McConnell Tries to Nudge Trump Toward Two Supreme Court Options  —  Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, told President Trump this past week that Judges Raymond M. Kethledge and Thomas M. Hardiman presented the fewest obvious obstacles to being confirmed to replace Justice Anthony M. Kennedy …

Rep. Jim Jordan faces new accusation that he must have known about alleged sexual abuse at Ohio State  —  A seventh former Ohio State University wrestler said Saturday that he believes Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) knew about inappropriate behavior that allegedly took place in the school's athletic …

Protesters confront McConnell leaving Kentucky restaurant  —  Protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.) as he was leaving a restaurant in his home state on Saturday.  —  The group threatened to vote McConnell out of office as he walked out of the Bristol Bar & Grille …

‘Wendi Winters saved my life’: Capital Gazette staff say their fallen colleague charged the shooter  —  Capital Gazette reporter Wendi Winters has been identified as victim of a shooting at the newspaper.  —  dohl@capgaznews.com  —  When a man with a shotgun shattered the glass door …

Leading Putin critic was found strangled to death at his London home on the day he was due in court to fight an £87m legal case against Russian state-run airline Aeroflot  —  An exiled critic of Vladimir Putin was found strangled to death on the day he was due in court to fight a $99 million compensation claims, it has emerged.

Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?  —  The messages convey a sense of urgency, and are coming with increasing frequency.  They are short, focused reactions to the latest “outrage” committed by President Trump.  —  Some end by asking for money, some urge participation in protests.

Text of Trump team memos to special counsel assailing Comey  —  The following is the text of two letters written by lawyers for President Donald Trump regarding former FBI Director James Comey.  One was sent to special counsel Robert Mueller, and the other was sent to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Shhhh... Don't Tell the Media but the Bizarre Broidy-Playmate-Trump Saga Is In the Process of Exploding  —  This week, a giant political volcano has been showing signs that it is about to erupt, though most of the news media, and almost all of the public, are blissfully unaware of it.

Kids as young as 1 in US court, awaiting reunion with family  —  PHOENIX (AP) — The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for “agua.”  —  Then it was the child's turn …

Trump Should Just Give People Money  —  The Trump administration, Republicans in Congress and conservative governors across the country want the government to be simpler, smaller and more effective — unless, that is, the government is dealing with the poor.

Mueller WILL NOT Present Collusion Evidence At Manafort Trial  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday that his prosecutors will not present evidence regarding Trump campaign collusion with Russia at an upcoming trial for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The mess of migrant family reunifications  —  IN LATE June, Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services, assured migrant parents whose children had been snatched away by U.S.border officials that there was “no reason” they could not find their toddlers, tweeners and teenagers.

'It's a Terrible Vote': Red-State Democrats Face an Agonizing Supreme Court Choice  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic senators running for re-election in Trump Country face an agonizing choice over President Trump's coming Supreme Court nominee: Vote to confirm the pick and risk demoralizing Democratic voters ahead …

GOP candidate in Kansas: ‘Outside of Western civilization, there is only barbarism’  —  (CNN)A Republican congressional candidate in a Kansas race Democrats are targeting in November told an audience at a party meeting this month that “outside of Western civilization there is only barbarism.”

After talks, NKorea accuses US of ‘gangster-like’ demands  —  TOKYO (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has delivered a dose of harsh reality to Donald Trump, bashing hopes for a quick denuclearization deal in a pointed rebuke to the president's top envoy while accusing the U.S. of making “gangster-like” demands.

Trump's Eagerness to Befriend Russia's Putin Should Worry Us All  —  What could go wrong?  —  Everything.  —  We're just above a week away from the Helsinki, Finland summit between President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin.  Many (myself included) see this as the absolute worst of ideas.

‘Irate’ man arrested for threats against Trump supporters, local politician  —  A Long Island man was arrested Friday for threatening to kill supporters of President Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin - then nearly hitting a Zeldin campaign staffer with his car, according to Suffolk County police.