House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals  —  WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are moving to gut many of President Obama's top priorities with the sharpest spending cuts in a generation and a new push to hold government financing hostage unless the president's signature health care law is stripped of money this fall.

Obama hits GOP for ‘phony scandals’  —  President Obama accused congressional Republicans of focusing on “phony scandals” instead of the pressing issues facing the country during an economic speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill. [WATCH VIDEO]  —  “With an endless parade of distractions …

A warmed-over jobs message  —  “I don't normally do this,” President Obama's senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer wrote in the subject line of an e-mail blast to reporters Sunday night.  —  This was tantalizing.  What would this top White House official be doing?  Singing karaoke on the North Lawn?

Account of Weiner's Conversation Fits Pattern of Online Exchanges  —  The racy online conversations now convulsing Anthony D. Weiner's campaign for mayor began with an angry Facebook message, according to the editor of a blog that has communicated with the young woman involved.

Mr. Weiner and the Elusive Truth  —  At some point, the full story of Anthony Weiner and his sexual relationships and texting habits will finally be told.  In the meantime, the serially evasive Mr. Weiner should take his marital troubles and personal compulsions out of the public eye …