I can't stop thinking about the little girl behind Trump and the hate she's being taught  —  I'm terrible at guessing ages, but if I had to guess I'd say she was about 12 or 13.  She was wearing a bright summery top and a red “Make America Great Again” cap that looks to be a half-size too big …

Most Americans disagree with Trump's “go back” tweets — CBS News poll  —  The controversy around President Trump's tweets last week comes at a time when nearly nine in 10 Americans see a nation divided along racial lines, and most believe the parties each hold different ideas about what makes a person an American.

Biden, Warren, Harris and Sanders top 2020 field — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Joe Biden continues to be the first choice among Democratic voters across the 2020 primary states holding contests through Super Tuesday.  However, rivals Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris are gaining …

He Wasn't Seeking to Kill a Mob Boss.  He Was Trying to Help Trump, His Lawyer Says.  —  In new court documents, the lawyer for Anthony Comello says he became obsessed by far-right QAnon conspiracy theories.  —  As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island …

Dante, Trump and the moral cowardice of the G.O.P.  —  One of John F. Kennedy's favorite quotes was something he thought came from Dante: “The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”  —  As it turns out, the quote is apocryphal.

As Trump's reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president's swamp |  Editorial  —  Witnessing Sen. Marco Rubio's pathetic response last week to President Trump's latest racist outrages, it is impossible now to believe that Florida's senior senator was once hailed as …

My Frantic Life as a Cab-Dodging, Tip-Chasing Food App Deliveryman  —  I had just started my lunch shift when the phone pinged: Uber Eats, pickup at Cocina del Sur on West 38th Street in Manhattan, five blocks away.  Great!  I pedaled down West 40th into congealing crosstown traffic.

Military studies ‘hyperfit’ women who pass grueling courses  —  ARMY SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER, Mass. (AP) — In the nearly four years since the Pentagon announced it was opening all combat jobs to women , at least 30 have earned the Army Ranger tab, two have graduated Marine infantry school …

The demagogue and the Democrats: Trump spits in the face of American values; the opposition party has no clue how to respond  —  Like nearly everyone else to ever leave his homeland, I would like to go back to where I came from.  I would like to have continued to live in my native Baku …

“THE GIRLS WERE JUST SO YOUNG”: THE HORRORS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PRIVATE ISLAND  —  Locals say Epstein was flying in underage girls long after his conviction for sex crimes—and authorities did nothing to stop him.  “It was like he was flaunting it,” says an employee at the airstrip on St. Thomas.

Meet the woman who ties Jeffrey Epstein to Trump and the Clintons  —  How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?  —  People who know those involved said Epstein's connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.

In some states, GOP employs the recall as a political weapon  —  DENVER (AP) — Republicans frustrated by losing their grip on political power in some Western states have begun deploying a new weapon: the recall.  —  Once reserved for targeting corrupt or inept elected officials …

Cory Booker says Trump is “worse than a racist”  —  2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Cory Booker claimed on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump is “worse than a racist,” and that his rhetoric weaponizes race just as Gov. George Wallace — a staunch segregationist — did in his presidential campaigns.