With Jeffrey Epstein locked up, these are nervous times for his friends, enablers  —  Jeffrey Epstein spent a second night in a New York jail cell Sunday, with a federal indictment expected to be unsealed Monday, charging him with sex offenses involving underage girls he and others allegedly trafficked …

Justice Department changing lawyers on census case  —  The Justice Department is swapping out the lawyers who had been representing the administration in its legal battle to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census, possibly signaling career attorneys' legal or ethical concerns …

Tom Steyer Is Telling Allies He's Running for President  —  The presidential campaign announcements may not be over yet—with the latest potentially coming from a person who'd ruled out a run just a few months ago.  —  Billionaire investor Tom Steyer, who in the last decade …

Why Megan Rapinoe's brother, Brian, is her greatest heartbreak, and hope  —  Editor's note: Megan Rapinoe gave her brother, Brian, a birthday shout-out on national TV after winning the 2019 Women's World Cup, the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer and the Golden Ball as its top player.

Melania Trump reportedly told Donald that Christine Blasey Ford was ‘lying’  —  A new book says that first lady Melania Trump told her husband she thought Christine Blasey Ford was lying when she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

MIRIAM ADELSON: A time of miracles  —  Miriam Adelson, a Las Vegas philanthropist, researcher, physician and expert in drug addiction, owns the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Israel Hayom newspapers with her husband, Sheldon Adelson.  —  Cherishing, promoting and safeguarding the U.S.-Israeli alliance …

AP Interview: Kamala Harris on race and electability in 2020  —  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kamala Harris can't forget the older black woman she met in Iowa while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama before the state's 2008 caucus.  —  “I remember her saying to me …

Trump wants to talk.  Iran isn't interested.  —  When it comes to nuclear negotiations, Iran is not North Korea.  —  President Donald Trump wants to sit down with Iranian leaders — but they don't share his eagerness to talk, revealing the limits of the president's personal diplomatic overtures.

In surprise move, admiral tapped to lead U.S. Navy declines job, retires instead  —  Bill Moran said he turned down the job of Chief of Naval Operations because of a probe of his ties to an officer investigated for inappropriate conduct.  —  WASHINGTON — The man set to take over as the head …

The Trump Tariff Twist That's Cost U.S. Steel $5.5 Billion  — Older mills unable to compete as output soared, demand fell  — Nucor's cheaper-to-run electric-arc furnaces hold their own  —  President Donald Trump's tariffs on foreign steel have sped the decline of some of the U.S. mills he vowed to help.

Do Americans Need Air-Conditioning?  —  Summer's great indoor-temperature debate rages on.  —  Modernity was born 116 years, 11 months, two weeks and two days ago, at a printing plant in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, when a junior engineer named Willis Carrier devised a contraption …

FBI, ICE find state driver's license photos are a gold mine for facial-recognition searches  —  A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning hundreds of millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.  —  Agents with the Federal Bureau …

Justin Amash on what his GOP colleagues say behind closed doors  —  (CNN)Newly independent Rep. Justin Amash, the only congressional Republican to have publicly argued that President Donald Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, told CNN that high-level party officials have thanked …

Tensions flare over Pelosi's comments about four House Democratic women and border bill  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) faced sharp criticism Sunday from some liberal lawmakers and activists over her latest comments about a group of House Democratic women who opposed …