Trump Labor Aide Quits After Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts Surface  —  A recently appointed Trump Labor Department official with a history of advancing controversial conservative and faith-based causes in court has resigned after revelations that he wrote a 2016 Facebook post suggesting the Jewish-controlled media “protects their own.”

Brexit: Tory MP defects ahead of crucial no deal vote  —  Conservative MP Phillip Lee has defected to the Liberal Democrats ahead of a showdown between Boris Johnson and Tory rebels over Brexit.  —  Dr Lee, the MP for Bracknell, took his seat on the opposition benches as the PM addressed the Commons.

Trump made ‘suggestion’ Pence stay at president's Irish golf club, VP's chief of staff says  —  “I don't think it was a request, like a command,” Pence's chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Tuesday.  “I think that it was a suggestion.”  —  President Donald Trump suggested …

Scoop: Trump allies raise money to target reporters  —  President Trump's political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of The New York Times, The Washington Post and other outlets, according to a three-page fundraising pitch reviewed by Axios.

U.S. Manufacturing Contracts for First Time in Three Years  —  U.S. factory activity unexpectedly contracted in August for the first time in three years as shrinking orders, production and hiring pushed a widely followed measure of manufacturing to its lowest level since January 2016.

Democrats' messy impeachment push hits critical phase  —  House Democrats return to Capitol Hill next week with an impeachment mess on their hands and just weeks to make a choice that could define the rest of Donald Trump's presidency.  —  Lawmakers faced frequently contentious town halls during …

Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times.  It Proved My Point.  —  columnist Bret Stephens went searching for an online insult last Monday night.  He found a  —  Twitter joke I wrote  —  , calling him a metaphorical bedbug as a riff on the  —  actual bedbugs reported in the

‘Details Are Irrelevant’: Biden Says Verbal Slip-Ups Don't Undermine His Judgment  —  Toggle more options  —  Joe Biden wants voters to look at the big picture.  —  His campaign is focused on a mission to “restore the soul of this nation.”  —  That's also why the former vice president does …

Why Kamala Harris Hasn't Caught Fire in the Democratic 2020 Race  — Attacks on Biden appear to have backfired in the second debate  — Californian faces questions about ideology and prosecutor past  —  Kamala Harris entered the presidential race with impressive credentials …

Trump congratulates Poland on its Nazi invasion anniversary  —  And he still doesn't seem to know what FARC is.  —  President Trump is known to make the odd comment here and there about foreign nations, often because he doesn't seem particularly versed in what's happening in them.

In new book, Mattis takes shots at the president (but not that one)  —  In his new book “Call Sign Chaos,” former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis makes it clear early that he isn't ready to gossip about his messy exit from President Donald Trump's administration and “I don't write about sitting presidents.”

The Five Millennials (Actually) Changing the World  —  So here we are, a generation munching on the last greens of its salad days, saddled with dull, decade-old complaints about our coddledness, our entitlement, our selfies, our political correctness — most blah-blah-blah of all, by the boring cliché of our avocado toast.

Trump's Wacky, Angry, and Extreme August  —  President Trump ended August as he began it, with a blast of angry tweets, ad-hominem insults, and bizarre fulminations that have become so standard that they no longer receive the attention they deserve—emanating, as they do, from the world's most powerful leader.

Governing by Owning the Libs  —  Fine: Donald Trump wanted to buy Greenland, or at least wanted to talk about wanting to buy Greenland.  Presidents are allowed to be silly and imperialist; taking over Greenland is mild stuff compared with, say, planting a flag on the moon.

De Blasio logged a 7-hour work month at City Hall  —  Mayor de Blasio spent a mere seven hours — less than one full workday — at City Hall during the month he launched his bid for the White House, records reviewed by The Post show.  —  Hizzoner showed up at his office on just six occasions in May …

Joe Manchin skips run for governor  —  Joe Manchin will not run for governor of West Virginia in 2020, the Democratic senator announced Tuesday.  —  The decision is likely to be a relief to Democrats, who would struggle to hold on to the seat in the future, and keeps one of the few remaining centrists in the Senate.

Why More Dogs and Cats Are Making It Out of Shelters Alive  —  A cultural transformation: Spaying and neutering are now the norm, and rescue adoption is growing in popularity.  —  DALLAS — When a lost, stray or abandoned pet entered an American city's animal shelter 10 years ago, there was a good chance it would not leave.

Democracy Dies From Bad Fact Checking  —  The Washington Post is feeding into Trump's agenda by turning fact checking into an ideological weapon.  —  The Washington Post has fallen into the habit of accusing Bernie Sanders of misleading the public even in cases where the evidence is strongly on the side of the Vermont senator.

Former Navy SEAL enters Yale as a 52-year-old freshman  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Former Navy SEAL James Hatch says heading to class as a freshman at Yale University is just about as nerve-wracking as preparing for the uncertainty of combat.  —  At 52 years old, Hatch does not fit the profile of the traditional Yale freshman.

McConnell remains noncommittal on gun control after Texas mass shooting  —  After another mass shooting over the weekend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell remained noncommittal Tuesday about bringing new gun safety legislation to a vote, instead putting the onus on the White House to first decide what it would support.

President Trump, Weatherman: Dorian Updates and at Least 122 Tweets  —  WASHINGTON — Over the long weekend, President Trump monitored Hurricane Dorian from a golf cart at his club in Virginia, calling for regular updates from an aide trailing him around the course.