North Korea's Kim Jong Un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse: Chosun Ilbo  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February …

Trump prepares to threaten Mexico with new tariffs in attempt to force migrant crackdown  —  President Trump is preparing to threaten Mexico with new tariffs as part of an attempt to force the country to crack down on a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States …

McCain warship incident raises questions about a changing military culture under Trump  —  A dust-up over who directed and knew about White House efforts to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan has raised new questions about whether the military's culture …

“Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War?  —  The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.”  Dean Baquet “thinks it's a real issue.”

U.S. economy slips from first to third place in global competitiveness ranking amid Trump's tariffs  —  The United States lost its spot as the world's most competitive economy amid an ongoing trade war with China, according to an annual ranking from the IMD World Competitiveness Center.

Nevada Governor Vetoes National Popular Vote Bill for Some Stupid Reason  —  The Electoral College is an indefensibly stupid institution.  Contrary to depressingly widespread belief, America's contemporary approach to electing presidents does not uphold the Framers' intentions …

Revealed: Memo Shows Trump Officials Trying to Rig Elections for Whites  —  Republicans want to ask about citizenship on the census.  Now we know it is to undermine ‘one person, one vote.’  —  A secret trove of documents was revealed Thursday showing that the Trump administration added …

Barr says Mueller “could've reached a decision” on whether Trump obstructed justice  —  Tune in to “CBS This Morning” on Friday, May 31, for the full interview with Attorney General William Barr.  —  Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached …

The troubling legacy of Martin Luther King  —  Newly-revealed FBI documents portray the great civil rights leader as a sexual libertine who ‘laughed’ as a forcible rape took place  —  David J. Garrow Features … Newly-released documents reveal the full extent of the FBI's surveillance …

Mueller destroyed one of Trump's biggest lies.  Trump just helped him do it.  —  President Trump just admitted that Russia helped elect him president.  “I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.  It was a crime that didn't exist,” Trump rage-tweeted, adding that this again shows …

Hillary Clinton and Daughter Chelsea to Form Production Company  — Former presidential candidate plans to build pipeline of shows  — Family follows Obamas with push into Hollywood movies and TV  —  Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea are forming a production company to pursue film …

Full list: 50 House members who favor starting Trump impeachment inquiry  —  It includes 11 members of the House Judiciary Committee as well as chairs of various House committees.  —  Here are the members of the House of Representatives who favor starting an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

Team Trump Now Wants Mueller to Testify Before Congress in Hopes of a Grilling  —  The president has said he doesn't want the special counsel to talk on the Hill.  But after Mueller's statement Wednesday, Trump's team is itching for it.  —  President Trump's close advisers are increasingly pining …

Koch Network Alums Are Going Full-On White Nationalist  —  Two young men with links to Charles Koch-funded academic and political operations were recently outed as members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa.  —  Jared Holt, Right Wing Watch

Disney Threatens To Boycott Georgia But Partners With China, Which Puts Muslims In Internment Camps  —  The Walt Disney Company is considering boycotting Georgia over its new abortion law, even as Disney profits from doing business in China, a notorious human rights violator that is putting Muslims in internment camps.

What Sohrab Ahmari Gets Wrong  —  There is no political “emergency” that justifies abandoning classical liberalism, and no temporal emergency could ever justify rejecting the eternal truth.  —  Yesterday, New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari published a lengthy essay with the rather eye-catching title, “Against David French-ism.”

Nikki Haley begins experiment in political life after Trump  —  Of the many senior officials to leave the Trump administration over the past two years, few have exited on better terms than former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.  Before her departure last December …

Black Voters Challenge House Members: Why Is Trump Still in Office?  —  PHILADELPHIA — Moments after the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, wrapped up his appearance at the Justice Department on Wednesday, Representative Dwight Evans stepped out of his district office …

Claus von Bülow Dies at 92; Society Figure in High-Profile Case  —  Claus von Bülow, the Danish-born man-about-society who in two trials was convicted and later acquitted of twice trying to murder his heiress wife, placing him at the center of one of the most sensational social dramas of the 1980s …

Intel: Why Russia dispatched top diplomat to Tehran  —  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov attends a Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference in Beijing, China, Jan. 30, 2019.  —  Russia dispatched one of its leading diplomats to Tehran this week to urge …

Clarence Thomas tried to link abortion to eugenics.  Seven historians told The Post he's wrong.  —  In the opinion he wrote on the Supreme Court's recent decision about two abortion laws, Justice Clarence Thomas reached back into history.  —  Thomas argued that the door for abortion rights …

New Democratic Debate Rules Will Distort Priorities, Some Campaigns Say  —  The Democratic Party's new directive that candidates must have at least 130,000 donors to qualify for the third primary debate in September arrived virtually without warning on Wednesday morning …

George W. Bush, Kobe Bryant, Jordan Peterson Promote Shady Multilevel Marketing Company  —  What is bringing together a former president, NBA star, and celebrity Canadian professor?  Insurance!  —  Former President George W. Bush, basketball star Kobe Bryant, and right-wing Canadian professor …

Trump to threaten curb on intel sharing with UK over Huawei  —  Donald Trump will threaten to limit intelligence sharing with Britain if the UK government allows Huawei to build part of the country's 5G mobile network, a message he plans to deliver in person during his visit to London next week.

Hundreds of minors held at U.S. border facilities are there beyond legal time limits  —  MCALLEN, Tex. — Many of the nearly 2,000 unaccompanied migrant children being held in overcrowded U.S. Border Patrol facilities have been there beyond legally allowed time limits, including some who are 12 or younger …

House Republicans block $19.1 billion nationwide disaster aid bill for third time  —  House conservatives blocked a bipartisan $19.1 billion disaster aid bill for the third time Thursday, once again thwarting Democrats' efforts to pass the long-  —  delayed legislation that is supported by President Trump.

Trade War Starts Changing Manufacturers in Hard-to-Reverse Ways  —  PORTLAND, Ore. — When the Trump administration first imposed tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese imports in July, Andy LaFrazia figured it was just another curveball for his company.  —  “Everyone was saying: 'Oh, it's a negotiating tactic.