Manafort Sought Deal in Next Trial, but Talks Broke Down  —  Negotiations stalled after Mueller raised issues  —  Paul Manafort's defense team held talks with prosecutors to resolve a second set of charges against the former Trump campaign chairman before he was convicted last week …

GOP senator praises McCain but says he's ‘partially to blame’ for White House flag controversy  —  Washington (CNN)Republican Sen. James Inhofe told reporters Monday that Sen. John McCain was “partially to blame” for the controversy over the lowering of the White House flag.

“Trump Is Nuts.  This Time Really Feels Different”: Trump Rejects “War Council” Intervention, Goes It Alone  —  With his closest allies defecting, the president increasingly trusts only his instincts.  He “got joy” from stripping former C.I.A. director John Brennan's security clearance.

BREAKING: Divided Three Judge Court Holds North Carolina Congressional Redistricting an Unconstitutional Partisan Gerrymander, Considers New Districts for 2018 Elections  —  In a case with potentially national implications both short term and long, a three judge district court in North Carolina …

Lanny Davis Says He Was A Source For CNN's Trump Tower Story  —  Attorney Lanny Davis says he was an anonymous source in a July CNN story that reported his client, Michael Cohen, had privately claimed that President Trump had advance knowledge of the infamous Trump Tower meeting between his son …

In Defending Trump, Is Giuliani a Shrewd Tactician — or ‘Untethered’?  —  Rudolph Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, detailed for the first time his strategy for representing the president, in blunt and divisively political terms.  —  The man identified these days as President Trump's lawyer seems vaguely familiar.

APNewsBreak: Nation's top student loan official resigns  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The top government official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned Monday, citing what he says is the White House's open hostility toward protecting the nation's millions of student loan borrowers.

Bloomberg News reassigned reporter after Wells Fargo CEO called to complain  —  A Bloomberg News reporter who covered Wells Fargo was reassigned earlier this year after the bank's CEO called the news organization's editor in chief and complained about the reporter, multiple people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Secret message board drives 'pizzagate'-style harassment campaign of small businesses  —  The theorists are inspired in part by a far-right news website that has been used by prominent Republicans for fundraising efforts.  —  In January, Andrew Richmond, a co-founder of a Toronto-based chain …

IG Confirms Trump's Involvement in FBI Headquarters Project Across From His Hotel  —  President Donald Trump was more intimately involved in the debate over relocating the FBI headquarters than Congress was told, a new inspector general report finds.  —  Rep. Gerald E. Connolly …

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Poll: Rep. Duncan Hunter leads by 8 points in reelection bid following federal indictment  —  U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter leaves an arraignment hearing Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018, in San Diego.  Hunter and his wife Margaret pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges they illegally used his campaign account for personal expenses.

Tibbetts' father: Hispanic locals ‘Iowans with better food’  —  BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — The killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has prompted criticism of the U.S. immigration system because the man charged in her death is a Mexican farmworker.

Kushner Companies and Michael Cohen Accused of Falsifying Building Permits to Push Out Tenants  —  Charles Kushner, the developer whose son Jared Kushner is a senior adviser to President Trump, and Michael Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, face scrutiny in New York for claims …

Why Trump cancelled Pompeo's trip to North Korea  —  Last Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced he was departing on his fourth trip to Pyongyang.  On Friday, just hours before Pompeo was supposed to leave, President Trump tweeted that the trip was off.

Ted Cruz Opts for Campaign Trail Instead of Senate Votes  —  When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell nixed much of the August recess, it raised the prospect that vulnerable Democrats might miss valuable campaign time, but it appears to also be having an effect on Republicans.  Case in point: Sen. Ted Cruz.

Death in the Age of Narcissism  —  But enough about John McCain.  Here's some more about me.  —  Just before and after John McCain's death on Saturday, I read many tweets, Facebook posts and essays that beautifully captured his importance.  —  I read many that were equally concerned with the importance of their authors:

Bruce Ohr Fought Russian Organized Crime.  Now He's a Target of Trump.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump has threatened to take away the security clearance of Bruce G. Ohr, a career Justice Department official, he has described him as a “creep,” accused him of profiting off “disgraced” …

Glenn Greenwald, the Bane of Their Resistance  —  A leftist journalist's bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.  —  Like a man in the first draft of a limerick, Tennys Sandgren is a tennis player from Tennessee.  Last winter, after scraping his way onto …

Nuns Killed Children, Say Former Residents Of St. Joseph's Catholic Orphanage  —  Millions of American children were placed in orphanages.  Some didn't make it out alive.  —  It was a late summer afternoon, Sally Dale recalled, when the boy was thrown through the fourth-floor window.

Top interior staffer who backed shrinking national monuments to join BP  —  A Department of Interior official who oversaw last year's drive to shrink two massive national monuments in Utah has left the department to join BP's government affairs team, a spokesman for the energy giant confirmed Monday.

Is Pam Bondi auditioning for Fox News while still working for Florida taxpayers?  —  Bondi sought ethics commission approval before spending three days co-hosting “The Five,” a news talk show.  —  Pam Bondi is still the attorney general of Florida, at least for another four months.

Here's How the U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal Would Differ From Nafta  —  President Donald Trump wants to sign a new trade agreement with Mexico and toss the name “Nafta” into the dustbin of history.  —  There's still lots of work to be done — the administration is calling the deal with Mexico a …

Insults, straight talk, expertise — McCain knew how to attract the media  —  John McCain rarely minced words, especially when it came to relative newcomers to the Senate who wanted to do away with the chamber's long-held traditions like the filibuster.  —  “I would like to meet that idiot …

Revealed: Notorious Pro-Trump Misinformation Site True Pundit Is Run By An Ex-Journalist With A Grudge Against The FBI  —  Days after former FBI lawyer Lisa Page testified in a closed-door meeting with the House Oversight and Government Reform and House Judiciary committees …