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 …

Democrats, Buoyed by G.O.P. Health Defeat, See No Need to Offer Hand  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, looking for a flicker of hope after his Republican majority fell to pieces last week, predicted that the opposition party would eventually give in: “I honestly believe the Democrats will come …

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 …

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.

Report: Ryan pleaded on one knee for ObamaCare repeal vote  —  The Washington Post detailed the House GOP's fight over the ObamaCare repeal and replacement plan this week, rounding up the dramatic details of leadership's fight to win support for the measure.  —  At one point, the paper said, House Speaker Paul Ryan

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 …

60 Minutes Preview, Mike Cernovich Calls Out Scott Pelley During Heated Interview  —  During a contentious debate on the nature of truth and what is “fake news,” Mike Cernovich told Scott Pelley what story 60 Minutes would publish before the episode had aired.  Find an excerpt of this interview below:

Massive opposition protests challenge Putin  —  Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, arrested during Sunday's large demonstration, seeks to tap into frustration with corruption.  —  MOSCOW — Russian police detained Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin critic who wants to take on Vladimir Putin …