NBC announces lineup of Democrats for each of the two nights for first 2020 debate  —  To decide the match-ups, candidates' names were drawn manually at NBC News' headquarters in New York.  —  NBC News on Friday announced the lineups of Democratic presidential candidates who are appearing …

‘Flying Object’ Struck Tanker in Gulf of Oman, Operator Says, Not a Mine  —  TOKYO — One of the tankers that were attacked in the Gulf of Oman was struck by a flying object, the ship's Japanese operator said on Friday, disputing at least part of the account of United States officials who had blamed Iran for the attack.

President Trump's internal polling data from March showed him far behind Joe Biden in key battleground states  —  Data from President Donald Trump's first internal reelection campaign poll conducted in March, obtained exclusively by ABC News, showed him losing a matchup by wide margins …

See a Design of the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill That Mnuchin Delayed  —  WASHINGTON — Extensive work was well underway on a new $20 bill bearing the image of Harriet Tubman when Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced last month that the design of the note would be delayed for technical reasons …

Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting  —  When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be remembered for her transparency and honesty, the first impulse was to laugh.  —  But lying to citizens while being paid by them really isn't all that funny.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump disputes account of White House counsel's testimony to Mueller  —  President Donald Trump is directly disputing the account of a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice during the course of the Russia probe saying that it …

Ivanka Trump Made $4 Million From President's D.C. Hotel  — Husband Jared Kushner had at least $27 million in debt  — Former adviser Cohn paid for Mulvaney's golf tournament fees  —  Ivanka Trump made $4 million from her investment in her father's Washington hotel last year …

ABC Stations Helped Trump Build a Campaign Email List on His Birthday  —  Some of the network's largest affiliates promoted on their websites a ‘birthday card’ for President Trump that is really just a list-building campaign.  It's since been removed.  —  On Friday morning …

Sara Gideon, Maine's Democratic House Speaker, To Run Against Senator Susan Collins  —  The GOP senator faces intense backlash from state Democrats and abortion rights activists over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh.  —  Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, a Democrat, is expected to formally announce …

The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum  —  By the tail end of the Obama administration, the culture war seemed lost.  The religious right sued for détente, having been swept up in one of the most rapid cultural shifts in generations.  Gone were the decades of being able to count …

Exclusive: Indiana Republican Susan Brooks will not seek re-election to Congress  —  WASHINGTON — Indiana Rep. Susan Brooks, one of only 13 Republican women in the House as well as the head of GOP recruitment for 2020, found someone she could not convince to run: herself.

Justice Department backs Treasury on blocking Trump tax returns  —  The Department of Justice is backing the Department of Treasury's decision to not release President Trump's tax returns to Congress.  —  Why it matters: The DOJ is asserting the request for Trump's tax returns serves no …

We know the real Donald Trump.  America needs four more years |  Opinion  —  No President in history has taken a bigger financial hit by occupying the Oval Office than Donald J. Trump.  —  The cost to him personally, and to his company in general, is astonishing and amounts to hundreds of millions …

BuzzFeed Staff Plan to Walk Out in Push to Get Union Recognized  — Employees agreed to unionize in February after job cuts  — Vox Media staff walkout earlier this month led to labor deal  —  BuzzFeed News employees are planning to stage a walkout Monday, according to people familiar …

Inside hate groups on Facebook, police officers trade racist memes, conspiracy theories and Islamophobia  —  Hundreds of active-duty and retired law enforcement officers from across the United States are members of Confederate, anti-Islam, misogynistic or anti-government militia groups on Facebook, a Reveal investigation has found.

Court Rules in Favor of Jane Doe, Other Young Immigrant Women in ACLU Abortion Case  —  COURT RULES THAT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S NO-ABORTION POLICY SHOULD REMAINED BLOCKED WHILE THE CASE PROCEEDS AS A CLASS ACTION  —  WASHINGTON — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …

The Youngest Known Child Separated From His Family by the Trump Administration  —  Caitlin Dickerson is a Peabody award-winning national immigration reporter, who profiles the lives of immigrants, including those without legal status.  Last year, Caitlin reported that the Trump administration …

Trump still owes D.C. $7 million in inauguration costs as he plans July Fourth gala  —  President Trump's speech at the Lincoln Memorial on the Fourth of July is expected to drive up security costs for an annual event that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to the nation's capital.

Really?  —  If we don't take back the places we lost in 2016, Trump will win.  We can't lose sight of that.

Delirious Democrats are now accusing Team Obama of treason  —  If you read the newspapers, tuned into the cable TV pundits or received an email from one of the Democrats running for president, you'd swear Donald Trump was back to his treasonous ways.  —  All that was missing …

Tucker Carlson's Curious Turn From Koch Brothers Evangelist to Their Harshest Critic at Fox News  —  Last week, Fox News star Tucker Carlson accused Republicans of rejecting economic patriotism out of fear they “might make the Koch brothers angry.”  While he now castigates those lawmakers …

Trump Delayed Pence's Tiananmen Square Speech in Hopes of Landing Xi Meeting  — Administration debating how tough rescheduled speech should be  — Trump says 'it doesn't matter' if he gets meeting with Xi  —  Vice President Mike Pence was set to deliver a speech criticizing China's …

EU: Russians interfered in our elections, too  —  BRUSSELS — Russia conducted a “continued and sustained” disinformation campaign against Europe's recent parliamentary elections, the European Union reported Friday, the latest sign that Russia's high-tech efforts to influence democratic votes have not slowed down.

Fake science led a mom to feed bleach to her autistic sons — and police did nothing to stop her  —  A Kansas mother has posted videos about giving chlorine dioxide, which amounts to industrial bleach, to her sons.  Authorities declined to intervene.  —  Laurel Austin documented her son Jeremy's …