Morrison government bans Milo Yiannopoulos in wake of Christchurch massacre  —  The Morrison government has banned Milo Yiannopoulos from entering Australia after the controversial right-wing commentator responded to the New Zealand mosque massacre by describing Islam as a “barbaric” and “alien” religious culture.

Beto O'Rourke apologizes for jokes about wife, says he has benefited from ‘white privilege’  —  Cedar Rapids, Iowa (CNN)Beto O'Rourke said Friday night that he had been wrong for joking at several events in his first two days campaigning in Iowa that his wife has been raising their three children “sometimes with my help.”

Trump's Phone Friends May Be More Important Than His Staff.  So Who's He Calling?  —  Shortly after news broke this month that Bill Shine would resign as the White House communications director and deputy chief of staff, a person knowledgeable about his decision told me the former Fox News …

Judge Unseals Portions Of Christopher Steele's Deposition In Dossier Lawsuit  —  A federal court unsealed 43 pages Thursday of a deposition that former British spy Christopher Steele gave as part of a lawsuit over his infamous anti-Trump dossier.  —  To the disappointment of many observers …

Mueller's busy week offers new signs his report is coming soon  —  The Mueller probe appears to be in the home stretch.  —  Some Trump aides and advisers have been making that claim for more than a year, with little basis.  But the signs are mounting that it's finally happening.

No voter ID approval for 12 UNC campuses, including Chapel Hill  —  RALEIGH, N.C. — Student IDs from a dozen University of North Carolina schools, including UNC-Chapel Hill, didn't get the signoff they needed Friday for students to use them at the polls during the 2020 elections.

One year in, Facebook's big algorithm change has spurred an angry, Fox News-dominated — and very engaged!  — News Feed  —  It's been a little over a year since Facebook announced major algorithm changes that would decrease the amount of news in News Feed, instead prioritizing non-publisher content …

Supreme Court expands scope of census citizenship question case  —  The move comes after a federal judge in California ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose agency oversees the census, violated the Constitution's Enumeration Clause.  —  The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday …

Exclusive: Washington Autopsy Files Reveal Lesin Sustained Broken Bone In Neck  —  WASHINGTON — Mikhail Lesin, the former Russian press minister who turned up dead in a Washington hotel room in 2015, sustained a fracture to a neck bone just below the jaw line “at or near the time” of his death …

Twelve Righteous Republicans (and 41 Cowards)  —  Today's G.O.P. is burying Reagan's legacy faster than Elizabeth Warren ever could.  —  And Abraham said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.  And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.”

Castro releases 33 Texas endorsements the morning O'Rourke announces  —  AUSTIN (KXAN) — Presidential candidate and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro released a list of 33 Texas endorsements Thursday morning.  The timing is significant because it was the same …

The House voted 420 to 0 to release the Mueller report.  So why is Lindsey Graham blocking the bill?  —  On Thursday, the House passed a bill urging the public disclosure of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report.  It did so nearly unanimously — the vote was 420-0.

Attorney-General David Parker back-tracks on comments about gun control  —  Attorney-General David Parker has clarified comments made at a vigil in Auckland's Aotea Square this afternoon, saying the government has not yet committed to banning some or all semi-automatic weapons.

Why social media and terrorism make a perfect fit  —  The livestreamed slaughter of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has shined a spotlight on how terrorists employ social media.  As The Post noted on Friday: “The New Zealand massacre video, which appeared to have been recorded …

Lori Loughlin's Husband Is Apparently A Vocal Trump Supporter Who Frequently Complains About People Not ‘Carrying Their Own Weight’  —  The fallout of Operation Varsity Blues, as it's now being called, has been full of schadenfreude, to say the least.  Actress Lori Loughlin …

Trump sends the wrong message on New Zealand.  World leaders must denounce the attack.  —  THE UNSPEAKABLE carnage in New Zealand must be called out by its proper name: a terrorist attack by a white-nationalist bigot consumed by Islamophobia and impelled by the fervid extremism that suffuses the Internet's darkest crevices.

Black Editor Who Took Over Alabama Newspaper That Called for K.K.K. to ‘Ride Again’ Steps Down  —  When a white newspaper editor in Alabama drew widespread condemnation for an editorial that called for the Ku Klux Klan to ride again, only to be replaced by a black woman who hoped to take the newspaper …

Pelosi Is Wrong.  Trump Is More Impeachable Than Ever.  —  In 2018, in ‘To End a Presidency,’ the authors argued that four possible impeachable offense warranted investigation.  In a new epilogue to the paperback edition, they double down.  —  President Donald Trump has been accused …