Texas against Ted Cruz  —  $9,760 of $6,000 goal Raised by 482 people in 1 day  —  President Donald Trump will be campaigning to help Sen. Ted Cruz win his re-election.  A rally is being planned, according to Trump “at the biggest stadium in Texas.”  We are planning to display …

Brazil museum fire: ‘incalculable’ loss as 200-year-old Rio institution gutted  —  The Museu Nacional houses artefacts from Egypt, Greco-Roman art and some of the first fossils found in Brazil  —  Play Video  —  Brazil's oldest and most important historical and scientific museum has been consumed by fire …

A Coveted Lawyer's Juggling Act May Be Good, and Bad, for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — It was a typically hectic day for William A. Burck as he juggled the demands of managing one of Washington's premier white-collar law firms while he was in Paris for meetings on behalf of a corporate client facing corruption charges.

Scoop: How Omarosa secretly taped her victims  —  Omarosa taped nearly every conversation she had while working in the White House, including ones with “all of the Trumps,” a source who watched her make many of the tapes tells Axios.  Omarosa did this with a personal phone, almost always on record mode.

Fox News' Jeanine Pirro Says Trump Is Innocent and Has Been Framed  —  Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, one of Donald Trump's most impassioned supporters, said on Sunday that Trump is being framed by establishment forces in Washington, D.C.  —  The Hill reported that during an interview aired on AM 970 New York …

Paul Manafort's daughter gets a new name … Paul Manafort's daughter is ditching the family name.  —  Jessica Manafort, 36, filed paperwork in Manhattan Supreme Court late Friday to change her now-infamous surname to Bond, Jess Bond.  —  “I would like my new name to be Jessica Anne Bond …

A Palestinian Memoir to Counter Trump's Troubles in the Middle East  —  Yousef Bashir is an unlikely peace-builder at one of the darkest times in the elusive effort to end the conflict in the Middle East.  He was eleven when the second intifada erupted, in 2000, and the Israel Defense Forces took over the family farm in Gaza.

Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration  —  The Trump administration is using the country's vast and nearly opaque immigration bureaucracy to constrict the flow of foreign workers into the United States by throwing up new roadblocks to limit legal arrivals.

Seahawks owner Paul Allen gives $100,000 to help Republicans keep control of U.S. House  —  The donation went to Protect the House, a committee headed by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. It's the biggest check Allen has ever sent to a federal political candidate or committee …

Meghan McCain, Forged in Her Father's Image  —  WASHINGTON — As Meghan McCain delivered a eulogy for her father on Saturday, she was at times too grief-stricken to catch her breath.  As she described his sickness from brain cancer or his love for her, she struggled to look up at a crowd full …

The Shaming of Geoffrey Owens and the Inability to See Actors as Laborers, Too  —  Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot.  I remembered Geoffrey Owens not from “The Cosby Show,” on which he played Elvin Tibideaux …

Putin Gets Love From New State TV Show as Poll Ratings Slide  —  Russian state television started a new weekly show devoted to Vladimir Putin, lauding the president's leadership qualities, physical energy and attentiveness to public needs.  —  The first hour-long episode of “Moscow.  Kremlin.

Barack Obama set to hit the midterm campaign trail  —  President Obama, after mostly staying out of the spotlight since leaving office, plans to campaign in coming weeks in California, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania — meaning there'll be a frequent fall contrast between Presidents 44 and 45.

Is obscure GOP consultant Sam Patten the missing link in the Trump-Russia probe?  |  Will Bunch  —  If you're a certain kind of political junkie — the kind, say, who religiously watches MSNBC's Rachel Maddow every night at 9 and then tweets the highlights with your “Not My President” …

‘Time for This War in Afghanistan to End,’ Says Departing U.S. Commander  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — When American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Lt. Col. John W. Nicholson Jr. survived by chance.  That morning, as dozens of his colleagues were killed …

Excerpt: ‘Monica’ From Ken Starr's Forthcoming Memoir ‘Contempt’  —  The excerpt follows some background information provided by NPR.  —  The series of investigations that eventually led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton began in a New York Times story that questioned some of his business dealings back in Arkansas.