Rep. Chris Collins, fighting prosecution, seeks to end reelection bid  —  Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), who was charged this week as part of an insider trading scheme, is suspending his re-election campaign and will attempt to remove his name from the ballot.

Email indicates Florida House candidate may have staged college degree deception  —  Miami University says Melissa Howard never graduated, despite her posting images of a diploma.  —  Facing accusations that she lied about having a degree from Miami University in Ohio …

Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama's Advice on Trump  —  CLEAR LAKE, Iowa — Michael Avenatti, fresh off his declaration that he may run for president in 2020, used his first big speech as a prospective candidate to call on the Democratic Party to reject Michelle Obama's …

An Airline Employee Stole A Plane From Seattle Airport And Was Chased By Fighter Jets Before Crashing  —  “I'm just a broken guy.  I've got a few screws loose I guess, I never really knew it until now,” the rogue pilot said to air traffic control.  —  An airline employee stole a plane …

We like to mock Trump, but Britain's Russia stance is even worse  —  When it comes to evidence of Russian intervention in the 2016 referendum, Theresa May is unaccountably relaxed  —  There are not many laughs to be had from international diplomacy, but US foreign policy in the age …

Are you still sure there's no need to worry?  —  “Don't worry, the institutions will stop him.”  Or: “Don't worry, he hasn't done any real damage yet, the institutions have stopped him.”  How many times have you heard some version of this analysis since the election of President Trump?

Trump pivots to border wall, China and ‘Manafort this, Manafort that’  —  The president's trip to his Bedminster, N.J., country club was set up as a ‘working vacation’ ahead of the fall campaign season.  —  President Donald Trump has spent his week at his Bedminster retreat fine-tuning …

Of Course There Is Such a Thing as a ‘Perjury Trap’  —  And it's a legitimate reason for President Trump to decline to be interviewed.  —  Studies will someday be done on the deleterious effect Donald Trump has had on the brains of people who loathe him.  It drives them to say things …

Twitter admits InfoWars violated its rules, but says it will remain on the platform  —  Twitter said Friday that the accounts belonging to far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his fringe media organization InfoWars would, for now, remain online, one day after a CNN investigation found …

GOP corruption scandals may help Democratic candidates, but it's not clear how much  — President Trump and GOP candidates face a plethora of ethical and corruption scandals leading up to the midterms.  — As long as that list is, something larger dominates this election season, too: Trump's uniquely polarizing governing style.

Trump tariffs have forced us into bankruptcy and liquidation, says PC case maker CaseLabs  —  'Our user community has been very devoted to us and it's awful to think that we have let any of you down'  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  A high-end PC case maker says it has been “forced into bankruptcy and liquidation” …

Woman killed by neighborhood dogs  —  Montgomery County Sheriff Chris Watkins released this statement Friday, August 10.  —  a resident of a Lake Tillery development on the western side of Montgomery County went missing while taking her daily walk.  After several hours the 66 year old female did not return home.

A Lifelong Political Scrapper, Roger Stone Is Fighting for His Own Legal Future  —  As a flamboyant veteran of Washington and New York City politics, the campaign strategist Roger J. Stone Jr. has been in any number of knock-'em-down scrapes over the years, reaching back four decades …

‘So, So Jaded’: The Campaign to Stop Brett Kavanaugh Struggles for Liftoff  —  PORTLAND, Maine — The two dozen or so liberal activists who had gathered in a darkened cafe on an unusually sticky evening recently were wrestling with a familiar challenge: how to persuade Susan Collins, Maine's moderate Republican senator, to vote no.

Containers of Hurricane Donations Found Rotting in Puerto Rico Parking Lot  —  SAN JUAN, P.R. — At least 10 trailers full of food, water and baby supplies donated for victims of Hurricane Maria were left to rot at a state elections office in Puerto Rico, where they broke open and became infested by rats.

Omarosa's New Book Claims Trump Wanted To Be Sworn In With ‘Art of the Deal’ … Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House staffer and contestant on “The Apprentice,” claims in a new book set to be released on Tuesday that President Trump had an unprecedented idea for his inauguration.

Trump calls for unity on anniversary of Charlottesville rally  —  President Donald Trump on Saturday called for the nation to “come together” ahead of the one-year anniversary of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.  —  “The riots in Charlottesville a year ago resulted …

Republicans Are Caught in a Trump Bind as the Midterms Approach  —  Congressional Republicans are whistling to keep their spirits up.  After Tuesday's special election in Ohio's Twelfth Congressional District, where the Democrat, Danny O'Connor, came very close to carrying an area …

Trump's Economy Might Not Be Enough to Save the House  —  With the November congressional elections only 87 days away, Donald Trump has added to his revolutionary use of tweets what might prove to be an outdated reliance on two old-fashioned electoral winners to pull Republican candidates …