Trump is removing US Secret Service director  —  (CNN)United States Secret Service director Randolph “Tex” Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN.  —  President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles.

Chinese Woman Arrested at Mar-a-Lago Had a Hidden Camera Detector, Prosecutors Say  —  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump's private club had a device used to detect hidden cameras and a large amount of cash in her Palm Beach hotel room …

Privileged  —  PHOTO BYMELISSA MAJCHRZAK/NBAE/GETTY IMAGES  —  W  —  hen the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.  —  When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in.

Trump administration moves to undercut MLB's deal with Cuba  —  The administration is moving to reverse an Obama-era ruling that allowed Cuban baseball players to sign with major league teams in the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to undercut a landmark agreement …

Bernie Sanders: Trump Wants To Get Rid Of The Filibuster Too, So Be Skeptical Of It  —  “You should be a little bit nervous if Donald Trump supports it,” the 2020 presidential candidate said.  —  MUSCATINE, Iowa Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 …

To Get Trump's Tax Returns, N.Y. Democrats Try a New Strategy  —  ALBANY — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump's tax returns.

Iowa student asks Beto O'Rourke ‘Are you here to see Beto?’ in bathroom  —  On Sunday, minutes before being in front of more than 300 people, Beto O'Rourke took a moment for a requisite bathroom break.  While washing his hands, O'Rourke got an unexpected question.

Trump Designates Iran's Revolutionary Guard a Foreign Terrorist Group  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that he was designating a powerful arm of the Iranian military as a foreign terrorist organization, the first time that the United States had named a part of another nation's government …

Few Americans think they're getting a Trump tax cut: NBC/WSJ poll  — Just 17% of people believe their own taxes will go down, the NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll finds.  —  No wonder the 2017 Republican tax cut remains so unpopular — the vast majority of Americans don't think they got one at all.

Feds charge Maryland man accused of plotting to ram stolen truck into pedestrians  —  The man was allegedly inspired by ISIS.  —  Federal authorities have charged a Maryland man they believe was plotting to ram a stolen truck into pedestrians at the National Harbor waterfront development in Maryland …

House GOP calls on Dems to bring in Mueller to testify  —  Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, called Monday for Democrats to immediately bring special counsel Robert Mueller to the Capitol to testify on his still-secret report on Russian contacts …

Shaw's Metro PCS Store Has Been Forced To Turn Off Its Go-Go Music, Owner Says  —  For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW.  Until now.  —  Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS …

A Tale Of Two Suburbs  —  I grew up at the top of a hill on the east bank of a river that burned.9 That determined so much.  —  My maternal grandparents bought the house where I grew up in 1949.  They were the rare Catholics in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland …

‘Daddy hurt her’: Nobody believed a boy's story, until he dug up the backyard 20 years later  —  It was a single-story, three-bedroom ranch house on a quiet residential street in a northern stretch of Jacksonville, Fla. Aaron Fraser had not lived inside since he was 4 years old …

Felicity Huffman and 12 wealthy parents plead guilty in college admissions scam  —  (CNN)Thirteen wealthy parents, including actress Felicity Huffman, and one coach will plead guilty to using bribery and other forms of fraud as part of the college admissions scandal, federal prosecutors in Boston said on Monday.