Meadows' lackluster defense of Cummings speaks volumes  —  Meadows defends Cummings from Trump attacks  —  Washington (CNN)When Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib accused Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of racism earlier this year, one of his “best friends,” House Oversight Committee chairman …

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 …

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 …

Smearing Mitch McConnell  —  Democrats and the media distort his record on Russia.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Mitch McConnell, the most phlegmatic man in American politics, rarely gets riled up.  But on Monday the Senate Majority Leader let it rip in defense of his reputation, and we're glad he did.

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 …

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 …

Senate fails to override Trump veto on Saudi arms sale  —  The Senate on Monday failed to override President Trump's vetoes of resolutions blocking his arms deal with Saudi Arabia, marking the latest setback for critics of Riyadh.  —  Senators voted 45-40, 45-39 and 46-41 on the override attempts …

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 …

Conservative Democratic Ringleader Josh Gottheimer Gets A Progressive Challenger  —  Arati Kreibich hopes to fight Big Money ― and the New Jersey congressman ― with “people power.”  —  Arati Kreibich says the “straw that broke the camel's back” was the immigration vote last month.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …