Joe Biden's climate plan appears to directly copy multiple lines from other organizations — but his campaign says it was a mistake … - Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden released a climate change proposal on Tuesday.  — In at least three instances …

Paul Manafort to Be Sent to Rikers, Where He Faces Solitary Confinement  —  Mr. Manafort was indicted on state charges, which prosecutors brought to ensure he would go to prison if pardoned by President Trump.  High-profile inmates are often held in protective custody.

GOP lawmakers warn White House they'll try to block Trump's Mexico tariffs  —  Republican senators warned Trump administration officials Tuesday they were prepared to block the president's effort to impose tariffs on Mexican imports, promising what would be GOP lawmakers' most brazen defiance of the president since he took office.

First on CNN: White House directs Hicks, Donaldson to withhold White House documents from House panel  —  (CNN)The White House has directed former officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson not to turn over any documents to the House Judiciary Committee relating to their time at the White House …

Trump baby blimp ‘stabbed with sharp object’ by pro-Trump activist in London  —  Trump baby blimps flown at today's protests in London against the US president's visit was attacked by a pro-Trump supporter carrying a sharp object.  —  A woman approached a group anti-Trump activists outside …

Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it  —  Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl — a pair of boundlessly eager, profoundly unrepentant aspirants to the dankest depths of political chicanery — were watching television together the other day when something caught Burkman's eye.

The State Department has been funding trolls.  I'm one of their targets.  —  Even after spending a year and a half in prison in Tehran, I knew that if I wanted to go on writing about Iran, I would be a target for plenty of public attacks despite the abuse I had suffered at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

CNN Poll: Biden continues to lead crowded Democratic field  —  2020 Democrats challenge Biden's message, electability  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to be the top pick for the Democratic nomination for president among Democrats and Democratic-leaning registered voters …

Campaign Money Helping Make Up For Tenant Shortage At Trump Tower  —  As commercial renters flee, Trump keeps spending $37,500 a month in campaign funds at his own building — even though much of the Republican Party's leased space in Virginia is going unused.

A Plan For Economic Patriotism  —  I come from a patriotic family.  All three of my brothers joined the military.  And I'm deeply grateful for the opportunities America has given me.  But the giant “American” corporations who control our economy don't seem to feel the same way.

For Trump, U.K. State Visit Is a (Royal) Family Affair  —  LONDON — When Queen Elizabeth II welcomed the president on Monday for his first state visit to Britain, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner watched from a Buckingham Palace balcony.  Later, at a state banquet, Eric Trump posed for photographs.

Jeff Bezos Buys Fifth Avenue Condo Spread for Around $80 Million  —  The Amazon CEO is finalizing the purchase of three units at 212 Fifth Avenue near Madison Square Park  —  Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is set to finalize the purchase of three New York apartments Tuesday in a deal valued …

Sohrab Ahmari Is Right  —  Judging by the number of articles they have written and the tweets they have sent, certain conservative writers view Sohrab Ahmari as a major threat to public decency.  Nothing outraged these writers more than Ahmari's observation that “civility and decency are secondary values.”

Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’  —  In a hard reality check for Los Angeles County's multimillion-dollar hope of ending homelessness, officials reported Tuesday that the number of people living on the streets, in vehicles and in shelters increased by about 12% over last year.

Is GOP's Senate Majority in More Peril Than We Think?  —  The general thinking about the Republican Senate majority is that it has solidified to the point where Democrats are effectively shut out of gaining control of the upper chamber in 2020.  But in truth, the GOP majority is in more danger than many analysts believe.

A Better Way to Fix the Supreme Court  —  What should be done about the Supreme Court?  Liberals, still seething after the Merrick Garland blockade and Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, are bracing for imminent defeats from the Roberts Court on everything from partisan gerrymandering to abortion rights.

House Democrats Move to Increase Lawmaker Pay After Long Freeze  — Salary raise of 3.1% would follow a decade of stagnation  — Legislation probably would be killed by Republican-held Senate  —  House Democrats are moving forward with a plan to give members of Congress their first pay increase in a decade.

What Are Conservatives Actually Debating?  —  What the strange war over “David French-ism” says about the right.  —  In March the religious journal First Things published a short manifesto, signed by a group of notable conservative writers and academics, titled “Against the Dead Consensus.”

Why Are Republican Small Donors So Easy to Swindle?  —  Republicans have long complained, usually in private, that their fundraising apparatus is overrun with fraudsters.  National Review's Jim Geraghty has a column, “The Right's Grifter Problem,” saying what many of them have been whispering.

These Reporters Lost Their Jobs.  Now They're Fighting Back Against Big Tech.  —  Two prominent reporters who were recently laid off from digital media outlets are forming a new advocacy group to raise awareness about Big Tech's impact on the journalism industry.

A teacher asked Trump to round up ‘illegal students’ — in tweets she says she thought were private  —  Georgia Clark, a veteran high school English teacher in Fort Worth, had an urgent request for President Trump: She needed help pulling undocumented immigrants from her school.

‘Executed’ North Korean diplomat is alive, sources say  —  (CNN)The North Korean diplomat who South Korea's largest newspaper said had been executed by firing squad is alive and in state custody, according to several sources familiar with the situation.  —  North Korea's special envoy …

Trump tries to upend the 2020 map  —  President Donald Trump is targeting a trio of states that he lost in 2016 — a move aimed at widening his path to reelection that comes as he's struggling in the Rust Belt states that propelled him to the White House.  —  Trump officials are zeroing …

Facing Criminal Hearings, Netanyahu Appoints Himself Justice Minister  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday informed Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked and Education Minister Naftali Bennett that he is dismissing them from their positions in the government and their presence …

Dossier author Christopher Steele will be questioned by US investigators: report  —  Former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier of salacious and unverified claims about the president's ties to Russia, has agreed to be questioned by investigators from the United States, according to a report in Britain.

Senator: Oligarch linked to Kremlin earned millions while fighting extradition to U.S.  —  Dmytro Firtash has been under indictment in Chicago since 2014.  He was also involved in a failed business deal with ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort.  —  A U.S. senator alleges that a Ukrainian oligarch …

Virginia Teen Was Detained and Prosecuted for Saying ‘Oink Oink’ to Cop  —  Critics say that Arlington County Commonwealth Attorney Theo Stamos, who is being challenged in a June primary, has a pattern of treating children too harshly.  —  In May 2016, James (not his real name), then 17 …

Trump administration approved Saudi nuclear transfers after Khashoggi murder  —  The Department of Energy approved the transfer of nuclear information from U.S. companies to Saudi Arabia seven times under President Trump, including twice after the assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi …