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.

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.

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 …

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.

Democrats widen impeachment probe as they confront roadblocks  —  Impeachment may be tough sell for Dems in red districts  —  (CNN)Faced with a time crunch ahead of the 2020 election season, the House Judiciary Committee is broadening its investigation beyond special counsel Robert Mueller's findings …

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 …

One Trump fundraiser was all it took to slash SoulCycle's attendance  —  New data shows attendance dipped in the weeks following the boycott.  —  Last month, cancel culture came for SoulCycle.  —  The stationary bike exercise company's liberal user base was outraged at news …

The Washington Post's lost summer  —  It's been a lost summer for the Washington Post.  —  From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments.  Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the Fourth of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan …

New York announces antitrust investigation into Facebook, kicking off multistate effort  —  Regulators have signaled growing concerns about the breadth of Silicon Valley's power and the industry's access to vast amounts of proprietary data  —  New York is leading a multistate investigation …

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.

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.

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.

“The Most Immoral, Unethical Thing I've Ever Seen In My 15 Years Of Politics” — Inside A Small City Mayor's Campaign For President  —  Wayne Messam's unlikely 2020 campaign has been chaotic from the start.  “It's like we were in some D-list version of The Sopranos.”

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.

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.

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 …

Justice Department Launches Antitrust Probe Into Four Auto Makers  —  Government seeks to determine if Ford, Honda, BMW, VW violated competition law by agreeing with each other to follow emissions standards beyond those proposed by Trump administration  —  WASHINGTON—The Justice Department …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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