Exclusive: McConnell-aligned PAC unleashes $6.4 million ad blitz to protect Senate majority

WASHINGTON A super PAC aligned with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unleashing a $6.4 million advertising onslaught on Tuesday as the fall midterm campaign begins in earnest. The spending blitz by the Senate Leadership Fund includes $1.1 million in advertising in Tennessee, a deep-red state President Donald Trump won by 26 percentage points in 2016.

Ap Fact Check: White House’s selective reading on economy

President Donald Trump pitched a wildly off-base claim about economic growth Monday as the White House used selective statistics to build a case that the economy is doing much better than when Barack Obama was in office. The attention on Obama comes as the ex-president steps back into the political arena on behalf of Democrats in the November elections.

Omarosa suspects Pence’s chief of staff wrote anonymous op-ed

Washington: Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Monday morning came more than prepared to make headlines during an appearance on ABC's The View . "I suspect it is Pence's chief of staff," she said, fingering Vice President Pence's top staffer, Nick Ayers, as the anonymous author of the now-infamous commentary in the New York Times that portrayed President Donald Trump as incompetent and dangerous, something she had previously suggested.

Woodward book: Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell privately praised CEOs…

In the wake of President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, many CEOs resigned from positions on the White House's manufacturing and business councils. According to Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," GOP leaders Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell contacted some of the departing CEOs and "privately praised them for standing up."

CNN Trump surrogate: If Obama wants to know why Trump won ‘all…

Former Trump campaign adviser David Urban suggested on Monday that Americans elected President Donald Trump because of the physical appearance of President Barack Obama, who is black. During a panel discussion on CNN, Urban argued that Obama was the wrong person to campaign for Democrats because his party lost the House of Representatives while he was president in 2010.

Ken Starr: “Impeachment is hell”

Former independent counsel Ken Starr says that he see "eerie similarities" between his four-year-long investigation into President Bill Clinton and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of President Donald Trump. Begun in 1994, Starr's investigation into a failed real estate deal in Arkansas, known as Whitewater, evolved into a probe of the president's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Former President Barack Obama just told y’all to stop bingeing TV

Former President Barack Obama spit hot fire Friday at the University of Illinois to encourage all you young people out there to get your behinds to the voting booths in November to stop whatever is going on in Washington and bring some sanity back to democracy. But it may be harder for some than others.

The Circus of Resistance – The resistance to Donald Trump … (Victor …

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Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

Swedish election: Main blocs neck and neck as nationalists gain

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

North Korea is still making nukes, and the Trump admin is taking a harder line

GOP candidate for Fla. governor spoke at racially charged events - Rep. Ron DeSantis , a gubernatorial nominee who recently was accused of using racially tinged language, spoke four times at conferences organized by a conservative activist who has said that African Americans owe The Urgent Question of Trump and Money Laundering - How Bruce Ohr, President Trump's latest Twitter target, fits a suspicious pattern of behavior on Russia.

Brett Kavanaugh: Love child of the unholy marriage between Donald Trump and the GOP

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Black ex-police chief gets GOP nod for New Hampshire House

A black former police chief backed by the Trump administration won the Republican nomination Tuesday in New Hampshire's toss-up congressional district, while Democrats picked experienced, establishment-backed nominees for both that seat and for governor. Eddie Edwards, who was endorsed by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, defeated six Republican opponents in the 1st Congressional District, which covers the eastern half of the state.

Trump’s jabs at Sessions could eclipse AG’s accomplishments

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has vigorously pushed President Donald Trump 's agenda at the Justice Department , and before that, spent 20 years championing conservative causes in the Senate . Yet as Sessions enters what may be the final stretch of his tenure, those efforts are at risk of being eclipsed by his boss' relentless verbal jabs that have made the attorney general seem like a perpetual presidential punching bag.