Trump: ‘Be careful what you wish for Max!’  —  President Trump slammed Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday afternoon, after her speech calling for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration went viral over the weekend.  —  Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person …

Mattis is out of the loop and Trump doesn't listen to him, say officials  —  On Iran, North Korea and other major issues, the defense secretary has been out of the loop  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary James Mattis learned in May from a colleague that President Donald Trump had made the decision …

Trump's Roach-Infested Restaurants Are Vile Compared to the Red Hen … President Donald Trump on Monday attacked a rural Virginia restaurant that refused to serve his press secretary over the weekend by criticizing its supposed lack of cleanliness.  —  “The Red Hen Restaurant should focus …

Harley, stung by tariffs, shifts some production overseas  —  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.  —  The European Union on Friday began rolling …

Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is digging deeper into Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.  —  Prince, America's most famous private military contractor …

Suppression of Minority Voting Rights Is About to Get Way Worse  —  On Monday, five years to the day that the Supreme Court decided Shelby County v. Holder, a case in which the court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act with assurances that other parts of the act …

The Latest: US officials order send to sit-in at ICE office  —  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents (all times local):  —  Federal officials Monday ordered protesters to end their round-the-clock occupation of property outside …

Former Trump Adviser David Bossie Suspended from Fox News for ‘Deeply Offensive,’ ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark … David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and current outside adviser to the president, has just been suspended from his contributor gig at Fox News, The Daily Beast has learned.

A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card  —  Members of the right-wing family that helped put Trump in the White House can relive the campaign in an elaborate dinner-party game.  —  Robert Mercer, the New York hedge-fund magnate whose huge donations to pro-Trump groups …

At a Toast to Trump, the North Korean Anthem Has a Starring Role  —  WASHINGTON — The North Korean national anthem got plenty of fanfare at the Virginia Women for Trump's birthday party for the president on Sunday.  Corey Stewart, the Republican Senate candidate from Virginia, got the hook.

'We've crossed the Rubicon': Toomey takes on Trump  —  The conservative senator is challenging the president — and his own party — in a bid to rein in Trump's tariffs.  —  Bob Corker, Jeff Flake, Orrin Hatch — some of President Donald Trump's fiercest GOP critics on trade — are retiring from the Senate at the end of this year.

This Is Just the Beginning  —  Do you think that being asked to leave a restaurant, or having your meal interrupted, or being called by the public is bad?  My fascism-enabling friends, this is only the beginning.  —  One thing that people who wield great power often fail to viscerally understand …

Colleague cracks Sen. McCaskill's rib with Heimlich maneuver  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin has cracked a rib of U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill while performing the Heimlich maneuver on the fellow Democrat when she began choking.  —  A spokesman for Manchin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch …

A ‘tender age’ shelter for separated children exposes a ‘gut-wrenching’ reality in Miami  —  In this “tender age” shelter in South Miami-Dade, children as young as 4 can ask for a telephone when they miss their parents.  —  Two teenage mothers live here with their infants.

White Extinction Anxiety  —  Last week Pat Buchanan was on “The Laura Ingraham Show” to discuss the humanitarian crisis Donald Trump has created at the border by ripping children away from their parents.  —  He was not particularly sympathetic to these families' plights …

What's the Yield Curve?  ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street's Attention  —  You can try and play down a trade war with China.  You can brush off the impact of rising oil prices on corporate earnings.  —  But if you're in the business of making economic predictions …

Observer's Carole Cadwalladr wins Orwell journalism prize  —  Reporter recognised for ‘amazing’ investigation into Cambridge Analytica  —  The Observer and Guardian reporter Carole Cadwalladr has won the Orwell journalism prize for her investigation into the collapsed political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races  —  In more than 20 of the most competitive House races of 2018, the share of Democrats voting in primaries notably increased, compared with 2014, the last midterm election cycle.  —  Democrats have appeared …

The left loses its cool  —  'When you're violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there's something wrong,' said one top GOP official.  —  Two senior Trump administration officials were heckled at restaurants.  A third was denied service.

At the border, mothers prepare to make an agonizing choice … Two weeks ago, Dalila Pojoy stopped breastfeeding her baby girl.  —  The 33-year-old Guatemalan immigrant decided it was the sensible thing to do in case the U.S. government took custody of her 6-month-old.

I've Been Reporting on MS-13 for a Year.  Here Are the 5 Things Trump Gets Most Wrong.  —  The gang is not invading the country.  They're not posing as fake families.  They're not growing.  To stop them, the government needs to understand them.  —  There's one thing everyone can agree …

The Power of Nancy Pelosi  —  Can the Democrats' polarizing leader chart a path to victory in the 2018 midterm elections?  —  Nancy Pelosi sits in a black-leather booth at Americana, a burger bistro in downtown Des Moines, radiating optimism.  “We're in a very good place,” she says of Democrats' odds in November.

Daily Beast Sets CBS TV Studios First-Look Deal (EXCLUSIVE)  —  The Daily Beast and CBS Television Studios have signed a first-look deal covering development of the news website's daily published content for scripted TV.  —  The partnership will provide a new platform for the Daily Beast's breaking-news …

GOP candidate: Civil war wasn't about slavery  —  Republican Senate nominee Corey Stewart said that he doesn't believe that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery, arguing that it was mostly about states' rights.  —  In a Monday interview with Hill.TV's “Rising,” Stewart …

Manafort Appeals Washington Judge's Order Revoking His Bail  — Judge sent Manafort to jail for alleged witness tampering  — Trump's ex-chairman preparing for two trials behind bars  —  Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is appealing a judge's order revoking …

Sarah Sanders and the failure of “civility”  —  A little impoliteness could be what America really needs.  —  After White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that she had been denied service at a Virginia restaurant this past weekend, prominent figures from across the political spectrum expressed their indignation.

It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency  —  That is my recommendation.  —  It sometimes happens in diplomacy that one country has to say to another: “This is extreme.  We cannot accept this.  You have gone too far.”  And so it suspends diplomatic relations.

Republicans ask Rosenstein for names of everyone working on Mueller probe  —  A group of nine House Republican lawmakers has signed a letter asking Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to provide the names of everyone “past and present” who has worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

Seattle renters score big as landlords dangle freebies to fill empty apartments  —  As new apartments open across the city in record numbers, vacancy rates have grown, rents have stopped rising and landlords are offering an increasing number of freebies to get tenants in the door.