Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word  —  President Trump says former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman lied when she called him a racist who has said the N-word on tape.  The president tweeted Monday night, “I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have.

Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as ‘Space Force’ wearing swastikas  —  on Monday shared a digitally altered image on Instagram of himself, President Trump  —  and several other people serving in or aligned with the administration wearing spacesuits with swastikas on them.

Tight Race in CD03  —  Low awareness of either candidate  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Republican Rep. Tom MacArthur faces a tough challenge from former national security adviser Andy Kim in the race for New Jersey's 3rd Congressional District, according to the Monmouth University Poll.

As Trump keeps raging at Mueller, another poll shows his lies are failing  —  Because so many of us got it wrong in 2016, we often tend to reflexively tell ourselves that President Trump must be working some kind of hidden magic over public opinion that we're all missing.

Fentanyl Used to Execute Nebraska Inmate, in a First for U.S.  —  LINCOLN, Neb. — Prison officials in Nebraska used fentanyl, the powerful opioid at the center of the nation's overdose epidemic, to help execute a convicted murderer on Tuesday.  The lethal injection at the Nebraska State Penitentiary …

How three conspiracy theorists took ‘Q’ and sparked Qanon  —  Pushing the theory on to bigger platforms proved to be the key to Qanon's spread — and the originators' financial gain.  —  In November 2017, a small-time YouTube video creator and two moderators of the 4chan website …

Commentary: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becomes the Sarah Palin of the Left  —  If you're one of the many American progressives cheering on the performance of your new political rock star, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look around: Many of the people cheering with you are Republicans.

Gonzales poll: Hogan leads Jealous by 16 points in Maryland governor's race  —  With less than three months until the general election, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan has a sizable lead over Democratic challenger Ben Jealousaccording to a new poll by Gonzales Research & Marketing Strategies.

Manafort attorneys opt to skip defense, proceed to closing arguments  —  Attorneys for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who is on trial for financial crimes in federal district court Alexandria, Virginia, will not call additional witnesses to present a defense.

Manafort Turned to Kushner in Attempt to Get Banker a Trump Job  — Stephen Calk sought U.S. Army secretary job, treasury post  — Email request surfaced at Manafort fraud trial on Monday  —  Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job …

Resistance Twitter Star Seth Abramson Wants to Turn His Threads Into a Book … Over the past two years, New Hampshire professor and writer Seth Abramson has cultivated a #resistance Twitter following of more than 500,000 by posting lengthy threads prognosticating about the direction …

Trump's Sabotage of Obamacare Is Illegal  —  A president doesn't have the right to dispense with laws he dislikes.  —  Mr. Bagley and Ms. Gluck are law professors.  —  From the moment he took office, President Trump has used all aspects of his executive power to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

Antifa protesters couldn't find any fascists at Unite the Right — and harassed the press instead  —  Antifascists, according to their own doctrine, fight fascism.  Sounds simple enough.  —  Granted, members of the loosely organized Antifa movement define “fascism” vaguely …

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on H.R. 5515  —  Today, I have signed into law H.R. 5515, “an Act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2019 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy …

Swedish PM to arsonists: ‘What the hell are you up to?’  —  Cars were set alight across Sweden overnight in what police believe was a coordinated attack orchestrated on social media.  —  About 80 cars were set on fire in western Sweden, in and around Gothenburg, and there were further incidents in Stockholm and Malmö.

Handler of alleged spy Butina tied to suspicious U.S.-Russia exchange program  —  Russian politician Alexander Torshin's meetings with American students, coupled with his role managing alleged covert Russian agent Mariia Butina, suggest he may be a more important Kremlin operative than previously known.

The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won  —  Facebook and Google made billions mining personal data, and fought off anyone who threatened to stop them.  Then came a challenge in their own backyard.  —  The way Alastair Mactaggart usually tells the story of his awakening …

Never Corbyn  —  An appeal for sanity.  —  Can a right-wing American writer help spark a resistance movement inside the U.K. Labour party?  Probably not.  But these aren't ordinary times.  There is a great danger looming inside Labour.  Its shadow extends from the British Isles across the West, including the United States.

Turkey Crisis Tests Putin's Powers in Global Game With U.S.  — Russia cautious amid divisions between U.S. and Turkey  — Erdogan warns U.S. he may seek new allies as Putin ties grow  —  Turkey's political conflict with the U.S. and the crisis engulfing its currency offer …

Introducing Factal from the founders of Breaking News  —  When BreakingNews.com and the Breaking News app were shut down at the end of 2016, we were inundated with email urging us to bring it back as a new company.  —  There were many personal stories from Breaking News users who were caught …

Agencies set ‘trap’ for immigrants seeking legal status, ACLU says  —  Two federal immigration agencies coordinated a campaign to bring unauthorized immigrants who were seeking legal residency in for interviews at government offices, where they were then arrested and in some cases deported, according to internal agency communications.

Trump's Purge of the FBI Is Complete  —  With the odd firing of Peter Strzok, the president has cleansed the bureau of the men who started the Russia investigation.  This is not normal.  —  The announcement Monday morning that former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok had been fired likely brings …

EXCLUSIVE: Iranians Posing As Anti-Immigrant Americans Online  — The Iranians are trying to defeat legislation that would eliminate the per-country cap on employment-based green cards, which would force them to wait behind Indian visa-holders, who were in line for green cards first.