White House bans network pool reporter from Rose Garden event  —  The White House took retaliatory action against Kaitlan Collins, a White House reporter for CNN, after Collins asked President Trump questions at an Oval Office photo op on Wednesday.  —  Collins was representing …

GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Rosenstein  —  A group of conservative House lawmakers on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein  —  , the top Department of Justice (DOJ) official overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller

'I'm not going to be a punching bag anymore': Inside Michael Cohen's break with Trump  —  For the past decade, Michael Cohen worked as Donald Trump's personal lawyer and fixer.  He was an eager supplicant, executing the wishes of his celebrity boss and forever seeking his attaboy affection.

DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock  —  HURON, Ohio — A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department.  —  The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin …

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election  —  Start exploring the map by searching for a place you know.

Whistleblower provides emails that show Stormy Daniels' arrest was pre-planned  —  In an exclusive investigation, the Advocate has obtained emails from a whistleblower from inside the Columbus Police Department that outline the arrest of Stormy Daniels earlier this month may have been pre-planned days before she ever arrived in town.

Henry Kissinger Pushed Trump to Work With Russia to Box In China … Henry Kissinger suggested to President Donald Trump that the United States should work with Russia to contain a rising China.  —  The former secretary of state—who famously engineered the tactic of establishing diplomatic relations …

Twitter Is Not ‘Shadow Banning’ Republicans  —  The concept of the “shadowban” has existed practically since the inception of the web forum.  The idea is simple: Instead of banning a user outright and informing them of such punishment, a shadowban makes a user's post visible only to themselves.

‘We are fighting for information about war’: Pentagon curbs media access  —  Defense Secretary James Mattis has not briefed reporters on-camera in the Pentagon since April, while his chief spokeswoman has not done so since May.  —  At a mid-July news conference at the Pentagon …

Ex-CIA analyst: If Trump were a foreign leader, I'd raise possibility of blackmail  —  Donald Trump's appeasement of Russia is unprecedented for a US president.  His behavior is consistent with that of an asset being blackmailed.  —  CONNECT  —  The report a former CIA analyst would write …

Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots  —  Amazon's face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern.  In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool …

Polls: Trump approval sags in trio of Midwest states  —  Democrats also enjoy an advantage on congressional preference in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.  —  WASHINGTON — In three politically important Midwest states — including two that were key in deciding the 2016 election …

Legal Opinions Or Political Commentary?  A New Judge Exemplifies The Trump Era  —  Less than a year into a lifetime appointment, a 45-year-old federal appeals court judge named James Ho may embody President Trump's most enduring legacy.  —  Ho has shaken up the staid world of appellate law …

Routine failures  —  For more than a decade, the experts who guide medical practices in the U.S. have been pushing doctors and hospitals to change how they treat pregnant women.  —  At least as far back as 2010, researchers in California began promoting “tool kits” of childbirth safety practices to reduce deaths and injuries.

To Take the Senate, Democratic Group Will Spend Big in Red States  —  A heavily funded Democratic group will spend tens of millions of dollars to mobilize voters in the Republican-leaning states where control of the Senate is likely to be decided this November, stepping in to fill a void left …

What Feminists Can Do for Boys  —  We fought for young women in the patriarchy first.  But budding patriarchs could use some help too.  —  July 25, 2018  —  Zero Tolerance for Zero Tolerance  —  The children at the border are just the latest casualty of this deeply misguided approach to public policy.

Can Stacey Abrams Turn Georgia Blue?  —  On Tuesday night, Brian Kemp—the Georgia secretary of state and self-proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative” who owns a truck, talks about standing for the national anthem and happily supports President Trump—beat Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle …

Tariffs Once Tore the GOP Apart—and May Be Doing So Again  —  “Tariffs are the greatest!”  President Trump crowed on Twitter on Tuesday morning.  If that represents a break from contemporary Republican orthodoxy, it's a message other GOP presidents once embraced.

A Single Trump Appointee Was Responsible For Keeping Hundreds Of Kids Locked Up Longer  —  He's the same guy who blocked a teenage migrant who'd been raped from obtaining an abortion.  —  A Trump appointee's decision to personally review requests to release migrant children from jail-like …

A Kushner Ally Was Up for a Federal Post.  Then the F.B.I. Began Digging.  —  Ken Kurson is a confidant of Rudolph W. Giuliani.  He is a onetime speechwriter for Donald J. Trump.  And he is a close friend of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who appointed Mr. Kurson to run his weekly newspaper, The New York Observer.

Labor's Share of the Pie Is Still Crumbs  —  In our ‘winner-take-most’ economy, how can workers regain some control over their lives?  —  Even as corporate America has unleashed insatiable consumer demand for innovative low-cost goods and technology, it has driven economic trends that continue …

Coca-Cola says it's raising soda prices after Trump tariffs  —  Coca-Cola Company on Wednesday said they will raise the price of their signature sodas this year in part because of the financial strain caused by President Trump  —  's tariffs.  —  Coca-Cola's Chief Executive James Quincey told …

Maxine Waters: ‘Americans should be out in the streets screaming’ for Trump's head  —  Liberal Rep. Maxine Waters Wednesday urged Americans to take to the streets and scream for an end to President Trump's term, endorsed impeachment and vowed that the White House won't intimidate her.

New Emails Show Michigan Republicans Plotting to Gerrymander Maps  —  WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed emails show Michigan Republicans angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps and celebrating the plight of their Democratic rivals.

Jared and Ivanka dig in for the long haul  —  Friends of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump tell us they have the strong impression they are now preparing to stay in D.C. as long as the president does, meaning they'll outlast almost everyone in the West Wing.  —  What we're hearing …

Most deported migrants were not asked about leaving children behind, Trump official says  —  That migrant parents gave consent to leave their children behind has been a key talking point for Trump administration officials defending the deportations.  —  Homeland Security officials …

A Generation of House Democrats Fears Being Passed Over  —  As newer lawmakers agitate for the party's septuagenarian leaders to go, what happens to the members in the middle?  —  At a recent dinner with Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ed Perlmutter, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said the three discussed …

Men Are Panicking About Their Sperm Count  —  A study suggests that sperm counts have been dropping for decades.  Is this how the big dystopia begins?  Silicon Valley is at hand to help men get their mojo back.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Paul Turek was on his way to speak to employees …

“We Didn't Expect to Make Money”: How The Daily's Michael Barbaro Unexpectedly Became the Ira Glass of The New York Times  —  He's the star of the Times's most promising new-media franchise.  But will his success eventually carry him away from 620 Eighth Avenue?  —  BY - JOE POMPEOJuly 25, 2018,

Top Trump health official takes swipes at ACA, single-payer in enemy territory … Stepping into the land of the Trump resistance, Seema Verma flatly rejected California's pursuit of single-payer healthcare as unworkable and dismissed the Affordable Care Act as too flawed to ever succeed.

How the Trump Tax Cut Is Helping to Push the Federal Deficit to $1 Trillion  —  Corporate income tax collections are near a 75-year low, as a share of the economy, after a new law reduced rates and allowed companies to deduct investments immediately.  —  In the trough of the Great Recession in 2009 …