Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale  —  The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the murder of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Anthony Scaramucci Mum On Goodbyes to Trump, Send-off Message for Gen. Kelly  —  Anthony Scaramucci is not done with D.C. yet — the morning after he bolted from the White House, he was cruising out of the Trump Hotel ... and talking about his future.  —  This is the first time the Mooch …

Kushner On Middle East Peace: “What Do We Offer That's Unique?  I Don't Know.”  —  ON MONDAY, WHITE House senior advisor Jared Kushner spoke to a group of congressional interns as part of an ongoing, off-the-record summer lecture series.  During the question-and-answer portion of the event …

Full transcript: Trump's Wall Street Journal interview  —  President Donald Trump called his son-in-law a “good boy” while thanking Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker for a positive editorial about Kushner and said the leader of the Boy Scouts told him his jamboree speech was “the greatest speech ever made to them.”

US detects ‘highly unusual’ North Korean submarine activity  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — An ejection test examines a missile's “cold-launch system,” which uses high pressure steam to propel a missile out of the launch canister  —  Washington (CNN)The US military has detected …

Debt-ceiling talks between White House, Senate break up with no progress  —  Talks between the White House and the Senate's top Republican and Democrat broke up Tuesday with no progress on raising the country's debt ceiling, an impasse that threatens a financial crisis if left unresolved.

An anti-immigrant group mistook empty bus seats for women wearing burqas  —  Last week, a photograph that appeared to show six women wearing burqas on a bus sparked a heated debate in a private Facebook group for Norwegians critical of immigration.  —  For many members of the group …

‘Black America’: Amazon Alt-History Drama From Will Packer & Aaron McGruder Envisions Post-Reparations America  —  EXCLUSIVE: A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the U.S., the wounds left by one of the darkest periods in American history are far from healed …

Acting DEA Chief Rebuts Trump's Remarks on Police Use of Force  —  Rosenberg memo to agency staff says to disregard suggestion that suspects should be roughed up  —  WASHINGTON—The nation's top narcotics officer repudiated President Donald Trump's remarks about police use of force …

When Progressives Embrace Hate  —  A mere half-year ago, before collusion and Comey, before Mika's face and Muslim bans and the Mooch, there was a shining moment where millions of Americans flooded the streets in cities across the country to register their rage that an unapologetic misogynist had just been made leader of the free world.

Democratic rising star Kamala Harris has a “Bernieland” problem  —  Freshman Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has recently become the subject of much speculation about a potential 2020 presidential run.  Several major news outlets have run feature-length profiles of Harris …

President Trump's reference to ‘paddy wagon’ insults Irish Americans like me  —  The use of the derogatory phrase “paddy wagon” wasn't the worst thing President Trump said last week.  But it shouldn't get lost amid the litany of objectionable utterances.  —  In a speech on Long Island Friday …

Obama's Inner Circle Is Urging Deval Patrick to Run  —  BOSTON — Barack Obama is nudging him to run.  His inner circle is actively encouraging it.  Obama world's clear and away 2020 favorite is sitting right here, on the 38th floor of the John Hancock Building, in a nicely decorated office at Bain Capital.

Sanders: Trump Worked On Jr.'s Russia Statement ‘As Any Father Would’  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday said President Donald Trump did “as any father would” when he worked on a statement brushing off his eldest son's June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer as insignificant.

The Republican Party is dead  —  The Republican Party is dead.  —  At one time, the blood of the people coursed through its veins, enlivening the party with their values and virtues, their goals and dreams.  The party became its own energizing force, compelling people to sacrifice for a higher moral purpose.

Coast Guard ‘will not break faith’ with transgender members, leader says  —  Coast Guard officials reached out personally to their transgender service members to express support after President Trump's announcement of a new policy barring transgender people in the military, according to Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft.

Homes displaying American Flag are targets of hate mail  —  Some residents in Marlborough say the American Flags flying outside their homes are making them the target of hate mail.  —  While the people who got the hate mail say they are disturbed by what they found in their mailbox …

State Department considers scrubbing democracy promotion from its mission  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has ordered his department to redefine its mission and issue a new statement of purpose to the world.  The draft statements under review right now are similar to the old mission statement …

North Carolina enacts Restore Campus Free Speech Act  —  Stanley Kurtz reports that the state of North Carolina has enacted the Restore Campus Free Speech Act.  This is the first comprehensive campus free-speech legislation to be based on the Goldwater Institute proposal that Stanley helped develop.