Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3  —  At least three people were killed and 12 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said.  —  A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …

Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party  —  As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP.  —  Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.

Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate  —  The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him.  —  “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said.  It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.

My Plan For Medicare For All  —  There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care.  I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer.  And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …

‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop  —  Not long after his anemic performance in the first presidential debate, as his poll numbers began to slide, Joe Biden had conversations with nervous donors and personally assured them his campaign was on track.

Trump's Attack on Baltimore Doesn't Go Far Enough  —  Say what you want about President Trump's Twitter habits, he has a way of suddenly bringing an issue to the surface that people have long known about, but never wanted to confront.  The only problem with his latest tweetstorm about Baltimore is that he hasn't gone far enough.

Don't get complacent.  Things really are that bad under Trump.  —  The economy is humming.  We're not at war (much).  So he can't be that bad, right?  —  Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …

DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.  —  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …

John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes  —  A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.

Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation  —  Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half.  —  As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …

The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies  —  There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama.  But there's also one big difference.  —  Mr. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton.  —  President Trump's political rallies are certainly a spectacle, but a spectacle we've seen before.

The print reader-in-chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet  —  He slams the mainstream media as dishonest liars.  He calls journalists the “enemy of the people.”  He rages at the television hosts he watches during his “Executive Time.”  He hasn't held a traditional White House press conference …

With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry  —  Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.

Journey to power: The history of black voters, 1976 to 2020  —  NBC News has assembled for the first time a record of the black vote for each competitive Democratic presidential campaign since exit polling began.  —  Not that long ago, they were just a slender fraction of the party, one kept at arm's length by presidential candidates.

Boris Johnson won't start Brexit talks unless EU moves on backstop  —  LONDON — Boris Johnson will not meet EU leaders until they agree to change their position on the Northern Irish backstop.  —  The U.K. prime minister has been clear that while he wants to meet EU leaders and negotiate a Brexit deal …

Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says  —  A doctor for Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has suggested the activist has been poisoned after he was hospitalized Sunday after falling mysteriously ill in a Moscow jail.

Trump plan failed to note that it could jeopardize free school lunches for 500,000 children, Democrats say  —  The administration failed to include its analysis of how many schoolchildren would be affected by food stamp changes in its formal proposal, according to a lawmaker who was briefed on the figures.