Trump was adamant this morning that everything he said to the Ukrainian President was wholly appropriate and dared the media to keep playing up this story, so that when the facts come . . . ...

Ben Carson is under fire for comments he made this week that are being reported as ‘transphobic’ and are said to have offended many in the room: DAILY MAIL – Housing and . . . ...

A few “vets for impeachment” ambushed Dan Crenshaw at Capitol Hill yesterday, even following him into the members only elevators. But Crenshaw handled the whole thing with class: GOP Rep @ ...

This morning Bill de Blasio announced he is dropping out of the 2020 race for president: NY POST – Mayor Bill de Blasio finally pulled the plug on his ill-fated presidential bid . . . ...

At least six people have been shot on these streets of Washington DC tonight, in the area of Columbia Heights: FOX5DC – DC police are investigating a shooting in Columbia Heights Thursday . . . ...

CNN has a new report out tonight about blue collar mining workers in Minnesota, a state Trump barely lost in 2016, who used to vote Democratic but now are big Trump supporters: . . . ...

Last night Chris Cuomo ran with this new intel scandal about Trump promising something to a foreign leader, but hit a huge roadblock when he asked CNN analyst Philip Mudd about it: . . . ...

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President Donald Trump downplayed on Friday a complaint submitted by an intelligence whistleblower that reportedly involves Ukraine. ...

Washington's newest scandal, over a whistleblower's complaint about President Donald Trump, intensified Thursday amid revelations that the White House and Justice Department tried to keep it quiet. ...

IN THE MAIL: The Case Against Single Payer: How ‘Medicare for All’ Will Wreck America’s Health Care System―And Its Economy. Plus, browse today’s Lightning Deals and Deals of the Day. ...

FIVE CASES EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW FROM THE WAITE COURT: U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876), Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), The Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886). To watch the full v ...

HMM: Colt to Stop Manufacturing AR-15 Rifles for Consumer Market… for Now? Colt’s been in trouble for a while now, and this is just a market retrenchment — nothing political. ...

Alabama’s governor says the state “has lost one of her heroes.” ...

One dog is ready for trick-or-treating. ...

It was a knock on the door that Whitney Hopkins wished never came. ...

If Trooper Matthew Holley of the Houston Highway Patrol had one word to describe Moises Sanchez’s family, it would be “inspirational”. ...

California Highway Patrol Officer Andre Moye Jr. spent so much time working the roads that “he once had a close encounter with his mom,” his former commander remembers. ...

Everywhere he went, Sgt. Wytasha Carter brought love with him. ...

Kirsten Dunst responded to a tweet by news agency Reuters that condensed her acting career into just her role as “Spiderman’s [sic] girlfriend.”  ...

The morning of July 18 “began as about as routine as you can get” for Sgt. Michael Stephen, Arkansas State Police say, with the longtime Stone County Sheriff’s deputy and U.S. Army veteran summoned to a home in Leslie to carry out a domestic welfare check. ...

Jacob Keltner, his father Howard says, “wanted to be a soldier or policeman since he could talk.” ...

When Caden Dixon arrived for the first day of school this year, the officers with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office showed him that his father, Nicolas – a deputy who was killed a month earlier in the line of duty – will never be forgotten. ...