The memo. The text messages. The dossier. We sort through the emergent allegations made by the president's defenders, including why some might be considered with a grain of salt.
[....] The police in the southern Chinese city of Dongguan are now trying to find the parents of the girl, who the authorities say abandoned her on Saturday because they could not afford to treat her epilepsy.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has been talking with George Nader, a little-known Bannon associate who boasts of his well-placed connections in the Middle East, Axios has learned.
When Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) lashed out against Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week, he became the latest potential 2020 presidential candidate to use a high-profile Senate committee hearing to amplify their stature.
[....] Once again, Mr. Trump’s impulses led him to ignore political protocols and his own Republican allies, like Speaker Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, who had groused in recent days that the Senate would consider an immigration bill “as soon as we figure out what he is for.” [....]
Russian-linked bots on Twitter are pushing for the House Intelligence Committee to release a classified report written by committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
Following Oliver Sacks, Antonio Damasio may be the neuroscientist whose popular books have done the most to inform readers about the biological machinery in our heads [....]
