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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

Inside Romney's Trump strategy  —  When asked about Republicans' criticism of his occasional anti-Trump stances, Mitt Romney doesn't miss a beat: “I have to show you something.”  —  He grabs his iPad and pulls up an article: “Romney: why the Republican pros distrust him.”

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 …

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 …

Donald Trump ‘wants us to impeach him,’ Nancy Pelosi tells Jimmy Kimmel  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that President Donald Trump actually wants to be impeached because he believes the Republican-controlled Senate would bail him out.

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 …

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 …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump approves Turkish offer for joint S-400 study group  —  In call with Turkish president, Trump agrees to body to find ways to cohabit Ankara's purchase of F-35s and Russian missile system  —  US President Donald Trump has accepted an offer to form a joint technical study group …

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 …

MERYL STREEP SAYS SHE DOESN'T AGREE WITH THE TERM ‘TOXIC MASCULINITY’ … Meryl Streep has expressed her opposition to the term “toxic masculinity”, stating her view that use of the expression can be harmful for boys.  —  The actor made her comments while taking part in a Q …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hollywood Takes on the Red States - What's at Stake in Abortion Showdown  —  Hollywood threw down the gauntlet on Thursday in lining up and threatening to pull their business out of states that have adopted severe anti-abortion laws.  —  Billions of dollars in production are at stake.

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.”

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 …