Nunes says he was on WH grounds day before revealing Trump surveillance info  —  Washington (CNN)It has been something of a mystery, the whereabouts of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes on the day before his announcement that he saw information suggesting that communications …

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 …

To read Trump's mind, lawmakers read ‘The Art of the Deal’  —  (CNN)As members of the House Freedom Caucus plotted to seize control of Donald Trump's health care bill earlier this month, they discovered a key weakness in the President's strategy.  —  In a memo circulated to members …

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 …

60 Minutes Interview Shows How Unprepared The Mainstream Media Is For Pro-Trump Media  —  You can't confront the pro-Trump Upside Down media without an understanding of its cardinal rule: the New Right media isn't just an opposition force, it's a parallel institution that insists on its own reality.

Leahy will not vote for Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., will not support Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.  —  A week ago, Leahy was undecided.  After four days of hearings, Leahy told VTDigger in an interview Sunday night …

Trump's Approval Rating Drops to New Low of 36%  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating fell to 36% for the three-day period of March 24-26, following Republican House leaders' failed effort to pass a new healthcare bill that would have replaced the Affordable Care Act.

Germany didn't receive NATO invoice from Trump: government  —  There is no ‘debt account at NATO,’ says German government spokesman.  —  A spokesman for the German government on Monday denied media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump handed a multibillion-euro invoice to Chancellor Angela Merkel …

Elon Musk's Billion-Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse  —  Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley's latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him.  And he thinks you should be frightened too.  Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field …

GOP scrambles to defuse shutdown bomb  —  A top Republican with close ties to the White House tells me that after the GOP failure on healthcare, a government shutdown — looming when a continuing resolution runs out April 28 — is “more likely than not... Wall Street is not expecting a shutdown and the markets are unprepared.”

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.

Muslim in Sweden Gets 40 Hours Community Service For Raping Girl, 13  —  President Trump was really on to something when he tweeted about what's been going on in Sweden.  —  Sweden has taken in more than 100,000 refugees, mostly from Muslim countries, since 2012, the most of any European nation.

U.S. Attorney's Office Under Investigation After 700 Lawyers Were Spied On in Prison  —  A court-appointed investigator has found that the United States Attorney's Office for Kansas is in possession of hundreds of phone and video recordings of communications between attorneys and their clients …

States with more Planned Parenthood clinics have fewer teen births and sexually transmitted diseases  —  Republicans in Congress have long aimed to cut Planned Parenthood's federal funding.  Despite the failure on Friday of the American Health Care Act, many observers expect Congress to try …