SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers  —  There's something about New York's endless supply of authentic eateries that transforms aspiring politicians into weird aliens who've never before encountered the concept of food: Back in the 1970s …

Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump's ‘Lies’  —  In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump's distortion of the Russia story.  —  With Bob Woodward's new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead …

Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will threaten to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court if it pursues an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, opening a harsh new attack on an old nemesis of many on the political right.

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was paid to pursue access to Vladimir Putin for TV show  —  Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and was even paid …

State of The 2018 House Race  —  Dems do better in Dem precincts than GOP in GOP precincts;  —  Race, gender and education divide core support from persuadable voters  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The Monmouth University Poll finds the race for control of the House of Representatives to be tight …

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?  —  The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.  —  At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …

The Last 2018 Primary Briefing: New Hampshire, Rhode Island And New York  —  All good things must come to an end.  After six months, 19 election days and seven live blogs, it's time to say goodbye to primary season.  But before you grieve, a parting gift: three consecutive nights of electiony goodness.

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …

Evacuations ordered for SC coast as Hurricane Florence nears, effective Tuesday  —  COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster will order evacuations along South Carolina's entire 187-mile coastline border starting at noon Tuesday, saying residents and tourists must get out of Hurricane Florence's …

Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’  —  On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.

A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them  —  Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …

Inside the making of Ben Folds's ‘Mister Peepers’  —  The Washington Post Magazine asked Ben Folds to write a song about anything.  He chose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  Subscribe to The Washington Pos...

Who Will Replace Chris Collins, the Indicted Congressman, on the Ballot?  Perhaps No One  —  After Representative Chris Collins was indicted last month, the Republican from western New York seemed to leave no doubt about his immediate political future: There was none.

What Serena Got Wrong  —  Just because the guys might be able to get away with it doesn't mean it's acceptable.  —  Ms. Navratilova is a broadcaster, former tennis champion and human rights activist.  —  Serena Williams has part of it right.  There is a huge double standard for women …

New Texts Reveal FBI Leaked Information to the Press to Damage Trump  —  Rep. Meadows sent a letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein saying a “review of the new documents raises greave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations”

Veteran Broadway actress asks: 'Where's John Wilkes Booth when you need him?'  —  Veteran Broadway actress Carole Cook referenced Abraham Lincoln's assassin while responding to a question about President Trump  —  , asking: “Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?”  —  “Now will that get me in trouble?”

Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’  —  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line  —  The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream …

CNN Poll: Trump approval down 6 points in a month, hits low among independents  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen 6 points in the last month and stands at a new low among political independents, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted  —  BROOKLYN—"Right now, I don't want to talk about it," Jerry Nadler told his curious, concerned constituent.  “We don't want to talk about it.”  —  The man positioned to lead the House of Representatives' impeachment effort …

‘Tone deaf’ Playboy Club opens in New York, defying the #MeToo era  —  Club to open more than 30 years after Hefner declared Bunnies ‘a symbol of the past’ and 32 years after the city's original closed  —  A Playboy Club, replete with “alluring Playboy Bunny hostesses” and a …

Allegations of racism at Orange County high school football game underscore broader tension in the Trump era  —  The fallout over allegations of racism at a recent Orange County high school football game erupted on social media over the weekend, reflecting the broader tension gripping the country in the Trump era.

‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans  —  Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere.  —  GREEN BAY, Wisc.  — There's every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker.  —  His presidential bid crashed and burned.

Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds  —  (CNN)Rep. Mia Love's campaign has informed the Federal Election Commission that it will refund or redesignate less than half of what the government says was more than a million dollars improperly raised for a primary …

Meet America's Preeminent Right-Wing Guerrilla Street Artist  —  Street artist Sabo may just be ‘some guy who lives in some dump,’ but he is taking on and taking down the likes of Jimmy Kimmel and Meryl Streep  —  It's not much to look at from the outside, a dingy apartment building …

Rogue billionaires are giving the GOP and Democrats a migraine  —  Republican Richard Uihlein and Democrat Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the 2018 campaign.  And their political parties are irritated about it.  —  The two billionaires have backed candidates and causes …