Hyde-Smith Attended All-White ‘Seg Academy’ to Avoid Integration … JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that were set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals.

Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border  —  MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico's incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts …

Lean Out  —  Perhaps it's only fair that, as women like Sheryl Sandberg rise to power, they pay the price for failure.  But why is everyone so ready to forgive the man who really runs Facebook?  —  Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.  —  Suddenly, everyone wants Sheryl Sandberg to lean out.

Parents were ‘dismissed as racist’ by school officials when they complained about 6ft 1ins Iranian migrant posing as a 15-year-old who appeared in their children's classroom  —  A couple of weeks after the start of this term, pupils at Stoke High School in Ipswich were told that a new boy was joining their GCSE class.

Parliament seizes cache of Facebook internal papers  —  Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

Want Congress to look more like the people it serves?  Provide member housing, pay staff more  —  Sometimes a tumultuous election creates the elements in which both sides can come together to make some common-sense decisions that might seem unpopular.  —  Two of those possibilities …

The Website That Shows How a Free Press Can Die  —  BUDAPEST — Hungary's leading news website, Origo, had a juicy scoop: A top aide to the far-right prime minister, Viktor Orban, had used state money to pay for sizable but unexplained expenses during secret foreign trips.

Trump Claims He Already Shut Down The Border In Puzzling Exchange With Reporters  —  “Actually two days ago we closed the border.  We said nobody's coming in because it was out of control,” president insisted.  —  President Donald Trump insisted — twice — in an odd exchange with reporters Thursday …

The Democrats of Trump Country  —  How liberals in the reddest parts of America are starting to get their groove back.  —  I met Frank Nolen at Armstrong's Restaurant, an unassuming grill in Verona, Virginia, located in the Shenandoah Valley near the state's western border.  It was early September.

How Loneliness Is Tearing America Apart  —  When people have a hole in their life, they often fill it with angry politics.  —  Mr. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute.  —  America is suffering an epidemic of loneliness.  —  According to a recent large-scale survey …

Russia's national airline is revoking air miles from those who criticize its CEO  —  LIKE  —  Hello!  Find out this week why venting on Twitter about your delayed Aeroflot flight may not be such a good idea, and what this tells us about the country's national airline.

House results underscore that what's good for Trump isn't so good for the GOP  —  When President Trump won the White House in 2016, he did it by hijacking the Republican Party.  Now, after what happened in the midterm elections, it's clearer than ever that the president's fortunes and his party's future are at odds.

New York State's Lawsuit Against Trump Foundation Can Proceed, Judge Rules  —  A state judge ruled on Friday that a lawsuit by the New York State attorney general could proceed against President Trump and the Trump Foundation over allegations of misused charitable assets …

Olivia Hooker, 103, Dies; Witness to an Ugly Moment in History  —  Olivia Hooker, who after surviving a race-related attack on a black section of Tulsa, Okla., in 1921 went on to become the first black woman to enlist in the Coast Guard and a distinguished psychology professor at Fordham University …