Mueller Examining Trump's Tweets in Wide-Ranging Obstruction Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — For years, President Trump has used Twitter as his go-to public relations weapon, mounting a barrage of attacks on celebrities and then political rivals even after advisers warned he could be creating legal problems for himself.

Trump Organization Finance Chief Called to Testify Before Federal Grand Jury  —  Longtime Trump executive Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed in Michael Cohen probe  —  Allen Weisselberg, a longtime financial gatekeeper for President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed to testify …

Sources: Jim Jordan Officially Announcing Bid For Speaker  —  House Freedom Caucus co-founder Jim Jordan will formally announce his campaign for speaker of the House Thursday at noon, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  TheDCNF confirmed the announcement with two sources with direct knowledge of Jordan's plans.

Omarosa's surprise book: ‘Unhinged’ will come out in August  —  The publishing house Gallery Books has an August surprise for the president and the public: A “tell-all” book by former Trump administration aide, Omarosa Manigault-Newman.  —  The former “Apprentice” star worked in the White House Office …

DeVos' $40 million yacht vandalized at Huron dock  —  HURON, Ohio — A boat owned by the family of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was vandalized over the weekend while moored at a Huron dock, according to the Huron Police Department.  —  The Seaquest was moored at the Huron Boat Basin …

An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election  —  Start exploring the map by searching for a place you know.

The Summer's Hottest Trend Is Owning the Libs  —  Conservatives love it earnestly, liberals love it ironically.  How did we get here?  —  “Raise your hand if you've ever posted anything online to quote unquote own the libs,” President Trump's Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley recently asked a crowd of high schoolers.

Can Stacey Abrams Turn Georgia Blue?  —  On Tuesday night, Brian Kemp—the Georgia secretary of state and self-proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative” who owns a truck, talks about standing for the national anthem and happily supports President Trump—beat Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle …

Day after Air Force One trip, Yoder defies Trump on immigration  —  WASHINGTON  —  A day after flying with President Donald Trump on Air Force One, U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas joined Democrats to push forward an investigation of the Trump administration's separation of more than 2,500 migrant children from their parents.

Amazon's Face Recognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress With Mugshots  —  Amazon's face surveillance technology is the target of growing opposition nationwide, and today, there are 28 more causes for concern.  In a test the ACLU recently conducted of the facial recognition tool …

'I'm Not the Only Young Conservative'  —  About 700 teenage conservatives visited the nation's capital this week for a four-day leadership conference organized by Turning Point USA, a group founded in 2012 to promote activism skills among high school and college students and help young conservatives network with leaders in the movement.

Legal Opinions Or Political Commentary?  A New Judge Exemplifies The Trump Era  —  Less than a year into a lifetime appointment, a 45-year-old federal appeals court judge named James Ho may embody President Trump's most enduring legacy.  —  Ho has shaken up the staid world of appellate law …

Jeff Merkley slams Trump admin as “incompetent,” “callous” in handling family separation  —  As the Trump White House faces yet another deadline Thursday to reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the the Justice Department's “zero tolerance policy, Sen. Jeff Merkley …

A Kushner Ally Was Up for a Federal Post.  Then the F.B.I. Began Digging.  —  Ken Kurson is a confidant of Rudolph W. Giuliani.  He is a onetime speechwriter for Donald J. Trump.  And he is a close friend of Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, who appointed Mr. Kurson to run his weekly newspaper, The New York Observer.

Twitter Is Not ‘Shadow Banning’ Republicans  —  The concept of the “shadowban” has existed practically since the inception of the web forum.  The idea is simple: Instead of banning a user outright and informing them of such punishment, a shadowban makes a user's post visible only to themselves.

Routine failures  —  For more than a decade, the experts who guide medical practices in the U.S. have been pushing doctors and hospitals to change how they treat pregnant women.  —  At least as far back as 2010, researchers in California began promoting “tool kits” of childbirth safety practices to reduce deaths and injuries.

New Emails Show Michigan Republicans Plotting to Gerrymander Maps  —  WASHINGTON — Newly disclosed emails show Michigan Republicans angling to give their party a dominant position through gerrymandered maps and celebrating the plight of their Democratic rivals.

The heiress has no clothes.  —  I once flew to Germany for 19 hours to watch Ivanka Trump sit on a panel with a bunch of female leaders, and to be summoned by her later that evening for an off-the-record chat in her hotel lobby, where she ordered red wine in a white dress, which seems …

Death notices for Syrian prisoners are suddenly piling up.  It's a sign Assad has won the war.  —  BEIRUT — The Syrian government has begun issuing death notices for political detainees at an unprecedented rate, according to groups that monitor the prisons, in an effort to resolve the fate …

To Take the Senate, Democratic Group Will Spend Big in Red States  —  A heavily funded Democratic group will spend tens of millions of dollars to mobilize voters in the Republican-leaning states where control of the Senate is likely to be decided this November, stepping in to fill a void left …

REVEALED: NYT Targets Kavanaugh's Wife, Looking For ‘Abortion,’ ‘Gun,’ ‘Gay,’ ‘Federalist’ Emails  —  The New York Times and Associated Press target Judge Brett Kavanaugh's wife with records requests.  —  The New York Times and Associated Press both filed requests under the Maryland Public Information Act …

Anna March?  —  She threw a welcome party for herself at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, a beautiful old building with black and white marble, Alice-in-Wonderland floors.  The guests, more than 400 of L.A.'s literati: authors, editors, publishers, book reviewers, literary agents, the local independent presses.

Trump-Created European Trade Crisis Averted by Fake Deal  —  Last night, the Trump administration announced with maximum fanfare that the trade war with the European Union was over.  “This was a big day for free and fair trade!,” tweeted an excited President Trump.

MSNBC has done 455 Stormy Daniels segments in the last year — but none on U.S. war in Yemen  —  Why is the supposed network of the anti-Trump #resistance totally ignoring the president's most devastating war?  —  As FAIR has noted before, to MSNBC, the carnage and destruction the U.S …

‘We are fighting for information about war’: Pentagon curbs media access  —  Defense Secretary James Mattis has not briefed reporters on-camera in the Pentagon since April, while his chief spokeswoman has not done so since May.  —  At a mid-July news conference at the Pentagon …