EXCLUSIVE: Yorktown Elitist and Bronx Hoaxer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Went by “Sandy” Well into College at Boston U (VIDEO)  —  Congresswoman and Democrat-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez grew up and attended school in affluent Westchester, New York but likes to pretend like she grew up in the Bronx.

Ginsburg missing Supreme Court arguments for 1st time  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month.  —  Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Monday …

WikiLeaks tells reporters 140 things not to say about Julian Assange  —  LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different “false and defamatory” statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.

A $20,243 bike crash: Zuckerberg hospital's aggressive tactics leave patients with big bills  —  I spent a year writing about ER bills.  Zuckerberg San Francisco General has the most surprising billing practices I've seen.  —  On April 3, Nina Dang, 24, found herself in a position …

Biden Sees Himself as Democrats' Best Hope in 2020, Allies Say  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is in the final stages of deciding whether to run for president and has told allies he is skeptical the other Democrats eyeing the White House can defeat President Trump …

US, Turkey set for negotiations on fate of Kurds  —  U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton is set to press Turkey for assurances that it won't attack the Kurdish fighters in Syria, which he said is now a condition for the withdrawal of American troops from northeastern Syria.

Posing as Prohibitionists, 2nd Effort Used Online Fakery in Alabama Race  —  The “Dry Alabama” Facebook page, illustrated with stark images of car wrecks and videos of families ruined by drink, had a blunt message: Alcohol is the devil's work, and the state should ban it entirely.

When Mueller Issues a Report, Trump May Try to Suppress Some of It  — White House options include assertion of executive privilege  — Democrats in Congress will demand public airing of the report  —  The White House may try to block portions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report …

What Romney Exposed About Late-Stage Trumpism  —  For some reason, Trump supporters get angry when critics discuss the president's character.  —  Last week's op-ed from Mitt Romney was interesting not just for what it was, but for what the response to it revealed.

The High Line Has Become a Tunnel Through Glass Towers  —  The High Line was an epiphany when it opened in 2009, a moment suspended between neglect and possibility.  The strips of curated wilderness, the medieval-looking iron railings, the disorienting views, the way the viaduct ducked beneath buildings …

Trump campaign moves to stave off mayhem at 2020 convention  —  President Donald Trump is tightening his iron grip on the Republican Party, launching an elaborate effort to stamp out any vestiges of GOP opposition that might embarrass him at the 2020 Republican convention.

Trump the Vulnerable  —  A close look at the 2018 midterm results shows why he is so weak.  —  Now that a new Congress has taken office, the vote count from the 2018 midterms is all but final.  It shows that Democrats won the national popular vote in the House races by almost nine percentage points.

As shutdown drags on, Trump officials make new demands, seek novel ways to cope with its impacts  —  Trump administration officials began taking extraordinary steps to contain the fallout from the partial federal government shutdown Sunday, as the budget impasse between the president …

Saudi Arabia's trial for Khashoggi's murder is a travesty.  Congress must insist on justice.  —  IT MIGHT not have been a coincidence that as the new Congress convened Thursday, Saudi Arabia announced the opening of a trial of 11 people charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

House Democrats prepare fusillade of Trump investigations  —  Democrats want to investigate the Trump Hotel deal and President Donald Trump's taxes.  They want to haul up conflicted Cabinet officials and dig into controversial changes to the census and food stamps.

‘I been eatin like a boss’: Federal prisoners served steak by unpaid guards during shutdown  —  With the federal government shutdown solidly into its third week, there is no shortage of hypocritical or ironic or just plain sad moments to further enrage apoplectic taxpayers:

Is there a way to break Trump's will?  One Democrat has an idea.  —  President Trump would almost certainly not be able to continue shutting down the government over his megalomaniacal border wall obsession if it weren't for Mitch McConnell.  The Senate majority leader is refusing a Senate vote …

Power Up: Trump's political ‘crisis’ over border wall may soon turn into a real one  —  Welcome back, Power Up Family — Happy 2019!  I love goal setting and sharing to kick off the new year so . . . this year, I'm working on creating a better sense of community among my friends …

Trump Was Never a Great Dealmaker.  The Shutdown Proves It  —  The president loves the idea of a border wall.  Now he's cornered.  —  SHARE THIS ARTICLE  —  Share  —  Tweet  —  Post  —  Email  —  “Deals are my art form.  Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry.

When Your Daughter Defies Biology  —  The burden of mothers whose children suffer from ‘rapid onset gender dysphoria.’  —  A reader contacted me under a pseudonym a few months ago.  She turned out to be a prominent Southern lawyer with a problem she hoped I'd write about.

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson Reins In Predecessor's Ambitions: 'I'm Not Howard'  —  Starbucks founder Howard Schultz had a vision of 1,000 new Reserve cafes selling premium-priced coffee; the new CEO says that was ‘an aspiration’  —  Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Kevin Johnson is scaling …

Jittery Wall Street has a lot ahead to be nervous about  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Welcome to the brave new world of investing, where every day in the stock market can feel like bedlam.  —  Investors have been careening from fear to relief and back again as they react to morsels of news …

Artificial intelligence tool used to catch people who lie to the police  —  British scientists have developed a new computer programme that can spot if someone has lied to police about being robbed.  —  The groundbreaking software analyses the wording of a victim's statement in order to identify tell tale signs of fake reports.