Trump called Fox News correspondent into Oval Office to argue he wasn't wrong about Alabama  —  (CNN)Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts had just finished his 3 p.m. live shot on Thursday when President Donald Trump beckoned him into the Oval Office.

Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul  —  Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump's long-shot primary challengers.  —  Republican parties in South Carolina …

'It's Kind of Like an Addiction': On the Road With Trump's Rally Diehards  —  Libby DePiero is almost always one of the first few people in line at the president's campaign events, part of the self-described group of ‘Front Row Joes’ who routinely travel to see the president perform.

Former Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz announces he will not run for president  —  Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz formally abandoned his pursuit of an independent campaign for president Friday, telling his supporters in a letter that he found it tougher than he expected to capture …

House Dems investigate Pence stay at Trump's Doonbeg, Ireland resort  —  House Democrats are investigating Vice President Mike Pence's decision to stay at President Trump's golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, claiming the move could have possibly violated the emoluments clause in the Constitution and is …

And Now, a Word From a Fanatic  —  Inside the mind of an internet extremist.  —  I am a sick man.  I am a spiteful man.  I am an unattractive man.  I believe my liver is diseased.  —  I am one of those fanatics on the alt-right and the alt-left, the ones who make online forums so vicious …

American Airlines mechanic in Miami charged with sabotaging plane.  It aborted takeoff.  —  An American Airlines mechanic was arrested Thursday on a sabotage charge accusing him of disabling a navigation system on a flight with 150 people aboard before it was scheduled to take off from Miami International Airport earlier this summer.

It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, It's How You Set the Expectations  —  This week, the Biden campaign put reporters and political insiders on notice: despite being the longstanding frontrunner in national polls, they are not counting on winning the Iowa caucus.

Trump Aides' Poll Finds Gun Control Politically Problematic for the President  —  President Trump assured Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, on Thursday that he was still considering legislation that could include background checks for gun buyers.

Boris Johnson visits a farm, steers bull into police officer  —  LONDON — The steaks have never been so high for Boris Johnson, who has vowed to steer Britain out of the European Union and lead the country forward.  —  But things haven't quite gone to plan for the new prime minister.

CNN's 7-Hour ‘Climate Change’ Town Hall was a man-made disaster for Democrat presidential candidates  —  It's AOC's party now: A self-parody of what Green New Deal woke totalitarianism sounds like, with an abnormal focus on meat.  —  The presidential ambitions of the leading Democrat candidates …

David French DESTROYS Sohrab Ahmari (and the idea of 'illiberal conservatism')  —  Here are a few things that the New York Post's Sohrab Ahmari, noted public Catholic intellectual, apparently believes:  — American Christianity is intolerably beset by tyrannical leftists …

Military Base Loses Funding for New School to Trump's Border Wall  —  WASHINGTON — For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country's war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division …

U.S. Payrolls Rise 130,000, Boosted by 25,000 for Census Count  —  U.S. companies' hiring stumbled in August, likely cementing expectations for a second straight Federal Reserve interest-rate cut as trade uncertainty and softer global growth weigh on the outlook.

Florida man arrested in Walmart shooting threat called himself white nationalist in Facebook post, cops say  —  FBI agents waited more than an hour at the Winter Park home of Richard Dean Clayton's parents before the 26-year-old entered unannounced through the back door.

John ‘Sully’ Sullivan was ‘everything we wanted America to be’  —  Communities of friends, family and admirers in Washington, Massachusetts and Jordan came together this week to mourn the passing of John Sullivan, former U.S. diplomat, husband, father, humanitarian, cancer survivor and the life of every party he attended.

Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI  —  Former FBI Director James Comey influenced the course of the 2016 election, investigated presidential candidates from each party, and was fired by one of them for leading an inquiry into foreign interference with American democracy.

Dismissing Trump as a crumbling, unfit fool will get us four more years.  Don't buy it.  —  The worst can happen again.  Democrats are embarking on a messy primary, Biden is a ripe Trump target, and any 3rd-party candidate could be a spoiler.  —  CONNECT

Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95  —  Until 2017, he was the only leader his country had known since independence in 1980.  He presided over its long decline.  —  Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and later president of independent Zimbabwe …

AG James Investigating Facebook For Possible Antitrust Violations  —  AG James Leads Bipartisan Coalition Investigating Social Media Giant  —  NEW YORK - New York Attorney General Letitia James today released the following statement confirming the bipartisan coalition she's leading investigating …

Dare We Dream of the End of the G.O.P.?  —  In a new book, the pollster Stanley Greenberg predicts a blue tidal wave in 2020.  —  Toward the end of his new book, “R.I.P. G.O.P.,” the renowned Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg makes a thrilling prediction, delivered with the certainty of prophecy.

Haverford student who came this close to hacking Trump tax returns will plead guilty.  Here's how he did it.  —  In the days before the November 2016 election, two Haverford College students came within a hair's breadth of prising Donald Trump's tax returns from a government database.

Farm Loan Delinquencies Surge in U.S. Election Battleground Wisconsin  —  WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Farm loan delinquencies rose to a record high in June at Wisconsin's community banks, data showed on Thursday, a sign President Donald Trump's trade conflicts with China and other countries …

Data Note: A Look At Swing Voters Leading Up To The 2020 Election  —  More than one year out from the general election, there are many factors that could influence voters' decisions to either vote for President Trump or the Democratic nominee or even stay home on November 3, 2020.

Ivanka Trump is acting as if everything is normal  —  Ivanka Trump descended upon Bogota, Colombia, this week to talk about women's empowerment and left us talking about her sleeves.  They were voluminous, bell-shaped swaths of green fabric.  As the first daughter stood in solemn formation …

Buttigieg's first television ad calls for ‘real solutions,’ not polarization  —  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, whose poll numbers have lingered in the single digits this summer after a fast start earlier in the year, is going up with his first television ad …

Exclusive: U.S. congressional probe finds possible lapses in Deutsche Bank controls - sources  —  LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. congressional investigators have identified possible failures in Deutsche Bank AG's (DBKGn.D) money laundering controls in its dealings with Russian oligarchs …

Column: Count Rod Rosenstein, the guy who tapped Robert Mueller, among Trump's toadies.  Sad!  —  Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general once known for setting the Trump-Russia investigation in motion, retired in May. After a long career as a public servant, he wanted to spend more time with Twitter.