundering charge brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort.

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 …

Trump Insider Wanted to Sell Social Media Surveillance Tools to Abusive Governments, Leaked Documents Suggest  —  Earlier this year, it was reported that Elliott Broidy, a convicted felon in a 2009 bribery case and a top Donald Trump fundraiser, proffered meetings with the president …