Every Day Is a New Low in Trump's White House  —  The president steps over bright ethical and moral lines wherever he encounters them.  Everyone in America saw it when he fired my boss.  But I saw it firsthand time and time again. … On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, my first full day on the job …

Trump's DHS Guts Task Forces Protecting Elections From Foreign Meddling  —  “It's very curious why the leadership has not committed resources to prepare for the 2020 election,” one DHS official tells The Daily Beast.  —  Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference …

Mueller just caught a fourth Trump aide lying about contact with the Russians  —  This post has been updated.  —  We don't know whether special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has found evidence of collusion or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Trump Puts Best Face on Border Deal, as Aides Try to Assuage an Angry Right  —  WASHINGTON — In pursuit of a wall, President Trump ran into one.  A single-minded drive to force Congress to finance his signature campaign promise has left Mr. Trump right back where he started …

The three 2020 Democrats Trump's campaign is watching most closely  —  Donald Trump's political advisers are homing in on three declared Democratic candidates who they believe are the most viable at this early stage of the campaign.  —  The reelection campaign has begun compiling opposition research …

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Isn't Looking to Retire Yet, But Is Another Supreme Court Justice Ready to Go?  —  No one tells a Supreme Court Justice when to retire.  But there are currently two retirement dramas under way at the Court—one semi-public and the other semi-private …

Trump blows off congressionally mandated Yemen certification  —  A boy walks at the site of a Saudi-led airstrike in the Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, Yemen, Jan. 20, 2019.  —  The Donald Trump administration won't certify to Congress that the Saudi-led force fighting in Yemen is attempting …

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher John Robinson Block  —  After much careful consideration, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh has decided to release some of the eyewitness accounts of the incident involving Pittsburgh …

The Ocasio-Cortez Effect: Wave of Challenges Hits Entrenched N.Y. Democrats  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be just the beginning.  —  Less than eight months after Ms. Ocasio-Cortez stunned the political world by unseating a powerful Democratic congressman, her home state is emerging …

Daughter and son-in-law of AG nominee leaving the Justice Department  —  Washington (CNN)The Barr family business is breaking up.  —  As William Barr, President Donald Trump's attorney general nominee, awaits a Senate vote to confirm his move to the top of the Justice Department …

‘He was in his face’: Trump fumes over abortion, courts evangelicals  —  The night before last week's National Prayer Breakfast, President Donald Trump was hosting religious leaders and lawmakers for dinner at the White House when he spotted Democratic Senator Chris Coons — and pounced.

Mark Kelly's Senate campaign reports raising $1.1 million since announcing launch  —  Mark Kelly's campaign for Arizona's U.S. Senate seat in 2020 reported raising more than $1.1 million in individual contributions since announcing his candidacy Tuesday.  —  The retired astronaut …

Silicon Valley Index shows the misery and triumph of the world's tech capital … Living at the center of the tech universe?  Well, I have some good news and some bad news.  —  The good news is that Silicon Valley is thriving economically, generating new technology and good jobs.

Ryan Adams Dangled Success.  Women Say They Paid a Price.  —  Several women say Adams offered to jumpstart their music careers, then pursued them sexually and in some cases retaliated when they spurned him.  He denies the claims.  —  For nearly two decades, Ryan Adams …

‘Whistleblower’ seeks protection after sounding alarm over White House security clearances  —  Tricia Newbold says her supervisor “repeatedly mishandled security files and has approved unwarranted security clearances.”  —  Specialist in White House security clearance office suspended without pay

A remembrance of the victims from the Parkland shooting — as told by their classmates  —  BY STUDENTS OF MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD  —  Twelve months ago, 14 students and three adults were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland.  On Valentine's Day.

Kansas lawmakers sponsor bill calling same-sex marriages ‘parody’  —  The House chamber at the Statehouse in Topeka  —  A handful of Kansas lawmakers are backing a bill that labels same-sex marriages “parody marriages” and seeks to stop the state from recognizing them.

Worried Texas Republicans call for more national help in 2020  —  Texas Republicans have long coasted to re-election while ignoring their Democratic opponents.  Not anymore.  —  For 2020, GOP incumbents in what has historically been one of the most solidly red states in the union …

Trump Looks to Uproot Numbers-Only Bias Test Widely Used in U.S.  —  In what would be one of the Trump administration's most far-reaching moves regarding race relations, top White House officials are planning a sharp pullback from federal efforts to correct imbalances in outcomes for minorities in everything from housing to hiring.

Virginia Democratic Candidate Apologizes to Jewish Community for Past Statements  —  Coming on the heels of Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) anti-Semitic statements and subsequent apology, another Democratic politician was forced to apologize for vitriolic statements about Israel.

Jill Abramson Plagiarized My Writing.  So I Interviewed Her About It  —  When journalist Jake Malooley talked to the former New York Times executive editor, she admitted only to minor mistakes — but her responses were revealing  —  Last Wednesday, I was on assignment at a high school basketball game …

Nearly half of Republicans think God wanted Trump to be president  —  More than half of white evangelical Protestants agree  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders kicked up a bit of dust recently when she told the Christian television network CBN that she believed that God wanted Donald Trump to be president.

The Green New Deal Is What Realistic Environmental Policy Looks Like  —  In the 21st century, environmental policy is economic policy.  —  Mr. Britton-Purdy is the author, most recently, of “After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene.”  —  Everyone is lining up to endorse the Green New Deal — or to mock it.

Michael Avenatti accused of hiding millions of dollars from bankruptcy court  —  Michael Avenatti hid millions of dollars from the court overseeing his law firm's bankruptcy and used much of the money for personal compensation, a former partner alleges in new court records.

Has Trump wrecked our sex life?  “Post-Trump Sex Disorder” is real, says sex therapist  —  “Big Mean Sexy Daddy”?  Salon turns to Dr. Susan Block for answers to questions you didn't want to ask  —  Donald Trump has made America's mental health crisis much worse.

Poll: A Year After Parkland, Urgency For New Gun Restrictions Declines  —  One year after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the urgency for new gun restrictions has declined, but roughly half the country is concerned a mass shooting could happen …

Democrats hope for a nationalized Virginia election this fall  —  Richmond chaos could threaten state legislative takeover but big-picture trends still favor team blue  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The crisis in Richmond involving the state's top elected Democrats continues, and the ultimate resolution remains unclear.

How Parkland parents and lawmakers built relationships to help prevent school violence  —  Days after the Parkland shootings just over a year ago, Fred Guttenberg and Marco Rubio met for the first time on national television.  —  The Republican senator, who introduced pro-gun legislation …