Rep. Will Hurd: It's time to serve my country in a different way  —  There are many reasons why I love America.  I have learned over my three terms in Congress, by representing people that voted for me, didn't vote for me or didn't vote at all, that America is better than the sum of its parts.

Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy Dies After Overdose at Family's Compound  —  BOSTON — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., according to two people close to the family.

Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money  —  Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is reviving an investigation into payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign.  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump's family business …

China threatens retaliation for Trump's planned tariff hike  —  BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday threatened retaliation if U.S. President Donald Trump's planned tariff hikes go ahead, while the renewed acrimony between the two biggest global economies sent stock markets tumbling.

‘Stay away from Barack’: Dems seethe over criticism of Obama  —  Joe Biden is fair game.  Barack Obama is not.  —  Former Obama White House officials and allies responded in force Thursday to stress that message after several Democratic contenders criticized the former president in a debate …

Boris Johnson's party suffers defeat in UK special election  —  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's governing Conservative Party has a lost a special election, leaving it with a wafer-thin working majority in Parliament of just one vote.  —  Jane Dodds of the opposition …

Exclusive: FBI document warns conspiracy theories are a new domestic terrorism threat  —  The FBI for the first time has identified fringe conspiracy theories as a domestic terrorist threat, according to a previously unpublicized document obtained by Yahoo News.  (Read the document below.)

Rep. Elijah Cummings' Baltimore Home Burglarized, Police Say  —  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are investigating after the home of Rep. Elijah Cummings was broken into early Saturday morning.  —  The burglary occurred around 3:40 a.m. at his Baltimore home in the 2000 block of Madison Avenue.

U.S. preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in initial deal with Taliban  —  The Trump administration is preparing to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in exchange for concessions from the Taliban, including a cease-fire and a renunciation of al-Qaeda …

After Trump cites Amazon concerns, Pentagon reexamines $10 billion JEDI cloud contract process  —  The White House has instructed newly installed Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper to reexamine the awarding of the military's massive cloud-computing contract because of concerns that the deal would go to Amazon …

Trump's pick for national intelligence director is disengaged from committee work on Capitol Hill, officials say  —  President Trump's nominee to be the nation's next spy chief is regarded as a relatively disengaged member of the House Intelligence Committee and is little known across the ranks …

A Christian Satire Site Says Fact-Checkers Are Helping Facebook De-Platform Conservatives  —  The Babylon Bee, a self-proclaimed Christian satire site with half a million followers on Facebook, has accused fact-checking site Snopes.com of unfairly debunking some of its satirical articles as fake news.

N.Y. Rep. Eliot Engel says Pelosi's reluctance on impeachment will ‘change,’ predicts formal inquiry is imminent  —  Eliot Engel believes it's only a matter of time before the House launches a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump.  —  The Bronx-repping congressman …

Bill de Blasio makes fliers wait on tarmac so he can rush to ‘The View’  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio made Delta passengers wait in their seats on the tarmac at La Guardia Airport for 10 minutes Thursday after flying back from his less-than-stellar performance in the Detroit debate — so that he and his security detail could deplane first.

‘Fast & Furious’ Stars' Complicated Demand—I Never Want to Lose a Fight  —  Franchise leads Vin Diesel, Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson wrestle for more ‘muscle’ time, forcing fight choreographers to get creative  —  LOS ANGELES—Vin Diesel didn't want to look like a wimp.

Trump escalates attacks on Baltimore and other cities — says federal funds have been ‘stolen,’ ‘wasted’  —  CINCINNATI — President Trump on Thursday escalated his attacks on Baltimore and other diverse, liberal cities, telling a crowd in this key swing state that Democrats …

Tulsi Gabbard's Syria record shows why she can't be president  —  Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) talks often about her January 2017 trip to Syria, when she met Bashar al-Assad, toured Aleppo after it had been reduced to rubble (by the Assad regime), and interviewed Syrian civilians …

Revealed: Johnson ally's firm secretly ran Facebook propaganda network  —  Sir Lynton Crosby's firm CTF has built unbranded disinformation pages for Saudi Arabia and major polluters  —  The lobbying firm run by Boris Johnson's close ally Sir Lynton Crosby has secretly built a network of unbranded …

Kris Kobach Uses Border Wall Group to Fund Senate Bid, Likely Illegally  —  The former Kansas secretary of state has used his perch at We Build the Wall to raise campaign money.  That's a no-no, experts say.  —  Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is using a nonprofit group …

John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead U.S. intelligence claims he arrested 300 illegal immigrants in a single day.  He didn't.  —  President Trump's choice to lead the nation's intelligence community often cites a massive roundup of immigrant workers at poultry plants in 2008 as a highlight of his career.

Carleton College Suspended a Student for Drunken Sex.  He Appealed.  Then They Expelled Him.  —  Should continuing to assert your innocence be seen as a sign of guilt?  After issuing a three-semester suspension to football player “John Doe” for sexual assault, Carleton College in Minnesota gave …

Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group  —  Three National Rifle Association board members who have raised concerns about reports of reckless spending and mismanagement by the group's leadership resigned Thursday, another sign of mounting dissent within the nation's most powerful gun-rights group.

Marianne Williamson Knows How to Beat Trump  —  We need an uprising of decency.  —  If only ...  If only Donald Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate over whether private health insurance should be illegal.  If only Trump were not president, we could have an interesting debate …

Trump to sanction Russia over chemical weapons use  —  President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on Russia for its use of chemical weapons in the 2018 attack on the Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, according to two U.S. officials.

Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class  —  Wages stalled but costs haven't, so people increasingly rent or finance what their parents might have owned outright  —  The American middle class is falling deeper into debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle.

Ignoring Trump's racism betrays our country's victims  —  I had fully intended to ignore President Trump's latest round of racially charged taunts against an African American elected official, and an African American activist, and an African American journalist and a whole city with a lot of African Americans in it.