Judge upholds ruling that DACA must be restored  —  Pro DACA and Dreamer supporters chain themselves to each other outside the US Capital on March 5, 2018 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for MoveOn.org)  —  (CNN)A federal judge on Friday upheld his order …

Paul Manafort Was Deep in Debt.  He Saw an Opportunity in Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort's services did not come cheap.  His consulting work helped prop up foreign strongmen, who in turn kept him in $12,000 bespoke suits from Beverly Hills.  —  But by 2016, Mr. Manafort was broke.

'The most bizarre thing I've ever been a part of': Trump panel found no voter fraud, ex-member says  —  Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday …

Trump associate socialized with alleged Russian agent Maria Butina in final weeks of 2016 campaign  —  Maria Butina, the Russian gun-rights activist who was charged last month with working as an unregistered agent of the Kremlin, socialized in the weeks before the 2016 election …

Trump Will Have Blood on His Hands  —  His demonization of the news media won't fall on deaf ears.  —  The voice, if I had to guess, belongs to that of a white American male in late middle age.  The accent is faintly Southern, the manner taunting but relaxed.

The Newseum is selling MAGA hats and ‘fake news’ T-shirts  —  If you're looking to stock up on the famous red hats that bear Donald Trump's favorite slogan, look no further than the Newseum's gift shop.  —  On its website, the interactive news museum in Washington, D.C., sells $14.99 …

Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for Millions of Palestinians  —  In internal emails, Jared Kushner advocated a “sincere effort to disrupt” the U.N.'s relief agency for Palestinians.  —  Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor …

The New York Times just shut down a major bullying tactic of the alt-right  —  In standing by its decision to hire the well-known tech journalist, the Times shut down a major bullying tactic of the alt-right.  —  The New York Times announced this week that tech journalist Sarah Jeong will join …

Obstruction of justice bombshell will explode before midterms  —  escalating his attacks against special counsel counsel Robert Mueller  —  , the Department of Justice, the FBI and the free press to a fever pitch in recent days?  —  The reason is that the odds are very high that Mueller …

Accountants testify Manafort falsified loan documents, hid foreign income on taxes  —  Testimony from the financial professionals who worked for Manafort are making up the meat of special counsel Robert Mueller's case against Manafort, who is charged with 18 counts of tax and banking crimes.

Metro considering separate trains for white nationalists attending ‘Unite the Right’ rally  —  Metro is considering providing separate trains for participants of the “Unite the Right” white-nationalist rally Aug. 12, board chairman Jack Evans said Friday.  —  Evans said the move would be an effort …

Federal agency grants Trump D.C. hotel rental credit of $534,000 for maintaining clock tower  —  Leasing experts say credit illustrates unique arrangement between the Trump-owned business and the government.  —  The General Services Administration granted a $534,000 rental credit …

There's Trump's Foreign Policy and Then There's His Administration's  —  WASHINGTON — In the last five days, President Trump has thanked Kim Jong-un of North Korea for his “nice letter,” reminisced about his “great meeting” with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and offered to meet Iran's president …

12 times Christopher Steele fed Trump-Russia allegations to FBI after the election  —  Congressional investigators know that Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier on behalf of the Clinton campaign, kept supplying allegations to the FBI after the 2016 election …

Air Force remains silent after huge meteor hits near US military base  —  A meteor hit the earth and exploded with 2.1 kilotons of force last month, but the US Air Force has made no mention of the event.  —  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed an object of unspecified size travelling …

Warren: Criminal justice system ‘racist’...'front to back'  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Potential Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren delivered what she called “the hard truth about our criminal justice system: It's racist ... I mean front to back.”

Under Trump's watch, the U.S. is on track for the highest trade deficit in 10 years  —  The United States trade deficit widened in June and is on track to be the biggest in a decade despite President Trump's efforts to slash it.  —  For the first half of 2018, the trade deficit in goods …

Kudlow: “Don't class warfare me” on trade  —  Listen To The Story  —  Marketplace  —  Larry Kudlow, who became President Trump's chief economic adviser in March, sits in an office on the second floor of the West Wing.  Kudlow is not a desk guy — he sits at a conference table with stacks …

Trump has built a pyramid scheme of public fraud.  It's a taxpayer-backed cash grab.  —  Donald Trump is pulling off a taxpayer-backed cash grab.  It's an orchestrated, unprecedented scheme to enrich a president, his family and his friends.  —  Even after warnings that tariffs would wreak havoc …

Melania's policy director leaves the White House  —  After just six months on the job, first lady Melania Trump's top policy aide has left the White House, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.  —  Reagan Hedlund, a 28-year-old former executive assistant at the National Security Council …

Assange in ‘solitary confinement’ at embassy, fears possible extradition to US, lawyer says  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's health is suffering, one of his lawyers says, in conditions she compared to “solitary confinement” in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Why Racism Begets More Racism  —  People are contorting themselves and their arguments in order to justify glib bigotry.  —  Dear Reader (Including those poor benighted souls who think hot dogs are sandwiches),  —  When I was a youngish teenager, I went to the bank one day.  (This was pre-ATM machines, kids.)

The tender, terrifying truth about what happened inside the Trader Joe's hostage siege  —  About halfway through the three-hour siege at Trader Joe's in Silver Lake, the wounded gunman, Gene Atkins, looked at one of his hostages, MaryLinda Moss, and told her it was all over for him.

DNC warns candidates: Don't use ZTE or Huawei phones  —  Democrats running in November's midterms were warned Friday not to use devices produced by Chinese manufacturers ZTE and Huawei.  The warning, which came from the Democratic National Committee, was sent out after the DNC learned …