National Enquirer Had Decades of Trump Dirt.  He Wanted to Buy It All.  —  Federal investigators have provided ample evidence that President Trump was involved in deals to pay two women to keep them from speaking publicly before the 2016 election about affairs that they said they had with him.

Trump bashes CNN, NBC media executives  —  President Donald Trump lashed out Thursday morning at top media executives from NBC and CNN, continuing his tirade against media coverage that he considers unfair from outlets he has labeled “fake news.”  —  “The hatred and extreme bias of me by @CNN …

U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question  —  PHARR, Tex. — On paper, he's a devoted U.S. citizen.  —  His official American birth certificate shows he was delivered by a midwife in Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.

‘Winter is coming’: Allies fear Trump isn't prepared for gathering legal storm  —  President Trump's advisers and allies are increasingly worried that he has neither the staff nor the strategy to protect himself from a possible Democratic takeover of the House, which would empower …

How McCain Got the Last Word Against Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Not long after Senator John McCain learned last summer that he had terminal brain cancer, he began convening meetings every Friday in his Capitol Hill office with a group of trusted aides.  The subject was his funeral.

A Broken Relationship and Accusations of Emotional Abuse: The Case of Keith Ellison  —  MINNEAPOLIS — When Keith Ellison became the first Muslim elected to Congress in 2006, it made him an instant national star: a charismatic young black leader who was now a symbol of the Democratic Party's commitment to diversity and equal rights.

DeSantis Moderates Hate-Filled Facebook Group That Attacks African-Americans, Parkland Survivors and Muslims  —  UPDATE: Rep. Ron DeSantis has quit the Facebook group that trafficked in racist and offensive slurs, following American Ledger's reporting on Wednesday.  - 8:54 PM

Trump's team just took out one of the most dangerous terrorists since Bin Laden  —  Amid all the controversies and scandals from Washington dominating our news cycle, a major counterterrorism success by the United States last week did not get the attention it deserved: Government officials …

Trump personally lobbying GOP senators to flip on Sessions  —  Opposition to the attorney general's firing, long seen as a red line by lawmakers, has softened in recent days.  —  The willingness of Republican senators to turn on Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the result of a furious lobbying campaign …

Palin not invited to McCain's funeral: report  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has reportedly not been invited to attend funeral services for Sen. John McCain  —  (R-Ariz.), her onetime running mate.  —  NBC News reported Wednesday that Palin had not been invited.

Democrat vows to impeach Clarence Thomas if elected  —  A Democrat running for the U.S. House in Massachusetts has made an unusual political promise: Put me in Congress and I'll impeach Justice Clarence Thomas for sexual harassment and perjury.  —  State Sen. Barbara L'Italien said the promise …

Take Salena Zito Neither Seriously Nor Literally On Trump Voters  —  Is the populist whisperer of Trump Country full of crap?  —  You might not know who Salena Zito is off the top of your head, but you're almost certainly familiar with her work.  She writes in publications such as the New York Post …

Beto O'Rourke yard signs are everywhere.  Where are Ted Cruz's?  —  As O'Rourke's yard signs are popping up in neighborhoods around the state, frustrated Cruz supporters are having trouble finding ones promoting the current U.S. senator's re-election bid.  Until recently, that was by design, according to Cruz's camp.

Trump's Ludicrous Attack on Big Tech  —  The idea that Google and Twitter are rigging their platforms against him is patently false.  —  Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.  —  Here's the truest conundrum of the social media age: Those who complain loudest about being silenced never ever shut up.

New U.S. Sexual Misconduct Rules Bolster Rights of Accused, Protect Colleges  —  WASHINGTON — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is preparing new policies on campus sexual misconduct that would bolster the rights of students accused of assault, harassment or rape, lessen liability for institutions …

The Republican Party is now Trump's Corruption Party.  Here's how to fix the GOP and DC.  —  Trump and Republicans have a massive corruption problem.  Democrats must run on bold political reforms that really will drain the swamp.  Here are 3 to start.  —  CONNECT

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sought to cap 9/11 payouts to victims' families at $500G  —  Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh wanted to cap the amount victims of 9/11 and their family members could receive from the federal government at $500,000, records obtained by the Daily News show.

'Ain't nobody been locked up.  And they ain't trying to solve nothing.'  —  CHICAGO — Deangelo Norwood had been in the hospital for three days when the detectives appeared, asking questions about the man who had shot him in the stomach, chest and wrist.  —  “Is this the guy?” they asked, holding up a grainy photo.

Please be sensitive to our snowflake president's need for safe space  —  President Trump doesn't read his intelligence briefings.  He's too busy Googling himself.  On Tuesday morning, he tweeted: “Google search results for ‘Trump News’ shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake News Media.

Putin's Financial ‘Consigliere’ Is Trying to Make Elon Musk's Dream Come True  —  A sanctioned Russian fund managed to invest in Hyperloop.  And now, U.S. officials and lawmakers are taking a fresh look at the deal.  —  Between intermittent green wisps of shrubbery in the bare Nevada desert …

Google Calls BS on Trump's Claim It Blacklisted His 2017 and 2018 ‘State of the Union’ Speeches  —  On Wednesday, Donald Trump escalated his war with major U.S. tech companies he and other prominent conservatives have been baselessly accusing of censoring right-wingers.

Democrats Are Going To Get Trump's Tax Returns If They Win The House  —  “You're damn right,” one Democrat said.  —  If Democrats win control of the House in November they will finally have the votes to force an issue they've been hammering for nearly two years: Making President Donald Trump disclose his tax returns.

After weeks of uncertainty, Papadopoulos decides to accept plea deal with Mueller  —  George Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign, has decided to stick with his plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller, his wife told ABC News on Wednesday.

Why is CNN avoiding the truth about Lanny Davis' lies?  —  Last Thursday, we asked how long it would take before Lanny Davis again changed his story about what his client, Michael Cohen, knows about President Trump.  It turned out to be four days.  —  Meanwhile, CNN is standing by a story …

Chris Cuomo, who compared Antifa to WWII soldiers, says he never endorsed Antifa  —  According to Mediaite, CNN's Chris Cuomo got into a heated exchange Wednesday night with former President Donald Trump Hispanic Advisory Council member Steve Cortes about the president's remarks …

When it comes to Iran, will we ever learn?  —  The Administration's new policy toward Iran has zero chance to succeed in changing Iranian behavior or regime change.  The policy of maximum pressure and unachievable demands is based on deeply flawed assumptions about Iran and the wise use of American power.

‘The bicycle guy’ — Kenyan president forgets Boris Johnson's name  —  The president of Kenya appeared to forget Boris Johnson's name during a press conference with Theresa May on Thursday.  —  Asked about an agreement to allow stolen funds in Britain to be returned to Kenya to fund health …