9 hurt, 4 critically, as man stabs refugee families at Boise low-income apartments  —  Refugee families at a low-income apartment complex were attacked Saturday night by a man who stabbed nine people — more than any other attack in Boise's history, police said.  Four of them suffered injuries that police called life-threatening.

North Korea working to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program, U.S. officials say  —  U.S. intelligence officials, citing newly obtained evidence, have concluded that North Korea does not intend to fully surrender its nuclear stockpile, and instead is considering ways to conceal the number …

Supreme Court nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade ‘would not be acceptable’: Sen. Collins  —  Republican Sen. Susan Collins, a critical vote on whomever President Trump nominates to replace Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court, said any nominee who would overturn Roe v. Wade would “not be acceptable.”

Fox News Once Gave Trump a Perch.  Now It's His Bullhorn.  —  In 2011, Fox News announced that a new guest would appear weekly on “Fox & Friends,” its chummy morning show.  “Bold, brash, and never bashful,” a network ad declared.  “The Donald now makes his voice loud and clear, every Monday on Fox.”

As Trump Consolidates Power, Democrats Confront a Rebellion in Their Ranks  —  WASHINGTON — The pitched battle looming over the Supreme Court, along with a jolt to the Democratic leadership at the ballot box last Tuesday, is threatening to shatter the already fragile architecture of the Democratic Party …

‘Girl from the Bronx’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat high-ranking Democrat Joe Crowley, faces questions over her ‘working class’ background after it's revealed she grew up in a wealthy suburb north of New York City  —  The hardscrabble biography of Democrat Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez …

Maxine Waters responds to death threats: ‘You better shoot straight’  —  (D-Calif.) has addressed a series of recent death threats she said she has received, telling would-be threateners to “shoot straight” during an immigration rally on Saturday.  —  “I know that there are those who are talking …

Portland Police revoke permit, declare riot as protesters clash downtown  —  Gallery: Patriot Prayer rally, and counterprotest, in Portland, June 30, 2018  —  Portland Police declared a riot Saturday after tensions between the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and local anti-fascist activists came to a head and broke out in violence.

US nickels cost seven cents to make.  Scientists may have a solution  —  The US Mint needs an upgrade.  —  Specifically, it's got to find a way to make cheaper nickels.  The manufacturing cost of a single five-cent coin has exceeded its value since 2006, when the price of the materials that make it up …

Trump says he won't sign any NAFTA deal until after midterms  —  President Trump said Sunday that he is “not happy” with the revised NAFTA deal that his administration has been hammering out with Canada and Mexico and that he doesn't want to sign any new agreement until after the midterm elections in November.

Illegal immigrant is arrested for ‘starting dozens of wildfires in Colorado that forced hundreds to evacuate and destroyed 38,000 acres of land’, as video shows blaze rapidly engulfing one of the many decimated homes  — Jesper Joergensen, 52, was taken into custody last Saturday for the suspected arson that started the Springs Fire

Gudrun Burwitz, ever-loyal daughter of Nazi mastermind Heinrich Himmler, dies at 88  —  Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's highest-ranking official after Adolf Hitler, died May 24 in or near Munich.  She was 88.

Bavaria: Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry  —  MUNICH — All seems well in Bavaria.  —  The streets are clean, unemployment is practically nonexistent, social benefits are generous and a vibrant sense of identity infuses small villages and big cities alike: Even teenagers sometimes don dirndls …

Zero tolerance sowed confusion from start  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's top health official could barely conceal his discomfort.  —  As Health and Human Services secretary, Alex Azar was responsible for caring for migrant children taken from their parents at the border.

The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning  —  To understand the madness gripping American leftists, try to see the world through their eyes.  Presto, you're now part of the raging resistance.  —  Like the Palestinians who mark Israel's birth as their nakba, or tragedy, you regard Donald Trump's 2016 victory as a catastrophe.

Immigrant parents struggle to find separated children amid chaos on the border  —  BROWNSVILLE — She crossed the border illegally in May with her four children, one of whom was still breastfeeding and was the progeny, along with another, of her rapists.  She was seeking asylum …

World's Biggest Trading Bloc a Step Closer After Tokyo Meeting  — Asia Pacific ministers work toward RCEP agreement by year end  — 16-nation pact would cover one-third of the world economy  —  Asian trade ministers took another step toward creating what could be the world's biggest trading bloc …

Our Say: Thank you.  We will not forget.  —  Hundreds gathered Friday to honor the employees who were killed Thursday after a gunman blasted his way through the glass door of the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis.  Their names are Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.