How a secret Freedom Caucus pact brought down Obamacare repeal  —  Speaker Paul Ryan and House leaders had been toiling behind closed doors for weeks assembling their Obamacare repeal bill as suspicion on the far-right simmered to a boil.  —  So on March 7, just hours after Ryan unveiled …

Germany slams ‘intimidating’ £300bn White House bill  —  Donald Trump handed the German chancellor Angela Merkel a bill — thought to be for more than £300bn — for money her country “owed” Nato for defending it when they met last weekend, German government sources have revealed.

Police: At least 15 shot, 1 fatally, at Cincinnati nightclub  —  News conference expected at 11 a.m.  —  CINCINNATI —  A shooting that left one person dead and at least 14 others wounded stemmed from a conflict earlier in the day, Cincinnati police said.

Two months out of office, Barack Obama is having a post-presidency like no other  —  The first cocktail party at Barack Obama's new office last month was certainly more casual than any he had hosted in recent years.  The wine bore a random assortment of labels, as if assembled potluck-style.

Trump Urges Followers to Watch Fox News Host Who Demands Paul Ryan Resign  —  Judge Jeanine Pirro opened her show demanding that Ryan step down for his “failure” over Trump's health care bill.  —  President Donald Trump tweeted a message on Saturday encouraging his followers …

Donald, This I Will Tell You  —  We've known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt.  —  You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician?  —  Don't worry.  No one will ever mistake you for a politician.

Trump vs. Congress: Now What?  —  After the president suffered his first defeat on Capitol Hill, can the White House still make good on its legislative promises?  —  On Monday, Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Trump's inauguration, the House speaker, Paul Ryan …

Boris Epshteyn, Trump TV Surrogate, Is Leaving White House Job  —  Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, is leaving his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move.

Huma Abedin ‘working hard’ on marriage with Anthony Weiner  —  Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner in May of 2016.  —  Getty Images  —  Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool Huma Abedin four times, and she'll still take you back.  —  After years of public humiliation by her sext-a-holic husband …

Three people are arrested after Trump supporters are doused with pepper spray as they clash with protesters during Make America Great Again march in Huntington Beach  — A man in a black mask reportedly pepper sprayed Trump supporters at a Make American Great Again March

A Kennedy for Connecticut governor?  —  His name opens doors, but comes with the burden of lofty political expectations: Ted Kennedy Jr.  —  Now in his second term as a state senator, the Branford Democrat and disability advocate is said by multiple sources to be strongly leaning toward a run for governor in 2018.

Islam and the Jihad in London  —  It's not non-Western.  It's anti-Western.  —  It was a careful choice of words, Bernard Lewis being nothing if not careful.  In 2004, the West audibly gasped when its preeminent scholar of Islam famously told the German newspaper Die Welt …

Trump visits Trump-branded property for 8th consecutive weekend  —  Sean Spicer said the president planned to spend the weekend working.  —  During his news conference on Friday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer tried to argue that President Trump couldn't possibly have worked harder …