Fact Check: Biden Did Praise Racists  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday at the Democrat presidential debate that he never praised segregationists.  —  “I did not praise racists,” Biden said after a testy back and forth with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) over previous remarks he made about segregationist Democrats.

House Passes Senate Border Bill in Striking Defeat for Pelosi  —  WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a Senate humanitarian aid package without any of the House's strict protections for migrant children in overcrowded border shelters after Speaker Nancy Pelosi capitulated to Republicans …

Trolls target online polls following first Democratic presidential debate  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan and Reddit implored fellow members to vote for lower-polling candidates, specifically Tulsi Gabbard and Bill de Blasio.  —  Users from pro-Trump communities on 4chan …

Donald Trump Is Promising to Fight the Census Case.  That Might Actually Work.  —  Despite a favorable ruling for opponents of the census citizenship question on Thursday, the Supreme Court did not definitively decide to exclude the citizenship question from the 2020 census.

Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules — a move with potentially stark implications for Trump's account  —  The social media site will also down-rank such tweets via its algorithms to reduce circulation  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has long said it is unlikely to take down politicians …

Bill De Blasio Roasted for Quoting Che Guevara at Miami Campaign Stop … New York politics and Miami politics are not the same.  This may seem like an obvious statement.  But at a rally today for striking workers at the Miami International Airport, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential …

Vladimir Putin says liberalism has ‘become obsolete’  —  Vladimir Putin has trumpeted the growth of national populist movements in Europe and America, crowing that liberalism is spent as an ideological force.  —  In an FT interview in the Kremlin on the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka …

Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy  —  Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, called out Republicans for what he described as moral hypocrisy during the second night of the first Democratic presidential debates, in Miami.  The conversation had turned to the border …

Tillerson told House panel that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner left him in the dark on conversations with foreign nations  —  Former secretary of state Rex Tillerson met privately with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month to discuss the Trump administration's foreign policy, including issues related to Russia.

China to Insist U.S. Lift Huawei Ban as Part of Trade Truce  —  Xi to present Trump with terms for settling trade fight, including asking the U.S. to lift all punitive tariffs  —  OSAKA, Japan—Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to present President Trump with a set of terms the U.S …

Matt Gaetz says he will press charges against woman who threw drink at him  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said this week that he plans to press charges against the person who threw a drink at him earlier this month as he was leaving a town hall event.  —  Gaetz said during a Fox News appearance Wednesday …

Trump hotel in Washington charged Secret Service $200,000 in president's first year  —  The hotel five blocks from the White House has been used by Trump and his supporters for events that require the agency's protection.  —  During the first year of Donald Trump's presidency …

Marianne Williamson's “girlfriend” call to New Zealand and her other best moments in the debates  —  And by best, we mean all of them.  —  Marianne Williamson did not speak for the first 27 minutes of the Democratic debate on Thursday.  But when she finally did, everything she said was awesome.