WH officials eager to toss Flynn overboard  —  If West Wing officials could make one person disappear, it would be Mike Flynn.  Sources from all factions of the White House seem unified in their distrust of the President's former national security adviser — and their willingness to throw him under the bus.

Why Macron Won: Luck, Skill and France's Dark History  —  PARIS — The French presidential runoff transcended national politics.  It was globalization against nationalism.  It was the future versus the past.  Open versus closed.  —  But in his resounding victory on Sunday night …

E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency's regulatory reach …

Obama urges ‘political courage’ to save Affordable Care Act  —  BOSTON — Barack Obama on Sunday night called on members of Congress to exercise the “political courage” to not repeal Obamacare — his first public comments about the law since the House voted to repeal it on Thursday …

Trump to Announce Slate of Conservative Federal Court Nominees  —  WASHINGTON — Having filled a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is turning his attention to the more than 120 openings on the lower federal courts.  On Monday, he will announce a slate of 10 nominees to those courts …

Gov. Greg Abbott signs ‘sanctuary cities’ ban into law on Facebook Live  —  This is a developing story.  Check back in for updates.  —  AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott has signed the state's sanctuary city ban into law, achieving one of his major goals for the legislative session and enacting …

Trump voters lament deportation of their neighbor  —  A Sunday “60 Minutes” report detailed the story of Roberto Beristain, an immigrant deported to Mexico after being in the U.S. for nearly 20 years.  —  Family and friends of the Granger, Ind., business owner spoke with the CBS News program …

The debt-bubble landmine Obama left for Trump  —  MORE FROM: … President Trump came in for much jeering when he told reporters he had “inherited a mess” from President Barack Obama.  On the economy, though, Obama did indeed leave behind a hidden mess: a seemingly healthy jobs market dependent on cheap debt.

George Will joins MSNBC  —  Washington Post columnist George Will has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor.  —  Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was most recently a contributor at Fox News, though he became a free agent in January when Fox declined to renew his contract.

Decoding HHS Secretary Price's spin on the American Health Care Act  —  “The fact of the matter is that Medicaid spending under the proposal and under the budget goes up every single year.”  —  “We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, 'Phooey, nonsense.

Trump's agenda will take longer than planned  —  With Dems fired up by the messy process and result of the House health-care fight, everything on President Trump's agenda is likely to take longer than strategists had planned.  —  Here's the latest on how the Hill calendar looks:

Republicans Party Like It's 1984  —  There have been many bad laws in U.S. history.  Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses.  Some were all of the above.  —  But has there ever been anything like Trumpcare, the health legislation Republicans rammed through the House last week?

North Korea ‘detains US citizen Kim Hak-song’  —  North Korea says it has detained a US citizen on suspicion of “hostile acts” against the state.  —  Kim Hak-song worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) and was held on 6 May, state-run news agency KCNA said.