Spokesman for GOP on Kavanaugh nomination resigns; has been accused of harassment in the past  —  An adviser for the Senate Judiciary Committee has resigned amid questions from NBC News about a previous sexual harassment complaint.  —  WASHINGTON — A press adviser helping lead …

Former top White House official revises statement to special counsel about Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador  —  A former top White House official has revised her statement to investigators about a key event in the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, after her initial claim …

White House Drafts Order to Look Into Google, Facebook  —  (Bloomberg) — The White House has drafted an executive order for President Donald Trump's signature that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open probes into the practices of Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc., and other social media companies.

Former Trump Aide Jason Miller Accused of Secretly Administering Abortion Pill  —  Former Donald Trump aide Jason Miller has been accused of secretly administering an “abortion pill” to a woman he got pregnant during an affair, new court documents show.  —  The court filing …

These six — yes, six — siblings of a Republican congressman just endorsed his opponent  —  Families are complicated, their private tensions and political disagreements often kept under wraps.  —  That's not the case with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), whose opponent in the midterm election just got a boost from Gosar's siblings.

Smears of Robert Mueller are baseless  —  Dershowitz and Toobin discuss Mueller investigation  —  Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and was President Barack Obama's “ethics czar” from 2009 to 2011.  He is the author of “The Last Palace.”

China cancels trade talks with U.S. as new Trump tariffs loom  —  China has scrapped trade talks with the United States days before President Trump is set to escalate the commercial battle with a new round of tariffs, according to a person familiar with the discussion.

Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke clash over immigration, Trump, guns during intense debate  —  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke held a feisty debate Friday evening at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. … DALLAS — U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of El Paso …

Collins ad attacks - and distorts - McMurray's Korean ties  —  Not many congressional candidates speak Korean, much less post a video to their campaign Facebook page in one of Asia's most difficult languages.  And even fewer candidates do that when they're trying to win an election …

Clinton would beat Trump in landslide in 2016 re-run, says Hill.TV poll  —  would lose the popular vote again if the 2016 presidential election were held again today, according to a new Hill.TV poll.  —  The survey conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company found that 36 percent …

SF's new HIV cases hit record low, but disparities widening among groups  —  Aggressive efforts to end transmission of HIV are paying off in San Francisco, where public health officials are reporting record-low new cases, and the city is far outpacing national trends that show much narrower declines.