Powerful GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused of turning blind eye to sexual abuse as Ohio State wrestling coach  —  “At the end of the day, he is absolutely lying if he says he doesn't know what was going on,” a former Ohio State wrestler said.  —  Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio …

Pruitt directly asked Trump to replace Sessions with him  —  (CNN)Embattled Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Scott Pruitt directly appealed to President Donald Trump this spring to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions and let him run the Department of Justice instead, according to three people familiar with the proposal.

Bipartisan Senate Panel Gives Middle Finger to Devin Nunes … The Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have said the NSA, CIA, and FBI got it wrong when they assessed that the point of Russia's 2016 election interference was to harm Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump.

Ex-congressional IT staffer reaches plea deal that debunks conspiracy theories about illegal information access  —  Federal prosecutors concluded an 18-month investigation into a former congressional technology staffer on Tuesday by publicly debunking allegations — promoted by conservative media …

Leading contender to be Trump's Supreme Court pick faces questions from social conservatives  —  An intensifying debate over Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a front-runner in President Trump's search for a Supreme Court nominee, gripped Republicans on Tuesday, with conservative critics highlighting past rulings …

New Trump admin order for separated parents: Leave U.S. with kids or without them  —  Rights advocates say the new directive prevents migrant parents who were separated from their kids under zero tolerance from asking for asylum in the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — Following a court order to reunite …

Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will encourage the nation's school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities …

Amy Coney Barrett Is Allegedly a Member of a Religious Group That's Been Called a “Cult”  —  Amy Coney Barrett, now a judge on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, became a heroic figure to some religious conservatives during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last fall.

Immigrant Mothers Were Moved Outdoors During Kirstjen Nielsen's Secretive Visit to Detention.  They Shouted for Help to No Avail.  —  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen made a series of secretive visits to South Texas immigrant detention centers on Friday.

Dubious Fox News article appears to have sparked Trump attack on Obama  —  President Donald Trump appeared to rely on a dubious Fox News report Tuesday morning to unleash an attack on his predecessor, accusing President Barack Obama, without any real evidence, of granting citizenship …

Poland Purges Supreme Court, and Protesters Take to Streets  —  WARSAW — Poland's government carried out a sweeping purge of the Supreme Court on Tuesday night, eroding the judiciary's independence, escalating a confrontation with the European Union over the rule of law and further dividing this already riven nation.

Rhode Island Dems in uproar as party seeks to oust three progressive women  —  The party is standing by a lawmaker who has been charged with sexual assault and perjury.  It also backed a former lawmaker who has been arrested several times.  —  WASHINGTON — As it tries to fend off a progressive insurgency …

Putting a Face (Mine) to the Risks Posed by GOP Games on Mueller Investigation  —  I'd like to put a human face — my own — to the risk posed by GOP gamesmanship on the Mueller investigation.  —  Sometime last year, I went to the FBI and provided information on a person whom I had come …

3-Year-Old Refugee Girl Killed by Mass Stabber During Her Birthday Party Loved Disney Princesses  —  The 3-year-old whose birthday was being celebrated when a man allegedly went on a stabbing spree in Idaho Saturday, attacking six children and three adults, has died.

Haim Saban Is Bad For Democracy  —  Last month, twelve Democratic senators signed a letter from the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking the Trump administration “to do more to alleviate the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.”

Video shows Houston police officer dancing with girl in wheelchair at party  —  Houston Police Officer Sandy Fernandez says he was working security at a quinceañera last weekend, when he noticed a special guest on the dance floor.  It was little girl in a wheelchair, who was watching other party guests dance.

Alan Diaz, AP photographer behind Elian image, dies at 71  —  MIAMI (AP) — Retired Associated Press photojournalist Alan Diaz , whose photo of a terrified 6-year-old Cuban boy named Elian Gonzalez earned him the Pulitzer Prize, has died.  He was 71.  —  Diaz's daughter, Aillette Rodriguez-Diaz, confirmed that he died Tuesday.

Radical Democrats Are Pretty Reasonable  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset primary victory has produced a huge amount of punditry about the supposed radicalization of the Democratic party, how it's going to hurt the party because her positions won't sell in the Midwest …

New York Times Reassigns Reporter in Leak Case  —  Ali Watkins, the New York Times reporter whose email and phone records were secretly seized by the Trump administration, will be transferred out of the newspaper's Washington bureau and reassigned to a new beat in New York, The Times said on Tuesday.

Poll: More voters blame Trump than Dems for lack of civility  —  than Democrats for the lack of civility in politics, according to a new Quinnipiac poll.  —  The survey found that 91 percent of Americans say the lack of civility in politics is a serious problem, with 47 percent of respondents saying Trump is responsible for that.

A psychologist just revealed the horrifying truth about Trump's malignant narcissism  —  Scott interviewed A Duty to Warn psychologist and founder Dr. John Gartner who is leading the charge to warn America about the malignant narcissist that Republicans put into the Oval Office with a minority of the popular vote.

Viral video of woman's arrest sparks anger, but LAPD says she was involved in violent kidnapping plot  —  A viral video of several Los Angeles police officers training their firearms on an unarmed woman drew fierce criticism online Monday, but police and prosecutors said Tuesday …

Triple homicide leaves ex-wife dead after protection request denied  —  Before she and two others were shot dead near Ardmore on Sunday, Debra Ann Rivera twice had asked a judge to order her ex-husband to surrender his guns because of alleged abuse.  —  The request was denied both times.

Facebook slammed for ‘censorship’ of country group's patriotic song  —  Facebook was slammed by the Wes Cook band Tuesday after it prevented the country group from using the social network's paid tools to promote its song “I Stand for the Flag.”  —  The Nashville-based group released a video for …

SF's appalling street life repels residents — now it's driven away a convention  —  In a move that is alarming San Francisco's biggest industry, a major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe.

EXCLUSIVE: RUSSIAN MILITARY SPIES BACKED ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE LEADER OF MONTENEGRO, REPORT SAYS  —  Russia's rivalry with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) runs deep.  But would the Kremlin try to assassinate a democratically elected leader to stop a country from joining the alliance?

Is God male?  The Episcopal Church debates whether to change its Book of Common Prayer.  —  The terms for God, in the poetic language of the prayers written for centuries, have almost always been male: Father.  King.  Lord.  —  And in the Episcopal Church, the language of prayer matters.

Kevin Spacey Investigated for 3 New Sexual Assaults in London  —  Kevin Spacey is now being investigated for 6 sexual assaults in London ... after 3 new men have come forward with allegations against the actor.  —  According to the Metropolitan Police ... a man came to them in April claiming …

Gmail messages ‘read by human third parties’  —  Google has confirmed that private emails sent and received by Gmail users can sometimes be read by third-party app developers, not just machines.  —  People who have connected third-party apps to their accounts may have unwittingly given human staff permission to read their messages.