House Republicans plan yearly retreat in Baltimore despite Trump's attacks  —  President Trump on Saturday called Baltimore a “very dangerous & filthy place” and suggested that Democratic politicians, including Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, had made the city all but uninhabitable.

Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooter Posted About Far-Right Book Moments Before Shooting  —  Santino Legan allegedly told an eyewitness he was “really angry” and ranted in white supremacist fashion on Instagram from the event.  —  The gunman who murdered three people at a food festival …

Release Detail  —  July 29, 2019 - Biden Bounces Back As Harris Slumps Among U.S. Dems, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 54 Percent Of All U.S. Voters Say Never Trump  —  Former Vice President Joseph Biden reverses his slump following the first Democratic presidential debate …

College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid  —  Education Department, universities are investigating the practice, which has been used in the Chicago area  —  CHICAGO—Amid an intense national furor over the fairness of college admissions …

Intel officials worry Trump's pick for top spy will politicize the job  —  Although Ratcliffe's website says he “put terrorists in prison,” there is no evidence he ever prosecuted a terrorism case.  —  WASHINGTON — Hours before President Donald Trump announced him as the pick to be the new director …

An Impeachment Inquiry Is Coming.  It Might Have Already Begun.  —  Robert Mueller's testimony may have lacked thrills, but it marked a turning point in the case against the president.  —  Last Wednesday, after Robert Mueller's terse and sometimes halting congressional testimony …

McConnell lashes out at media, Democrats over “Moscow Mitch” label  —  Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) took to the Senate floor Monday to angrily defend himself against allegations that he is doing the bidding of Russian President Vladimir Putin by blocking a series of election security bills proposed by Democrats.

Trump aide submitted drafts of 2016 ‘America First’ energy speech to UAE for edits, emails show  —  When candidate Donald Trump prepared to give a major energy speech during the 2016 campaign, one of his closest advisers provided a pre-speech review to senior United Arab Emirates officials …

Fact-Checking Trump's Claim He ‘Spent a Lot of Time’ With 9/11 Responders  —  The president repeated claims about his presence at ground zero during the signing ceremony for legislation to ensure health care funding for emergency workers who rushed to help.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump walked …

Josh Gottheimer denounces ‘completely untrue’ letter detailing fake scandal involving staffer  —  Rep. Josh Gottheimer is denouncing a letter mailed to elected officials in recent days that purports to be one from Gottheimer announcing his resignation because of a personal scandal.

Stephen Miller wants Border Patrol, not asylum officers, to determine migrant asylum claims  —  Officials say Miller has long seen asylum officers as soft and believes Border Patrol agents would be tougher critics of asylum seekers.  —  WASHINGTON — White House adviser Stephen Miller wants …

Trump Intel Pick John Ratcliffe Started Theory of FBI Anti-Trump ‘Secret Society’  —  The congressman debuted the mysterious text messages on Fox News.  It became a mini-scandal before the full context became known.  —  Donald Trump's new pick for Director of National Intelligence played …

DCCC faces mass staff upheaval after uproar over diversity  —  The top echelon of staffers at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee left their jobs Monday, a shakeup following a pair of POLITICO stories detailing deep unease with the party's campaign apparatus over a lack of diversity.

Two Men Arrested for Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS  —  John Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Michael Bailey, the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, Michael McGarrity, Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division …

Is Sally Quinn an Aristocrat?  Let's Ask Sally Quinn  —  Despite not completely miserable DC-area weather, a segment of journalism Twitter users spent part of their weekends debating whether Sally Quinn is an aristocrat.  How did we get here?  It involves Maureen Dowd, Howard Fineman …

How third-party votes sunk Clinton, what they mean for Trump  —  Libertarians and Greens may try to convince you that higher turnout reflects growing support for their parties.  It doesn't  —  Republicans want an election about socialism.  They likely won't get one When Trump attacks …

The Trump Strain in American History  —  White supremacy has its own peculiar logic, to which the president is peculiarly attuned.  —  President Trump has done nothing for his white working-class voters.  His signature tax cut was a giveaway to powerful business interests and wealthy heirs.

Inside Trump's 'Apprentice'-worthy showdown with airline CEOs  —  Exclusive: The president rebuffed U.S. airlines and trade adviser Peter Navarro in a tense Oval Office meeting.  —  WASHINGTON — The three largest U.S. airlines presumed that President Donald Trump would take their side in a ferocious …