'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 …

Judge orders full restart of DACA program  —  A D.C.-based federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restart in full the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  —  The decision is the latest legal blow against President Donald Trump's decision to phase out the Obama-era program …

Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  For the past month, Axios has been interviewing people who have been trusted with the nation's most sensitive secrets.  — The group includes seven former directors or deputy directors of the CIA, two former U.S. intelligence chiefs, a former Secretary of Homeland Security …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

The Newseum is selling ‘fake news’ shirts.  Journalists are not amused.  —  At the end of a week in which getting the White House to clarify whether it considers the news media “the enemy of the people” was a major story, Poynter made a revelation after visiting the Newseum's website.

Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor's Blessing  —  A vicious mob targeted the ICE office and even a food cart.  The police followed orders to do nothing.  —  Portland, Ore.  —  Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office …

Cory Booker: Things Are ‘Savagely Wrong’ In America  —  Democratic New Jersey Senator Cory Booker bashed America during the progressive Netroots Nation conference on Friday.  —  WATCH:  —  “I'm a big believer that if America, if this country hasn't broken your heart, then you don't love her enough,” Booker said.

Scaled-back Senate recess creates a ‘coalition of the cranky’ in Congress  —  Democratic Sen. Patty Murray knew exactly what she would miss the most because of the Republican leadership's decision to eliminate much of the previously sacrosanct tradition of August recess.

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 …

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 …

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.”

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.)

Ex-astronaut slams Trump's ‘space force’ proposal: Let's deal with our current ‘cyber war’  —  Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tore into President Trump  —  's “Space Force” proposal on Friday, saying the U.S. government should focus its efforts on “the cyber war” facing the country.

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 …

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 …