Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?  —  On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump.  A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.

Trump Making Supreme Court Pick to Cement Conservative Majority  — Prime-time event to announce president's ‘exceptional’ choice  — Hardiman said to be in play after Kavanaugh had inside track  —  Donald Trump is poised to continue his remake of the U.S. Supreme Court …

Annexing Crimea was egregious.  Why does Trump disagree?  —  Inside the U.S. government there is virtual unanimity on the question of Crimea, the Ukrainian region invaded and abruptly annexed by Russia in 2014: It was an egregious act of aggression and, as the first forcible transnational seizure …

David Davis resigns as UK's Brexit secretary  —  LONDON — David Davis resigned late Sunday as the U.K.'s Brexit secretary amid ongoing tensions within Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet.  —  The Brexit secretary's resignation marks the biggest crisis for the British prime minister since …

Michelle Wolf's 4th of July Week Salute: ‘God Bless Abortions and God Bless America’  —  Comedian Michelle Wolf saluted abortions on the most recent episode of her Netflix show The Break, which dropped just in time for 4th of July week.  —  “Look, access to abortion is good and important,” Wolf said in the clip published on Sunday.

A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI.  Here's why.  —  It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.  —  Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.  —  But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …

Mueller's ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation  —  Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller's “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort.

Electoral law has been broken - this is a fight for the soul of our democracy  —  Despite inadequate rules and toothless regulators, we must battle to safeguard our voting system  —  Seven years ago, during a night of rioting in London, a 23-year-old student popped into his local Lidl and carried out the …

Sasse tempts Trump's wrath by refusing to bow  —  The Republican senator and persistent Trump critic stokes speculation about his intentions with a soon-to-publish book and new nonprofit.  —  Ben Sasse has so far been spared the public floggings that Donald Trump inflicted …

De Blasio spends weekend at Bernie Sanders' summer home  —  Well at least it didn't involve a dead guy.  —  Mayor de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane, and their two kids spent a couple of days at Sen. Bernie Sanders' summer home on Lake Champlain in Vermont.  —  Photos show the progressive pols …

Trump supporters enraged by ‘angry baby’ balloon to fly over London during president's UK trip  —  Protest called ‘cringeworthy’ and ‘juvenile’, while counter-campaign to fly a similar Sadiq Khan blimp has now reached its funding target  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Plans to fly a giant balloon …

MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics.  It Encourages and Rewards Them.  —  During the 2016 primary and general election campaigns, various MSNBC hosts were openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton.  One of the network's programs featured Malcolm Nance …

Scott Pruitt, Fallen E.P.A. Chief, May Rise Again in Oklahoma  —  BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Scott Pruitt's brief, tumultuous tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has left him disgraced in the eyes of many in Washington and across the country.  But it may not have done him much harm in his home state.

HBO Must Get Bigger and Broader, Says Its New Overseer  —  Change is coming to HBO, now that it is part of the AT&T corporate family.  That much was clear to the 150 employees who attended a recent town hall meeting at the network's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb rocks out at the punk show of a band called Copstabber  —  Here's one way to relieve the stress of defending the president from that pesky Russia investigation: Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb was spotted pumping his fists to the musical stylings of a punk band called Copstabber …

UK woman dies after being exposed to nerve agent novichok  —  Dawn Sturgess taken ill last weekend with a 45-year-old man, who remains in hospital  —  A woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire, died in hospital on Sunday evening.  The Met police have launched a murder investigation.

The Progressive Populist Who Wants to Help Democrats Win Back the Rust Belt  —  In early May, Richard Cordray was wrapping up a two-day campaign sprint during which he spoke to crowds of plumbers, pipefitters, ironworkers, teachers, firefighters, furniture workers, and now …