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.

'We're All Tired of Being Called Racists'  —  CINCINNATI—Donald Trump's supporters would like to be clear: They are tired of being called racists.  —  Leave it to the president's eldest son to set the tone.  Last night at the 17,500-person-capacity U.S. Bank Arena downtown here …

Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?  —  “I DON'T understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …

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.

White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup  —  It's unclear what the White House will do with the list.  People on it may be eligible to temporarily lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  —  The Trump administration is taking inventory …

Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI  —  Newly revealed FBI memo warns about conspiracy theories' causal connection to extremist violence  —  On Thursday, Yahoo! News published an exclusive story detailing a May 2019 FBI assessment that online conspiracy theories …

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.

Booker's claim that Democrats lost Michigan because of Russian and GOP suppression  —  “We lost the state of Michigan because everybody from Republicans to Russians were targeting the suppression of African American voters.”  —  These remarks jumped out at us during the second night of the debate …

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Dies After Overdose  —  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.

First on NBC: Klobuchar meets donor threshold, clinching spot in next Dem debate  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Amy Klobuchar has met the donor threshold to compete in September's third Democratic debate, her campaign said early Friday morning.  —  In an email to supporters less than forty-eight hours …

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 …

Donald Trump doubts Russian meddling in 2020 election, disputing Robert Mueller  —  Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and helped Donald Trump win.  We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again?  —  CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump …

Payrolls rise 164,000 as labor force sets a record high  —  KEY POINTS  — The Labor Department reports that payrolls increased 164,000 during July, just 1,000 below the 165,000 Dow Jones forecast.  — Wages increased 3.2% year over year, topping expectations by one-tenth of a percentage point.

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 …

Trump Makes 9/11 and Dad's Funeral All About Him  —  From his claims to first responders and his self-regarding Fred Trump eulogy to his bombastic Cincinnati rally, the narcissistic shtick is wearing thin.  —  President Donald Trump started the week with a Rose Garden ceremony …

POLITICO Playbook: A gutting few weeks for the GOP  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IF YOU ARE A HOUSE REPUBLICAN, this has been an absolutely gutting few weeks.  And, truly, if someone is trying to spin you on how the political picture is not that bad for the House GOP right now — at this moment …

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.

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.

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 …

Conservatives Are Hiding Their ‘Loathing’ Behind Our Flag  —  The molten core of right-wing nationalism is the furious denial of America's unalterably multiracial, multicultural national character.  —  The Republican Party under Donald Trump has devolved into a populist cult of personality.

The debaters eerily sounded like ‘America First’ Democrats  —  This week's Democratic presidential debates included little substantive discussion of foreign policy — even about an imminent troop-withdrawal agreement for Afghanistan — and most of the candidates seemed as eager to retreat from the world as President Trump.

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 …

Toward an Electoral College-Free Future  —  “Abolish the Electoral College,” Bernie Sanders recently tweeted.  The Senator's statement was in response to an op-ed authored by The Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, who posited that though President Donald Trump suffers …