Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.

Sources: Jim Jordan Officially Announcing Bid For Speaker  —  House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan will formally announce his campaign for speaker of the House Thursday at noon, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  TheDCNF confirmed the announcement with two sources with direct knowledge of Jordan's plans.

Omarosa's surprise book: ‘Unhinged’ will come out in August  —  The publishing house Gallery Books has an August surprise for the president and the public: A “tell-all” book by former Trump administration aide, Omarosa Manigault-Newman.  —  The former “Apprentice” star worked in the White House Office …

Trump Organization Finance Chief Called to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury  —  Longtime Trump executive Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed in Michael Cohen probe  —  Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify …

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.

'I'm Not the Only Young Conservative'  —  About 700 teenage conservatives visited the nation's capital this week for a four-day leadership conference organized by Turning Point USA, a group founded in 2012 to promote activism skills among high school and college students and help young conservatives network with leaders in the movement.

The Summer's Hottest Trend Is Owning the Libs  —  Conservatives love it earnestly, liberals love it ironically.  How did we get here?  —  “Raise your hand if you've ever posted anything online to quote unquote own the libs,” President Trump's Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley recently asked a crowd of high schoolers.

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 …

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.

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 …

The heiress has no clothes.  —  I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders, and to be summoned by her later that evening for an off-the-record chat in her hotel lobby, where she ordered red wine in a white dress, which seems …

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.

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 …

Trump-Created European Trade Crisis Averted by Fake Deal  —  Last night, the Trump administration announced with maximum fanfare that the trade war with the European Union was over.  “This was a big day for free and fair trade!,” tweeted an excited President Trump.

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 …

Anna March?  —  She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors.  The guests, more than 400 of L.A.'s literati: authors, editors, publishers, book reviewers, literary agents, the local independent presses.

‘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 …

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 …

Hundreds of Europeans who joined the “caliphate” are now back home and incarcerated.  The new challenge: Keeping prisons from becoming recruitment centers for future terrorists.  —  BRUSSELS — A few months before his killing rampage, convicted robber and prison inmate Benjamin Herman had a jailhouse conversion of a sort.

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.

North Korea's Ruling Party Informs Officials Kim Regime Will Not Give Up Nukes  —  The Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party has decreed that North Korea will not relinquish its nuclear arsenal, which it termed a “precious legacy” of the country's late leaders, according to local sources …

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 …

Victims of former Ohio State doctor struggle with memories of sexual abuse  —  It was years ago.  Before families and children, before jobs and careers.  —  Before caps and gowns and diplomas, something happened, during what should have been routine physicals or visits to the health center …

‘The Crown’ Casts Its Prince Charles, Queen Mother for Season 3 (Exclusive)  —  Josh O'Connor and Marion Bailey have joined the Netflix drama.  —  Season three of Netflix's The Crown continues to come into focus.  —  The Peter Morgan drama has found its new actors to take over the central roles …

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 …

How Trump Won Re-election in 2020  —  A sneak peek at the Times's news analysis from Nov. 4, 2020.  —  Nov. 4, 2020  —  In the end, a bitterly fought election came down to the old political aphorism, popularized during Bill Clinton's successful 1992 run against George H.W. Bush: “It's the economy, stupid.”

Liberty Makes Us Unfree, Says the ACLU  —  The government wouldn't abuse us if we'd stop making it upset, according to the one-time civil liberties advocacy group.  —  What purpose is served by the American Civil Liberties Union?  I know that the words “civil liberties” appear right there in the name …

Trump says US to sanction Turkey for detaining American pastor  —  The United States will impose new sanctions on Turkey over its detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson, President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday.  —  “He is suffering greatly.  This innocent man of faith should be released immediately!”