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 …

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.

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?

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 …

‘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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Suspected MS-13 member broke into sleeping girl's bedroom, raped her: cops  —  A purported member of the MS-13 gang broke into the bedroom of a sleeping 11-year-old Brooklyn girl and raped her in her bed, cops said Saturday as the suspect was taken into custody.

As TV Seeks Diverse Writing Ranks, Rising Demand Meets Short Supply  —  Shows are scrambling to hire more minorities, but the pipeline of experienced writers is thin, a problem of the industry's own making.  —  Dailyn Rodriguez, a veteran writer and producer, said she wasn't necessarily looking …

How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank  —  Fed up with their high-pressure jobs, some millennials are quitting and embracing the FIRE movement.  (It stands for financial independence, retire early).  —  Carl Jensen experienced what he calls “the awakening” sometime around 2012.

Democrats Blowing Winnable Governor Races  —  By nominating progressives in battleground states, Democrats are improving the GOP's chances of winning consequential contests.  Just look to liberal Maryland as a textbook example.  —  DUNDALK, Md. — The crowd cheering on Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan …