McGahn, White House Counsel, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry …

ICE arrested a man driving his pregnant wife to give birth.  She drove herself to the hospital.  —  Maria del Carmen Venegas was on her way to deliver a baby boy, her fifth child, by Caesarean section in a planned operation Wednesday afternoon.  Her husband, Joel Arrona-Lara, was driving her car to the hospital.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’  —  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he “fully admit[s]” Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.

The Slippery Slope of Complicity  —  When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)?  I think it's been more than a year.  At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism …

CBS News pollster reveals why ‘blue wave’ is unlikely  —  Anthony Salvanto was imprisoned in a windowless office on Nov. 8, 2016.  His phone was confiscated; guards escorted him to the bathroom.  And all he had to look at were numbers, numbers and more numbers.  —  It wasn't some sadistic punishment.

Trump caught weaponizing security clearances to kill bad news stories  —  Trump doesn't control the media from the inside — so he's taking a page from the modern authoritarian's playbook and trying to control it from the outside, instead.  —  After revoking the security clearance …

South Africa farm seizure: Terrified white farmers plot escape as crackdown looms  —  A RECORD number of white South African farmers have put their land up for sale amid fears the ruling party is considering confiscating properties bigger than 25,000 acres.  —  Tensions among the country's …

Sex Abuse Report Lists a Beloved Pastor, and a Pennsylvania Church Reels  —  The Rev. John David Crowley was once adored by his parishioners.  Then came the news that he was among the priests who abused more than 1,000 children.  —  Everything felt normal until the news alert popped up on Cindy Depretis's cellphone Tuesday afternoon.

'I'm not going there': As Trump hurls racial invective, most Republicans stay silent  —  The president of the United States had just lobbed another racially charged insult — this time calling his former top African American adviser a “dog” — but Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) had no interest in talking about it.

Pioneer of modern redistricting dies at 75  —  For more than four decades, when Republicans needed strategic advice drawing political boundaries, the party turned to a small cadre of expert cartographers, trained in the rare art of redistricting.  At the heart of that group was Tom Hofeller.