Inside Jerry Nadler's private push to open up impeachment inquiry  —  Nadler: Mueller clearly demonstrated that Trump is lying  —  (CNN)At a frank meeting this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler again lobbied to win Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

Trump plans to declare new national emergency to impose tariffs  —  President Trump is planning to declare a new national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S., according to a draft document of the declaration reviewed by The Hill.

New Files From GOP Operative's Hard Drive Suggest N.C. Republicans Lied in Court to Maintain Racial Gerrymander  —  The latest bombshell from the formerly secret files of the GOP's top gerrymandering guru emerged on Thursday, and it's astounding: Voting rights advocates claim to have evidence …

Fox News Exclusive: Trump says Mueller made a ‘fool’ of himself  —  President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Laura Ingraham, said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller made “such a fool” out of himself last week when he delivered his first and only public statement about the Russia investigation.

Promoting based on potential: How The Atlantic is putting a lot more women in charge  —  It's not a shocker that a lot has changed at The Atlantic since it was founded all the way back in 1857.  Perhaps more surprising, though, is how much has changed there in just the last two and a half years.

A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media.  Here's How They All Got It Wrong.  —  Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.

U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran  —  Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment.  —  BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …

Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …

Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his longtime attorneys.

Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …

Automakers Say Trump Pollution Rules Could Mean ‘Untenable’ Instability and Lower Profits  —  WASHINGTON — Many of the world's largest automakers joined together Thursday to tell President Trump that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken pollution standards for automobiles …

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) …

DC Dyke March Bans Jewish Pride Flag  —  A gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. has been criticized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banning Jewish and Israeli symbols from its Friday event.  —  The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities …

Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.

Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …

Please, My Wife, She's Very Online  —  It might have begun with “Borat.”  In that Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary, from 2006, which was subtitled “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the protagonist has a particular way of saying “my wife,” which …

‘These boys were on a holiday’: Trump family members promote themselves, and businesses, on European trip  —  As parties go, it's hard to top a state dinner with the queen of England, but President Trump's sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — tried to keep the revelry going during an impromptu pub crawl in Doonbeg …

How a watchdog whitewashed its oversight of FEMA's disaster response with ‘feel good’ reports  —  After catastrophic floodwaters submerged wide stretches of southern Louisiana in 2016, displaced homeowners and officials criticized the federal recovery effort as dangerously slow, leaving thousands of people homeless for months.

Michael Cohen's life behind bars  —  What prison life could be like for Cohen  —  (CNN)Michael Cohen was nervous about his new life behind bars.  President Donald Trump's former fixer turned star government witness was worried that inmates who supported Trump might bring trouble when he arrived …

Should women who have abortions go to jail?  ‘Absolutely,’ says Arlington Rep. Ron Wright  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, said on a video released by an abortion rights group that women commit murder if they have an abortion and should “absolutely” be punished.

DeSantis staff shakeup prompts competing narratives  —  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis has lost as many as seven aides in the past 24 hours, some of whom have been with him since the start of his campaign, according to a person with direct knowledge of the turnover.

CNN's Don Lemon Reveals He Was Called “F***ot” Recently While Filming Show  —  “I was doing a shoot in the park the other day and someone said, 'We built this country.  I can't wait for CNN to fire your black ass,'” Lemon said.  —  At an industry conference on Thursday …

The women of MSNBC are reshaping the television landscape  —  “We should have been blasting ‘9 to 5,’” said Stephanie Ruhle, sitting at her anchor desk in the MSNBC studio at 30 Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan.  It was nearing 9 a.m. in late May and Ruhle, who anchors …

Just Because You CAN Defend Steven Crowder Doesn't Mean You HAVE To  —  It's easy to stick up for someone's right to say something, anything.  But free speech is about more than owning the libs.  —  It may surprise you to learn that there is very little record of the Founding Fathers' debates …

Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …