Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump  —  The former national security adviser provided information about interactions between the presidential transition team and Russian officials.  —  Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser who pleaded guilty …

The Latest: Wisconsin Senate limits governor's power  —  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on Wisconsin Republican lawmakers moving to limit the powers of the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general (all times local):  —  The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has passed …

Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: 'I Won't Be Here' When It Blows Up  —  The president thinks the balancing of the nation's books is going to, ultimately, be a future president's problem.  —  Since the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump's aides and advisers have tried to convince him of the importance of tackling the national debt.

George W. Bush's touching eulogy for George H.W. Bush, annotated  —  On Wednesday, the American people witnessed something historic: A president eulogizing his father, who was also a president.  —  It could have been any other son eulogizing his father, though, and it was moving.

Inside The North Carolina Republican Vote Machine: Cash, Pills — And Ballots  —  BLADENBORO, North Carolina — The allegations that Republicans tampered with absentee ballots in a close North Carolina election represent the most serious federal election tampering case in years …

Why We Miss the WASPs  —  Their more meritocratic, diverse and secular successors rule us neither as wisely nor as well.  —  The nostalgia flowing since the passing of George H.W. Bush has many wellsprings: admiration for the World War II generation and its dying breed of warrior-politicians …

Here's How Facebook's Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years  —  The Yellow Jackets movement is what happens when you point Facebook's traffic hose at France's small towns.  The question now is: How do you turn it off?

‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a new record high in 2018.  —  As nations assemble in Poland for climate talks, the figures suggest there is no clear end in sight to the growth of humanity's contribution to climate change.  —  Global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached …

Facebook Gave Some Companies Special Access to Users' Data, Documents Show  —  LONDON — Emails and other internal Facebook documents released by a British parliamentary committee on Wednesday show how the social media giant gave favored companies like Airbnb, Lyft and Netflix special access to users' data.

Deval Patrick bows out of 2020 presidential run  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is calling close allies and informing them he is not running for president in 2020, sources close to the governor tell POLITICO.  —  Patrick informed staff and advisers of his decision Tuesday …

“Everyone's for Sale”: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter  —  Vice, Vox, and BuzzFeed, among other companies that once heralded the dawn of a new media age, are now grappling with decidedly old-media problems.  —  It was around this time last year that things …

Rudy Giuliani Says Twitter Sabotaged His Tweet.  Actually, He Did It Himself.  —  To Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is one of President Trump's lawyers, it was an example of how low Twitter would stoop to carry out its anti-Trump agenda.  —  It was, decidedly, no such thing.

14 Trump and Russia Questions Robert Mueller Knows the Answers To  —  MICHAEL FLYNN'S SENTENCING memo, filed yesterday with the most intriguing and interesting parts redacted by special counsel Robert Mueller, provided yet another frustrating glimpse into an investigation that seems at times almost maddeningly opaque.

I'm a Democrat and a Feminist.  And I Support Betsy DeVos's Title IX Reforms.  —  There is an uncomfortable truth in the current system.  No one wants to talk about it.  —  Ms. Bazelon is the director of the criminal juvenile justice and the racial justice clinics at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

ESPN wants to make ‘SportsCenter’ great again  —  BRISTOL, Conn. — During a recent episode of “SportsCenter,” anchor Keith Olbermann was counting down a series of top plays when he arrived at a block by Duke star Zion Williamson.  “He puts a 21-49 down!”  Olbermann announced …

Some Republicans want to oust a Muslim doctor from his GOP leadership role — because he's Muslim  —  The first time Shahid Shafi ran for a seat on the city council in Southlake, Tex., in 2011, advisers assured him a Muslim in post-9/11 America who spoke with an accent and emigrated from Pakistan would never win an election in Texas.

‘My voice went unheard’: Official testifies N.J. Gov. Murphy campaign, administration ignored sexual assault allegation  —  TRENTON — An official in the Murphy administration described in harrowing terms Tuesday how high-ranking members of Gov. Murphy's campaign and staff, including the governor himself …

The Democrats' wild 2020 free-for-all  —  Democrats are about to hit the wildest turn we have seen in a presidential campaign.  —  The big picture: Dozens of people are thinking of running — and running early — in the rage-and-rapid-reaction era of Donald J. Trump.

Mourning Not Just George Bush's Death, but the World Order He Helped Build  —  WASHINGTON — On Sept. 16, 1991, Angela Merkel, then a young protégé of Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Germany, watched in the Oval Office as her boss and President George Bush wrestled with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union.