‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall.  He wants it black.  And he wants it by Election Day.  —  President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars' worth …

My husband dumped me for Ilhan Omar, DC mom says in divorce filing  —  A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.  —  Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett …

Cheers!  Barr books Trump's hotel for $30,000 holiday party  —  Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general's independence from president.  —  U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is planning a holiday treat for his boss.

Exclusive: Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. (Reuters) - Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped …

I Called Bret Stephens a Bedbug.  Then He Tried to Squelch My Freedom of Speech.  What a Day.  —  Bret Stephens is above me in the status hierarchy.  He knows this.  I know this.  He has won a Pulitzer Prize and has a regular op-ed column in the  —  New York Times  —  . I am just some professor.

Deutsche Bank Tells Court It Has Some Tax Returns Related to Trump Inquiry  —  Deutsche Bank told a federal appeals court on Tuesday that it was in possession of some tax returns sought by congressional subpoenas issued earlier this year to President Trump, his family and his businesses.

Biden: Racism in US is institutional, 'white man's problem'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man's problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump …

Russia came out the winner of this year's G7 summit despite being kicked out, and Trump looked like 'Putin's puppet'  — This year's G7 summit in France yielded little progress on many of the most pressing issues facing the global community.  — But there was one country that came away with significant gains: Russia.

CNN announces details for climate crisis town hall  —  Washington (CNN)CNN on Tuesday announced the candidate lineup for its unprecedented prime-time event focused on the climate crisis.  —  Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday …

Thoughts on the Impending Prosecution of Andrew McCabe  —  I confess that this story shocks me.  —  The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe …

Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border  —  Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department …

Trump Administration Ends Protection For Migrants' Medical Care  —  Toggle more options  —  Dismaying immigrants and advocates, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has sent out letters saying the agency will no longer consider most deferrals of deportation for people with serious medical conditions, documents show.

‘I was working like a slave’: Exhausted Popeyes employees describe a harrowing situation amid chicken-sandwich chaos, including working 60-hour weeks and shifts with no breaks  — Popeyes and Chick-fil-A engaged in a Twitter battle last week over which chain's chicken sandwich was superior …

Rep. Steve King jokes China should sterilize Uighur women and force the Muslims to eat pork  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) joked at a town hall in Audubon, Iowa, Tuesday about sterilizing Muslim women in China “so there's no more Uighurs to be born,” and “trying to force them to eat pork,” the Sioux City Journal reports.

A Palestinian Harvard Student Said He Was Deported Because Of His Friend's Social Media Posts  —  A Palestinian Harvard freshman's student visa was revoked and he was deported after hours of questioning by immigration officials upon his arrival to the US, the university said Tuesday.

Conservative trolls allied with White House looking to ‘kill’ the wrong messenger |  Opinion  —  “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”  —  So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's “Henry VI, Part 2.”  Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke …

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest  —  President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue …

“ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE A GAFFE-FEST OVER JOE BIDEN?”:  HOW CLICKBAIT AND OUTRAGE PORN ARE HURTING READERS—AND ELEVATING TRUMP  —  Trump wants to drop a nuclear bomb into a hurricane, immigrant children are dying in U.S. custody, and the Amazon rainforest is burning.

How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement  —  Last fall, speaking to a far-right Austrian magazine, the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King succinctly laid out his theory of Western decline.  The problem, he suggested, was a demographic born at the nexus of reproduction and immigration.