6+ hour, 53+ min ago  (152+ words) The Great American State Fair, a 16-day celebration of the nation on the National Mall that opened Thursday, had a less-than-great beginning," the Washington Post reports. Thirty minutes after gates were meant to open to the free event, small crowds…...

5+ hour, 40+ min ago  (322+ words) Americans" Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees," PBS reports. That"s months sooner than the…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago  (308+ words) President Trump is returning Friday to the site of his most recent assassination attempt " but the Washington Hilton's security looks remarkably similar to what it did ahead of the White House Correspondents' Dinner," the New York Post reports. Goddard spent…...

5+ hour, 13+ min ago  (330+ words) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Israel and Lebanon had reached a framework agreement aimed at achieving "lasting peace and security,'" CNBC reports. The agreement, which came as a result of talks mediated by the United States, calls…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago  (179+ words) The Atlantic: "A desultory, grievance-filled speech on what should have been a joyous occasion. The last-minute cancellation of a rare bipartisan bill signing in favor of yet another push for doomed, unpopular legislation. A loud confrontation with members of his…...

4+ hour, 58+ min ago  (124+ words) Federal prosecutors in Washington said Friday that citations have been issued by the U. S. Park Police this month at the Lincoln Memorial's reflecting pool, which has filled with algae and peeling paint since its $16 million makeover," the New York Times reports....

6+ hour, 7+ min ago  (152+ words) The Atlantic: "This previously undisclosed spending is part of an enormous shift of taxpayer cash away from National Parks around the country and into the Washington area. In order to pay for the president's projects, the parks have had to…...

6+ hour, 45+ min ago  (329+ words) A group of Senate Democrats is pressing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for more information about the $1. 8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund and whether the Justice Department violated its own rules when it agreed to create the controversial program as part of…...

6+ hour, 55+ min ago  (150+ words) New York Times: "Of the more than 70 investigations into transgender school policies that the Education Department has announced since last year, about one-fourth have been based on complaints from nonprofit groups with ties to the Trump administration. Many of the…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago  (161+ words) President Donald Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on goods imported from countries that impose digital services taxes, escalating pressure on European nations that just ratified a trade pact with the US," Bloomberg reports. Trump said the threatened tariff would be…...