Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …

House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify  —  The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money.  Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts.  —  The House intelligence community intends to call …

Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep  —  Trump hates to prepare and likes to negotiate from the gut.  The Hanoi humiliation with Kim Jong Un was the direct result.  —  Nothing about the Hanoi summit's outcome is a surprise.  The writing was on the wall, the president just refused to read it.

‘This is not a day at the beach’: Pelosi tells moderate Dems to stop voting with GOP  —  House Democrats held an emotional debate behind closed doors Thursday over how to stop losing embarrassing procedural battles with Republicans — a clash that exposed the divide between moderates and progressives.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicted on bribe and fraud charges  —  The indictment marks the first time in Israeli history that a sitting prime minister has been charged with a crime.  —  Israel's attorney general announced Thursday that his office had indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu …

Unrepentant Ilhan Omar suggests Jews who criticize her anti-Semitic statements are doing so because she's Muslim, revives dual-loyalty smear  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D.-Minn., who earlier this month was forced into a hostage tape style fake apology for anti-Semitic tweets, is unrepentant.

Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency  —  Senate Republicans are offering a choice to President Donald Trump: Withdraw your national emergency declaration at the border or face a potential rebellion from the GOP.  —  The message was delivered clearly on Thursday by Sen. Lamar Alexander …

Justice Thomas working behind the scenes to boost Trump's court nominee  —  Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is working behind the scenes to boost the prospects of his former law clerk, Neomi Rao, to serve on a powerful federal appeals court in Washington — speaking privately with at least …

Cuomo Speaks With Bezos, Furiously Trying to Win Back Amazon  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who was staggered by Amazon's decision to pull out of its plans to come to New York City, is furiously working behind …

The 2020 Electoral College: Our First Look  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — Our initial Electoral College ratings reflect a 2020 presidential election that starts as a Toss-up.  — We start with 248 electoral votes at least leaning Republican, 244 at least leaning Democratic, and 46 votes in the Toss-up category.

Why the Left Can't Stand The New York Times  —  Every morning that I'm not hungover, I wake up around 8am, because that is when my two cats start howling for breakfast.  I feed them, make coffee, and walk barefoot and unwashed (mug in hand) through my apartment building's common hallway to the front door …

Trump and GOP promised economic growth much better than Obama's.  That's not what happened  — Throughout the 2016 campaign and since, the president and his party have vowed to kick-start tepid Obama-era economic growth.  — New government data show that Trump, too …