Key Russia Probe Splinters as Grassley, Feinstein Set Own Paths  —  Judiciary chairman, top Democrat launch separate inquiries  —  Grassley looking into Hillary Clinton emails, uranium case  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee's bipartisan Russia probe has fractured, with Chairman Chuck Grassley …

Fox News Poll: Storms erode Trump's ratings  —  Was it the tweet storms or the hurricanes?  Something hit President Trump's numbers.  His personal ratings have deteriorated and his job approval has hit a low.  —  Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing in a new Fox News poll, down from 42 percent last month.

Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange … Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton's missing 33,000 emails.

House GOP tax leader threatens to break Trump's promise not to change 401(k) rules  —  House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady on Wednesday suggested a tax bill he is preparing to introduce could force changes to 401(k) plans and other retirement accounts, potentially bucking …

Former US president George HW Bush apologises after actress claims he ‘sexually assaulted’ her from his WHEELCHAIR in this photograph - with his wife Barbara standing by his side  — Actress Heather Lind made allegations Tuesday claiming when she met former President George H.W. Bush, 93 …

YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi … Something had set Lane Davis off, but that wasn't unusual.  —  It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane …

Trump: ‘I went to an Ivy league college’  —  President Trump on Wednesday cited his Ivy League education in pushing back at the notion that he is an uncivil leader.  —  “You know people don't understand, I went to an Ivy League college,” he told reporters at the White House.  “I was a nice student.

NAACP Issues National Travel Advisory for American Airlines  —  Calls for Meeting with Airlines to Discuss Troublesome Issues  —  (October 24, 2017) - The NAACP, the nation's original and largest social justice advocacy organization, has released the following statement today announcing …

Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive  —  A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed …

Why Joe Biden Didn't Run . . . And Why He's Not Ruling Out 2020  —  In a cruel twist, Joe Biden's planned 2016 presidential campaign was upended by the death of its foremost booster, his 46-year-old son, Beau, from brain cancer.  Will the former vice president make a run in 2020?

Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out  —  Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.  —  The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday …

Progressive, “Fair Wage” Pizza Shop Closing Its Doors  —  In the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston back in 2015, the people at the nonprofit organization Haley House came up with a novel idea.  They would open a pizza shop based on the principles of economic justice and fair wages to support the community.

North Korean official: Take hydrogen bomb threat ‘literally’  —  Pyongyang (CNN)A senior North Korean official has issued a stern warning to the world that it should take “literally” his country's threat to test a nuclear weapon above ground.  —  The official, Ri Yong Pil …

US ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown faced complaints over ‘cultural misunderstanding’  —  U.S Ambassador Scott Brown explains his conduct during a Peace Corps function in Samoa.  —  US Ambassador Scott Brown has fronted over mounting “innuendo and rumour” about a State Department investigation into his behaviour.

Four Quitters Walk Into a Bar...  I have met Trump haters before, lots of them, the kind who seize upon every conspiracy theory and refuse to give him any benefit of any doubt.  The four people I recently spent the morning with at Solly's Tavern in D.C. (sans booze, don't worry) were not Trump haters.

Black customer terrified by locksmith's racist text message  —  SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WJBK) - A Southfield woman in need of a locksmith was shocked after getting a glimpse of a text conversation the worker had about her.  —  The message may have been a joke but that woman was not laughing - instead she was pretty shaken up.

Record-High Support for Legalizing Marijuana Use in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal.  This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.

Network executives are scrambling to solve the growing problem of crashing ratings for the National Football League, by cutting games to end the perceived “over-saturation” of football on TV.  —  To put an end to the sliding ratings, the executives are proposing that fewer games may be the ticket to stop that …

With business booming under Trump, private prison giant gathers at president's resort  —  DORAL, Fla. — In recent years, the private prison company GEO Group has held its annual leadership conference at venues near its Boca Raton headquarters.  But this year, the company moved its gathering …

San Juan mayor calls for canceling ‘alarming’ contract for Puerto Rican power repairs … WASHINGTON — A $300 million contract to fix Puerto Rico's hurricane-damaged power grid that was given to a tiny Montana company should be voided, said San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz …

The Hill's flimsy Russia-uranium story lands with maximum effect  —  The Hill is having an impact day.  In a news conference Tuesday, House Republicans announced that two panels — the House Intelligence Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee …