Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.

CNN Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates  —  Harris confronts Biden over busing, school desegregation  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have made steep gains after the first Democratic presidential debate …

Trump Says Tanks Will Be on Display in Washington for July 4  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the Pentagon would put military tanks on display on Thursday in Washington as part of his plans to turn the annual Fourth of July celebration in the nation's capital into a salute to the country's military prowess.

Ivanka's North Korea Photobombs Perplex White House Officials  —  Multiple officials in Washington were caught off guard by the news that Ivanka Trump had found her way into a conversation about nuclear weapons between her father and Kim Jong Un.  —  When Donald Trump and his advisors crossed …

Nike Nixes ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ Sneaker After Colin Kaepernick Intervenes  —  Sneaker maker pulls Independence Day-themed shoe after NFL star raised concerns about its symbolism  —  Nike Inc. is yanking a U.S.A.-themed sneaker featuring an early American flag after former NFL star-turned …

New study shows Russian propaganda may really have helped Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his allies have long insisted that Russian's 2016 propaganda campaign on social media had no impact on the presidential election.  —  A new statistical analysis says it may well have.

Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale  —  News site launched during the Bush years is running millions of dollars short.  Its parent think tank says it will consider the editorial leanings of prospective owners.  —  ThinkProgress, the flagship news site of the Democratic …

Exclusive: Democrats investigating whistleblower claims Pompeo's security picked up Chinese food and his dog  —  Washington (CNN)Democrats on a key House congressional committee are investigating allegations from a whistleblower within the State Department about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo …

Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father's Campaign?  —  Joe Biden's son is under scrutiny for his business dealings and tumultuous personal life.  —  In today's political culture, people running for President may announce their candidacy on the steps of their home-town city hall or on …

An Open Letter to the Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum  —  Omer Bartov, Doris Bergen, Andrea Orzoff, Timothy Snyder, and Anika Walke, et al.  —  On June 17, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, posted an Instagram live video discussing the detention camps along …

Iran breaches uranium stockpile limit set by nuclear deal  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, international inspectors and Tehran said Monday, marking its first major departure …

Harvard's appointment of former Gov. Rick Snyder sparks social media backlash  —  LANSING — News that Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has named former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder a senior research fellow has sparked a social media backlash.  —  Many have expressed outrage …

Another Dead Cyclist In The City  —  Around 9:30 a.m. on June 24 in Manhattan, cyclist Robyn Hightman rounded the corner from 23rd Street onto Sixth Avenue, where they were struck by a large white delivery truck and thrown off their bike into the middle of the street.

‘We all suffer’: why San Francisco techies hate the city they transformed  —  San Franciscans have long complained that tech workers ruined their city, driving up rents and homelessness and eliminating diversity.  Now even the tech workers agree  —  Cities is supported by  —  About this content

Hickenlooper finance director flees to Beto  —  The national finance director for John Hickenlooper's presidential campaign is departing and joining rival Beto O'Rourke's effort, O'Rourke's campaign told POLITICO on Monday.  —  The aide, Dan Sorenson, is leaving the former two-term Colorado governor …

Vets To Give Out Thousands Of USS John McCain Shirts At Trump's July 4 Event  —  “It's really a way to honor a family that ... has shown that the country is bigger than any one individual,” said Peter Kauffmann of VoteVets.  —  WASHINGTON ― Irked by President Donald Trump's plan to hold …

Roy Moore ‘likely failed’ polygraph test, Corfman says  —  Roy Moore “likely failed” a December 2017 polygraph he took in an effort to clear his name from accusations made against him by women during the Senate race that year, according to a lawsuit filing Monday.

The Next Influx: The Entire World's Poor and Dispossessed  —  Tens of Thousands of “Exotics” and “Extra-Continentals” from around the Globe Moving Through Panama  —  Like the proverbial “bulge in the belly of the snake,” unusually high numbers of non-Latino migrants, obviously not from Central America …

Fact check: Trump told the troops he gave them their first raise in years.  He didn't.  —  With 20 steps, Trump made history in North Korea  —  Washington (CNN)During a speech to US troops at the Osan Air Base in South Korea on Sunday, President Donald Trump said that he had given them their first pay increase in almost a decade.

Democrats In No Hurry To Get Trump's Tax Returns  —  We're six months into Democratic control of the House, and they still haven't sued over the president's secret tax returns.  —  WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump is the first president in 40 years not to disclose his personal income tax returns …