Manafort Had $60 Million Relationship With a Russian Oligarch  —  LONDON — Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, has much stronger financial ties to a Russian oligarch than have been previously reported.  —  An NBC News investigation reveals that $26 million changed hands …

Lisa Bloom Knows She Made “A Colossal Mistake” In Harvey Weinstein  —  The celebrity attorney and champion of women's rights spoke about her earlier decision to represent Harvey Weinstein, and her response to the sex assault scandal: “I definitely failed on this one.”

Trump health care attacks worry GOP  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump lit a fuse this week that will blow a hole in the Affordable Care Act, but the collateral damage could very well include fellow Republicans.  —  In his latest attack on the health care law, Trump moved Thursday night …

Trump's missteps are giving Democrats a better shot at winning back the House  — Donald Trump has been battling both parties and remains historically unpopular for a president this early in his tenure.  — Analysis suggests that Democrats may stand a better chance in midterm elections than previously thought.

The 25 conservatives actually worth following on Twitter  —  Liberals in shock over the the 2016 election were prescribed a heavy dose of reality.  “Get out of your bubble,” the doctors note illegibly read.  —  It was a hard truth for the American left.  They found out the U.S. was not as progressive as originally thought.

Bob Corker on Trump's biggest problem: The ‘castration’ of Rex Tillerson  —  So is Donald Trump really leading the country toward World War III?  —  That is the warning that lingers from the broadside delivered by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) during his Twitter war with Trump.

Bob Weinstein Gets Emotional on “Depraved” Harvey, Saving the Company and His “Waking Nightmare” (Exclusive)  —  The Weinstein Co. exec insists he had no idea about “the type of predator that he was” and is sickened by Harvey's seeming lack of remorse.  “I want him to get the justice that he deserves.”

Trump silent as questions remain over deadly Niger ambush  —  US soldier possibly taken alive, killed by ISIS  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Military officials have acknowledged that the incident is under investigation and that security procedures are being reviewed

Wine Country fire: Huddled in pool amid blaze, wife dies in husband's arms  —  As fire raged all around them and smoke choked their lungs, Carmen and Armando Berriz had no choice but to cling to one another while immersed in a swimming pool behind their rented house on the north edge of Santa Rosa.

Sinister figures lurk around our careless president  —  (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump's poodle.  Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such.

An intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, left sensitive voter targeting tools online for nearly a year  —  An intern at the data mining and analysis firm Cambridge Analytica left online for nearly a year what appears to be programming instructions for the voter targeting tools …

Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of France, Germany and the United Kingdom … Part of: … Joint statement from Prime Minister Theresa May, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron following President Trump's statement on the US' Iran Strategy.

Desperate Puerto Ricans are drinking water from a hazardous-waste site  —  Dorado, Puerto Rico (CNN)Jose Luis Rodriguez waited in line Friday to fill plastic jugs in the back of his pickup truck with water for drinking, doing the dishes and bathing.  —  But there is something …

Why did Biloxi pull ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ from the 8th grade lesson plan?  —  BILOXI  —  The Biloxi School District got complaints about the wording in “To Kill A Mockingbird” — an American classic being taught in 8th grade English Language Arts classes — and pulled it from the curriculum.

Birth of a White Supremacist  —  Mike Enoch's transformation from leftist contrarian to nationalist shock jock.  —  This summer, after a loose coalition of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Confederate apologists announced that they would hold a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia …