Dow drops more than 300 points after Trump orders US companies to look for ‘alternative to China’  —  China plans to raise import tariffs on $75 billion worth of US goods  —  Stocks fell to their lows of the day on Friday after President Donald Trump ordered in a series tweets …

Federal Agencies Have Been Sending Employees Links To White Nationalist And Conspiracy Websites For Months  —  An arm of the Justice Department regularly sent summaries and links to articles from an online white nationalist publication over the last year, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For Cancer  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has just completed three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the U.S. Supreme Court disclosed Friday.  —  The radiation therapy, conducted on an outpatient basis …

The Trump Administration Asked The Supreme Court To Legalize Firing Workers Simply For Being Gay  —  The Trump administration took its hardest line yet to legalize anti-gay discrimination on Friday when it asked the Supreme Court to declare that federal law allows private companies to fire workers based only on their sexual orientation.

The Adults In The Room  —  There is a version of the story of this company in which idealistic journalists, unconcerned with profit, are posed against ruthless business-doers, concerned about profit above all else.  That would be a convenient story, pitching me and my colleagues and friends …

A Penn Law Professor Wants to Make America White Again  —  Amy Wax, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, is the academic who perhaps best represents the ideology of the Trump Administration's immigration restrictionists.  Wax, who began her professional life as a neurologist …

Seth Moulton Ends 2020 Presidential Campaign With a Warning  —  Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a candidacy that emphasized Mr. Moulton's centrist politics and military service but gained no traction with Democratic primary voters.

David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, dies at 79  —  He and his brother, Charles Koch, helped to build a massive conservative network of donors to support libertarian-leaning economic policies.  —  David Koch, billionaire conservative activist and philanthropist, has died.

Amazon fires spark Macron threat to kill South America trade deal  —  BIARRITZ, France — The Amazon rainforest is ablaze, and Emmanuel Macron feels like he just got burned.  —  Only two months after Europe concluded a landmark trade deal with the South American Mercosur bloc …

African American employee's office vandalized inside Education Department  —  African art figurines were found beheaded and a school desegregation poster was damaged, leading to fears the attack was racially motivated.  —  WASHINGTON — The office of an African American employee …

Candidate: Michigan city should be as white ‘as possible’  —  MARYSVILLE, Mich. (AP) — A city council candidate in Michigan said Friday she has no plans to end her campaign after shocking a public forum when she said she wants to keep her community white “as much as possible.”

Joe Biden, Recalling '68, Asks Audience to Imagine Obama's Assassination  —  “Imagine what would have happened if, God forbid, Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the de facto nominee,” Mr. Biden said, evoking the tumult of 1968.  —  HANOVER, N.H. — Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr …

Trump has questioned why he must attend G7  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump departs late Friday for a summit he's questioned is worth his time.  —  This year's G7 gathering, held in seaside France, is Trump's third.  It comes amid global economic jitters, tensions from the Mideast …

Trump Clarification Syndrome  —  In December, 2003, the columnist Charles Krauthammer made a brief return to his first career, as a psychiatrist.  Writing in the Washington Post, he said, “It has been 25 years since I discovered a psychiatric syndrome (for the record: 'Secondary Mania …

Trump's banks won't tell court if they have his tax returns  —  New York (CNN)Lawyers for Deutsche Bank and Capital One repeatedly refused Friday to tell an appellate court in New York whether the banks are in possession of President Donald Trump's tax returns, citing “contractual obligations” …

The ‘1619 Project’ Isn't Anti-American — It's Anti-White Identity Politics  —  Your great saints were child rapists.  Your sacred texts are false alibis for a world-historic crime.  That isn't a hill your shining city sits upon, but the unmarked graves of men it condemned to unlived lives.

The Very Real Possibility of President Elizabeth Warren  —  Can she beat Trump?  There's a plan for that  —  Not too many campaign websites first ask visitors if they are unsure about the candidate in question.  But if you click the “I'm not sure yet” button on the ElizabethWarren.com launch page …

The speech we want to hear: ‘This is madness’  —  President Trump's increasingly manic, irrational and incoherent rants have not provoked a significant response from the Democratic presidential contenders.  Perhaps they don't want to interrupt while Trump is in the process of self-destruction.

Innocent man spent months in jail for bringing honey back to United States  —  Leon Haughton likes honey in his tea.  Which is why during his Christmas visit to relatives in Jamaica, he made his regular stop and bought three bottles from a favorite roadside stand before heading home to Maryland.

'I'm Radioactive'  —  Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times.  Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix under conditions he describes as a form of psychological house arrest.  There are no visitors, and his few remaining friends rarely call.

Russia's first seaborne nuclear power plant sets sail across Arctic  —  Lev Sergeev, Maxim Shemetov  —  MURMANSK, Russia (Reuters) - Russia's first floating nuclear power plant set sail on Friday from the Arctic port of Murmansk to provide power to one of the country's most remote regions, sparking environmental concerns.

Amazon Has Ceded Control of Its Site.  The Result: Thousands of Banned, Unsafe or Mislabeled Products  —  Just like tech companies that have struggled to tackle misinformation on their platforms, Amazon has proven unable or unwilling to effectively police third-party sellers on its site

Barr Seized on Epstein Case as Doubts Mounted About Justice Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr was at home in his study, working on a speech, when the call came from his chief of staff: Jeffrey Epstein, the financier accused of sex trafficking who had connections to an array …

Top Democrat from L.L. Bean town erases logo from her Patagonia jacket in campaign video  —  Maine Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon's campaign quietly erased a Patagonia logo from a jacket she wore in a video used in Facebook ads soliciting donations to her campaign.