In major shift, White House privately backing earlier rollback of Medicaid expansion  — Such a move, however, could blow up the already fragile efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is privately lining up behind conservative calls to roll …

Sources: FBI investigation continues into ‘odd’ computer link between Russian bank and Trump Organization  —  (CNN)Federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a computer server connection between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

AG SUGGESTS OPENNESS TO REVIEW OF PREDECESSORS' ACTIONS  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested Thursday that he would be open to the appointment of an outside counsel to review actions taken by the Justice Department during the Obama administration.

EPA chief Scott Pruitt says carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global warming  —  EPA takes aim at CAFE standards: Scott Pruitt  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said Thursday he does not believe carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to global warming.

Expect the CBO to estimate large coverage losses from the GOP health care plan  —  Editor's Note:  —  This analysis is part of The Leonard D. Schaeffer Initiative for Innovation in Health Policy, which is a partnership between the Center for Health Policy at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics.

Malik Obama shares photo of brother Barack's Kenya ‘certificate of birth’  —  An Obama has joined the birther movement.  —  Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, tweeted image of what appears to be Barack's birth certificate.  —  Except it's not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya.

Steve Bannon Helped Preserve DACA But Democrats And Activists Aren't Celebrating  —  They're bracing for what's coming: millions of deportations and further crackdowns on both legal and illegal immigration.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration doesn't want to talk about it.

Inside The Investigation To Get To The Bottom Of Russia's Role In The Election  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee has been given sweeping powers, unseen since the Watergate era, to investigate Russian meddling in the US election.  As its scope grows to include suspected ties between …

With Trump in White House, His Golf Properties Prosper  —  WASHINGTON — It is a golden age for golf — at least as far as the Trump Organization is concerned.  —  On Memorial Day weekend, the Senior P.G.A. Championship will be held at the Trump National Golf Club in suburban Washington.

Almost 7,000 IRS Documents Relating To Targeting Scandal Found.  Bad News: No Clue When They'll Be Public  —  In 2013, the IRS was involved in a scandal regarding its Exempt Organizations Unit and conservative nonprofits.  Tea Party and other right-leaning groups claimed that they were targeted for audits …

Schwarzenegger for Senate?  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the “Terminator” action hero who made “I'll be back” one of filmdom's most iconic phrases — may be mulling a political comeback, according to several GOP political insiders in California.

Bill Clinton: Resurgent nationalism ‘taking us to the edge of our destruction’  —  Don't buy what purports to be nationalism that's engulfed politics in America and all over the world, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday; what's actually at play, he argued, is more insidious and interconnected than that.

Nigel Farage Just Visited The Ecuadorian Embassy In London  —  Asked by BuzzFeed News if he'd been visiting Julian Assange, the former UKIP leader said he couldn't remember what he'd been doing in the building.  —  Nigel Farage visited the Ecuadorian embassy in west London on Thursday …

FISA-gate: The Times Revises History in Real Time  —  Donald Trump and President Barack Obama, right, arrive for Trump's inauguration ceremony (Reuters: J. Scott Applewhite)  —  For four months, media wanted us to think that Obama was investigating Trump; now they don't.

South Korea Removes President Park Geun-hye  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean court ousted the president on Friday, a first in the nation's history, rattling the delicate balance of relationships across Asia at a particularly tense time.  —  Her removal capped months of turmoil …

First on CNN: After lobbying from Trump, Orrin Hatch plans to run again  —  (CNN)Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, the longest-serving GOP senator, told CNN he is planning to run for re-election next year, abandoning his plans to quit the chamber after four decades of service.

President Mike Pence Doesn't Sound Quite So Bad, Some Top Democrats Say  —  “I'd sleep easier with almost any other human being as president than Donald Trump,” said a former Obama speechwriter.  And they won't say so publicly, but several elected Democrats told BuzzFeed News they would much prefer …

Widespread frustration  —  U.S. officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said there is widespread frustration among intelligence professionals who have watched in horror as a normally secretive process has been distorted by media leaks …

The Marine Corps' nude-photo-sharing scandal is even worse than first realized  —  The scandal that prompted an investigation into hundreds of Marines who are accused of sharing naked photographs of their colleagues in a private Facebook group is much larger than has been reported, Business Insider has learned.

Chief Environmental Justice Official at EPA Resigns, With Plea to Pruitt to Protect Vulnerable Communities  —  Mustafa Ali quits after 24 years, as new administrator prepares deep cuts in programs affecting the poor and minorities.  —  Phil McKenna  —  The head of the environmental justice program …

Trump's in the White House bubble, and he loves it  —  President Donald Trump is sticking to his comfort zone.  —  Trump has spent each of the 48 nights of his presidency either at the White House or at his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.  He has dined out in the nation's capital just once …

Hillary debuts a new bob in Snapchat video urging women to ‘Stand Up.  Resist.  Run for office’  — She declared 'every issue a woman's issue,' although Clinton directed her followers to Planned Parenthood, education health care and jobs  — Also attended the 16th anniversary …

Feud breaks out during health care hearing as Republican whines that men have to pay for prenatal care  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) got into a battle with Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) Thursday during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing for the healthcare bill.

Union tips off Border Patrol in immigration crackdown  —  Federal agents are not the only ones trying to remove people from the Buffalo area who have entered the country illegally.  —  If Bill Bing, a carpenters union official, discovers workers at local construction projects suspected …

Claims of sex orgies, prostitution and porn videos shake Catholic Church in Italy  —  ROME (RNS) Lurid accusations of priests involved in sex orgies, porn videos and prostitution have emerged from several parishes in Italy recently, sending shock waves all the way to the Vatican and challenging …

Sex Columnist Dan Savage Calls Melania Trump ‘Ugly on the Inside’  —  Savage says first lady gets a pass from some liberals because of her looks, but “is as ugly on the inside as she is pretty on the outside”  —  Author and sex columnist Dan Savage says many liberals are giving first lady Melania …