NRA's Wayne LaPierre Says He Is Being Extorted, Pressured to Resign  —  Group's longtime leader says Oliver North, president of the NRA, wants him out  —  Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre has told the group's board he is being extorted and pressured to resign …

‘I can land the plane’: How Rosenstein tried to mollify Trump, protect Mueller and save his job  —  Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job.  The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director …

UVA basketball team will decline to visit White House after winning championship  —  CHARLOTTESVILLE - After winning the national championship, the Virginia basketball team won't be following the tradition of visiting the White House.  —  “We have received inquiries about a visit to the White House …

Biden crushes it in first-day fundraising: $6.3 million  —  Joe Biden's campaign announced Friday that he raised $6.3 million on his first day as an announced candidate, placing him atop the crowded Democratic primary in terms of first-day fundraising totals and quelling doubts about his ability to raise enough money to compete.

Fox News Reporter Rips Colleagues Over Charlottesville: You Sound Like ‘White Supremacist Chat Room’  —  In emails obtained by The Daily Beast, one bold Fox reporter stands up to two of his colleagues who defended Trump's ‘both sides’ comment about neo-Nazi rallygoers.

31% believe Trump is exonerated after Mueller report, 56% oppose impeachment: Poll  —  Donald Trump's approval rating is essentially unchanged at a historically weak 39 percent after the release of the Mueller report, just three in 10 Americans accept the president's claim to have been exonerated …

Trump Says He Will Declassify FBI's Russia Probe Documents, ‘And Much More’  —  President Donald Trump committed Thursday to declassifying a slew of records related to the Russia probe “and much more.”  —  Trump said in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity that he was “glad” …

Women Did Everything Right.  Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’  —  How America's obsession with long hours has widened the gender gap.  —  Daniela Jampel and Matthew Schneid met in college at Cornell, and both later earned law degrees.  They both got jobs at big law firms, the kind that reward people …

F.B.I. Warns of Russian Interference in 2020 Race and Boosts Counterintelligence Operations  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”

Rich guys are most likely to have no idea what they're talking about, study suggests  —  Researchers attempt to measure how often people oversell themselves in society  —  Researchers embarked on a novel study intent on measuring what a Princeton philosophy professor contends …

Trump Says Mar-A-Lago Can't Find US Workers To Hire.  New Documents Show Dozens Applied.  —  Trump often says his resorts have no choice but to hire foreign guest workers — there just aren't any Americans to take the jobs.  But government records show nearly 60 US residents applied for those jobs, and only one was hired.

TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines  —  The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans.  But they're keeping Google from seeing it. … This week, we reported on how TurboTax uses deceptive design …

Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Right To Abortion  —  Updated at 11 a.m. ET  —  The Kansas Constitution protects a woman's right to an abortion, the state's Supreme Court ruled Friday.  —  The landmark ruling now stands as the law of the land in Kansas with no path for an appeal.

Want to Expand Medicare?  Then Answer the $5 Trillion Questions.  —  If you think the fight with insurance companies is tough, just wait until single-payer advocates have to go head-to-head with doctors.  —  The debate over expanding Medicare is at the center of the fight for the Democratic presidential nomination.

In Trump's world, FBI agents are traitors and Robert E. Lee isn't  —  If former vice president Joe Biden's goal with the video launching his presidential campaign was to knock President Trump off his message, it worked — to a degree.  —  The centerpiece of the video is the events that took place in Charlottesville in August 2017.

Kamala Harris owns a handgun.  That's disqualifying for a 2020 Democrat in my book.  —  Harris, a former DA, apparently thinks it's fine to own a handgun for personal safety.  That's a position held by the NRA, not progressive Democrats.  —  CONNECT  —  When it comes to gun ownership in America …

Trump withdraws from UN arms treaty as NRA crowd cheers in delight  —  Donald Trump has announced that the US will withdraw its support for a United Nations treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade.  —  Addressing the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Indianapolis …

The Editor of Jacobin on the Evolution of American Socialism  —  In 2010, amid the wreckage of an economic crisis, Bhaskar Sunkara, then twenty-one years old, started the magazine Jacobin.  Democratic socialist in outlook and aimed at replicating the success that magazines such as National Review …

Religious Objections to the Measles Vaccine?  Get the Shots, Faith Leaders Say  —  Devout parents who are worried about vaccines often object to ingredients from pigs or fetuses.  But the leaders of major faiths have examined these fears and still vigorously endorse vaccination.