‘Viciousness’: Trump aides endure public fury toward president's policies  —  Just after arriving in Washington to work for President Trump, Kellyanne Conway found herself in a downtown supermarket, where a man rushing by with his shopping cart sneered, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself!

Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?  —  On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump.  A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.

Boris Johnson quits to add to pressure on May over Brexit  —  Boris Johnson has resigned as Foreign Secretary amid a growing political crisis over the UK's Brexit strategy.  —  He is the second senior cabinet minister to quit within hours following Brexit Secretary David Davis's exit.

Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow  —  The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit.  —  Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted …

Michelle Wolf Gets Patriotic For a Red, White, and Blue Salute to Abortion  —  With the country more polarized than ever, it's been hard for Americans to find common ground this Fourth of July.  As columnist Megan McArdle recently argued in the Washington Post, to find our way back, we'll need …

Beto-mania Sweeps Texas  —  Ted Cruz's long-shot challenger is drawing riotous crowds.  Is it enough?  —  FORT WORTH, Texas — Beto O'Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz.  Literally.  Sweat pours off his lean, 6' 4"-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank …

Donald Trump to face ‘carnival of resistance’  —  Dozens of groups and thousands of individuals will try to make US president's visit uncomfortable  —  The organisers of anti-Donald Trump protests have promised a “carnival of resistance” that will begin as soon as the US president lands in the UK on Thursday.

San Francisco's crisis looks like New York's future  —  “A major medical association is pulling its annual convention out of the city — saying its members no longer feel safe,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle.  It's a loss of approximately $40 million dollars for the city and a warning …

The Liberal Backlash Is Coming  —  Demonstrators protest against the Trump administration's immigration policies on June 30, 2018, in New York.  —  Among the many privileges certain Americans enjoy—along with the presumption of competence and driving without being pulled over unless …

Scott Pruitt, Fallen E.P.A. Chief, May Rise Again in Oklahoma  —  BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Scott Pruitt's brief, tumultuous tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has left him disgraced in the eyes of many in Washington and across the country.  But it may not have done him much harm in his home state.

We Got Polling Data on 3,000 Trump Tweets.  Here's What We Found.  —  Nearly every news cycle in the Trump Era contains at least one predictable part—the Trump Tweet.  Whether the news cycle is about a policy debate, a political scandal, a cultural fight between Trump and a celebrity …

Giuliani seems to say Trump asked Comey to give Michael Flynn ‘a break’  —  (CNN)Rudy Giuliani seemed to confirm on ABC's “This Week” Sunday that President Donald Trump actually did ask former FBI Director James Comey to drop the probe into ex-White House national security adviser Michael …

De Blasio spends weekend at Bernie Sanders' summer home  —  Well at least it didn't involve a dead guy.  —  Mayor de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane, and their two kids spent a couple of days at Sen. Bernie Sanders' summer home on Lake Champlain in Vermont.  —  Photos show the progressive pols …

Trump Making Supreme Court Pick to Cement Conservative Majority  — Prime-time event to announce president's ‘exceptional’ choice  — Hardiman said to be in play after Kavanaugh had inside track  —  Donald Trump is poised to continue his remake of the U.S. Supreme Court …

A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI.  Here's why.  —  It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.  —  Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.  —  But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …

The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump's Supreme Court Pick … When President Donald Trump nominates a justice to the Supreme Court on Monday night, he will be carrying out the agenda of a small, secretive network of extremely conservative Catholic activists already responsible …

Dem congressman reveals ‘rogue’ Devin Nunes has refused to even speak to the House Intelligence Committee for months  —  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is demanding that special counselor Robert Mueller release all of his information to the House Intelligence Committee, but according to one colleague he's …

The Progressive Populist Who Wants to Help Democrats Win Back the Rust Belt  —  In early May, Richard Cordray was wrapping up a two-day campaign sprint during which he spoke to crowds of plumbers, pipefitters, ironworkers, teachers, firefighters, furniture workers, and now …

Turkey to Be Transformed as Erdogan Sworn in With Vastly Expanded Powers  —  (Bloomberg) — Recep Tayyip Erdogan will cap his years-long drive to transform Turkey's government on Monday as he's sworn in as an executive president with vastly expanded powers.  —  Erdogan, modern Turkey's …

John Roberts is the Supreme Court's new swing vote.  Is he going to overturn Roe v. Wade?  —  What we know — and what we don't know — about John Roberts's position on abortion.  —  No matter who Donald Trump picks to replace Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, the nation's high court …

Annexing Crimea was egregious.  Why does Trump disagree?  —  Inside the U.S. government there is virtual unanimity on the question of Crimea, the Ukrainian region invaded and abruptly annexed by Russia in 2014: It was an egregious act of aggression and, as the first forcible transnational seizure …

Journalist Held by ICE Speaks: ‘Without a Doubt’ I Was Targeted for My Work … What started out as a “just another day” in Memphis-based journalist Manuel Duran's life ended in his arrest by local police and transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  —  The arrest, Duran claims …

Mueller's ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation  —  Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller's “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort.

As Trumpism takes hold, Republicans face increasing pressure to embrace policies they once opposed  —  President Trump's transformation of the Republican Party is taking full root — with the president in recent days shunning traditional alliances and values that have long been core tenets of the GOP.

Starbucks is eliminating plastic straws from all stores  —  Starbucks is going strawless.  —  The coffee company announced Monday that it will phase out plastic straws from all of its stores by 2020.  —  The changes will help Starbucks (SBUX) eliminate more than 1 billion plastic straws per year, the company said.

Electoral law has been broken - this is a fight for the soul of our democracy  —  Despite inadequate rules and toothless regulators, we must battle to safeguard our voting system  —  Seven years ago, during a night of rioting in London, a 23-year-old student popped into his local Lidl and carried out the …