What the Mueller Report Actually Said  —  Robert Mueller has advised Americans to go back and actually read his report if we want to understand what happened in 2016.  “We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself,” he said on Wednesday morning, speaking publicly for the first time since his appointment.

White House Wanted USS John McCain ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump Japan Visit  —  The White House wanted the Navy to move a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain, a war hero who became a frequent target of President Trump's ire, ahead of the president's visit to Japan last week.

Worry About Facebook.  Rip Your Hair Out in Screaming Terror About Fox News.  —  Novel forms of digital misinformation still pale in comparison with Fox News' full-time hall of mirrors.  —  At the risk of losing street cred as a tough-as-nails tech pundit, I'll confess that I couldn't muster …

Federal prosecutors demand Cindy Yang records from Mar-a-Lago, Trump campaign  —  Federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. this week sent subpoenas to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, and Trump Victory, a political fundraising committee, demanding they turn …

Israel Moves to Hold New Election as Netanyahu Fails to Form a Coalition  —  JERUSALEM — Seven weeks after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared “a night of tremendous victory” in Israel's election, his failure to form a government by midnight Wednesday has turned into a stunning debacle …

US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as ‘molecules of freedom’  —  Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’  —  America is the land of freedom, as any politician will be happy to tell you.

Shame on Robert Mueller for exceeding his role  —  The statement by special counsel Robert Mueller in a Wednesday press conference that “if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said that” is worse than the statement made by then FBI Director James …

There Are Two Types of Airport People  —  It's not hard to spot people about to miss a flight.  They're weaving between on-time travelers at a speed somewhere between a power walk and a sprint, or they're elbow-dancing their way to the front of the TSA line to plead their case for immediate screening.

Against David French-ism  —  In March, First Things published a manifesto of sorts signed by several mostly youngish, mostly Roman Catholic writers, who argued that “there is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016,” that “any attempt to revive …

Kellyanne Conway dismisses Hatch Act violation: ‘Let me know when the jail sentence starts’  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday scoffed at a government office's findings that she violated a decades-old law barring officials from weighing in on elections in their government capacity …

The New Presidential Debate Rules Immediately Have Some Democrats Frustrated With The DNC  —  Some campaigns learned of heightened restrictions to qualify for the fall debates only after media reports.  “Women and people of color will not make it to the main stage,” one operative said.

‘Is it that bad?’  Fox Business host stunned as Napolitano explains Mueller has evidence Trump committed a crime  —  Fox legal analyst Andrew Napolitano.  (Screenshot)  —  Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller had indicated …

Twitter Has Started Researching Whether White Supremacists Belong on Twitter  —  “Is it the right approach to deplatform these individuals?  Is the right approach to try and engage with these individuals?  How should we be thinking about this?  What actually works?”