President urged to stop tweeting on Trump Tower meeting  —  Did Trump Tower meeting violate this law?  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has been urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump's top advisers and several Russians, a source familiar with discussions tells CNN.

Rick Gates Testifies He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort  —  ALEXANDRIA, VA. — Rick Gates, Paul Manafort's right-hand man for years, began testifying against his former boss on Monday in federal court in Alexandria, Va. He is considered the most important witness in Mr. Manafort's trial on tax and bank fraud charges.

Mike Pence's moral case for removing a president from office  —  (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence once argued the president of the United States should be held to the highest moral standards to determine whether he should resign or be removed from office.  —  Pence made the argument in two columns …

Trump Inaccurately Claims California Is Wasting Water as Fires Burn  —  In his first remarks on the vast California wildfires that have killed at least seven people and forced thousands to flee, President Trump blamed the blazes on the state's environmental policies and inaccurately claimed …

It's Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters  —  There's a growing group of Trump supporters who are convinced that the president is secretly trying to save the world from a global pedophilia ring.  —  They call the conspiracy “QAnon” and last week its believers ended up on national television.

LeBron James to Create Showtime Doc Series Called Shut Up and Dribble  —  You'll recall, back in February, Laura Ingraham of Fox News calling on LeBron James to “shut up and dribble” — in other words, to stick to basketball and not opine on politics.  —  The new Los Angeles Lakers star has decided …

Jared Kushner Used To Personally Order The Deletion Of Stories At His Newspaper  —  Jared Kushner personally ordered a software developer at his newspaper to remove stories critical of his friends and real estate peers.  —  Now a senior White House adviser and son-in-law to President Trump …

Sikh Man Attacked, Told To ‘Go Back To Your Country’ In Stanislaus County  —  KEYES (CBS13) - A well-known member of the Stanislaus County community was brutally beaten while placing campaign signs, and police are investigating it as a hate crime.  —  It was Tuesday night in Keyes …

Why the Midterms Won't Be Won by Playing to the Base  —  Some people changed which party's nominee they voted for from 2012 to 2016.  They are key to who wins the House and Senate.  —  Mr. Olsen, the editor of the “Flyover Country” section at UnHerd.com, is the director and a co-founder of the Voter Study Group.

Trump's Border Wall Could Waste Billions of Dollars, Report Says  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration could potentially waste billions of dollars on a border wall because it failed to fully account for factors like varying terrain and land ownership along the Southwest border, according to a new report.

NYT Makes Up New Abbreviation For The State Of Maine  —  The New York Times ran a shoddy graphic on Monday that included two extinct postal abbreviations for Maine and Texas.  —  “These Women Could Shatter Glass Ceilings in Governor's Races,” a story about women running in governor's races across …

Gary Cohn Is Happy in the Hamptons, Golfing and Crypto Investing  — Trump's former economic adviser also looking at medical tech  — Working on his short game and a memoir of time in Washington  —  Gary Cohn may be the most famous unemployed person in the Hamptons thanks to his wife, Lisa Pevaroff-Cohn.

Joe Arpaio on Sacha Baron Cohen: I ‘Never Agreed’ to Blow Job From Trump … Former sheriff and current GOP Senate candidate Joe Arpaio apparently has no idea that he accepted the hypothetical offer of an “amazing blow job” from President Donald Trump on the latest episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America?

Trump Supreme Court pick: Presidents can ignore laws they think are unconstitutional  —  Kavanaugh reveals views on Mueller probe  —  (CNN)Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2013 asserted that it's a “traditional exercise” of presidential power to ignore laws the White House views as unconstitutional …

The Elites' War on the Deplorables  —  Recently, Politico reporter Marc Caputo was angered at rude hecklers at a Trump rally who booed beleaguered CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.  —  So Caputo tweeted of them, “If you put everyone's mouths together in this video, you'd get a full set of teeth.”

The Nation Betrays a Poet — and Itself  —  I was the magazine's poetry editor for 35 years.  Never once did we apologize for publishing a poem.  —  Ms. Schulman was poetry editor at The Nation from 1971 to 2006.  —  During the 35 years that I edited poetry for The Nation magazine …

Police: Stranger Jumps Out Of Restaurant Freezer, Attacks Kitchen Staff, Dies At Hospital  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Police say a man jumped out of a popular Upper West Side eatery's walk-in freezer, grabbed a knife and started attacking employees, then died later at a hospital on Sunday morning.

Enforcing Our Community Standards  —  We believe in giving people a voice, but we also want everyone using Facebook to feel safe.  It's why we have Community Standards and remove anything that violates them, including hate speech that attacks or dehumanizes others.

Mueller Secures ‘Firewall’ Counsel Over Evidence in Russia Case  —  The U.S. judge overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's criminal case against Russians accused of interfering in the 2016 election agreed to appoint an independent lawyer to review pretrial evidence for possible national security issues …

Moms arrested after 11 children found in ‘filthy’ New Mexico compound with armed Muslim ‘extremists,’ cops say  —  The three mothers of the 11 malnourished children found living in a filthy New Mexico compound were arrested and charged Sunday along with two men described as armed Muslim …

‘Manhattan Madam’ Kristin Davis set to testify before Mueller grand jury this week  —  Last week an investigator on Mueller's team questioned Kristin Davis, an associate of former Trump adviser Roger Stone, about Russian collusion.  —  Kristin Davis, the “Manhattan Madam” …

New York race could spark new Trump investigation  —  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — While special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of  —  Russia's interference in the 2016 election could pose the most immediate threat to Donald Trump's presidency, there's another looming threat on the horizon.

Trump Backs Kris Kobach in Kansas Race, Against Republican Advice  —  President Trump turned aside the advice of party officials and intervened in the Kansas Republican primary for governor Monday, throwing his support behind the polarizing secretary of state, Kris Kobach, one day before voters go to the polls there.

Amusing ourselves to Trump  —  We are buried under ignorance disguised as information.  —  In his classic 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman wrote of the difference between George Orwell's and Aldous Huxley's visions of fascism.  —  “Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information,” wrote Postman.

Betsy DeVos's summer home deserves a special place in McMansion Hell  —  Kate Wagner dissects the shingle-style Michigan summer home of the education secretary.  —  Two weeks ago, somebody untied Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's $40 million yacht from its mooring.

Ruth Wilson's Character, One of the Principals of “The Affair,” Killed Off — Actress Complained About Pay Parity  —  Ruth Wilson's character, Alison, was killed off in a major surprise last night on Showtime's “The Affair.”  The show was recently renewed for a fifth and final season next year.