Roger Stone indicted on charges brought by special counsel  —  (CNN)Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller, who alleges that the longtime Donald Trump associate sought stolen emails from WikiLeaks that could damage Trump's opponents …

Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled  —  Jared Kushner was rejected for a top secret clearance by 2 career security specialists, but their supervisor overruled them and approved him, say sources.  —  WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application …

Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion …

Zuckerberg Plans to Integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, plans to integrate the social network's messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger — asserting his control over the company's sprawling divisions …

Black Children Don't Have Nick Sandmann's Rights  —  And they definitely don't get the chance to redeem themselves on national TV with the help of Savannah Guthrie.  —  On Wednesday morning, I watched Savannah Guthrie help Nick Sandmann gaslight America into disbelieving its own eyes.

'Florida is Trump's state to lose'  —  The nation's biggest swing state looks even more like Trump Country heading into 2020.  —  Newly released Florida voter data suggest President Donald Trump will begin his reelection campaign as the favorite in a state that offers a windfall of 29 electoral votes.

Wilbur Ross says furloughed workers should take out a loan.  His agency's own credit union is charging nearly 9 percent  —  The Department of Commerce federal credit union is charging furloughed employees almost 9 percent interest on emergency loans to cover their missing paychecks …

If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were a conservative  —  If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) were a conservative, all anyone would be talking about is how uninformed she is.  She would be facing trick questions from reporters designed to expose her lack of knowledge, and brutal sketches on …

Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge  —  Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.

Mark Warner's Enablers  —  The Virginia senator gets too much respect for his Trump-Russia conspiracy theories.  —  Hand it to Sen. Mark Warner.  Of the many Russia-collusion theorists, how many get to claim “bipartisan” credentials?  —  That's one question that accompanied Thursday's supposedly big news …

A crisis of conservatism creates gridlock on both sides of the Atlantic  —  In the capital cities of the two great anglophone powers, public business has ground to a halt.  On one side of the Atlantic, federal workers are lining up to receive free food while the president holds the government to ransom.

School-Safety Panel Said to Pull Punches, Fearing ‘Racist’ Tag  —  For fear of being labeled racist, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos stopped short of linking the Parkland, Fla., school massacre to lenient Obama-era discipline policies aimed at reducing suspensions and arrests of minority students …

Backed by military, Venezuela's Maduro hits back at rival  —  Backed by Venezuela's military, President Nicolas Maduro went on the offensive against an opposition leader who declared himself interim president and his U.S. supporters, setting up a potentially explosive struggle for power in the crisis-plagued South American nation.