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.

‘Lock Her Up!’ but no ‘Send her Back!’ chant at Trump rally in Ohio  —  CINCINNATI (Reuters) - This time, he didn't quite go there.  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday briefly renewed his criticism of four minority Democratic congresswomen at his first rally since controversy erupted …

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 …

‘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 …

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.

Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty is dead  —  A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race.  —  The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday.

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.)

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

‘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.

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.

Saudi Arabia allows women to travel without permission from men  —  Saudi Arabia said Friday that it would allow women to travel without the permission of a male relative, loosening a system that rights advocates say has long relegated Saudi women to second-class citizens …

Erick Erickson, It's Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg's Bedroom  —  Erick Erickson seems creepily focused on Pete Buttigieg's sexuality, and alleged hypocrisy.  He would do better to take on Buttigieg's message about Christian behavior and ethics.  —  Erick Erickson really doesn't like …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

Toward an Electoral College-Free Future  —  As has been the case for over 200 years, the next president will be chosen by an 18th century anachronism.  American voters deserve better.  —  Add to Pocket  —  “Abolish the Electoral College,” Bernie Sanders recently tweeted.

Hong Kong police arrest pro-independence figure amid further protests  —  Founder of the banned Hong Kong National party among eight arrests by police as public servants prepare to march  —  Hong Kong police have arrested eight people, including a prominent pro-independence activist …