Trump just admitted something he probably shouldn't have about the census citizenship question  —  President Trump just explained why he thinks we need a citizenship question on the census.  But in doing so, he seems to have said the quiet part out loud — and conceivably could have undercut the Justice Department's legal case.

Trump blames rain and teleprompter for his July 4 speech gaffe  —  President Trump on Friday blamed inclement weather and a malfunctioning teleprompter for flubbing part of his Independence Day speech.  During the rain-soaked “Salute to America” event, Trump

Joe Biden Interview: “Talk About The Future” In Dem Primary  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden closed out his busy 4th of July day in Iowa with a trip to a baseball stadium, greeting newly-naturalized U.S. citizens and taking in the I-Cubs game with Iowa activists.

Trump Begins Long Golf Weekend, Bringing Taxpayers' Tab To $108 Million  —  The candidate who used to hammer Barack Obama for golfing too much is on track to play two and a half times as much as his predecessor and at three times the cost to taxpayers.  —  President Donald Trump began a three …

Democratic congresswoman secretly sending staff into Mexico to coach asylum-seekers  —  A Democratic congresswoman is sending staff to Mexico's northern border town of Ciudad Juárez to find migrants returned from El Paso, Texas, under the “remain in Mexico” policy …

Breakdown of Trump's 4th of July Failures  —  A lot of people decided to ignore Trump's planned “festivities” yesterday in protest of him commandeering the holiday for his own campaign and ego purposes.  I was planning on ignoring everything, too, but so many ridiculous and concerning things happened …

Trump Couldn't Ignore the Contradictions of His Foreign Policy Any Longer  —  Vyacheslav Molotov served in senior positions in the Soviet Union for more than a quarter century, including 10 years as Stalin's foreign minister.  He was dismissed in 1949 when he fell out of favor with Stalin …

Trump made his critics look small during his ‘Salute to America’  —  The “Resistance” warned us that if we elected an authoritarian such as Donald Trump, eventually there would be tanks in the streets of our nation's capital.  Well, on Thursday, their predictions finally came true.

Haunted by the Reagan era  —  Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation  —  Newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives spent June 27 with the sinking feeling that it was happening again: Their party was going to cave to President Trump …

Trump Is Falling Almost 1 Million Jobs Short Vs. Obama  —  I cover technology companies, worldwide economies and the stock market  —  The U.S. Bureau of Labor announced that the economy added 224,000 jobs in June vs. expectations of 160,000 and May's revised result of 72,000.

Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”  —  Proponents of the law say it's necessary to avoid confusing consumers.  That...doesn't sound right.  —  It's been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement — so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize.

Border Pediatrician Says “Severe Trauma” Is Being Done to Kids in Custody There  —  A pediatrician on the front lines says that terrible conditions in Border Patrol facilities are causing long-term psychological damage.  —  The physical danger of overcrowded, underresourced detention …

Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations  —  KEY POINTS  — Nonfarm payrolls rose 224,000 in June, well above market expectations of 165,000, according to the Labor Department.  —  Trump: Fed doesn't know what it's doing

Biden would name a teacher as education secretary, wouldn't appoint his wife  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden told public school teachers Friday that the first thing he would do as president would be to pick a teacher as Education secretary.  —  But he made a pledge about that appointment.