Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who was indicted on sex trafficking charges, died overnight by an apparent suicide in his Manhattan jail cell, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
President Trump is flirting with taking action on gun control in the wake of a pair of mass shootings that left 31 people dead and shook a country clearly tiring of a seemingly endless series of shootings, Brett Samuels reports.
Last weekend’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, are putting a renewed focus on what action — if any — Congress will take to curb gun violence, Jordain Carney writes.
The parade of Democratic hopefuls in Clear Lake, Iowa, on Friday highlighted their pledges to help rural areas, and blasted President Trump's trade war that has cost farmers in Iowa already struggling to keep their small businesses afloat, Reid Wilson writes.
President Trump's condemnation of "racism, bigotry and white supremacy" is failing to soothe Hispanics in the wake of the shooting in El Paso, Texas, as members of the community fear more physical violence amid a climate of heightened rhetoric on immigration, Rafael Bernal reports.
Former President Obama criticized President Trump for ramping up racial tensions earlier this week — a rare intervention in political debates from the 44th president, Niall Stanage writes.
Juul Labs is spending big on campaign donations and a massive lobbying blitz as the e-cigarette maker faces growing threats from lawmakers and regulators, and with few allies in Washington, Alex Gangitano reports.
The divide over health care among Democratic presidential candidates is raising fears the party might turn an issue that was a key winner in the House midterms into a liability in next year's Senate races, Jessie Hellmann writes.
U.S. businesses and farmers are begging President Trump for relief from his escalating trade war with China as tensions between the world’s two largest economies reach new heights, Sylvan Lane and Alex Gangitano report.
School districts across the country are increasingly becoming a major target of malicious cyberattacks, leaving both the federal government and state governments scrambling to find ways to fight back, Maggie Miller reports.
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