Election 2020
It is not clear what form the Russian assistance to Sen. Bernie Sanders has taken. President Trump and lawmakers on Capitol Hill have also been informed about Russian interference in the Democratic presidential contest.
Bloomberg says he will release women from three nondisclosure agreements
After increasing pressure from his fellow presidential candidates, the former New York mayor said Friday he will permit his company to release women who accused him of sexual harassment from their non-disclosure agreements.
Trump embarks on expansive search for disloyalty as administration-wide purge escalates
Johnny McEntee, President Trump’s former personal aide who now serves as director of presidential personnel, has begun combing through various agencies with a mandate from the president to force out political appointees who are not seen as sufficiently loyal.
Paul Harkin, director of harm reduction at GLIDE, hands out naloxone and fentanyl detection packets in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. (Nick Otto for The Post)
Drug overdose deaths rise in the West while they drop in the East
National progress in reducing fatal overdoses has stalled as illicit fentanyl, a synthetic drug that is roughly 50 times as powerful as heroin, floods California and other states west of the Mississippi.