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'Buckle up': As Mueller probe enters second year, Trump and allies go on war footing The Russia controversy forms the cloudy backdrop of Trump's presidency, enraging the commander in chief. By Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger, Robert Costa and Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more » Monkey Cage • Analysis Whites oppose — and blacks support — paying NCAA athletes, especially when they're thinking about race Debates over paying college athletes are implicitly debates about race. By Tatishe M. Nteta, Kevin Wallsten and Lauren A. McCarthy  •  Read more »   Monkey Cage • Analysis White people get more conservative when they move up — not down — economically. Here's the evidence. Political scientists tracked people's economic fortunes and political attitudes over more than three decades. The economic winners, not the losers, became more conservative. By Larry Bartels and Katherine Cramer  •  Read more »   PowerPost Trump's improved standing, energized GOP voters worry Democrats Democrats were confident anti-Trump fervor would help deliver a House majority and possibly the Senate. Now they're openly fretting about Florida and other contested states. By Sean Sullivan and Seung Min Kim  •  Read more »   Fact Checker • Analysis Jeff Sessions's claim that an ACLU settlement with Chicago caused murders to spike The attorney general cites an unpublished study to support his claim. But the facts don't support his attack on the ACLU. By Salvador Rizzo  •  Read more »   No apology forthcoming for 'he's dying anyway' quip about McCain John Bolton cites McCain's support during a 2005 confirmation fight but declines to apologize for remarks of another Trump aide. By Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Pompeo says U.S. assuring Kim that it does not seek his overthrow A guarantee against regime change would be the 'trade-off' for North Korea giving up nuclear weapons, the secretary of state said. By Carol Morello and Anne Gearan  •  Read more »   PowerPost Bolton praises McCain but offers no apology over White House aide's remark Communications aide Kelly Sadler had said at a closed-door staff meeting that McCain's opposition to Gina Haspel as CIA director did not matter because "he's dying anyway." By Paul Kane  •  Read more »   Recommended for you     Get the Fact Checker newsletter Count the pinocchios. A weekly review of what's true, false or in-between. Sign Up  »

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