Trump escalates trade war, threatens European carmakers with stiff tariffs … President Trump on Saturday threatened to hammer European automotive companies with steep tariffs as his global trade war snowballed into a third day.  —  Trump, in a series of Twitter posts while at his Mar …

‘Pure madness’: Dark days inside the White House as Trump shocks and rages … Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center.  —  These are the darkest days in at least half a year …

Exclusive: Florida Public School Teacher Has A White Nationalist Podcast  —  Dayanna Volitich suggests Muslims be eradicated from the earth, believes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories ... and teaches middle school social studies.  —  Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher …

Politico Writer Angry at Broward Sheriff for Hurting Liberal Anti-NRA Narrative  —  Michael Grunwald expressed his anger in Politico magazine at Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.  He is upset because Sheriff Israel's inept leadership and boastful manner has diverted attention away …

Ivanka Trump: Born to legitimize corruption and make the shoddy look cute  —  On July 27, 2017, near the end of the one of the most compelling hearings yet on the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) offered an extraordinary insight.  It shot through the proceedings like a comet.

A presidential milestone: Trump has spent 100 days in office at one of his golf clubs  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump reached a presidential milestone at his Palm Beach County, Florida, golf club on Saturday: One hundred days in office at a golf club that bears his name.

Advertisers flee InfoWars founder Alex Jones' YouTube channel  —  Facebook, YouTube fail to blunt conspiracy theories  —  Some of the biggest brands in the U.S. had ads running on the YouTube channels for far-right website InfoWars and its founder, notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones …

Secret Service says man shoots himself outside White House  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service says a man shot himself outside the White House, and medical personnel are on the scene.  —  President Donald Trump is not at the White House — he's in Florida, but is set to return later Saturday.

Shortly before Trump announced tariffs, his former adviser dumped millions in steel-related stocks … President Trump's decision Thursday to impose crippling tariffs on the imports of steel and aluminum took many by surprise — particularly investors, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed …

Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be ‘worth it’ in the long run  —  (R-S.C.) said this week that a war with North Korea would be “worth it” in the long term.  —  Graham made the comments in an interview with CNN.  —  “All the damage that would come from a war would be worth …

Trump's White House Is a Black Hole  —  Character is fate.  That's as true for a president as it is for anyone else, and so it's no surprise that the Trump presidency is engulfed in chaos.  —  The policy process is broken and incoherent, with the White House lurching from one position to another.

Texas early voting numbers a ‘wake-up call’ for GOP as Democrats double their 2014 turnout  —  AUSTIN — With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014.  —  According to the Texas secretary of state's website …

Florida Senate briefly approves AR-15 ban, then rejects it  —  Surprise action in extraordinary all-day Saturday session on gun measures  —  TALLAHASSEE — On a day filled with emotion, the Florida Senate Saturday debated measures in response to the Parkland tragedy to spend millions …

Six teenagers are running for governor in Kansas, and suddenly this doesn't seem so preposterous … MERRIAM, Kan. — And now, a report from the Midwest, where a gangly hope has arrived in the form of children enrobed in various assortments of khakis and blazers, because six teenage boys are running for governor of the state of Kansas.

The Silicon Valley elite's latest status symbol: Chickens  —  Their pampered birds wear diapers and have personal chefs — but lay the finest eggs tech money can buy  —  Excelling at his work, Land said, requires an obsessive focus on it.  But maintaining that passion …

Philando Castile charity wipes out kids' lunch debt in district where he worked  —  Teacher: Philando Castile was a role model for kids  —  (CNN)One by one.  —  That's how Philando Castile, who was killed by a police officer during a 2016 traffic stop, used to help kids who couldn't afford lunch.

Live From the West Wing, Trump Pulls Back the Curtain  —  WASHINGTON — The chief executive sits at a long wooden table, putting his invited guests on the spot to defend their positions, occasionally needling them with biting comments, often shocking them with blunt talk — all for a rapt television audience.

Kentucky's ‘child bride’ bill stalls as groups fight to let 13-year-olds wed  —  Donna Pollard describes getting married at 16 to a 29-year-old man who was her counselor.  She is behind Senate Bill 48 to raise the legal age of marriage in Kentucky to 18 years old.  Matt Stone, Courier Journal