Jeffrey Epstein Raped Me When I Was 15  —  Now I'm suing his estate and accomplices.  —  Ms. Araoz has filed a lawsuit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein.  —  The first time I stepped into Jeffrey Epstein's mansion on the Upper East Side in the fall of 2001, I noticed his security cameras.

Main yield curve inverts as 2-year yield tops 10-year rate, triggering recession warning  —  KEY POINTS  — The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was at 1.623%, below the 2-year yield at 1.634%.  — The last inversion of this part of the yield curve was in December 2005 …

Stacey Abrams Says She's Open to Being Vice President for Any Democratic Nominee  —  Ms. Abrams, who announced this week that she would not run for president, told The Times she would be ‘honored to be considered.’  —  Stacey Abrams made it official this week that she would not seek …

A Kremlin-Linked Firm Invested Millions in Kentucky.  Were They After More Than Money?  —  Last summer, it looked like things were finally about to change for Ashland, Ky. For two decades, the jobs that once supported this Appalachian outpost of 20,000 people on a bend in the Ohio River …

Biden keeps large lead in SC's 2020 Democratic presidential primary  —  COLUMBIA — Despite two shaky debates and some recent misstatements, South Carolina Democratic voters still prefer former Vice President Joe Biden in the South's first presidential primary.

Trump Needs a Primary Challenge  —  The case for a contender from the right.  —  Mr. Walsh is a former Republican member of Congress from Illinois.  —  There's a strong case for President Trump to face a Republican primary challenger.  I know a thing or two about insurgencies.

Beto O'Rourke to deliver campaign reset speech Thursday  —  DALLAS — Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke plans to deliver his first major, written address on Thursday, offering a reset of his presidential campaign, a new focus and a fresh strategy for going forward in the wake of a mass shooting …

Anti-New York White Supremacist Hate is Rising, NYPD Says  —  When white nationalist Garrett Kelsey discovered an internet video castigating Nordic neo-Nazis, he allegedly turned his fury on the Manhattan-based Jewish group that posted it.  —  From his home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa …

Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents  —  Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation

Waning of American Power?  Trump Struggles With an Asia in Crisis  —  The Trump administration has taken a hands-off approach to conflicts — from Kashmir to Hong Kong to the rivalry between Japan and South Korea — as Asian officials escalate the battles.  —  阅读.体 …

Jeffrey Epstein Death: 2 Guards Slept Through Checks and Falsified Records  —  The guards did not check on him for three hours, officials said.  The disclosures came as the guards and the warden at the jail were removed.  —  The two guards who were in the jail unit where Jeffrey Epstein …

Everyone will eventually turn on Trump.  Even Steve Doocy.  —  It's too soon to say when Donald Trump's presidency will end, but it's not too soon to say how it will end.  It will end in disgrace.  And when it does, Trump's defenders will turn on him.  —  Some already have.

Top Pence aide will move to Pentagon as new press secretary  —  Alyssa Farah is leaving her job as Vice President Pence's spokeswoman at the end of the month and will join the Defense Department as press secretary, starting in September.  —  Farah began her tenure at the White House almost two years ago …

Trump Advisers Are Wary as President Considers Gun Proposals  —  Following mass shootings, Trump is interested in exploring legislation with new gun restrictions, but his aides are divided on the right approach  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's public push for gun-control measures …

Rot of journalism ethics at New York Times has turned into leftist plague  —  There's not a single journalist, dead or alive, who hasn't missed a story, made a mistake or mangled a quote.  It comes with the territory of writing history's first draft on deadline, with the consolation that there's a new story and new chance tomorrow.

Why the Secret Service spent thousands at a Trump hotel  —  Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son, flew to Canada for one of his regular visits to the Yukon mountains to hunt stone sheep with friends.  He was accompanied by Secret Service agents on that August 2017 trip …

My Son's Freshman Orientation At Virginia Tech Was Full Of Leftist Propaganda  —  Now that I have witnessed college propaganda firsthand, I refuse to ignore the indefensible and discriminatory behavior of the liberal campus bullies anymore.  —  Are taxpayers funding academic institutions to indoctrinate our kids?

Ken Cuccinelli: Statue Of Liberty Poem About ‘People Coming From Europe’  —  Trump's citizenship and immigration chief followed up his earlier comments about the famous Emma Lazarus poem with a racist clarification.  —  Ken Cuccinelli, the Trump administration's acting head of U.S. Citizenship …

Ocasio-Cortez's Known Donors From Her Own District Are Nearly Non-Existent, FEC Records Show  — Only 10 people who live within Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's congressional district have been recorded making donations to her reelection campaign in 2019, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis …

Over 70,000 people sign petition to rename Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower after Obama  —  More than 70,000 people have signed onto a petition that seeks to rename the portion of Fifth Avenue in front of the Trump Tower in Manhattan after former President Obama.

Lewandowski leads GOP US Senate field in poll conducted by Trump pollster  —  Survey of likely GOP Senate voters released by Lewandowski friend, ally, Bossie  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski leads the 2020 Republican U.S. Senate field …

Man Sues CNN's Don Lemon for Alleged Assault at Sag Harbor Bar  —  A man is suing Don Lemon, claiming the CNN host attacked him at a Hamptons bar last summer.  The suit, obtained by Mediaite, was filed Sunday and seeks unspecified damages for “emotional pain and suffering.”

California's Trump tax return law raises fears of Republican lockout  —  OAKLAND — California's new law requiring candidates' tax returns may be aimed at Donald Trump, but its most consequential effects would likely be felt downballot if it survives a legal challenge.

Job posting: White House economics reporter  —  The Washington Post is seeking a White House economics reporter to spearhead coverage of a critically important policy area.  —  The successful candidate will take on the primary role in chronicling how President Trump, his top advisers …

National Review's ugly attack on me reflects the Trumpification of conservatism  —  I grew up reading National Review in the 1980s.  As I described in “The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right,” my father got me a subscription when I was 13 years old, and it shaped my worldview.

‘Keep the Hasidic Out’: A Small-Town Housing Showdown  —  Developers say local leaders in the Hudson Valley are blocking a housing project in order to keep out Hasidic Jews.  —  CHESTER, N.Y. — In a peaceful corner of the Hudson Valley, a broad expanse of land sits at the ready for hundreds …

D.C. mayor says she will not accept federal shelter for unaccompanied migrant children  —  D.C. officials and immigration advocates on Tuesday criticized plans by the federal government to house unaccompanied migrant children in Washington.  —  Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said the city has …

AOC Pwns Barstool Sports Creator For Threatening Employees Over Unionizing  —  Dave Portnoy really ought to know better than this, but apparently testosterone trumps brains.  —  Dave Portnoy, the creator of Barstool Sports, threatened he would fire all his employees if they responded …

Biden camp jumped into damage control after upsetting Latino leaders  —  Joe Biden's presidential campaign is quietly playing cleanup with dozens of immigration activists and Latino leaders — weeks after upsetting them by using what they considered loaded language to describe his views on immigration policy.

Trump appears to back off plans to commute Blagojevich's sentence after pushback from Illinois Republicans  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump was on the cusp of commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's sentence late last week, multiple sources said.  But then Republican members …

America Wasn't a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One  —  Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written.  For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true. … My dad always flew an American flag in our front yard.