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.

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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.”

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 …

Mueller Is Examining Roger Stone's Emails  —  Investigators are closing in on the longtime Trump adviser. … As special counsel Robert Mueller zeroes in on Roger Stone, prosecutors are looking into seemingly threatening emails the longtime Trump adviser sent to a former radio host, sources say.

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 …

Horrifying details released in investigation of ‘extremist Muslim’ compound that allegedly conducted school-shooting training  —  The children discovered at an “extremist Muslim” compound in New Mexico earlier this month were both trained to use firearms and taught multiple tactical techniques …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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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 …

I was at the sad white supremacists gathering.  It didn't fool me.  Their movement is rising.  —  Don't be fooled by the sad display of two dozen white supremacists in front of the White House.  Racists are on the rise in our country.  —  One year ago, I personally witnessed hundreds …

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.

Listening for Silence With the Headphones Off  —  After years of escaping into music, writer Mark Richardson finds out what it feels like to hear no sound at all.  —  Immersive portable audio—the ability to be out in the world while listening to your favorite music privately, on headphones—is a relatively new phenomenon.