Trump could make a plausible legal argument that his pardoning powers extend to himself, Vox reports.

At least 15 Conservative MPs have reportedly agreed to sign a letter of no confidence in Theresa May. It comes after the Prime Minister told plotting Tory MPs “it’s me or Jeremy Corbyn” as she insisted a leadership challenge would trigger another general election. Although the letter of no confidence falls short of the 48 names required to trigger a leadership contest, Parliament’s summer break could prove critical for Ms May’s future.

Can humane prisons work in America? A red state aims to find out.

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A Hialeah, Florida man took matters into his own hands to remove AT&T workers from his property on Wednesday. Jorge Jove, a 64-year-old retired Miami-Dade firefighter, shot the tires of two AT&T trucks, as seen in video captured of the incident and posted on Twitter. Hialeah Police Sgt. Carl Zogby told WSVN that Jove was “upset that the trucks were parked in front of his house” and that he “asked them to move.”

We published “The Uninhabitable Earth” on Sunday night, and the response since has been extraordinary — both in volume (it is already the most-read article in New York Magazine’s history) and in kind. Within hours, the article spawned a fleet of commentary across newspapers, magazines, blogs, and Twitter, much of which came from climate scientists and the journalists who cover them.

The eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower is a senior vice president at the company founded by the Russian oligarch who initiated the meeting, CNN has learned.

Donald Trump once promised voters he wasn’t a politician. Now he’s defending his campaign by saying it acted like every other politician.

A man in Florida miraculously survived a bizarre accident during which his van was completely crushed by scrap metal. Truck driver Antonio Santiago Wharton was driving on an overpass Saturday morning when he lost control of his vehicle, a Mack truck loaded down with scrap metal, while negotiating a curve. The truck hit the guardrail and overturned, the Florida Highway Patrol says.

Nearly as many Iraqi and Syrian civilians have died in US-led air strikes under Donald Trump as were killed during the whole administration of Barack Obama, independent analysts say.  As of 13 July, more than 2,200 civilians had been killed by the US-led international coalition against Isis since Donald Trump entered the White house in January - compared with the estimated 2,300 civilians who died during similar strikes between 2014 and 2016. Roughly 80 civilians per month died in strikes unde...

Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extended to Americans, worrying some privacy advocates.

Two million new pro-net neutrality comments claimed by "Day of Action" organizers.

The network is entering dangerous territory to defend Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian attorney.

The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The judge ruled he could remain free pending an appeal. Lula has rejected claims that he received an apartment as a bribe in a corruption scandal linked to state oil company Petrobras. He says the trial is politically motivated and has strongly denied any wrongdoing.

Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking why the Department of Justice decided to settle a major money-laundering case.

Scotland is to lead the way in the fight against “period poverty” by giving more than 1,000 women and girls on low incomes free sanitary products for six months. The pilot project, announced on Tuesday by Equalities Secretary Angela Constance, will focus on seven regeneration areas in Aberdeen.

The system would probably mean higher taxes, but overall costs for most people would be much lower.

GOP “base” voters have long regarded the media as “biased” allies of their enemies. It’s taken Trump to convince them any bad news is just made up.

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President Donald Trump only recently learned of the meeting between a Russian lawyer and three of his top campaign officials, including his son Donald Trump, Jr., a White House spokeswoman said Monday. Trump learned of the meeting "in the last couple of days," Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, describing the meeting Trump's son, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Natalia Veselnitskaya, as "very short" with "absolutely no fo...

The president’s son was told in an email that the Russian government wanted to help Donald J. Trump’s election bid last year.