Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials  —  On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis learned in May from a colleague that President Donald Trump had made the decision …

How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media  —  The pearl bracelet arrived in May 2014, in the spring of Ali Watkins's senior year in college, a graduation gift from a man many years her senior.  It was the sort of bauble that might imply something …

Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.  —  The European Union on Friday began rolling …

What's the Yield Curve?  ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention  —  You can try and play down a trade war with China.  You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings.  —  But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …

The latest sign of political divide: Shaming and shunning public officials  —  Anger and division in American politics are creating a rising phenomenon: the public shaming and shunning of political figures while they are going about their private lives.  —  Few laws expressly prohibit …

The left loses its cool  —  'When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong,' said one top GOP official.  —  Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants.  A third was denied service.

Supreme Court won't hear North Carolina partisan redistricting case for now  —  The Supreme Court on Monday said it is declining, for now, to wade into a dispute over a North Carolina redistricting plan that a lower court had found violated the Constitution by overly favoring Republicans.

I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year.  Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.  —  The gang is not invading the country.  They're not posing as fake families.  They're not growing.  To stop them, the government needs to understand them.  —  There's one thing everyone can agree …

The Nightclub King Whose Properties Were Harvey Weinstein's ‘Hunting Ground’ … For 20 years, movie producer Harvey Weinstein and restaurant magnate Giuseppe Cipriani have been the closest of friends, dining together every Wednesday night at The Sherry-Netherland Hotel near Central Park.

Where Is Barack Obama?  —  Barack Obama was six months into his post-White House life when Donald Trump found a new way to grab his attention.  It was a Tuesday morning deep in the mid-Atlantic summer, and, feeling a world away from the Pennsylvania Avenue grind, the former president was reading the New York Times on his iPad.

Ryan & Sensenbrenner: We Choose Leah  —  By: House Speaker Paul Ryan (WI-01) & Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05)  —  Over the last 18 months, we have passed more than 700 bills in the House of Representatives aimed at growing this economy, expanding opportunity, and putting …

Kander confirms bid for Kansas City mayor in a move already shaking up the ballot  —  Jason Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state whose growing nationwide profile as a Democrat led to speculation about his presidential ambitions, confirmed on Sunday his unexpected decision to run for mayor of Kansas City.

What did Peter Strzok do?  —  As former top FBI official Peter Strzok faces congressional requests to testify, it's worth examining who he is.  —  Strzok is the subject of what I see as one of the most damaging conclusions in the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general report …

Morning Joe Debates Sarah Sanders Meal Mess: ‘Should Someone Who Lies Constantly’ be ‘Welcome in Open Society?’  —  On Morning Joe on Monday, the weekend's biggest story came up pretty quickly as the panel discussed Sarah Sanders being kicked out of a restaurant by the owner because she works for the President of the United States.

Stormy Daniels meeting with prosecutors on Michael Cohen cancelled  —  Interview with adult film actor about Donald Trump's former personal attorney cancelled due to media attention  —  Stormy Daniels was due to meet federal prosecutors in New York on Monday as part of their investigation …

Javier Solana, Ex-Chief of NATO, Is Denied Permission to Travel to U.S.  —  BRUSSELS — Javier Solana, a former secretary general of NATO who played a central role in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program when he was the European Union's foreign policy chief, has been denied electronic authorization …

White Extinction Anxiety  —  Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents.  —  He was not particularly sympathetic to these families' plights …

Trump Associates Facing Mounting Legal Bills Turn to Financial Backers for Help  —  Michael Caputo's GoFundMe.com page and the Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust are just two pools of money easing the burden as probes continue  —  Michael Caputo was facing $130,000 in legal bills with no clear …

For the last time: Trump inherited a good economy, and he hasn't made it better  —  President Trump, who came into office when unemployment was at a then-10-year low, thinks that he was “given a very tough hand,” because when he “came up here, we had an economy that was going down.”

Trump's winning, cynical plan  —  An odd paradox in defining this moment in politics: The more President Trump does, says and tweets outrageous things, the more his critics go bananas and the better he does in the polls.  —  The big picture: Our parallel universes are spinning farther apart.

Why We Are Leaving the G.O.P.  —  When the obituary for the Republican Party is written, the year 1980 will be cited as the beginning of the end.  Reaganism was in full flower, but the big tent was already folding.  Republican leaders endorsed a constitutional ban on abortion at the convention that summer …

Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass  —  A month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged.  We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant.

Flake Confirms He's Stalling Trump's Judicial Nominees Over Tariffs  —  Said Sunday he wants the Senate to respond to president's trade policy  —  Government Reorg Plan Greeted Without Fanfare Senators Keeping Hope — and ‘Regular Order’ — Alive With Immigration Controversy as Backdrop, GOP Senate Candidates Blast Democrats

Ted Cruz leads Beto O'Rourke by 5 points in Texas Senate race, UT/TT poll finds  —  Texas Republicans in top races, led by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. Greg Abbott, are running ahead of their Democratic challengers, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.