Capital Gazette shooting victim Rob Hiaasen: A joyful stylist, a generous mentor  —  Capital Gazette editor Rob Hiaasen has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  Rob Hiaasen once wrote a description of his ideal job: “I would like to be paid for the occasional amusing remark …

Inside the White House's Quiet Campaign to Create a Supreme Court Opening  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump singled him out for praise even while attacking other members of the Supreme Court.  The White House nominated people close to him to important judicial posts.

Obama: ‘You are right to be concerned’  —  In his first public comments in months, the former president talks about anger, regrets — and what the Republicans are doing right.  —  LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama's message to Democrats: Stop dreaming of him.  —  Speaking at a Democratic National …

Iowa court blocks 72-hour waiting period for abortion  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday blocked a law requiring a 72-hour waiting period before a woman can get an abortion.  —  The court ruled that the law violates the Iowa Constitution, siding with a lawsuit filed …

Scoop: Trump's private threat to upend global trade  —  President Trump has repeatedly told top White House officials he wants to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization, a move that would throw global trade into wild disarray, people involved in the talks tell Axios.

Comedian John Melendez ‘hoax calls President Trump on Air Force One and chats with him about controversial family separation policy while pretending to be a New Jersey senator’  —  A voice sounding very much like that of President Donald Trump is heard in a phone call a comedian claims …

They Played Dominoes Outside Their Apartment For Decades.  Then The White People Moved In And Police Started Showing Up.  —  “This used to be a bad neighborhood.”  Two areas of New York City that have recently gentrified have a corresponding high rate of quality-of-life complaints, which sometimes draw the police.

Trump's controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva  —  (CNN)The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration's candidate to lead the International Organization for Migration, a US official told CNN, leaving it without an American at the helm since 1951.

The White House Is Becoming A Ghost Town.  Trump Loyalists Worry It's Going To Get Worse.  —  With high-profile departures and a dysfunctional hiring process, a former White House official jokes part of the building is a “barren wasteland” with rustling “tumbleweed.”  —  Reporting From Washington, DC

Exclusive: Trump administration plan would bar people who enter illegally from getting asylum  —  A sweeping regulation being considered by the Department of Justice would likely stop most Central Americans from winning asylum in the US.  —  The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Jeff Sessions …

He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn't Crushed by a Block  —  The skull of the “unluckiest man” at Mt. Vesuvius' eruption was found by archaeologists, intact and with a mouth full of teeth.  —  He was known across the internet as “Pompeii's Unluckiest Man.”

BLOWN TO SHREDS Kim Jong-un has top army officer blasted with 90 bullets for giving his troops extra rations of food and fuel  —  Lieutenant General Hyon Ju-song was put to death after being found guilty of charges of abusing authority, profiting the enemy and engaging in anti-Party acts

Trump admin ran ‘pilot program’ for separating migrant families in 2017  —  The numbers show the government was separating migrant kids from their parents back in 2016 and 2017.  —  EL PASO, Texas — The government was separating migrant parents from their kids for months prior …

“He Could Go Down in History as the Man That Saved This Country”: Freed from Trump, Michael Cohen Sees a New Identity: National Hero  —  As Cohen is further distanced from the president, friends have been encouraging him to change his narrative.  “Washington is actively pushing him away,” a person close to Cohen says.

Agents Seek to Dissolve ICE in Immigration Policy Backlash  —  WASHINGTON — At least 19 Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators are seeking to dissolve the agency, concerned that the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal migrants has limited their ability to pursue national security threats …