‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing  —  WASHINGTON — The countdown to President Trump's dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend, which the president spent stewing over Mr. Comey's testimony to Congress last week in which he provided …

Trump holds auditions while Spicer's away  —  Press secretary Sean Spicer's absence from the briefing room on Wednesday comes at a tenuous time, as President Donald Trump has asked senior advisers for weeks if he needs to change the face of his administration, several White House officials and outside advisers to the president said.

Russia's Oval Office Victory Dance  —  When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking …

U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe … The Department of Homeland Security will ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast.  The announcement is expected Thursday.

Bethune-Cookman Graduates Greet Betsy DeVos With Turned Backs  —  Betsy DeVos went to Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday, knowing her first commencement address as secretary of education could get ugly at the historically black institute of higher education.  —  It did — fast.

Commentator who amplified Macron hacks given White House press access  —  A U.S. far-right online activist credited with initially sharing on Twitter hacked emails from the French presidential campaign of centrist Emmanuel Macron is the latest conservative media figure to receive White House access from the Trump administration.

Dwayne Johnson for President!  —  No one gets up earlier than Dwayne Johnson.  Or goes to bed later.  Or is more awake during the hours in between.  No one in Hollywood is more buff, more driven, or gets paid better.  The man has so much charisma and ambition he can do anything.

Russia probe: Senate requests Trump documents from agency that monitors money laundering  — The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested information about President Donald Trump and his top aides from a financial intelligence unit in the Treasury Department.

Aetna Is Latest Health Insurer to Quit Obamacare Markets  —  Insurer had already pulled out of most ACA health exchanges  —  Move comes as Republicans in Congress work to dismantle law  —  Aetna Inc. will leave the few remaining states where it had been selling Obamacare plans next year …

DUI suspect in hit-run crash that left boy, 6, badly hurt was deported 15 times  —  A Mexican citizen who has been deported 15 times was arrested in a hit-and-run crash that left a boy, 6, badly hurt over the weekend.  (Courtesy of Cheryl Lake)  —  A drunken driving suspect in a hit …

Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist asking questions  —  ONCORD, N.H. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him …