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Democrats on Friday accused Republicans of "cherry-picking" and leaking portions of text messages and emails between a U.S. law enforcement official and a former British spy who investigated then-businessman Donald Trump's ties to the Russian government.

A federal judge on Friday denied a request by Texas and other states governed by Republicans to immediately end a program launched by Democratic former president Barack Obama that protects immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children.

The Democratic Party looks like the future of America – inclusive, diverse and full of hope – and the GOP is a spitting image of Donald Trump.

Republicans are in such a panic over Rep. Beto O'Rourke's Senate run that they are sending Trump to Texas to campaign against him.

Former governor and DNC Chair Howard Dean said that he thought Trump might be getting psychotic after the president's recent Twitter outbursts.

(Reuters) - An American who is the business partner of a Russian national accused by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller of having ties to Russian intelligence pleaded guilty on Friday to unregistered lobbying for a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine and agreed to cooperate with Mueller's probe.

The latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is in line with other recent polling that shows Trump’s attacks on Mueller are backfiring. The Washington Post reported: 63 percent of Americans support Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, with 52 percent saying they support it strongly; 29 percent oppose the probe. Opinions on Mueller’s … Continue reading "Mueller Stands Strong As Trump Attacks Backfire"

U.S. President Donald Trump notified Congress on Friday of his intent to sign a trade agreement with Mexico after talks with Canada broke up on Friday with no immediate deal to revamp the tri-nation North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump didn't try to deny that he lied to and insulted Canada. Instead, he attacked the press and said that now Canada knows where he stands.

Rev. Al Sharpton got a standing ovation at Aretha Franklin's funeral when he called out Trump's disrespect for the Queen of Soul.

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bitterly divided U.S. Congress came together on Friday to commemorate the late Senator John McCain, remembering him as a tenacious fighter for his ideals who never lost his sense of humor or his ability to inspire others. Leaders from both parties gathered in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on … Continue reading "Updated Photos: Washington lauds McCain as one of America’s ‘bravest souls,’ Trump absent"

Elon Musk is a chump. Sure, he makes electric cars and rockets, and launches electric cars into space on rockets, but he doesn’t go into true uncharted territory and try to make science fiction into science fact. Even the whole tunnel thing he talks about is just a rerun of ideas from days of old. The same is true for the personal flame throwers one of his companies released. Anyone could make a flame thrower, you just need some fire and something to throw it with, like a catapult. To be a true next-generation supervillain, you have to step up your game. Stop thinking of the present and think about the future instead. What’s the next step for billionaire inventors who want to score some government funds? It’s not electric cars and rockets, it’s building a parallel universe then launching cars into space from it. And you, yes you!, are just the person to do it. But first, you’ll need a robot army. You’ll probably also need some other things, like a team of scientists and a bunch of m...

Someone, possibly from within the White House, leaked Trump insulting Canada, which has thrown a curve to trade talks that are facing a Friday deadline for completion.

By Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co has abruptly killed a plan to sell a Chinese-made small vehicle in the United States because of the prospect of higher U.S. tariffs, the head of the automaker’s North American operations said Friday. The automaker’s decision came as U.S. President Donald Trump is escalating a trade … Continue reading "Ford kills plan to sell Chinese-made vehicle in the United States"

Herman Mankiewicz, the alcoholic and gambling-addicted screenwriter (at the very least, he co-wrote “Citizen Kane”) once gave advice to his daughter on how to cope with life: try to find humor in any situation. Neil Simon, who died this week, practiced this type of coping skill. Born to an impoverished dysfunctional family during the Great Depression, Simon turned to humor as a way to block out his unhappiness: “I think part of what made me a comedy writer is the blocking out of some of the really ugly, painful things in my childhood and covering it up with a humorous attitude … do something to laugh until I was able to forget what was hurting.” Even when working for the temperamental Sid Caesar on the 1950s “Show of Shows,” Simon found happiness, because of the camaraderie he developed with the writing staff: There were about seven writers, plus Sid,  Carl Reiner , and  Howie Morris  … Mel Brooks and maybe  Woody Allen  would write one of the other ske...

SUBSCRIBE TO THE FEDERALIST RADIO HOUR HERE. On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Julie Zauzmer , Washington Post religion reporter, explains the multiple cases of sexual abuse allegations within the Catholic Church that have been exposed this summer. Bre Payton interviews Zauzmer and Federalist writer Margot Cleveland about how Pope Francis and Church leadership has responded to these stories and the political implications for the institution as a whole. “The swell of anger in the Catholic Church now is about the leadership. It’s not about the parish priests. It’s about the bishops. It’s about the cardinals. It’s about the Pope,” Zauzmer said. “This anger is saying, ‘You were in leadership back then. You’re still in leadership now, and you haven’t changed enough.'” Listen to the full episode here:

The United States' top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company should shut them down.

U.S. President Donald Trump, his three adult children and his namesake foundation are seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by the New York state attorney general accusing the nonprofit of "self-dealing" for Trump's benefit, including for his 2016 presidential campaign.

President Donald Trump was missing from the ceremony, a result of the animosity between the two men that lingered even after the Arizona senator's death on Saturday from brain cancer.

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Friday charged a business associate of Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukranian political consultant indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, with failing to register as a foreign agent for lobbying on behalf of a Ukranian political party. Samuel Patten was charged by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and the … Continue reading "U.S. charges Samuel Patten, associate of indicted Russian, with lobbying violation"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The motorcade carrying the late Senator John McCain’s casket arrived at the U.S. Capitol on Friday morning, with a solemn memorial ceremony for the Arizona lawmaker set to begin soon. Friday’s events in the Capitol will feature remarks by fellow Republicans Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House … Continue reading "Photos: Motorcade with McCain’s body arrives at U.S. Capitol"

Bernie Sanders-supported progressive Democrat Andrew Gillum, the thirty-something mayor of Tallahassee, is leading Trump-supported right-wing Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis (Fla.) by 5 points in the race for the Florida governor’s mansion, according to a new poll. Admittedly, the poll may be biased since it was commissioned by Democrats, but it is the first publicly released … Continue reading "Dem Poll Has Gillum Leading DeSantis By 5 in Florida"

A new ABC News/Washington Post opinion poll released on Friday morning has a lot of bad news for the president. In the poll, disapproval of Donald Trump is at a record high, with fully 60% of voters saying they disapprove of his performance in office. And with 53% saying they “strongly disapprove” of Trump the … Continue reading "Trump Disapproval at Record High As Half Want Him Impeached"

Democrats in Congress are now demanding that hearings be held into the Trump administration’s policy of denying U.S. passports ­to Americans of Hispanic descent who reside near the U.S.-Mexico border. They also want the hearings to dig into the details concerning the actions of federal officials at the border who are now questioning the citizenship … Continue reading "Democrats Demand Hearings on Denial of Passports to Americans"

As more news comes out about how much information National Enquirer CEO David Pecker kept locked up in his vault about Donald Trump, the speculation is increasing that he had proof of some of the wilder claims made about Trump. For example, yesterday we published an article discussing how “the vault” of information about Trump … Continue reading "How the National Enquirer Scandal ‘Substantiates’ the Steele Dossier"

“Rapid-onset gender dysphoria” among teens and young adults may be a social contagion linked with having friends who identify as LGBT, an identity politics peer culture, and an increase in internet use, finds a study out this month from a Brown University professor. The study was quickly yanked from Brown’s news releases after a transgender activist feeding frenzy, and the journal it was published in is reconsidering the publication. There is a parent and researcher-driven petition to stand behind the publication of the first study to look in detail at rapid-onset gender dysphoria. The petition includes the following graph about gender referrals in the United Kingdom. Anecdotal and news reports , as well as the rapid recent growth in transgender treatment centers , indicates a similar phenomenon inside the United States. “[T]he parental reports in this study offer important and much-needed preliminary information about a cohort of adolescents, mostly girls, who with no prior histor...

U.S. stock markets surged Monday after President Trump announced the United States and Mexico have reached a preliminary trade agreement, which is part of the Trump administration’s effort to rewrite the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Does this mean the new deal is a “huge” improvement over NAFTA? Not exactly. President Trump has called NAFTA the “worst” trade deal in history, but an analysis of key  provisions finds limited improvements, some compromises, and quite a few flaws in this new agreement. The biggest improvement is with respect to digital trade, something missing from the NAFTA agreement established in 1990, when e-commerce was in its infant stage and few even knew what social media was. The new agreement stipulates “ digital trade tariffs will be prohibited for digital products that are distributed electronically, such as e-books, videos, music, software and games .” Another improvement is on intellectual property rights. The new agreement states ...

California is on its way to becoming the first state to mandate that public colleges make abortion pills available to students. SB 320, which is the first bill of its kind, passed the state senate last year, and the state house plans to vote on the bill by the end of the month. Activists herald this likely victory as progress. “[Abortion] is a good thing,” recently-graduated activist Adiba Khan told Bustle . “Anything that allows you to make a better decision about your own life, we consider to be a good thing.” From a libertarian perspective, I certainly agree that protecting autonomy from state intrusion is worth celebrating. But is abortion? “This movement is about de-stigmatizing abortion,” Khan added, echoing her earlier praise for the procedure. She’s right that offering easy-to-obtain abortion pills (like Mifepristone and Misoprostol) at student health clinics across the state would remove barriers to access, thus creating more abortions. So SB 320 would destigmatize abort...

After the immense success of Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle , the market seems hungry for stories of growing up in difficult situations. Although All Happy Families by Jeanne McCulloch, former managing editor of The Paris Review, tempts the reader into believing the story will center on the hardship of having complicated parents and trying to maneuver in the upper echelon of society, in this memoir McCulloch hesitates and instead examines marriage and commitment while grappling with the details of her childhood. The book’s simple three-part structure begins on the threshold of McCulloch’s own marriage, taking place at the family home in the Hamptons. In an effort to deal with her alcoholic husband, McCulloch’s mother forces her alcoholic husband to quit drinking cold turkey, forcing his hospitalization. Her mother tells the hospital not to call during the wedding. She doesn’t want the distraction for her daughter’s big day. The book could not be considered linear by any means, as ...

If the media crusade against domestic violence in sports can teach us anything, it is perhaps to re-emphasize the genius of the Founders in emphasizing that due process is more important than outcome — and enshrining that concept in our Constitution. The idea may seem cold to a family watching the killer of a loved one walk after being acquitted. As someone whose family members were harassed by stalkers, I know the inefficiency of our judicial system can be unbelievably slow and frustrating. But in a free society, people accused of a crime must have the ability to defend themselves and, when falsely accused, reclaim their good name. That can only happen if we allow the guilty the same opportunity, which is why process is more important than specific outcomes. The frenzy surrounding allegations of abuse by a coach in Ohio State University’s football program is a prime example of what happens when we decide that if the courts won’t punish that SOB, why, we’ll just do it ourselves to fo...

Forty years ago, a movie titled “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” terrified audiences with visions of a dystopian world in which humans transformed into a collective hive of like-minded clones. I’m often asked how I can possibly defend the Trump administration or President Trump, since he has so many faults and says so many questionable things. It puts me in mind of that movie, because my answer generates the same kind of response. While eyes full of contempt collectively glare at our president, I have turned my gaze back on the mob. I hate mobs, and I hate group think. And I see chilling evil taking place in the name of getting Trump. That’s why I oppose the angry and dangerous mob that’s arrayed against President Trump, regardless of who it aligns me with. Virtually every story written in media coverage of Trump is negative. Worse than that, the media acts as a single hive as the same talking points that all seem to be said at the same time by unthinking mouths from seemingly unconn...