Why go to the trouble of running for president to promote ideas that can't work?  —  “I DON'T understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …

Rep. Will Hurd: It's time to serve my country in a different way  —  There are many reasons why I love America.  I have learned over my three terms in Congress, by representing people that voted for me, didn't vote for me or didn't vote at all, that America is better than the sum of its parts.

'We're All Tired of Being Called Racists'  —  CINCINNATI—Donald Trump's supporters would like to be clear: They are tired of being called racists.  —  Leave it to the president's eldest son to set the tone.  Last night at the 17,500-person-capacity U.S. Bank Arena downtown here …

A key police official recommends NYPD terminate the officer accused of fatally choking Eric Garner, a source says  —  New York (CNN)New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo should be terminated following his controversial involvement in the death of Eric Garner …

White House Asks for List of Top Spies During Intelligence Shakeup  —  It's unclear what the White House will do with the list.  People on it may be eligible to temporarily lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  —  The Trump administration is taking inventory …

John Ratcliffe, Trump's pick to lead U.S. intelligence claims he arrested 300 illegal immigrants in a single day.  He didn't.  —  President Trump's choice to lead the nation's intelligence community often cites a massive roundup of immigrant workers at poultry plants in 2008 as a highlight of his career.

Top State Department adviser fired over ‘abusive’ management style  —  A senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was fired this week over what officials described as her “abusive” management style, including making homophobic remarks and accusing people of having affairs, according to two people.

Donald Trump doubts Russian meddling in 2020 election, disputing Robert Mueller  —  Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections and helped Donald Trump win.  We look back at history and ask: Will they do it again?  —  CONNECT  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump …

Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI  —  Newly revealed FBI memo warns about conspiracy theories' causal connection to extremist violence  —  On Thursday, Yahoo! News published an exclusive story detailing a May 2019 FBI assessment that online conspiracy theories …

At rally, Trump seethes with elite contempt for Real Americans  —  The candidate for president was seething with disdain for a large swath of Real Americans.  The candidate scoffed at their suffering.  The candidate oozed with haughty superciliousness as he wrote off all those Americans as unworthy of concern or outreach.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Dies After Overdose  —  BOSTON — A granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy died on Thursday afternoon after suffering an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass., according to two people close to the family.

After a meeting with RBS lawyers, then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein told the U.S. attorney in Boston not to pursue criminal charges.  —  DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Sutton said that the Barclays and RBS settlements held the banks accountable for serious misconduct, and that the penalties recovered …

Erick Erickson, It's Time to Get Out of Pete Buttigieg's Bedroom  —  Erick Erickson seems creepily focused on Pete Buttigieg's sexuality, and alleged hypocrisy.  He would do better to take on Buttigieg's message about Christian behavior and ethics.  —  Erick Erickson really doesn't like …

POLITICO Playbook: A gutting few weeks for the GOP  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  IF YOU ARE A HOUSE REPUBLICAN, this has been an absolutely gutting few weeks.  And, truly, if someone is trying to spin you on how the political picture is not that bad for the House GOP right now — at this moment …

Ben Folds makes a song called ‘Moscow Mitch’  —  Rock musician Ben Folds was performing on the roof of New York City's Pier 17 Thursday when he asked the audience to help him out with a new song.  “What I want to do is put a little cool stutter in it, like, you know, 'My-my-my-my-my-my Sharona …

July was Earth's hottest month on record, beating or tying July 2016  —  A sizzling Europe and warm Arctic helped propel the global average temperature to new heights.  —  July was Earth's hottest month ever recorded, “on a par with, and possibly marginally higher” than the previous warmest month …

Landmark US-Russia arms control treaty is dead  —  A landmark arms control treaty that President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed three decades ago is dead, prompting fears of a new global arms race.  —  The United States and Russia both walked away from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty on Friday.

U.S. Employers Added 164,000 Jobs in July, Wages Picked Up  — Unemployment rate holds at 3.7%, near lowest in half century  — Results show solid labor market ahead of Trump tariff threat  —  U.S. employers kept adding workers at a healthy pace in July and wage gains picked up …

Conservatives Are Hiding Their ‘Loathing’ Behind Our Flag  —  The molten core of right-wing nationalism is the furious denial of America's unalterably multiracial, multicultural national character.  —  The Republican Party under Donald Trump has devolved into a populist cult of personality.

VIDEO: Punches thrown outside Trump rally in Cincinnati  —  Inside the rally, President Donald Trump slammed Democrats before crowd of thousands  —  CINCINNATI (FOX19) - President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence made their case for re-election before a crowd of thousands at U.S. Bank Arena Downtown Thursday night.

Trump Makes 9/11 and Dad's Funeral All About Him  —  From his claims to first responders and his self-regarding Fred Trump eulogy to his bombastic Cincinnati rally, the narcissistic shtick is wearing thin.  —  President Donald Trump started the week with a Rose Garden ceremony …

Boris Johnson's party suffers defeat in UK special election  —  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's governing Conservative Party has a lost a special election, leaving it with a wafer-thin working majority in Parliament of just one vote.  —  Jane Dodds of the opposition …

Manhattan D.A. Subpoenas Trump Organization Over Stormy Daniels Hush Money  —  Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, is reviving an investigation into payments made to two women during the 2016 campaign.  —  State prosecutors in Manhattan subpoenaed President Trump's family business …

Will the Millennials Save Playboy?  —  The Hefners are gone, and so is the magazine's short-lived ban on nudity — as well as virtually anyone on the staff over 35.  —  LOS ANGELES — “This is a full nude shoot to be conducted underwater,” a woman said into a phone, her voice carrying across a row of cubicles.

California Removes Arrest Reports From Kamala Years  —  Routine website redesign obscures Democrat's record on criminal justice  —  A redesign of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation website will make it harder for voters to inspect Sen. Kamala Harris's controversial record as the state's top cop.

Why Was Trumponomics a Flop?  —  Neither tax cuts nor tariffs are working.  —  Donald Trump has pursued two main economic policies.  On taxes, he has been an orthodox Republican, pushing through big tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, which his administration promised would lead to a huge surge in business investment.

Tulsi Gabbard Is This Election's Ron Paul  —  There is no one else in the 2020 Democratic primary quite like Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, but there was someone in the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries who was, and that is former member of Congress Ron Paul.  —  Paul ran the most visible message campaigns …