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.

Support for FBI Veteran Pete Strzok  —  $25,031 of $150,000 goal Raised by 607 people in 3 hours  —  Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok  —  Peter Strzok, a man who has spent his entire life working to help keep us and our nation safe, has been fired.  He needs your help.

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 …

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 …

Judge denies motion to detain New Mexico compound suspects after hours-long hearing  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - State prosecutors' motion to detain five adults arrested after a raid in northern New Mexico earlier this month was denied by a judge on Monday.  —  Judge Sarah Backus made the determination …

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.”

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 …

Save Yourself, Mr. President  —  When it comes to overseeing the FBI and Justice, he's all tweet and no action.  —  Even a summer respite from Washington at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey couldn't keep Donald Trump off Twitter .  —  Over the weekend the president went on a tear …

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 …

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.

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.

Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers  —  In May, the Justice Department told Americans to reboot their routers.  But there's more to do — and NSA says it's up to device makers and the public.  —  LAS VEGAS — The Russian military is inside hundreds …

A growing number of California detainees are Indians crossing through Mexico to seek asylum  —  On a recent visit to the federal prison in Victorville, U.S. Rep. Mark Takano was caught by surprise.  Of the hundreds of immigrants detained there, he learned, possibly 40% had traveled from India seeking asylum.

TeleSUR English Removed From Facebook for the Second Time  —  This is the second time the teleSUR English page has been taken down by Facebook moderators.  —  teleSUR English's page has been removed from Facebook for the second time this year without any specific reason being provided.

More Than Half of Foreign Refugees Are on Taxpayer-Funded Food Stamps  —  More than half of the annual inflow of foreign refugees arriving in the United States are on food stamps, analysis of a government report reveals.  —  Since 2008, as Breitbart News reported, the U.S. has permanently resettled …

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 …

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 …

New Report Uncovers (Even More) Ethical Issues For Wilbur Ross  —  US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross addresses the Indo-Pacific Business Forum at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC, on July 30, 2018.  (Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP / Getty Images)  —  On May 18, 2017 Secretary …

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 …