Fox & Friends: Maybe Trump Wall Was ‘Symbolic’  —  Fox & Friends took viewers on a trip down gaslight alley on Thursday, with the show hosts scrambling to make sense of the alleged deal between Donald Trump and “Chuck and Nancy” to save DACA and punt the border wall until later.

Trump Humiliated Jeff Sessions After Mueller Appointment  —  WASHINGTON — Shortly after learning in May that a special counsel had been appointed to investigate links between his campaign associates and Russia, President Trump berated Attorney General Jeff Sessions in an Oval Office meeting …

Watch: Chuck Schumer caught on hot mic saying Trump ‘likes us’ … Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was caught on a hot mic Thursday saying, “He likes us.  He likes me anyway,” about President Trump.  —  The comments came shortly after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's floor speech.

New Poll: Some Americans Express Troubling Racial Attitudes Even as Majority Oppose White Supremacists  —  Survey conducted by Reuters/Ipsos in conjunction with UVA Center for Politics measures racial sentiments in aftermath of August neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville

Trump thanks media for being ‘so understanding’  —  President Trump extended a rare message of gratitude to the press on Thursday, thanking members of the media for being “so understanding” in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.  —  “Media, we appreciate you being so understanding,” …

Anthony Scaramucci to guest co-host ‘The View’ … Anthony Scaramucci is still a hot topic, and now he's joining the table.  —  The former White House communications director will guest co-host “The View” for the first “Guy Day Friday” of Season 21.  —  He will join the co-hosts at the …

FLASHBACK: Sanders: If We Do Medicaid-For-All Type Plan, It Would Bankrupt The Nation  —  “If we expanded Medicaid to everybody...we would be spending such an astronomical sum of money...we would bankrupt the nation,” Sanders said in 1987.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) …

Clinton: It's time to abolish the Electoral College  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic nominee sought to explain why she lost the 2016 election.

Redoing the Electoral Math  —  I argued that demographics favored the Democrats.  I was wrong.  —  If any force on Earth could be powerful enough to unite the Democratic Party, you'd have thought the words “President Donald Trump” would do the trick.  Instead, Hillary Clinton's defeat …

Ivanka Trump: ‘I will not be distracted by the noise’  —  In a rare interview, the controversial first daughter talks expectations, criticism and what comes next

Reminder: Susan Rice Lied About Her Role In The Obama Admin Unmasking Scandal  —  On March 22, Rep. Devin Nunes made his ham-fisted disclosure that the Obama administration had conducted incidental surveillance collection and unmasking of Trump administration officials.

Sean Spicer A Ratings Magnet For Jimmy Kimmel, As Donald Trump Forecast  —  As President Donald Trump has pointed out, Sean Spicer is a ratings magnet.  —  The long-suffering White House press secretary's sit-down with Jimmy Kimmel put ABC's late-night show on top in the metered markets last night.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding  —  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has determined that the earthen Whittier Narrows Dam is unsafe and could trigger catastrophic flooding in working-class cities along …

Harvard makes convicted spy Chelsea Manning a ‘fellow,’ igniting firestorm  —  Former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell on Thursday announced his resignation as a senior fellow at Harvard after the university named U.S. Army soldier-turned-convicted felon Chelsea Manning a visiting fellow.

UC Berkeley faculty members call for boycott of classes during ‘Free Speech Week’  —  In a letter addressed to the UC Berkeley campus and the Berkeley community, 76 campus faculty members from various departments have called for a complete boycott of classes and campus activities during …

Trump Says Jump.  His Supporters Ask, How High?  —  In the Trump era, Republicans have been revising their views on right and wrong.  —  In 2011, the Public Religion Research Institute asked voters if  —  White evangelical Protestants were the least forgiving.

Mexican Views of the U.S. Turn Sharply Negative  —  Widespread dissatisfaction with economy and political leaders  —  More Mexicans view the United States unfavorably than at any time in the past decade and a half.  Nearly two-thirds of Mexicans (65%) express a negative opinion of the U.S. …

From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones  —  Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son.  The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. candidate in American studies.

Why Didn't Trump Build Anything in Russia?  —  Thirty years ago, in July 1987, Donald and Ivana Trump flew to the Soviet Union, apparently at the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the United States, in order to scout locations for a Trump hotel in Moscow.  “It was an extraordinary experience,” Trump wrote in The Art of the Deal.

Facebook still doesn't know the extent of Russian ad buys in election  —  What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook  —  How extensive was Russia's use of Facebook to meddle with the presidential election?  Even Facebook doesn't know.  —  One week after it told the country that it had sold $100,000 worth …

The Trump administration's big new anti-leak memo leaked last night  —  Of course it did.  —  Every administration faces leaks, and no administration likes them.  The Obama administration went further than its predecessors in launching criminal prosecutions of national security leakers …

15 soldiers injured after explosion at Fort Bragg  —  FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Several soldiers were injured Thursday morning after an explosion at Fort Bragg.  —  Authorities said at least 15 soldiers were transported via medical helicopter to Womack Army Medical Center after an explosion on one of the training fields.

Single-payer health care failed miserably in Colorado last year.  Here's why.  —  Nearly 80 percent of Coloradans voted no — including many Democrats and progressives.  —  On the day the state of Colorado voted for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump by about 5 points …

New York Times reporter Mike Isaac is writing a book about Uber  —  Crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit and naked power grabs all make for a page-turner.  —  The Uber story has crazy ambition, betrayal, sex, deceit, naked power grabs, and lots and lots and lots of money.  —  Should be a book, right?