The Election Is Over, But Trump Can't Seem to Get Past It  —  WASHINGTON — In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election.

A Top Trump Official Just Flunked The Jimmy Kimmel Test  —  It's fine to pay for sick kids, Mulvaney says, but diabetics are another story.  —  You've heard of the undeserving poor?  Get ready for the undeserving sick.  —  A top Trump administration official defended the American Health Care Act …

Jason Chaffetz Has Been Telling House Republicans He Will Join Fox News  —  When House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz announced in April that he would not seek reelection, speculation reigned—did the powerful Utah Republican have his eyes on another office?

Gingrich urges Trump: ‘Close down the press room’  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging President Trump to follow through on his threat to cancel daily White House press briefings, accusing news media of being “dishonest opponents” of the president.  —  “What they ought …

Hacking Attack Has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout  —  Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced on Saturday to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would lose their data unless they met ransom demands.

Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right  —  They are called “must-runs,” and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group — short video segments that are centrally produced by the company.  Station managers around the country …

Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands  —  Dutch TV did what no American TV network dares, suggesting Trump's past includes illegal racketeering.  —  Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs …

Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm  —  CORONADO, Calif. — With the White House in meltdown mode, top Republican Party officials and operatives gathered at a posh oceanside resort here and contemplated a 2018 midterm election that will test them in unimaginable ways.

Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis  —  So, what if there's a real crisis?  —  A real war — not a war with the media, or James Comey.  A real showdown — not a political showdown.  A real surprise that's out of the White House's control — not a situation …

Democratic Rep.: ‘Very strong case’ for obstruction of justice against Trump  —  Washington (CNN)Rep. Jerrold Nadler said in an interview Friday that President Donald Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey and subsequent tweet that Comey “better hope” their conversations weren't taped add up to a …

Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump  —  Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.  —  We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this.

The Comey Debacle  —  Rather than rationalizing and enabling the president's behavior, conservatives need to convince Trump that he's his own worst enemy.  —  EDITOR'S NOTE:  —  The following is Jonah Goldberg's weekly “news"letter, the G-File.  Subscribe here to get the G-File delivered to your inbox on Fridays.

This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them  —  I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.  —  When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback …

Inside Trump's Coming War with the F.B.I.  —  “Agents are pissed off at the way he was fired, the total disrespect with which it was handled.  It was a slap in the face to the F.B.I., to everybody in the F.B.I.”  —  James Comey thought he had a year.  That's the amount of time it was likely …