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In morning tweets, Trump characterized the 16 states taking action as led mostly by "the Radical Left." He later told reporters he has an "open and closed" case.
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 President Trump on Tuesday denied telling Andrew McCabe his wife is "a loser" because of her unsuccessful Democratic run for the Virginia state Senate in 2015, an allegation the former FBI deputy director made during his anti-Trump book tour.
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 Mark Wilson/GettyNew York Times v. Sullivan is a unanimous Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964. It held that for a public figure to win a libel case against a news outlet, she or he would have to prove "actual malice": that they printed something false either knowingly or with reckless disregard for the truth. For over 50 years, it has been at the bedrock of freedom of the press, all the more so in an age when the president of the United States has labeled the press "the enemy of the people."
And on Tuesday, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that he'd possibly overturn it.
The context, perhaps ironically, was an appeal stemming from the Bill Cosby case. One of Cosby's accusers, Kathrine McKee, told her story to the Daily News, and Cosby's lawyer wrote a letter to the News accusing her of lying.. McKee sued for defamation.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015, had said she wanted to return home.
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States sue to block construction of border wall; India, Pakistan military tensions ramp up following Kashmir attack.
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The California senator, visiting New Hampshire for the first time in her life, distanced herself from Bernie Sanders, the last candidate to win this state's Democratic presidential primary.
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The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute sparked international outrage in January when it rescinded the Fred L. Shuttlesworth award for civil rights icon Angela Davis, soon after the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center sent a letter urging the board to reconsider honoring her due to her support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Facing swift and widespread outcry, the institute then reversed its decision and reinstated the award, but Davis has yet to accept it. Democracy Now! spoke with the president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Andrea Taylor, on Saturday, before an alternate event celebrating Angela Davis hosted by the Birmingham Committee for Truth and Reconciliation. We also spoke with DeJuana Thompson, founder of Woke Vote and a chair of the Birmingham Committee for Truth and Reconciliation.
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