Trump just admitted something he probably shouldn't have about the census citizenship question  —  President Trump just explained why he thinks we need a citizenship question on the census.  But in doing so, he seems to have said the quiet part out loud — and conceivably could have undercut the Justice Department's legal case.

Joe Biden Interview: “Talk About The Future” In Dem Primary  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden closed out his busy 4th of July day in Iowa with a trip to a baseball stadium, greeting newly-naturalized U.S. citizens and taking in the I-Cubs game with Iowa activists.

Trump faults rain, teleprompter for flub about ‘airports’ during American Revolution  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Friday that a teleprompter mishap led to his much-mocked July Fourth flub in which he talked about defending airports during the American Revolution.

Breakdown of Trump's 4th of July Failures  —  A lot of people decided to ignore Trump's planned “festivities” yesterday in protest of him commandeering the holiday for his own campaign and ego purposes.  I was planning on ignoring everything, too, but so many ridiculous and concerning things happened …

Trump Couldn't Ignore the Contradictions of His Foreign Policy Any Longer  —  Vyacheslav Molotov served in senior positions in the Soviet Union for more than a quarter century, including 10 years as Stalin's foreign minister.  He was dismissed in 1949 when he fell out of favor with Stalin …

Trump made his critics look small during his ‘Salute to America’  —  The “Resistance” warned us that if we elected an authoritarian such as Donald Trump, eventually there would be tanks in the streets of our nation's capital.  Well, on Thursday, their predictions finally came true.

Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”  —  Proponents of the law say it's necessary to avoid confusing consumers.  That...doesn't sound right.  —  It's been a good few months for the plant-based meat movement — so good that opponents of the fledgling industry are starting to mobilize.

The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity  —  Last week, Ralph Reed, the Faith and Freedom Coalition's founder and chairman, told the group, “There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump.  No one!”

Trump Begins Long Golf Weekend, Bringing Taxpayers' Tab To $108 Million  —  The candidate who used to hammer Barack Obama for golfing too much is on track to play two and a half times as much as his predecessor and at three times the cost to taxpayers.  —  President Donald Trump began a three …

Strong job growth is back: Payrolls jump in June well above expectations  —  KEY POINTS  — Nonfarm payrolls rose 224,000 in June, well above market expectations of 165,000, according to the Labor Department.  —  US adds 224,000 jobs in June, vs 165,000 expected

Haunted by the Reagan era  —  Past defeats still scare older Democratic leaders — but not the younger generation  —  Newly elected Democrats in the House of Representatives spent June 27 with the sinking feeling that it was happening again: Their party was going to cave to President Trump …

Bernie Sanders, Outraised and Lagging in Polls, Plays the Long Game  —  Senator's base of committed supporters, small donors likely to keep campaign afloat even if overtaken by rivals  —  IOWA CITY, Iowa—Bernie Sanders may be falling behind some of his rivals in the crowded Democratic presidential field …

'This doesn't look like the best economy ever': 40% of Americans say they still struggle to pay bills  —  Sommer Johnson thought everything was finally coming together for her last year.  She was engaged, working full time and doing well in online college classes when her fiance's mother died …

For Recording Her Boss's Lewd Call, She, Not He, Will Go to Jail  —  BANGKOK — A school bookkeeper in Indonesia who recorded her boss's lewd phone call as proof she was being harassed must serve at least six months in prison for distributing obscene material, the country's Supreme Court has ruled.

Russian state TV hosts mocked Trump's July 4 event as ‘low energy’  — President Donald Trump's July 4 festivities featured military flyovers, Bradley fighting vehicles, and M1A2 tanks.  —  Russian state media mocked President Donald Trump's “Salute to America” July 4th event, The Washington Post reported Thursday.

Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right's weapon for 2020  —  The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected  —  In the weeks leading up to a tightly contested 2018 midterm election in Virginia …