Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct  —  Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.  —  For more than twenty years, Leslie Moonves has been one of the most powerful media executives in America.

Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid  —  WASHINGTON — State-sponsored Russian hackers appear far more interested this year in demonstrating that they can disrupt the American electric utility grid than the midterm elections, according to United States intelligence officials and technology company executives.

A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Sexually Abused in an Immigrant-Detention Center  —  Separated from her mother by Trump's zero-tolerance policy, the child was forced to sign a statement confirming that she understood it was her responsibility to stay away from her abuser.

How Vladimir Putin will take down Donald Trump when he's no longer useful  —  Signs are that Vladimir Putin may already be hedging his bets on Donald Trump as a reliable tool for advancing several of Russia's key goals, including his drive to get U.S. sanctions lifted, sow chaos in America's elections …

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, facing sexual abuse reports, resigns from the College of Cardinals  —  Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and longtime globe-trotting diplomat of the Catholic Church, resigned his position as a cardinal, the Vatican announced Saturday.

Venting about press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters over questions  —  President Trump has sought repeatedly to punish journalists for the way they ask him questions, directing White House staff to ban those reporters from covering official events or to revoke their press credentials …

Illiberal Values  —  Coming of age in the Seventies as a Midwesterner, a Mormon, and a resident of a town of about five hundred people, I didn't get to meet a lot of outspoken liberals, but those I did meet made strong impressions on me.  I was too young to understand the intricacies of their politics …

HHS official who spread conspiracy theories forced out  —  Ximena Barreto — a Donald Trump political appointee who used social media to spread conspiracy theories about a supposed pizza shop sex ring and made other inflammatory remarks — was escorted from Health and Human Services Department …

Trump's ex-lawyer: Giuliani hurt Trump's case by flip-flopping on Cohen  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, substantially weakened his case against Michael Cohen by going back and forth as to whether Cohen could tell federal prosecutors the truth, said Jay Goldberg …

Giuliani, Bolton Repeatedly Met With Group Formerly Designated a Cult-Like Terror Organization  —  Rudy Giuliani speaks during a memorial in NYC on September 24, 2013, for members of Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK).  MEK says that 52 of its members were killed on September 1, 2013, in Iraq.

Special counsel releases witness list for Manafort trial  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed his witness list, which includes 35 individuals who could testify against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in his upcoming trial.  —  Flashback: Earlier this week …

Accused Russian agent met with suspected Kremlin spy  —  Mariia Butina's attorney insists the get-together was nothing more than one dinner with a prominent Russian official.  —  Accused Russian sleeper agent Mariia Butina met in January with the head of a Russian government-affiliated cultural center …

Midterms likely to be most expensive ever as TV ads pass billion-dollar mark  —  Campaigns, political parties and outside groups have booked or aired more than $1 billion in television advertising, months before voters head to the polls in November in what is likely to become the most expensive midterm election campaign in U.S. history.

Trump administration fails to comply with court order, keeps kids locked up  —  The Post reports: … We have no doubt that the DHS employees working to reunite families have given their all and are committed to fulfilling the judge's order.  It is the political appointees who conducted …

Motherhood in the Age of Fear  —  Women are being harassed and even arrested for making perfectly rational parenting decisions.  —  CHICAGO — I was on my way home from dropping my kids off at preschool when a police officer called to ask if I was aware there was an outstanding warrant for my arrest.

Devin Nunes, Washington's Public Enemy No. 1  —  What did the FBI do in the 2016 campaign?  The head of the House inquiry on what he has found—and questions still unanswered.  —  Tulare, Calif.  —  It's 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his family's dairy farm.

Viktor Orbán: Commission is EU elite ‘failure’  —  The European Commission is a symbol of the EU elite's failure, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his annual speech to party supporters.  —  Speaking in the Romanian town of Băile Tunad …

Precinct Data Shows Rich, White Neighborhoods Flipping Democratic in 2016.  Will It Last?  —  Republicans have been the party of the rich and Democrats the party of the poor for about as long as political scientists have collected data on American elections.  —  That might not be quite so true anymore, at least among white voters.

Anti-Kavanaugh Campaign Makes Extensive Use of ‘Dark Money’ Donations  —  So-called “dark money” groups on the political left are planning how to spend millions to try to stop the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  —  In an article headlined, “Liberal activists embrace 'dark money …

Sanctions on Russia's Rusal could be lifted, Mnuchin says  —  Pompeo hearing gets heated over what Trump told Putin  —  (CNN)The Trump administration is looking into lifting sanctions against a major Russian aluminum company founded by one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies.

As Affordable Housing Crisis Grows, HUD Sits on the Sidelines  —  WASHINGTON — The country is in the grips of an escalating housing affordability crisis.  Millions of low-income Americans are paying 70 percent or more of their incomes for shelter, while rents continue to rise and construction …

‘They Spit When I Walked in the Street’: The ‘New Anti-Semitism’ in France  —  PARIS — The solemn boulevards and quiet side streets of the 17th Arrondissement in Paris suggest Jewish life in France is vibrant: There is a new profusion of kosher groceries and restaurants, and about 15 synagogues, up from only a handful two decades ago.

‘A different level of intensity’: Collins and Murkowski find pressure over Supreme Court lacks emotional pleas on health care  —  Last year's Republican effort to repeal Obamacare might seem quite similar to this summer's battle over the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Help a Freelance Labor Reporter Afford Summer Vacation in Appalachia  —  Right-wing publications have mocked me in the past for raising money for vacations.  However, as a freelance labor reporter, I don't have paid vacation days.  If I don't work, I don't get paid.

Bill Clinton Heckled By Angry Prostitutes In Amsterdam  —  Bill Clinton was heckled by activists at the International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam on Friday while he was giving a speech.  —  Walking down the center aisle with red umbrellas, protesters demanded the decriminalization …