Trump's latest eruption at Pelosi reveals a terrible truth about this moment  —  Amazingly, after all we've seen, there's still a tendency in some quarters to treat the falsehoods regularly told by President Trump, and echoed by his media allies, as a somewhat exaggerated but basically conventional form of political dishonesty.

Trump admin tells U.S. embassies they can't fly pride flag on flagpoles  —  The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBT Pride Month, say 3 U.S. diplomats.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is rejecting requests …

Barr Is Lying About Mueller's Evidence  —  The final report on the Russia investigation, submitted on March 22 by special counsel Robert Mueller, documents multiple attempts by President Donald Trump to obstruct justice.  So why hasn't Trump been indicted?  Because one man stands in the way: Attorney General William Barr.

Gay couple beaten up for refusing to kiss for men's entertainment  —  This horrifying picture shows a flight attendant and her girlfriend covered in blood after a gang of men attacked them when they refused to kiss for them.  —  The apparently homophobic attack happened on a London bus …

Then he decided to kill them.  —  Scott Paul Beierle's attack on a Florida yoga studio was fueled by male supremacy, a movement with ties to other hate groups.  —  TALLAHASSEE — The first thing Kate Pierson did after unlocking the yoga studio that November afternoon was set the mood …

How the Revolution Ends  —  Some of Bernie Sanders' most ardent supporters believe 2020 could be ‘stolen’ from him by the Democratic National Committee - again.  —  WARNER, N.H. — AS Bernie Sanders plodded up a steep hill in the backyard of a Main Street bookstore in this tiny New Hampshire town, he was in no mood for selfies.

How Biden's Campaign Confronted Him on Abortion  —  Joe Biden's aides knew that the 2020 front-runner was going to get ripped apart over his support of the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion procedures.  They were frustrated that the former vice president wouldn't change his stance …

Russia is making its own ‘correct’ version of Chernobyl that will blame AMERICA and the CIA for the nuclear disaster following the unexpected success of the new HBO show  —  Furious at the breakout success of the HBO series Chernobyl, Russia is planning to make its own series portraying …

Trump Allows High-Tech U.S. Bomb Parts to Be Built in Saudi Arabia  —  WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration declared an emergency last month and fast-tracked the sale of more American arms to Saudi Arabia, it did more than anger members of Congress who opposed the sale on humanitarian grounds.

Jobs Report Is Weak, With Gain of 75,000; Unemployment Rate Still 3.6%  —  The government report on Friday showed a sharp decline in the pace of hiring, adding to concern that the economy is slowing.  — 75,000 jobs were created last month.  Analysts had expected a gain of about 175,000 jobs, according to Bloomberg.

Please don't be fooled by Tucker Carlson  —  Fox News host Tucker Carlson played something of a trick on his audience on Wednesday night.  He read off a series of economic policy ideas to his viewers, making clear that he was quoting someone else.  “Politicians love to say they care about American jobs …

UK's Brexit Party narrowly defeated in key electoral test  —  British Prime Minister Theresa May formally stepped down as Conservative Party leader on Friday, defeated by the Brexit conundrum.  —  May's three years at the helm ended not with a bang but a whimper: The party simply confirmed …

Judicial Watch: DOJ Documents Show Bruce Ohr Was Given a $28,000 Bonus During Russiagate Investigation Plus a Raise  —  (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showing the removal …

House Dems Preparing Investigation of Rudy Giuliani for Ukraine Shenanigans  —  The president's lawyer says he welcomes the scrutiny and plans to turn it to his advantage.  —  Top congressional Democrats are actively discussing opening a probe into Rudy Giuliani for his overseas political …

YouTube is deleting videos on Nazi history as part of its hate speech crackdown  —  The site's torrid week shows what a challenge moderation has become for big tech firms.  —  The news: YouTube announced new rules around hate speech on Wednesday that prohibit videos promoting Nazi ideology …

Catch-45  —  The twisted logic of Trump defenders would make a fine Joseph Heller novel.  —  There are many things you could call the professional Trump apologist: loyal, creative, unrelenting.  Logically consistent?  Not so much.  —  “Congress is too partisan to investigate the president!”

Univ. of Alabama Returns $21.5 Million Gift; Donor Urged Boycott Over Abortion Law  —  Updated at 2 p.m. ET  —  The University of Alabama's Board of Trustees has decided to return a $21.5 million gift from Hugh Culverhouse, Jr. — the school's biggest donor — and take his name off of its law school.

Are Voter Opinions on Trump as Stable as They Seem?  —  The great irony of the Trump presidency, one that is built on chaos and drama, is how stable it is.  By that, I mean the stability of opinions of this president.  Despite all of the twists and turns and tweets over the last three years …

Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source  —  In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.  —  But hundreds of pages …

Trump faces rare Republican revolt on judicial pick  —  President Donald Trump faces a growing Republican rebellion on one of his judicial nominees, throwing his confirmation into doubt.  —  Michael Bogren, who Trump nominated to serve on a federal district court, is already opposed …

Russian disinformation on YouTube draws ads, lacks warning labels: researchers  —  SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen Russia-backed YouTube channels spreading disinformation have been generating billions of views and millions of dollars in advertising revenue, according to researchers …

The Racial Reckoning Comes  —  Trump has changed our national narrative.  —  When I was a boy I was taught a certain story about America.  This was the land of opportunity.  Immigrants came to this land and found an open field and a fair chance to pursue their dreams.

Finding America at a back-roads gas station  —  DICKERSON, Md. — Everything happens for a reason.  —  At least that's what people tell you when your plans go south.  —  Driving from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., recently, I did as I nearly always do: I clicked the “avoid highways” …

Poll: Majority Want To Keep Abortion Legal, But They Also Want Restrictions  —  Three-quarters of Americans say they want to keep in place the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that made abortion legal in the United States, but a strong majority would like to see restrictions on abortion rights …

As an Iranian American journalist in exile, I'm used to online attacks.  But I didn't expect the State Department to fund them  —  The Iran Disinformation Project, funded by US taxpayer dollars, repeatedly used its social media accounts to attempt to discredit me.  And I wasn't their only target

Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress  —  Scott Brian Haven of Utah is accused of making over 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol over a three-year period about Democrats threatening Trump's presidency.  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) …

US and Russian warships nearly collide in the Pacific  —  (CNN)The United States and Russian navies are at odds over an apparent near collision in the Pacific Friday with each side blaming the other.  —  The US and Russian warships came somewhere between 50 feet and 165 feet of each other …

Republicans Have Become the Except-When-Trump-Does-It Party  —  Before heading off for a break at his Trump-branded golf course in Ireland, President Trump this week attacked the mayor of London as a “stone cold loser,” called an American-born British princess “nasty” and then denied he said it …

Flynn's Turkish lobbying client surfaces, through lawyers, in Virginia case  —  A Turkish businessman charged with hiring Michael Flynn as part of a secret, illegal U.S. lobbying scheme on behalf of the Turkish government during and after the 2016 presidential campaign is still at large and wanted by the FBI …

New Iowa Poll to test Democratic candidates' strength among likely caucus attendees  —  Results of a new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll on Democratic presidential candidates will be released online at 7 p.m. CST Saturday.  —  The poll, which will be published at DesMoinesRegister.com …

Google rewards reputable reporting more than left-wing politics  —  Our statistical study revealed no evidence of ideological bias in the search engine's news tab  —  “Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives”, tweeted Donald Trump in 2018.  “They are controlling what we can & cannot see.”