As a Nation Mourns McCain, Trump Is Conspicuously Absent  —  WASHINGTON — As leaders of both political parties and foreign dignitaries publicly mourned John McCain on Sunday, President Trump conspicuously avoided a national moment of tribute to a senator whose death seemed to be its own metaphor …

APNewsBreak: Nation's top student loan official resigns  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The top government official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned Monday, citing what he says is the White House's open hostility toward protecting the nation's millions of student loan borrowers.

Mexican official says NAFTA talks with the US have ‘concluded,’ deal announcement coming  — Officials were in Washington trying to hammer out the details as the Trump administration pushes to remake the 1994 agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.  — There was some hope …

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance  —  A leftist journalist's bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.  —  Like a man in the first draft of a limerick, Tennys Sandgren is a tennis player from Tennessee.  Last winter, after scraping his way onto …

Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage  —  Millions of American children were placed in orphanages.  Some didn't make it out alive.  —  It was a late summer afternoon, Sally Dale recalled, when the boy was thrown through the fourth-floor window.

‘Sleeper’ case could torpedo Mueller report  —  It might even keep the special counsel from sending a report to Congress, shaking Democrats' hopes that such a document could provide the impetus for impeachment proceedings.  —  A little-noticed court case stemming from the apparent murder …

It Would Take Only a Single Senator  —  A few days ago I wrote a long item about changing assessments of Donald Trump: which first impressions had held up, and which had called for second thoughts over time.  —  The last part of the post concerned the main, and depressing, area where second thoughts were necessary.

Is Pam Bondi auditioning for Fox News while still working for Florida taxpayers?  —  Bondi sought ethics commission approval before spending three days co-hosting “The Five,” a news talk show.  —  Pam Bondi is still the attorney general of Florida, at least for another four months.

John McCain's Epiphany About Paul Manafort  —  A central feature of John McCain's biography was his capacity for change.  After he sullied himself in the Savings and Loan scandal of the late eighties, he self-consciously transformed into a warrior on behalf of the cause of political reform.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette no longer prints a daily newspaper  —  Saturday and Tuesday papers are a thing of the past now.  —  Pittsburgh is now the largest city in America without a daily newspaper.  —  After many iterations, Pittsburgh's last remaining daily, the 232-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette …

Hard Partying and a Corruption Scandal: Duncan Hunter's Political Life Unravels  —  SAN DIEGO — In Alpine, Calif., a suburban Southern California enclave, Duncan Hunter was a good neighbor.  He'd help people do yard work, or move heavy furniture.  He drove the same dented-up truck for years.

Republican Poll Shows Tight Race for Montana Senate  —  Republican Matt Rosendale led Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester by 2 points, within the margin of error, in a Republican poll of the race conducted this month.  —  Rosendale, the Montana auditor, was ahead, 47 percent to 45 percent …

Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell  —  Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell.  Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews …

Democrats fret Nelson is choking in Florida Senate race  —  Nelson's laid-back style and fundraising deficit have left Democrats concerned that Rick Scott will trounce him.  —  When Sen. Claire McCaskill began to choke in a Democratic Caucus lunch in June, Sen. Bill Nelson stepped in to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

Alan Dershowitz goes bonkers on Fox: ‘If they can target Trump, they can target you — they can target anyone’  —  Attorney Alan Dershowitz argued on Monday that all Americans are at risk of being targeted by special counsel Robert Mueller.  —  During an interview with Dershowitz on Fox & Friends …

Chuck Todd blames ‘conservative echo chamber’ for falling trust in media  —  NBC host Chuck Todd said Sunday that the “Roger Ailes-created echo chamber” created the environment that has led to the public believing the media is biased.  —  “The conservative echo chamber created that environment …

Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime.  Now He's a Target of Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump has threatened to take away the security clearance of Bruce G. Ohr, a career Justice Department official, he has described him as a “creep,” accused him of profiting off “disgraced” …

Vigano letter exposes the putsch against Pope Francis  —  Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's testimony proves one thing: The former Vatican ambassador to the United States is to the clergy sex abuse crisis what Oliver Stone is to the assassination of President John Kennedy …