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 …

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 …

Attorney General William Barr on caring about his reputation: “Everyone dies”  —  Looking back on his lengthy career as a top Department of Justice official, Attorney General William Barr doesn't seem fazed by critics questioning his relationship with President Trump and alleging he's …

“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.”

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 …

5 Ways Trump Has Remade the Democratic Party  —  For years, a growing stripe of Democrats has argued that what their party needs is a leader willing to shatter old assumptions, a radical disrupter.  —  Well, Democrats already have found their transformational figure for the 2020 campaign.

Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait  —  As tensions with Iran heat up, former Obama administration officials have quietly urged government officials there to keep their cool.  —  As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf …

Trump and Bibi's Bad Week  —  They're both at war with those who would investigate them.  But are they winning or losing?  —  We knew that this particular Presidential meltdown was coming.  By the time President Trump ranted to the media on Thursday morning, shouting over the noise …

Baby Trump Balloon, Milkshakes Primed for President's U.K. Visit  — Thousands of protesters to send ‘strong’ anti-Trump message  — U.S. leader's schedule includes London events unlike last year  —  Thousands of protesters are preparing to greet U.S. President Donald Trump …

Fed candidate slams bank's ‘Soviet’ power over markets  —  Judy Shelton, a senior US official who is being vetted for a job on the board of the Federal Reserve, has attacked the central bank for wielding undemocratic, Soviet-style powers over markets and suggested it should not even be in the business of setting interest rates.

Ocasio-Cortez, Cruz strike Twitter pact to work together on lobbying legislation  —  Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set aside their Twitter bickering Thursday to strike an unusual bargain: an agreement to work together on a bill to ban former members of Congress from lobbying for life.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Long at the Fringe, Gun Issues Loom Large for Democratic Candidates  —  WASHINGTON — For the first time in two decades, Democratic presidential candidates are engaged in a politically fraught debate on gun-control policy as campaigns and advocacy groups assess the nation's evolving views …

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

Kirsten Gillibrand's Failure to Launch  —  HAMPTON, New Hampshire—Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar.  —  It's not that she couldn't use more money.  In the first quarter of 2019, the junior senator from New York raised just $3 million for her presidential campaign …