Robert Mueller could be subpoenaed in the next two weeks  —  House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told Democratic leaders at a closed-door meeting this week that he could issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller within two weeks if he is unable to reach an agreement to secure the former special …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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 …

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.

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) …

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 …

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 …

Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn 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 long-time attorneys.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

Senators Ask Federal Reserve to Review Trump's Deutsche Bank Transactions  —  A group of Democratic senators want top officials at the Federal Reserve to examine whether Deutsche Bank complied with anti-money-laundering and other laws after bank employees flagged transactions tied to President Trump as potentially suspicious.

Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers  —  U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …

Rudy Giuliani plans to leave Trump legal team — unless needed  —  President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says he plans to depart that role after he finishes “cleanup” from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.  —  The former New York City mayor, who once led …

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 …

A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …

Making our rules easier to understand  —  Our rules exist to help keep everyone using Twitter safe and ensure they can participate freely in the public conversation.  Over time, we've added new rules and updated existing ones, but these changes eventually made our rules confusing and difficult to understand.

The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Finished.  It's Not Stopping Migrants From Coming In.  —  “Regardless of what they build, they're still coming in,” one resident said.  “This is just political crap.”  —  Reporting From  —  Sunland Park, New Mexico  —  SUNLAND PARK, New Mexico …

Larry Kudlow once said Trump's proposed trade policies ‘will pose incalculable damage’ to US economy  —  Larry Kudlow in 2015: Tariffs are not the answer  —  (CNN)Larry Kudlow, the President's chief economic adviser, once said Donald Trump's proposed policies on trade would lead to a bad recession …