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 …

SEE IT: Cynthia Nixon Orders Cinnamon Raisin Bagel With... Lox And Capers  —  There's something about New York's endless supply of authentic eateries that transforms aspiring politicians into weird aliens who've never before encountered the concept of food: Back in the 1970s …

CNN Poll: Trump approval down 6 points in a month, hits low among independents  —  WASHINGTON (CNN)President Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen 6 points in the last month and stands at a new low among political independents, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS.

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was paid to pursue access to Vladimir Putin for TV show  —  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 was even paid …

Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court and the P.L.O.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will threaten to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court if it pursues an investigation of American troops in Afghanistan, opening a harsh new attack on an old nemesis of many on the political right.

State of The 2018 House Race  —  Dems do better in Dem precincts than GOP in GOP precincts;  —  Race, gender and education divide core support from persuadable voters  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The Monmouth University Poll finds the race for control of the House of Representatives to be tight …

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 …

Adam Clymer, Political Reporter, Editor and Pollster, Dies at 81  —  Adam Clymer, who covered congressional intrigue, eight presidential campaigns and the downfall of both Nikita S. Khrushchev and Richard M. Nixon as a reporter and editor for The New York Times and other newspapers, died early Monday at his home in Washington.

U.S. in ‘Process of Coordinating’ Second Meeting Between Trump and Kim  — Letter won't be publicly released without Kim's approval  — North Korea hasn't show progress toward ending nuclear work  —  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wrote to President Donald Trump to set …

The Last 2018 Primary Briefing: New Hampshire, Rhode Island And New York  —  All good things must come to an end.  After six months, 19 election days and seven live blogs, it's time to say goodbye to primary season.  But before you grieve, a parting gift: three consecutive nights of electiony goodness.

Evacuations ordered for SC coast as Hurricane Florence nears, effective Tuesday  —  COLUMBIA — Gov. Henry McMaster will order evacuations along South Carolina's entire 187-mile coastline border starting at noon Tuesday, saying residents and tourists must get out of Hurricane Florence's …

New Texts Reveal FBI Leaked Information to the Press to Damage Trump  —  Rep. Meadows sent a letter to Deputy AG Rosenstein saying a “review of the new documents raises greave concerns regarding an apparent systemic culture of media leaking by high-ranking officials at the FBI and DOJ related to ongoing investigations”

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.

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 …

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.

Who Will Replace Chris Collins, the Indicted Congressman, on the Ballot?  Perhaps No One  —  After Representative Chris Collins was indicted last month, the Republican from western New York seemed to leave no doubt about his immediate political future: There was none.

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...

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 …

What Serena Got Wrong  —  Just because the guys might be able to get away with it doesn't mean it's acceptable.  —  Ms. Navratilova is a broadcaster, former tennis champion and human rights activist.  —  Serena Williams has part of it right.  There is a huge double standard for women …

Scientists say ‘Neuroweapons’ were behind Cuba attacks  —  WASHINGTON — Could a foreign country build a directed-energy weapon tailored to target a single diplomat walking through a house, leaving other occupants unaffected?  What about drugs that target a person's brain, or even a specific part of the brain?

Ken Starr says he considered perjury charges against Hillary Clinton, in explosive new memoir  —  Former independent counsel Ken Starr writes in his new memoir that he considered — but ultimately abandoned — the idea of perjury charges against then-first lady Hillary Clinton after her …

Iran Vows Strikes Outside Borders, ‘Beyond the Seas’  —  A top Iranian military leader warned on Monday that Iran is plotting strikes outside of its own borders and will even go “beyond the seas” to carry out attacks on those it perceives as enemies, statements that further highlight Iran's …

Most Teens Prefer to Chat Online, Rather Than in Person  —  About two-thirds favor online communication over face-to-face talks with friends, survey finds  —  More than two-thirds of teens say they would rather communicate with their friends online than in person, according to a new study …

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 …

Rogue billionaires are giving the GOP and Democrats a migraine  —  Republican Richard Uihlein and Democrat Tom Steyer have poured tens of millions of dollars into the 2018 campaign.  And their political parties are irritated about it.  —  The two billionaires have backed candidates and causes …

Thanks, Obama!  —  Barack Obama reminds us why Donald Trump is president  —  “How hard can that be?  Saying that Nazis are bad,” former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois over the weekend.  Well, probably no harder than saying the words “radical Islam,” I imagine.