Cheers!  Barr books Trump's hotel for $30,000 holiday party  —  Experts say private, 200-person party adds to questions about attorney general's independence from president.  —  U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is planning a holiday treat for his boss.

My husband dumped me for Ilhan Omar, DC mom says in divorce filing  —  A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post.  —  Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett …

Exclusive: Falwell steered Liberty University land deal benefiting his personal trainer  —  LYNCHBURG, Va. (Reuters) - Evangelical leader and prominent Donald Trump backer Jerry Falwell Jr personally approved real estate transactions by his nonprofit Christian university that helped …

A professor called Bret Stephens a ‘bedbug.’ The New York Times columnist complained to the professor's boss.  —  The tweet seemed harmless enough to David Karpf.  The associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University took a story that bedbugs had infested …

Deutsche Bank all but confirms it possesses some of Trump's tax returns  —  Lawyers for Deutsche Bank all but confirmed on Tuesday that the German lender possesses some of President Donald Trump's tax returns and those of his family members.  —  The financial giant was responding to an order …

Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked  —  While most Harvard freshmen settle into their dorms Tuesday, one new student, Ismail B. Ajjawi '23, faces ongoing negotiations with immigration officers to allow him to enter the United States and study at the College.

Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border  —  Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department …

Farmers' Frustration With Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Peppered with complaints from farmers fed up with President Trump's trade war, Sonny Perdue found his patience wearing thin.  Mr. Perdue, the agriculture secretary and the guest of honor at the annual Farmfest gathering …

CNN announces details for climate crisis town hall  —  Washington (CNN)CNN on Tuesday announced the candidate lineup for its unprecedented prime-time event focused on the climate crisis.  —  Ten Democratic presidential hopefuls will appear in New York at back-to-back town halls on Wednesday …

Thoughts on the Impending Prosecution of Andrew McCabe  —  I confess that this story shocks me.  —  The New York Times reported yesterday that “Federal prosecutors in Washington appear to be in the final stages of deciding whether to seek an indictment of Andrew G. McCabe …

'I feel like I'm signing my son's death warrant.' Children at Boston hospitals face deportation  —  Severely ill immigrants, including children with cancer, cystic fibrosis, and other grave conditions, are facing deportation under a change in Trump administration policy that immigration advocates are calling cruel and inhumane.

‘I was working like a slave’: Exhausted Popeyes employees describe a harrowing situation amid chicken-sandwich chaos, including working 60-hour weeks and shifts with no breaks  — Popeyes and Chick-fil-A engaged in a Twitter battle last week over which chain's chicken sandwich was superior …

Rep. Steve King jokes China should sterilize Uighur women and force the Muslims to eat pork  —  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) joked at a town hall in Audubon, Iowa, Tuesday about sterilizing Muslim women in China “so there's no more Uighurs to be born,” and “trying to force them to eat pork,” the Sioux City Journal reports.

Exclusive: Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement  —  The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned following a controversial decision by the organization's board to endorse President Trump, the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.

‘Take the land’: President Trump wants a border wall.  He wants it black.  And he wants it by Election Day.  —  President Trump is so eager to complete hundreds of miles of border fence ahead of the 2020 presidential election that he has directed aides to fast-track billions of dollars' worth …

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest  —  President Trump has instructed Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Alaska's 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest from logging restrictions imposed nearly 20 years ago, according to three people briefed on the issue …

“ARE WE REALLY GOING TO HAVE A GAFFE-FEST OVER JOE BIDEN?”:  HOW CLICKBAIT AND OUTRAGE PORN ARE HURTING READERS—AND ELEVATING TRUMP  —  Trump wants to drop a nuclear bomb into a hurricane, immigrant children are dying in U.S. custody, and the Amazon rainforest is burning.

Purdue Pharma offers $10-12 billion to settle opioid claims  —  The lawsuits allege the company and the Sackler family are responsible for starting and sustaining the opioid crisis.  —  The maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, and its owners, the Sackler family, are offering to settle …

How white nationalists aligned themselves with the antiabortion movement  —  Last fall, speaking to a far-right Austrian magazine, the Iowa Republican congressman Steve King succinctly laid out his theory of Western decline.  The problem, he suggested, was a demographic born at the nexus of reproduction and immigration.

Conservative trolls allied with White House looking to ‘kill’ the wrong messenger |  Opinion  —  “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.”  —  So says Dick the Butcher in Shakespeare's “Henry VI, Part 2.”  Though often regarded as a Renaissance-era lawyer joke …

Beto O'Rourke Ejects Breitbart News Reporter from Event at Historically Black College  —  COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-TX) has styled himself as a champion of press freedom, tweeting last October: “The press is not the enemy of the people but the best defense against tyranny.”

Will the ABC debate be one night or two?  The question is creating anxiety for the Democratic candidates  —  New York (CNN Business)The next Democratic debate is two weeks away — and right now it is shaping up to be a one-night event.  —  That's how ABC, the primary network hosting the debate, would like it to stay that way.

Biden: Racism in US is institutional, 'white man's problem'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Racism in America is institutional and it is a “white man's problem visited on people of color,” former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump …

Column: Has Trump's cheese finally slid off his cracker?  —  Last week there was a sharp uptick in speculation that President Trump is a few fries shy of a Happy Meal.  —  Obviously, this is not the first time the idea has popped up that the commander-in-chief's cheese might have slid off his cracker.

Biden Extols His Black Support: ‘I Think They Know Me’  —  In an interview with black journalists, the former vice president cited his support among black voters to push back on criticism of his candidacy as focused on the white working class.  —  WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr …