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.

'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.

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 …

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 …

RIP ThinkProgress: The Top Progressive News Site Has Shut Down  —  A search had been underway for a new publisher.  But none was found.  —  ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in the shadow of the Bush administration and helped define progressivism during the Obama years, is shutting down.

Trump Administration Considers a Drastic Cut in Refugees Allowed to Enter the U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is considering a plan that would effectively bar refugees from most parts of the world from resettling in the United States by cutting back the decades-old program that admits tens …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

The jobs report is even weaker than it seems, shows an economy on tenterhooks at Trump's trade war  —  On it's face, the August jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn't look too bad for the economy.  The economy added 130,000 jobs, missing the 150,000 mark expected by economists.

“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.”

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 …

Trump may have committed tax fraud by fabricating a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million  — A bombshell investigation by Mother Jones found that President Donald Trump may have invented a loan to avoid paying income taxes on nearly $50 million.

Trump tries to force Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 election  —  UKRAINE'S NEOPHYTE president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took a big step this week toward proving that he will be, as he promised, the most pro-reform president in Ukraine's history.  On Monday, he laid out a breathtakingly ambitious …

Buttigieg launches TV ad campaign in Iowa  —  Pete Buttigieg began a TV blitz in Iowa on Friday, starting his first serious paid advertising effort in the first caucus state.  —  Buttigieg's new ad, which is running on TV and digital platforms, leans into his biography as a veteran and a mayor.

Mike Pence will get nothing for his humiliation  —  Vice President Mike Pence is the rare servant who pays his master.  —  This week he visited Ireland, where he stayed at one of President Trump's properties, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Doonbeg.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

‘You need to ask first’: Iowa teacher blasts Biden for grabbing her hands when she asked him a question  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Joe Biden left an Iowa teacher unimpressed with his canned response to her question about collective bargaining, but what she resented more was how he abruptly seized her hands and clung onto them.

Trump Cuts “Muscle” from European Defense to Fund Border Wall  —  The list of military construction projects the Trump administration is defunding to pay for its controversial border wall includes more than $770 million from an initiative started by the Obama administration to shore …

The Real Donald Trump Is a Character on TV  —  Understand that, and you'll understand who he is and what he's doing in the White House.  —  Mr. Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The Times and the author of “Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television and the Fracturing of America.”

Why Steve King's Supporters Are Staying Loyal  —  HOLSTEIN, IOWA—One of Representative Steve King's most ardent defenders is a man named Mark Leonard.  And Mark Leonard is obsessed with the Civil War.  —  A few times every year, the 63-year-old chair of the Ida County Republicans travels to Gettysburg …

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 …