Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas  —  President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans …

Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians  —  Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …

White House Opens Door to Democrats in Wake of Health-Bill Failure  —  Move signals Trump administration is fed up with many factions in House Republican conference  —  WASHINGTON—The White House sent a warning shot to congressional Republicans that it may increase its outreach to Democrats …

To Win Again, Democrats Must Stop Being the Abortion Party  —  When I came to this country from Ireland some 45 years ago, a cousin, here 15 years before, advised me that Catholics vote Democratic.  Having grown up in the Irish Republic, I was well disposed to Republican Party principles like local autonomy and limited government.

Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Picking themselves up after the bruising collapse of their health care plan, President Trump and Republicans in Congress will start this week on a legislative obstacle course that will be even more arduous …

The Trump Administration Was Silent For Hours After Russia Arrested Hundreds Of Protesters  —  Thousands of Russians took to the streets to protest corruption under President Vladimir Putin, and the police cracked down.  The Trump administration had no comment for 12 hours.

The Weekly Standard's Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: ‘Facts, Logic and Reason’  —  When Breitbart News ran a blaring headline last week suggesting that new evidence “vindicates” President Trump's still-baseless claims that former President Barack Obama put him and his team under surveillance ...

If Obama had acted like Trump...  Right-wing media to President Obama: We are so very sorry.  —  That's the message I got last week from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page.  —  The Journal abandoned efforts to make sense of President Trump's outright fiction that Obama wiretapped him.

Scott Pelley is pulling no punches on the nightly news — and people are taking notice  —  With the words “credibility questioned” prominent on the screen, Scott Pelley once again is doing what network evening-news anchors generally don't do: abandoning careful neutrality in favor of pointed truth-telling.

Reporter and photographers say they were assaulted by Trump supporters at Huntington Beach rally  —  An OC Weekly reporter and two photographers said Sunday that they were physically assaulted by pro-Trump demonstrators at a Make America Great Again rally in Huntington Beach and are seeking …

Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero  —  HIGHLANDS, N.C. — House insurgent Mark Meadows embarrassed the White House and forced his fellow Republicans to turn tail on a seven-year pledge to tear down Obamacare.  —  His constituents are throwing him a party.

Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on his way to an event in Washington late Tuesday when the evening's plans abruptly changed.  After taking a brief phone call, Rep. Devin Nunes …

Mary Katharine Ham Is Not Here to Entertain You  —  The right-wing pundit doesn't much care about shock value or tossing red meat to the base—yet somehow she's more popular than ever.  How she managed to scale the ranks of Washington media while grieving the death of her liberal-activist husband.

Nearly 1 out of every 3 days he has been president, Trump has visited a Trump property  —  For the eighth weekend in a row, President Trump has visited a property that bears his name.  He has done so on 21 of the 66 days he has been in office, meaning that for the equivalent of three full weeks …