A note from the editorial leadership of The Verge  —  Newsrooms must stand up to targeted campaigns of harassment  —  Since announcing her new job with The New York Times, a widespread campaign of harassment has targeted Verge reporter Sarah Jeong for a number of tweets she wrote years ago.

Top Trump Donor Agreed to Pay Michael Cohen $10 Million for Nuclear Project Push  —  Consulting deal with Franklin L. Haney could have been among the most lucrative struck by president's then-personal attorney  —  A major donor to President Trump agreed to pay $10 million to the president's …

Exclusive: suspected Russian spy found working at US embassy in Moscow  —  Russian is understood to have had full access to secret data during decade at embassy  —  US counter-intelligence investigators discovered a suspected Russian spy had been working undetected in the heart …

Trump trashes media as ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ at rally  —  WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Thundering that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news,” President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of grievances Thursday at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in which he cast journalists as his true political opponent.

Donald Trump Jr. co-hosts Dinesh D'Souza's very conservative D.C. film premiere  —  The red carpet for the screening of far-right filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza's new documentary was all business.  There's no time for chitchat about who is wearing what when you've got an entire liberal ideology to topple.

It's True: Trump Is Lying More, and He's Doing It on Purpose.  —  On Thursday, the Washington Post published a remarkable story on its front page revealing a recent spike in the number of “false and misleading claims” made by President Trump.  In his first year as President, Trump made 2,140 false claims, according to the Post.

Trump administration tells ACLU to find deported parents  —  The Trump administration on Thursday informed a federal judge that it isn't responsible for locating deported parents separated forcibly from their children at the southern border.  —  DOJ said in a court filing …

In Tennessee Senate Race, Bredesen Tries To Prove He Can Overcome Political Tribalism  —  In the Trump era, the phrase “all politics is local” may feel like an anachronism.  But in Tennessee, Phil Bredesen is trying to prove that national partisan divides can be overcome in the most surprising Senate battleground of 2018.

Trump takes us-versus-them media war to new heights  —  When CNN's Jim Acosta was booed and cursed at a campaign rally for President Trump  —  this week, many political observers said it exemplified how much the media environment has changed under the current administration — and that is a sign of what's to come.

Manafort's bookkeeper testifies against him, alleging efforts to inflate income  —  Paul Manafort's longtime bookkeeper testified against him Thursday, telling a Virginia jury that his seven-figure lifestyle lasted until about 2015 when the cash ran out, the bills piled up …

Giuliani: Trump to make Mueller sit-down call within 10 days  —  President Donald Trump and his legal team are likely to decide whether to grant special counsel Robert Mueller an interview with Trump within a “week to 10 days,” Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Thursday.

'Many didn't notice it as keenly as I did because I knew him way back when.  They thought Trump was being Trump, off the cuff,' Omarosa writes.  'But I knew something wasn't right'  —  Omarosa was beside herself when the president contradicted the White House party line that FBI head James Comey …

QAnon: Meet a real-life believer in the online, pro-Trump conspiracy theory that's bursting into view  —  After I wrote about QAnon, an online conspiracy theory that leaped on Tuesday from the far reaches of the Internet to the audience at Trump's rally in Tampa, an email arrived in my inbox from a man named Paul Burton.

National Enquirer Boss David Pecker Tiptoes Away From His Pal Trump as Scandal Swirls and Circulation Drops … Shortly after the feds raided the office of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's now estranged personal attorney and longtime enforcer, National Enquirer publisher David Pecker went into a state of calculated retreat.

Last Slide  —  A Southwest Key employee accused of molesting eight teenage boys at a migrant shelter in Mesa is scheduled to go on trial this month, according to court documents.  —  Levian Pacheco, a youth care worker at the Mesa facility, is alleged to have abused two of the teens …

Trudeau Faces Growing Doubts Over Canada's Refugee Policy  —  New poll shows intensifying concerns over surge of asylum seekers entering by foot from the U.S.  —  OTTAWA—Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's open-arms policy on refugees is facing pushback at home.

What Goes on Outside Trump Rallies Is an American Nightmare  —  The coral of Tampa's Florida State Fairgrounds entrance arcs against an ominously graying Tuesday evening sky.  Everyone waits for Donald Trump outside, even though it smells like rain.  The Secret Service checkpoint doesn't help …

Ethnic cleansing makes a comeback — in China  —  If ethnic cleansing takes place in China and nobody is able to hear it, does it make a sound?  That's what millions of Muslims inside the People's Republic are asking as they watch the Chinese government expand a network of internment camps …

White Americans support welfare programs — but only for themselves, says new research  —  New study shows white Americans love government support programs — that is, if they're the beneficiaries  —  Donald Trump's administration recently decided to give $12 billion to farmers hurt …

Trump's Inaccurate Claims About Highways, Immigration and Beyoncé From a Pennsylvania Rally  —  President Trump said his campaign rallies drew larger crowds than concerts for Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen.  That was one of 15 inaccurate claims he made.  —  THE FACTS

Bodies Keep Shrinking on This Island, and Scientists Aren't Sure Why  —  The Indonesian island of Flores has given rise to smaller hominins, humans and even elephants.  —  In 2003, researchers digging in a mountain cave on the Indonesian island of Flores discovered astonishing fossils of a tiny …

Tim Allen breaks silence on Roseanne firing: ‘Who makes up these rules?’  —  Tim Allen is opening up about the other conservative sitcom star whose show was canceled by ABC — Roseanne Barr.  —  Asked whether the network was right to fire Barr over her racist tweet last May, Allen replied …

RNC warns donors to steer clear of Kochs  —  The move escalates the fight between President Donald Trump and the powerful network.  —  The Republican National Committee is sending a warning shot to major GOP donors not to play ball with the powerful Koch political network …

Our Rebuttal to Kris Kobach's Critique  —  Press representatives for the Kansas gubernatorial candidate have disseminated charges that a ProPublica article about Kobach's campaigns for anti-immigration ordinances is inaccurate and biased.  We respond.  —  Earlier today, the press team …

Democrats hopeful after poll shows plummeting trust in Trump  —  “Russia, Immigration and Trade War Sticking to Trump” is the headline of a new polling memo for Priorities USA by Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group and Global Strategy Group.  —  Why it matters: “This translates into the worst ratings …

New Age author Marianne Williamson ‘looking into’ 2020 presidential run  —  A presidential bid by the author would mark the first celebrity campaign for the White House against Donald Trump  —  New Age author Marianne Williamson was in Iowa earlier this week meeting with Democratic activists …