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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Need to reach Trump?  Call Rhona.  —  When longtime friends and associates of President Donald Trump want to reach him, they don't go directly to the White House.  Instead, they call the woman who's been the gatekeeper at Trump Tower for a quarter century: Rhona Graff.

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.

With GOP Plan Dead, Trump Eyes Other Ways to Reshape Health Care  —  Republicans have ability to make changes to Affordable Care Act, but do so at their own risk  —  With the collapse of Republicans' health plan in the House on Friday, the Trump administration is set to ramp up its efforts …

Angry over U.S. healthcare fail, Trump voters spare him blame  —  The day after the flaming out of U.S. President Donald Trump's first major legislative initiative, his supporters across America were lashing out - at conservatives, at Democrats, at leaders of his Republican Party in Congress.

Colgate visit: Biden speaks of past, present, future  —  “At the end of the day, I just couldn't do it,” former Vice President Joe Biden said about running a campaign to be president.  “So I don't regret not running.  Do I regret not being president?  Yes.”

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 …

Scott Adams' Blog  —  Today we are witnessing one of the most important events in political history.  But you probably can't see it because the news is talking about healthcare, and how Ryan and Trump totally failed to get enough votes.  —  The real story is happening in parallel with the healthcare story …

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 …