'He'll be the next mass shooter': Newsroom gunman who killed five had stalked ex-classmate, got her fired and forced her to move state then began vendetta against the newspaper that exposed him  — Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire Maryland's Capital Gazette newsroom on Thursday

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.

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 …

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 …

Democratic Socialist Candidate's Primary Win Revoked After All Her Votes Forcibly Redistributed  —  NEW YORK, NY—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was elated when reports broke that she had won the Democratic primary for her district, defeating long-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley Tuesday.

Manafort assistant gave FBI access to storage locker: testimony  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - A personal assistant to Paul Manafort granted an FBI agent access to a storage locker in Virginia, allowing the government to secure evidence that President Donald Trump's former campaign manager …

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.

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.

Overturn Roe v. Wade  —  We write not to praise Anthony Kennedy's jurisprudence, but to bury it.  —  Across 31 years, Justice Kennedy issued many rulings, good and bad.  But his most lasting legacy was the travesty he released 26 years ago today, Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing  —  WASHINGTON — In the days after the F.B.I. director James B. Comey was fired last year, the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, repeatedly expressed anger about how the White House used him to rationalize the firing …

We Get Voicemails  —  This week I wrote something that got widely circulated among angry right-wing people on the internet, which caused my personal contact information to be published online, which allowed me to hear voicemails from many new friends.  Let's listen to a few.

Trump's Always-Wrong Economist Lawrence Kudlow Wrongly Says Deficit Is Falling  —  President Trump's chief economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow has made a career out of being extraordinarily wrong about everything without ever reconsidering his absolute devotion to the supply-side economics dogma that has produced all the wrongness.

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

12-year-old black kid gets cops called on him for cutting neighbors' grass  —  A 12-year-old black child had the police called on him simply for mowing the lawn as part of his summer business.  —  News 5 Cleveland reports that 12-year-old Reginald Fields was mowing the lawn of Lucille Holt …

Trump's Pentagon Quietly Made A Change To The Stated Mission It's Had For Two Decades  —  For at least two decades, the Department of Defense has explicitly defined its mission on its website as providing “the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.”

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 …

Trump Hired A Cop To Run ICE.  It Didn't Work Out.  —  Thomas Homan was unlike anyone who ran Immigration and Customs Enforcement before him.  He retired Friday.  —  Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thomas Homan retired Friday from government service after spending …

‘I snookered them’: Illinois Nazi candidate creates GOP dumpster fire  —  Republicans fear blowback from Holocaust denier's run for Congress.  —  CHICAGO — Illinois Republicans botched four opportunities to stop an avowed Nazi from representing their party in a Chicago-area congressional district.

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.”