Stephen Miller pressuring Trump officials amid immigration shakeups  —  As President Donald Trump roils the capital over illegal immigration, his influential aide Stephen Miller is playing a more aggressive behind-the-scenes role in a wider administration shakeup.

Bernie Sanders finds himself in a new role as front-runner  —  DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is quieting critics who questioned whether he could recapture the energy of his upstart 2016 campaign, surpassing his rivals in early fundraising and establishing himself …

Trump administration designates Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a ‘foreign terrorist organization’  —  The move on the eve of Israel's election could aid Benjamin Netanyahu.  —  President Donald Trump on Monday moved to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …

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.

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.

How the NYU School of Medicine is going tuition-free  —  One of the top medical schools in the United States is going tuition-free.  Lesley Stahl reports on how and why they're doing it  —  Going to medical school today takes more than ambition, good grades in biology in college, and an appetite for hard work.

Reality bites Beto after high-flying kickoff  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Between the prom proposal from a young admirer, the long lines for photographs and the conservative tracker recording his every word, Beto O'Rourke had all the hallmarks of a top-tier candidate during his latest swing through Iowa.

Trump seeks to campaign on problems he promised to fix  —  President Trump is ratcheting up his attacks on immigration — making and then rescinding a threat to close the nation's southern border in response to a problem that has worsened on his watch.  He's reviving his assault …

William Barr's Mueller cover-up reveals America's delusional dreamland about democracy  —  Last Thursday night, Americans took to the streets to protest our nation's latest innovation in the world of scandal: The cover-up of a cover-up, which after more than two weeks is pretty …

‘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 …

Trump's health care brain trust says no thanks  —  President Donald Trump promised a new plan to replace Obamacare.  But the four Senate Republicans he tapped for the job aren't jumping at the opportunity.  —  Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) says any new plan has to come from the White House …

Prosecutor in Foxx's office speaks out: Criticism “is not an attack on Ms Foxx's race, it is an attack on her ethics and her efficacy as State's Attorney”  —  On Saturday, Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx appeared at Rainbow PUSH headquarters where she found some friendly faces …

Trumpism Extols Its Folk Hero  —  The president's devoted supporters have turned him into a legend of sorts.  —  My mother is a devout Democrat, but also one of the most socially conservative people I know.  This is typical of our home state of Louisiana among black citizens …

“Then They Came For Me” — Here Is A Murdered Journalist's Last Column  —  Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty.  Today it is the journalists, tomorrow it will be the judges. … No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay …

Democrats crafting Mueller response if report drops during recess  —  Attorney General William Barr is likely days away from issuing a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, but Washington may be a ghost town when he does.  —  The House leaves for the week …

All the Progressive Plotters  —  Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump's victory in the Electoral College.  Before the quixotic effort imploded …

How Nancy Pelosi is leading divided Democrats through political turmoil, Trump's administration  —  Nancy Pelosi is presiding over a vastly different Democratic caucus than the last time she was Speaker of the House.  Will she keep it together?  —  CONNECT  —  FERGUSON, Mo. — Nancy Pelosi doesn't care what you think of her.

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.