One tweet that explains Republicans' big health care bill challenge  —  The day after unveiling their new bill to replace Obamacare, the Republican authors of the Affordable Health Care Act find themselves in a bind.  —  Even if the new bill has the votes in the House, it will also have to pass the Senate.

NSA Whistleblower Backs Trump Up on Wiretap Claims  —  Bill Binney, who resigned from NSA in 2001, did not elaborate on President Obama's specific role in surveilling Trump.  —  A veteran of the NSA has said President Donald Trump is righ to claim he was wiretapped and monitored.  (ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES)

GOP's Obamacare Replacement Will Make Coverage Unaffordable For Millions — Otherwise, It's Great  —  That's not an ironic headline.  Leading House Republicans have included a number of transformative and consequential reforms in their American Health Care Act, the full text of which was published Monday evening.

WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents  —  WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks on Tuesday released thousands of documents that it said described sophisticated software tools used by the Central Intelligence Agency to break into smart phones, computers and even Internet-connected televisions.

A Hidden Harm of the Obamacare Replacement  —  The central premise of the Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA) plan is to force Americans to pay more for their health care or, as Republicans would say, have “more skin in the game.”  Put another way, the AHCA drastically increases the cost of health care for all Americans.

Khizr Khan's claim that the U.S. is restricting his travel may be unraveling  —  Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father whose impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention last July called on Americans to reject a ban on Muslims entering the United States, claimed that his …

Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan's Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals Obamacare  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer falsely stated that the healthcare bill from House Speaker Paul Ryan represents what will eventually be a full repeal of Obamacare.

11 Times Barack Obama Compared Slaves To Immigrants  —  This week, liberals savagely mocked Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson for allegedly comparing slaves to immigrants.  It looks like they've completely forgotten about all the times Barack Obama did the exact same thing.

R.I. lawmaker surprised by ‘insane amount of drinking’ at State House  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island lawmaker says she's surprised by the “insane amount of drinking” that goes on in the State House.  —  Providence Democratic Rep. Moira Walsh tells WPRO-AM that lawmakers have “file cabinets full of booze.”

What should we do if the president is a liar?  —  We face a very serious political problem in this country, and that problem is manifested in a post written yesterday by Amber Phillips of The Washington Post.  In her piece, Phillips criticizes me for lowering the state of our political discourse …

Rapport Between Donald Trump, Barack Obama Crumbles  —  Budding feud is new distraction in a Trump presidency that has been struggling to enact its agenda  —  The rapport between Barack Obama and Donald Trump is unraveling, with the president convinced that Mr. Obama is undermining …

Hawaii plans to file first lawsuit against new travel ban  —  Trump's new travel ban: One thing to know  — Lawyers for the challengers say the new travel ban suffers from the same “constitutional and statutory defects” as the original one  —  (CNN)Hawaii is not wasting any time challenging President Donald Trump's new travel ban.

Al Franken: I think Jeff Sessions committed perjury  —  Washington (CNN)Minnesota Sen. Al Franken said he now believes that Attorney General Jeff Sessions committed perjury during his confirmation hearing when he did not disclose meetings with a Russian ambassador.

Trump warns House GOP members of electoral ‘bloodbath’ if repeal and replace fails  —  Trump ‘proud to support’ GOP health care plan  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned House Republicans Tuesday if they can't get pass health care legislation after seven years of promises it could be a …

Trump Grants Oval Office Meeting to TMZ Founder  —  Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has spent his time meeting with heads of state, titans of industry, economic advisers and public health specialists.  —  And the founder of TMZ.  —  Mr. Trump, in a meeting last Wednesday …

White House official terrorizes network green rooms  —  White House official Boris Epshteyn, a combative Trump loyalist tasked with plugging the president's message on television, threatened earlier this year to pull all West Wing officials from appearing on Fox News after a tense appearance on anchor Bill Hemmer's show.

Trump's Wiretap Tweets Raise Risk of Impeachment  —  The sitting president has accused his predecessor of an act that could have gotten the past president impeached.  That's not your ordinary exercise of free speech.  If the accusation were true, and President Barack Obama ordered …

Rubio Loses Two Florida Offices After Protesters Gather To Push For Town Hall  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has now lost two Sunshine State offices where constituents frequently gathered to push him to hold a town hall, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.  —  A week after the landlord …

Trump's split screen: A two-hour virtual conversation between the president and ‘Fox and Friends’  —  Early Tuesday morning, President Trump tuned into “Fox and Friends.”  —  For several days, Trump's staff kept him away from television cameras.  He spent the weekend hidden away …

Newsmax/WSJ: Trump met Russian Amb.  Kislyak last April  —  Contradicting repeated denials from Donald Trump and his team, Newsmax reported on May 14, 2016 that Trump met Russian Ambassador Kislyak at a VIP reception in Washington on April 27.  —  And while meeting the Russian ambassador is fine, why lie about it?