Texas against Ted Cruz  —  $9,760 of $6,000 goal Raised by 482 people in 1 day  —  President Donald Trump will be campaigning to help Sen. Ted Cruz win his re-election.  A rally is being planned, according to Trump “at the biggest stadium in Texas.”  We are planning to display …

Paul Manafort's daughter gets a new name … Paul Manafort's daughter is ditching the family name.  —  Jessica Manafort, 36, filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court late Friday to change her now-infamous surname to Bond, Jess Bond.  —  “I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond …

Abbas says Kushner explored forming a Palestinian-Jordanian confederacy  —  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Israeli legislators who met him today in his office in Ramallah that President Trump's senior adviser Jared Kushner and U.S. special envoy Jason Greenblatt asked …

Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims  —  Omarosa taped nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House, including ones with “all of the Trumps,” a source who watched her make many of the tapes tells Axios.  Omarosa did this with a personal phone, almost always on record mode.

Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans keep control of U.S. House  —  The donation went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It's the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee …

Ethnicity not a factor in Elizabeth Warren's rise in law  —  CAMBRIDGE — The 60-plus Harvard Law School professors who filed into an auditorium-style room on the first floor of Pound Hall on that February 1993 afternoon had a significant question to answer: Should they offer a job to Elizabeth Warren?

Wife of Former N.R.A. President Tapped Accused Russian Agent in Pursuit of Jet Fuel Payday  —  WASHINGTON — For the young Russian gun rights activist studying in the United States, it would have been an unimaginably rich payday: $1 million to help broker the sale of Russian jet fuel to an American middleman.

‘Time for This War in Afghanistan to End,’ Says Departing U.S. Commander  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Col. John W. Nicholson Jr. survived by chance.  That morning, as dozens of his colleagues were killed …

Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father's Image  —  WASHINGTON — As Meghan McCain delivered a eulogy for her father on Saturday, she was at times too grief-stricken to catch her breath.  As she described his sickness from brain cancer or his love for her, she struggled to look up at a crowd full …

Obama readies fall campaign push, but some Dems say no thanks  —  Former President Obama is set to dive into the midterm elections next week with a speech in Illinois where he is expected to urge Democrats across the country to vote — addressing a problem that plagued the party in 2016.

A Coveted Lawyer's Juggling Act May Be Good, and Bad, for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — It was a typically hectic day for William A. Burck as he juggled the demands of managing one of Washington's premier white-collar law firms while he was in Paris for meetings on behalf of a corporate client facing corruption charges.

Excerpt: ‘Monica’ From Ken Starr's Forthcoming Memoir ‘Contempt’  —  The excerpt follows some background information provided by NPR.  —  The series of investigations that eventually led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton began in a New York Times story that questioned some of his business dealings back in Arkansas.

Mollie Tibbetts's Father Asks That Her Death Not Be Exploited to Promote Racism  —  The father of Mollie Tibbetts, an Iowa college student whose body was found last month, has called on others to not “callously distort and corrupt” her death to promote a political agenda …

Is obscure GOP consultant Sam Patten the missing link in the Trump-Russia probe?  |  Will Bunch  —  If you're a certain kind of political junkie — the kind, say, who religiously watches MSNBC's Rachel Maddow every night at 9 and then tweets the highlights with your “Not My President” …

Man charged in fatal motorcycle crash in Raleigh  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Raleigh police have arrested a man following a fatal motorcycle crash on New Hope Church Road.  Neri Damian Cruz-Carmona, 26, has been charged with felony hit and run causing serious injury/death.

President Trump's Description of What's ‘Fake’ Is Expanding  —  President Trump was bombarded with negative news cycles last month, so he turned to Twitter, venting frustrations and dismissing an increasingly wide variety of things he doesn't like as “fake” or “phony.”

Teen from New Mexico compound says he was trained for jihad: FBI  —  TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) - A 13-year-old boy who was part of group taken into custody at a squalid New Mexico compound last month has told FBI agents his mother's boyfriend was training him to conduct “jihad” against non-believers, according to federal court documents.