A Bill So Bad It's Awesome  —  It has long been obvious to anyone following health policy that Republicans would never devise a workable replacement for Obamacare.  But the bill unveiled this week is worse than even the cynics expected; its awfulness is almost surreal.

U.S. Jobs, Wages Show Solid Gains in Trump's First Full Month  —  U.S. employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing, showing the labor market continued its steady growth in the new year.

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.

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 …

South Korea's Ex-President Refuses To Vacate Residence After Impeachment, Two Dead During Protests  —  As discussed last night, in a historic ruling, the South Korean Constitutional Court upheld an impeachment decision against President Park Geun-hye, removing her from office on Friday …

Rep. Jordan criticizes GOP Obamacare plan after meeting with Trump  —  Rep. Jordan on health care: Do the right thing  — Rep. Jim Jordan said he doesn't believe House Obamacare replacement plan has enough votes to pass  —  (CNN)After meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday …

Trump administration sends judges to immigration detention centers: sources  —  The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday.

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.

Pope signals he's open to married Catholic men becoming priests  —  Rome (CNN)Pope Francis has said he is open to married men becoming priests to combat the Roman Catholic Church's shortage of clergy.  —  In an interview with German newspaper Die Zeit, Pope Francis said the lack of Catholic priests was an …

U.S. Spies Live in Fear of Trump's Next Tweet  —  As Friday evening draws to a close around Washington, D.C., the city's tight-knit and secretive national security clan goes to sleep with a new unease.  It's not Syria or Iran or even North Korea they're most worried about.

Sam Brownback Might Not Be Governing Kansas Much Longer  —  Donald Trump won Kansas last November by just over 20 points, and in the coming days he's expected to give the Jayhawk State's voters their reward: a new governor.  —  The president reportedly will name Governor Sam Brownback …

The Truth About the WikiLeaks C.I.A. Cache  —  On Tuesday morning, WikiLeaks released an enormous cache of documents that it claimed detailed “C.I.A. hacking tools.”  Immediately afterward, it posted two startling tweets asserting that “C.I.A. hacker malware” posed a threat to journalists …

Chris Hayes to GOP Rep.: ‘Why Are You Rushing So Fast’ on Obamacare Replacement?  —  MSNBC's Chris Hayes faced off with a Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee tonight over why they're “rushing so fast” on the Obamacare repeal-and-replace plan.

Starbucks CEO's refugee comments sour customer views of chain - survey  —  Starbucks Corp's vow to hire thousands of refugees after President Donald Trump's first executive order that temporarily banned travel from seven mostly-Muslim nations appears to be hurting customer sentiment of the coffee chain.

152,528,000: Record Number of Employed in February; Participation Rate Rises  —  (CNSNews.com) - A record 152,528,000 Americans were employed in February, 447,000 more than in January, and the labor force participation rate went up, the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers  —  Readers of The Right Stuff long knew that founder “Mike Enoch” had two main interests: technology and white supremacy.  Posts on the neo-Nazi site have included discussion of “a new blogging platform built on node.js,” …

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 …

Samantha Bee Show Apologizes to Writer for ‘Nazi Hair’ Mockery  —  The TBS comedy program “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” apologized on Thursday for broadcasting a segment in which a writer who has talked about his cancer diagnosis was mocked for having what the program called “Nazi hair.”

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.

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.

Number of immigrants caught at Mexican border plunges 40% under Trump  —  A U.S. Border Patrol agent searches a person suspected of crossing the Rio Grande to enter the United States illegally near Rio Grande City, Texas, on March 1.  (Larry W. Smith / European Pressphoto Agency)

The coming GOP assault on regulations  —  While President Donald Trump has launched a noisy crusade to slash regulations that constrain American businesses, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a less prominent but potentially more lasting effort to make it much harder for federal agencies to create new regulations in the future.

NFL abuse of painkillers and other drugs described in court filings  —  National Football League teams violated federal laws governing prescription drugs, disregarded guidance from the Drug Enforcement Administration on how to store, track, transport and distribute controlled substances …