Trump touts six-month mark: US is now ‘hottest’ and ‘most respected country anywhere’  —  President Trump marked his six-month anniversary of his second term in office by touting that the United States is the “hottest” and “most respected country anywhere in the world.”

Trump once hosted party for ‘young women’ where Epstein was the only guest, says report  —  President under pressure to release all files related to his former friend Epstein  —  Donald Trump once hosted a party with “young women” where the disgraced late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein “was the only other guest,” according to a report.

An Accuser's Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files … Maria Farmer in August 2019.  Ms. Farmer said in an interview with The New York Times that she twice told the F.B.I. about a troubling encounter she had with Donald J. Trump, and about how close he was with Jeffrey Epstein.Andrea Morales for The New York Times

Volunteers flock to immigration courts to support migrants arrested in the hallways  —  After a Seattle immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against a Colombian man — exposing him to expedited removal — three people sat with him in the back of the courtroom …

G.O.P. Push Behind Trump Agenda Has Congress in an Uproar … Republicans' relentless marathon to force President Trump's agenda through Congress over objections from Democrats and some in their own ranks is taking a toll on the institution and its members, prompting tempers to boil …

Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders  —  At least 85 Palestinians were killed while trying to reach food at locations across Gaza on Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said, on the deadliest day yet for aid-seekers in over 21 months of war.

GOP Senator Blames ‘Radical’ Leftists for Trump's Cankles  —  CHOLESTEROL?  NO, COMMUNISM!  —  Tommy Tuberville says even at the ripe old age of 79, the president's only ailing because every day's “almost like a fistfight” with pesky liberals.  —  Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville thinks it's not age …

The Epstein Cover-Up at the FBI  —  As many of you know by now, Senator Dick Durbin penned a letter to Pam Bondi two days ago asking questions about information his office received from a protected whistleblower.  The letter read, in part: … This letter was made public right after I had filed …

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton sent ‘warm and gushing’ letter for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday - as Trump sues over claim he also wrote a ‘bawdy’ note for paedophile's half-century  —  Bill Clinton wrote a ‘warm and gushing’ letter which was included in Jeffrey Epstein's infamous 50th ‘birthday book’, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Sunday Pages: “Superman”  —  I first saw the trailer for the new James Gunn Superman a few months ago, during the NBA playoffs.  My first reaction was an eye-roll and a dismissive, “Do we really need another Superman?  Really?  Why?”  —  Seriously: why do we keep recycling the same old tired movie franchises?

What happens once we spot the asteroid that will hit Earth? … In January, at a US Space Force Base in the Rocky Mountains near Colorado Springs, an operator received an unusual email.  It was an alert — but not one triggered by the military's network of space-based sensors.

Why American Jews No Longer Understand One Another  —  It's a tense time in the Jewish family group chats.  The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down.  That consensus, roughly, was this: What is good for Israel is good for the Jews.  Anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism.

“He's a madman”: Trump's team frets about Netanyahu after Syria strikes  —  As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control. … He bombs everything all the time," one White House official told Axios, referring to Netanyahu by his nickname.

Ice chief says he will continue to allow agents to wear masks during arrest raids  —  Legal advocates and attorneys general argue practice poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear  —  The head of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said on Sunday …

Trump's Perversion of Justice Has Reached a New Phase  —  President Trump's Justice Department is turning civil rights enforcement upside down.  —  Last week, Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, asked a federal judge to sentence a former Louisville police officer named Brett Hankison to one day in prison.

Naturalized Citizens Are Scared … On a bookshelf near my desk, I still have the souvenir United States flag that I received during my naturalization ceremony, in 1994.  I remember a tenderhearted judge got emotional as the room full of immigrants swore the Oath of Allegiance and that …