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.

Top Democrat sent letter to Mike Pence in November warning of Michael Flynn's Turkey lobbying  —  President Donald Trump was not aware that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was being paid to lobby for Turkish interests in the months before the US election, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said Thursday.

Amash cries after missing first vote in Congress  —  Rep. Justin Amash has long boasted about not missing a single vote since he arrived in Congress in 2011 — 4,289 in a row, give or take a vote, if you're counting.  —  But on Friday, as he was railing against the GOP's Obamacare replacement bill off …

Trump Points to Drudge's ‘Great Again’ Praise of New Jobs Report  —  President has primed his supporters for a huge jobs report  —  Donald Trump used the first federal jobs report reflecting a full month of his presidency to send a message: He's already making America great again.

House Republicans would let employers demand workers' genetic test results  —  little-noticed bill moving through Congress would allow companies to require employees to undergo genetic testing or risk paying a penalty of thousands of dollars, and would let employers see that genetic and other health information.

Sean Spicer's Quick Twitter Reaction to Jobs Report May Break a Rule  —  The enthusiastic reaction of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, was understandable on Friday when the Labor Department reported a gain of 235,000 jobs.  “Great news for American workers,” he proclaimed, “in first report for @POTUS Trump.”

The super-secret division in charge of the Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Somewhere in the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, a closely held number of FBI agents face the daunting task of determining how the Russian government sought to manipulate the US presidential election.

Pelosi: Trump is ‘making fools’ out of GOP  —  Don't expect Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to accept any bowling invitations from the White House.  —  The House minority leader said Friday that President Trump is making a mockery of Republicans by bringing conservative skeptics …

Mexican foreign secretary goes straight to the White House, skips usual channels  —  Mexico's top diplomat came to Washington Thursday for meetings with the U.S. government, sidestepping the normal channels and heading straight for the White House.  —  Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray met …

There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble  —  This is the ninth article in a series that reviews news coverage of the 2016 general election, explores how Donald Trump won and why his chances were underrated by most of the American media.  —  Last summer, the United Kingdom voted to leave …

Something good came out of Samantha Bee's attack on ‘Nazi hair’  —  Something good came out of Samantha Bee's show this week.  Kyle Coddington, who was mocked in a segment about CPAC and described as having “Nazi hair,” has received tens of thousands of dollars to support his treatment for brain cancer.

Trump's Leading Candidate for FDA Is Scott Gottlieb, Sources Say  —  Likely nominee was senior FDA executive under George W. Bush  —  Choice would represent mainstream pick for drug industry  —  Scott Gottlieb, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration …

White House civil war breaks out over trade  —  ‘Fiery meeting’ in Oval Office between economic nationalists and pro-trade moderates  —  Read next … A civil war has broken out within the White House over trade, leading to what one official called “a fiery meeting” in the Oval Office …

Trump supporters call for ‘liberal genocide’ and deportation of Jews at Arizona Rally  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Maricopa County burnished its reputation as the Trumpiest in America last weekend as hundreds of locals, including heavily armed militiamen …

State Dept. seeks to keep Russian diplomat's cause of death private  —  The State Department asked the New York Medical Examiner not to publicly release information about the cause of death of Russia's ambassador to the United Nations.  —  Vitaly Churkin died unexpectedly in New York last month, one day before his 65th birthday.

Alphabet's Waymo asks judge to block Uber from using self-driving car secrets  —  The case of the stolen self-driving car is heating up  —  Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving spinoff from Google, is formally asking a judge to block Uber from operating its autonomous vehicles …

7 Reasons Why Obamacare 2.0 Is All But Guaranteed to Impose Crushing Costs on Voters, Hurt Trump's Base, And Hand Power Back to the Democrats  —  If passed in its current form, the GOP's Obamacare 2.0 bill will impose brutal costs Americans still struggling to make it through a great recession …

Contender to Run Civil Rights Post Can't Be Pigeonholed  —  Harmeet Dhillon, a trial lawyer from San Francisco, has ties to both the ACLU and Heritage Foundation  —  A media-savvy Indian-American leader of the California Republican Party who sang a Sikh prayer at last year's national convention …

Jorge Ramos says the ‘Trump effect’ is scaring away illegal aliens  —  Univision anchor Jorge Ramos believes he has found the explanation for the recent drop in illegal border crossings reported by immigration officials: fear or what he calls the “Trump effect.”

Conservatives want to blow up Senate rules to kill Obamacare  —  House Republican leaders narrowly tailored their Obamacare repeal bill to avoid violating Senate rules, but conservatives are pushing back with advice of their own: tear up the rulebook.  —  A growing number of conservative lawmakers …

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 …

‘Innocent until proven guilty’ should mean what it says: Column  —  Every state should join Nebraska and New Mexico in repealing civil forfeiture.  —  CONNECT  —  Gerald and Royetta Ostipow had no idea what civil asset forfeiture was until sheriff's deputies arrived at their farm …