Ryan promises to keep government open — and makes no promises on health care  —  House leaders told GOP lawmakers Saturday that they plan to devote their energy this week to keeping the federal government open, conspicuously avoiding an immediate commitment to take up health care despite pledges …

Trump Reaches Beyond West Wing for Counsel  —  WASHINGTON — Relationships have always been President Trump's currency and comfort, helping him talk his way into real estate deals over three decades in New York.  Those who know him best say that his outer confidence has always belied an inner uncertainty …

Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns  —  America's doctor was fired on Friday and replaced by a nurse.  —  Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration.  He was replaced by his deputy …

Trump to hold rally on night of White House Correspondents Dinner  —  President Trump will hold a rally in Pennsylvania the night of the White House Correspondents Dinner, he said Saturday.  —  “Next Saturday night I will be holding a BIG rally in Pennsylvania.  Look forward to it!”

Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. From Politics.  Then He Shaped an Election.  —  As the F.B.I. investigated Hillary Clinton and the Trump campaign, James B. Comey tried to keep the bureau out of politics but plunged it into the center of a bitter election.  —  WASHINGTON — The day before he upended …

OMG!  AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby.  Then he tried to fight a passenger who stood up for her.  AA591 from SFO to DFW.

Inside the Trump Marriage: Melania's Burden  —  Until November 8, Melania Trump's marriage provided her with a golden Fifth Avenue fortress, at a price—putting up with her husband's humiliations and boorishness.  From Melania's ill-fated campaign appearances to her apparent reluctance …

Please, God, Stop Chelsea Clinton from Whatever She Is Doing  —  The last thing the left needs is the third iteration of a failed political dynasty.  —  Amid investigations into Russian election interference, perhaps we ought to consider whether the Kremlin, to hurt Democrats, helped put Chelsea Clinton on the cover of Variety.

Marches for Science Outdraw Donald Trump's Inauguration  —  The American people have rejected Donald Trump's rejection of science and global warming.  And they have done it in overwhelming numbers.  —  Millions of people are marching today for science.  Police estimate 40,000 people marched …

'The Ideas Made It, But I Didn't'  —  His first date with his future wife was spent in a New Hampshire motel room drinking Wild Turkey into the wee hours with Hunter S. Thompson.  He stood several feet away from Martin Luther King Jr. during the “I Have a Dream” speech.

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Shuttering at a Record Pace  —  Years of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping have come to a head; malls as ‘energy suckers’  —  American retailers are closing stores at a record pace this year as they feel the fallout from decades of overbuilding and the rise of online shopping.

18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year  —  Carpe Diem, Environmental and Energy Economics  —  In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled …

Pence: U.S. to honor refugee deal with Australia  —  The United States will honor an Obama-era agreement with Australia to help resettle Syrian refugees, despite the Trump administration not favoring the arrangement, Vice President Mike Pence announced Saturday.