How Trump gets his fake news  —  White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump.  —  Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.

Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer  —  The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.

Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’  —  Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.  —  She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader - blind loyalty.”

North Korea Says New Missile Can Carry ‘Large’ Nuclear Warhead  —  Could reach Guam, representing ‘substantial advance’: analyst  —  Test seen as step toward intercontinental ballistic missile  —  North Korea boasted on Monday that its new rocket could carry a “large-size heavy nuclear warhead” …

Are there still public servants who will say no to the president?  —  Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until this March.  —  The most dramatic hearing I helped to arrange as chief counsel …

Marvel's Cancelling Black Panther & The Crew, One of Its Most Important Comics Right Now  —  When Ta-Nehisi Coates and Yona Harvey's Black Panther & The Crew launched earlier this year, it proved that big publishers like Marvel can, in fact, still tell timely stories about real world issues …

Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty, receive health care after prison release  —  WASHINGTON — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier and convicted national security secret leaker, will remain an active-duty, unpaid soldier, eligible for health care and other benefits …

Miss USA Winner Angers Liberals With Health Care Answer  —  Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist, won the crown at the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night while surprising and angering liberals with her interview answers on health care and feminism.  —  McCullough works …

The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack  —  Early Friday morning the world experienced the year's latest cyberattack.  —  Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally …

Liberals Are An Inferno Of Flaming Crazy And We Should Pour Gasoline On The Fire  —  Pity the Democrats, to the extent you can without bursting into hysterical laughter at their agony.  America has thoroughly rejected them in every branch of the federal government plus out in the states …

Why Are Democrats Afraid of the Election Integrity Commission?  —  They know that the voter rolls are breeding grounds for potential fraud.  —  Last Thursday, President Trump announced the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate voter irregularities and fraud as well as charges of voter suppression in America.

Political chaos in Washington is a return on investment for Moscow  —  Russia has yet to collect much of what it hoped for from the Trump administration, including the lifting of U.S. sanctions and recognition of its annexation of Crimea.  —  But the Kremlin has gotten a different return …

Lawrence O'Donnell's Future At MSNBC Is Unclear  —  As his contract nears its end, a renewal doesn't appear to be on the horizon for “The Last Word” host.  —  Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's “The Last Word,” has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.

THE TRUTH about Trump's tapes — POLITICO INVESTIGATION: Stock trades ‘leaves Congress rife with conflicts’ — About that White House shakeup ... — ADRIENNE ELROD's new firm — B'DAY: Rachel Kelly  —  Listen to the Playbook Audio Briefing http://bit.ly/2qIO6jZ ... Subscribe on iTunes http …

Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny  —  When people behave as if they have something to hide, it is often because they do.  For me, this is a basic law of human behavior.  —  That's why President Trump's baffling, outrageous, unfathomable and just plain bizarre behavior last week strengthened …

With a New Collaborations Album, Todd Rundgren Talks About Loving Reznor, Fagen and Robyn... and Loathing Trump  —  Todd Rundgren's new album, “White Knight,” is a grab-bag of collaborations with fellow artists — among them, Trent Reznor, Daryl Hall, Bettye LaVette, Robyn, Donald Fagen …

Women Can Wear Pants on Fox News Now, But Not Much Else Has Changed  —  When Rupert Murdoch left his office on a recent Monday afternoon, the 86-year-old mogul was ambushed by a BBC reporter seeking comment on the ongoing scandals at Fox News.  “Nothing's happening at Fox News, nothing,” Murdoch declared.

Young Black Democrats, Eager to Lead From the Left, Eye Runs in 2018  —  MACON, Ga. — In Georgia, a Democratic lawmaker planning a run for governor promises to confront President Trump and what she calls the “fascists” surrounding him.  In Maryland, a former president of the N …

G.O.P. Senators, Pulling Away From Trump, Have ‘a Lot Less Fear of Him’  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans, increasingly unnerved by President Trump's volatility and unpopularity, are starting to show signs of breaking away from him as they try to forge a more traditional Republican agenda and protect their political fortunes.

Can American democracy survive Donald Trump?  —  It might not end with a bang, but the president is doing deep, lasting damage.  —  In 2014, Turkey's authoritarian president fired four prosecutors who were leading an investigation into an alleged corruption scandal involving the president himself.

Amazon is now worth two Walmarts  —  On the 20th anniversary of its IPO, Amazon's market cap stands at $459 billion.  Walmart's?  $228 billion.  —  It took Amazon 18 years as a public company to catch Walmart in market value.  It took less than another two years for Amazon to be worth twice as much.