White House: It's in ‘Public Interest’ for Staff to Skirt Ethics Rules to Meet With Fox News … It is “in the public interest” for a pair of senior White House officials to be excused from federal ethics laws so they can meet with Fox News, according to President Donald Trump's top lawyer.

FBI agent Peter Strzok fired over anti-Trump texts  —  The FBI has fired Agent Peter Strzok, who helped lead the bureau's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election until officials discovered he had been sending anti-Trump texts.  —  Aitan Goelman, Strzok's lawyer …

Trump's diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, ‘Nambia’ and ‘Nipple’  —  The president has often perplexed foreign officials and his own aides as he learns how to deal with the world beyond America's borders.  —  Several times in the first year of his administration, President Donald Trump wanted …

Rapper Azealia Banks claims she was at Elon Musk's house over the weekend as he was ‘scrounging for investors’  — Rapper Azealia Banks claimed that she spent the weekend at Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk's house, setting social media ablaze.  — Banks told Business Insider she saw Musk at home …

There's a big tell in Trump's latest defense of Donald Jr.  —  President Trump has spent the past year and a half emphatically declaring that there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Russia, adamantly and angrily insisting that any suggestion to the contrary is nothing but a “hoax.”

President Trump visits upstate New York … GO DEEPER  —  CONTENT BY LENDINGTREE  —  How To Pay Off Your House ASAP (It's So Simple)  —  Need $50k for a renovation?  Try a cash-out refi  —  Forget your 401k if you own a home (Do This)  —  Reverse mortgages: Worth the risk?

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite.  I Know Because I'm His Uncle.  —  Let me tell you a story about Stephen Miller and chain migration.  —  It begins at the turn of the 20th century, in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl of subsistence farmers in what is now Belarus.

3 missing men at the Manafort trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — As the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman resumes today, it appears prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office have decided not to call three seemingly key figures.  The absence of these witnesses offers …

The Witch Hunt Continues  —  One of Stone's Rules is “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.”  Even I may have taken exception to that rule last Friday.  —  If you followed the news last Friday, you know that my longtime friend Kristin Davis testified …

Billionaire Steyer Adding $10 Million to Trump Impeachment Drive  — Steyer has already pledged to spend $110 million on election  — His groups target voters who have skipped midterm voting  —  Billionaire Tom Steyer plans to spend an additional $10 million on helping Democrats …

I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs  —  Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my kids.  Last weekend I can say, with some confidence, that I succeeded.  —  The weekend started on Rhodes, the Mediterranean island …

What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?  —  The case seems like a familiar story turned on its head: Avital Ronell, a world-renowned female professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University, was found responsible for sexually harassing a male former graduate student, Nimrod Reitman.

AP Exclusive: Google tracks your movements, like it or not  —  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to.  —  An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices …

Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in Gallup's measurement over the past decade, Democrats have a more positive image of socialism than they do of capitalism.  Attitudes toward socialism among Democrats have not changed materially since 2010 …

Kushner's Ties to Russia-Linked Group Began With Kissinger Lunch  — Trump son-in-law met Center for National Interest in March '16  — Alleged Russian agent Butina used center to set up meetings  —  In March 2016, as the U.S. foreign policy establishment shunned presidential candidate Donald Trump …

Jeremy Corbyn admits being present at wreath-laying for Munich terrorists but says 'I don't think I was actually involved in it'  —  Labour leader confirms he attended ceremony where ‘wreath was laid’ for attackers who murdered 11 Israeli athletes  —  POPULAR VIDEOS

In 2014, political spending at Trump properties was $35K.  In 2018, it's $3.5M  —  BEDMINSTER, N.J.  —  At least 125 Republican campaigns and conservative political groups spent more than $3.5 million at President Donald Trump's resorts, hotels and restaurants since January 2017 …

Keith Ellison denies allegations he abused ex-girlfriend  —  (CNN)Rep. Keith Ellison is denying allegations made public on Saturday that he physically abused an ex-girlfriend.  —  The allegations were detailed in a Facebook post by Austin Monahan, the son of Ellison's former girlfriend Karen Monahan.

An Old OLC Opinion on Whether the President Can Be Subpoenaed  —  Over the weekend, I received a surprising email from my friend Stephen Bates, a professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who occasionally writes for Lawfare.