GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events  —  Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe …

Trump Administration to Close Palestine Liberation Organization Office in Washington  —  The Trump administration is expected to announce Monday it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, widening a campaign of pressure amid stalled Middle East peace efforts.

The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering  —  How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.  —  Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump.  If he needs to discard friends, allies or wives along the way, so be it.

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?  —  The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.  —  At ten o'clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook …

Dem Who Compared Trump to Bin Laden Also Said ‘Nazis’ Work in White House  —  VIDEO: Illinois Dem Sean Casten twice referred to ‘Nazis and racists’ working in White House  —  Illinois Democrat Sean Casten, who found himself in hot water after his belief that President Donald Trump has a …

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line  —  The newest intelligence shows Kim's regime has stepped up efforts to hide its nuclear weapons production, say three senior U.S. officials.  —  WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump issues a steady stream …

Michael Caputo Says He Figured Out the Identity of NYT Op-Ed Writer: She ‘Believes that She is a Hero’  —  On Sunday, former Trump campaign director Michael Caputo claimed he knows who the author of the mysterious New York Times op-ed is and insisted the person behind the prose is a woman.

‘Scott Walker fatigue’ haunts Republicans  —  Signs that the Wisconsin governor is ripe to be taken down are everywhere.  —  GREEN BAY, Wisc.  — There's every reason to believe this is the beginning of the end for Scott Walker.  —  His presidential bid crashed and burned.

Sweden faces political impasse after inconclusive election  —  PM refuses calls to resign while second-placed Moderates rebuff overtures from far right  —  The leaders of Sweden's main left and rightwing parliamentary blocs have staked claims to form the next government …

A Mathematician Says Activists Made His Paper Disappear Because Its Findings Offended Them  —  Theodore Hill, a retired professor of mathematics at Georgia Tech, claims that activists successfully pressured the New York Journal of Mathematics to delete an article he had written …

Inside the making of Ben Folds's ‘Mister Peepers’  —  The Washington Post Magazine asked Ben Folds to write a song about anything.  He chose Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  Subscribe to The Washington Pos...

Rep. Mia Love's campaign admits to improperly raising primary election funds  —  (CNN)Rep. Mia Love's campaign has informed the Federal Election Commission that it will refund or redesignate less than half of what the government says was more than a million dollars improperly raised for a primary …

Killing an Executive Order Is Harder Than You Think … This has been sitting in a browser tab for a while, and it's about time I either closed it or used it.  So let's use it: … I only have one purpose here: to demonstrate the difficulty of repealing executive orders put in place by a previous administration.

Cupich on scandal: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by all of this’  —  The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope Francis and drive more people away from the faith.

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina shopped access to President Vladimir Putin  —  Maria Butina, the alleged Russian agent who stands accused of developing a covert influence operation in the United States, boasted of connections to high-ranking Kremlin officials and even shopped access …

Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China  —  BEIJING (AP) — China's government is ratcheting up a crackdown on Christian congregations in Beijing and several provinces, destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith …

The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump's Impeachment Isn't Sure It's Warranted  —  BROOKLYN—"Right now, I don't want to talk about it," Jerry Nadler told his curious, concerned constituent.  “We don't want to talk about it.”  —  The man positioned to lead the House of Representatives' impeachment effort …

Omarosa Releases Tape of Sarah Huckabee Sanders Agreeing With Trump's ‘Lies’  —  In a new tape played by Omarosa Manigault Newman on ‘The View,’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders can be heard confirming Trump's distortion of the Russia story.  —  With Bob Woodward's new book climbing the best-seller charts ahead …

Nancy Pelosi: As long as Trump is here, 'I'm here'  —  Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Nancy Pelosi airs on CNN International at 7 p.m. CET and 10 p.m. ET, and on PBS across the United States at 10 p.m. ET.  —  (CNN)Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who served as the first woman Speaker …

Trump Claims Credit for the Economy.  Not So Fast, Says Obama.  —  WASHINGTON — The economy is doing quite well, thank you very much, and the president would naturally like to take credit.  Both of them.  —  Barely a day passes without President Trump boasting about the growing economy …