Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador  —  President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials …

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 Donald Trump.  —  Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.

When President Trump's bodyguard revealed Jim Mattis's private cellphone number  —  This Is Not Normal.  It's a mantra among politics-watchers, an attempt to force ourselves to see clearly through the toxic levels of absurdity caking Washington these days.  The poker-faced way the news …

Senior member of Trump team said to tell Israelis: Western Wall is not your territory  —  Bitter diplomatic spat over Jews' holiest place of prayer reported during preparation for president's visit; Netanyahu's office said seeking clarification from DC  —  In a bitter diplomatic incident …

GOP Congressman 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.

ACLU Demands Records on Comey Firing  —  NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department and FBI asking for all records related to President Trump's dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.

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.”

NATO Frantically Tries to Trump-Proof President's First Visit  —  A ‘freaked out’ NATO braces for Donald Trump's first meeting of the transatlantic alliance.  —  NATO is scrambling to tailor its upcoming meeting to avoid taxing President Donald Trump's notoriously short attention span.

Democratic Congressman Says Donald Trump Has Committed An “Impeachable Act”  —  Texas Rep. Al Green made the most explicit call yet to impeach the president on Monday, citing his firing of former FBI director James Comey in the midst of the Russia investigation.

Trump's Budget Director Says Fat, Lazy Americans Don't Deserve Health Care  —  Many conservatives believe that a large proportion of Americans do not deserve access to medical care because their high medical costs result from poor decisions.  This belief has been floating around right-wing circles for years.

'SNL's' Yuuuge Year: 20 Insiders Reveal Alec Baldwin's Future as Trump, “Spicey” Secrets and Lorne Michaels' Election Pep Talk  —  Everyone from Kate McKinnon to Chris Rock gives THR backstage access to a historic season as they reveal how Melissa McCarthy became Sean Spicer …

‘Morning Joe’ hosts: Conway secretly hates Trump  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is secretly disgusted by President Trump and spoke harshly off him off-camera during the campaign, “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said Monday

It's Early, but the GOP Is Already in the Midterm Danger Zone  —  First Read is your briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter  —  Bannon, Preibus & Spicer on the Chopping Block?

A Remote Paradise Island Is Now a Plastic Junkyard  —  Henderson Island is about the most remote place you can visit without leaving the planet.  It sits squarely in the middle of the South Pacific, 3,500 miles from New Zealand in one direction and another 3,500 miles from South America in the other.

US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid.  Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues …

Inside Corey Lewandowski's Failed Romp in Trump's Swamp  —  He was a political nobody who helped Donald Trump win the White House.  Then Corey Lewandowski went to Washington, hell-bent on making his fortune and changing the lobbying game forever.  Here's how those grandiose plans blew up …

Minority students feel ‘marginalized’ by historic building's ‘imposing, masculine’ paneling  —  Some minority students at the University of Michigan have apparently felt intimidated by the interior wood paneling found throughout the historic Michigan Union building.

‘Fairy Godmother’ Brings Migrants to Europe on a Flying Carpet in EU-Backed Cartoon  —  A Européens Sans Frontières (Europeans Without Borders) video sponsored by the European Commission depicts the EU as a fairy godmother bringing migrants to Western Europe after ‘racist’ Eastern Europeans refuse to welcome them.

If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They're More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy  —  Here are guesses from 1,746 adults:  —  Where is North Korea?  —  Each represents a respondent's guess.  —  Just 36 percent got it right.  Here are the countries they selected:

Fyre Festival Was Buried Under Millions in Debt Before It Even Began  —  First ticket holders sued.  Now investors who backed the doomed millennial extravaganza want their money back.  —  , and  —  Shahien Nasiripour  —  In the weeks before the Fyre Festival, organizers borrowed …

Why the ‘alt-left’ will succeed where centrists fail  —  The label is meant as a slur to discredit us.  But that won't change the fact that left-wing populists speak to anti-system anger in a way that others don't  —  ould you be a member of a political conspiracy without even knowing it?

Clinton launches new political group: ‘Onward Together’  —  Hillary Clinton is officially back in the political game.  —  Clinton sent a blast email to supporters Monday afternoon asking people to sign up for her next venture, Onward Together.  —  “From the Women's March to airports across …

The assistant principal of a Pennsylvania high school has resigned after a video of him berating pro-life student activists went viral.  —  Assistant principal Zach Ruff, who was filmed berating and cursing at 16-year-old pro-life activists, resigned the day after a petition defending Ruff circulated online …

Male Earnings, Marriageable Men, and Nonmarital Fertility: Evidence from the Fracking Boom  —  NBER Working Paper No. 23408  —  NBER Program(s): CH EEE LS PE … You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery.  —  Access to NBER Papers

WATCH: CNN Devotes Two Segments to Trump's ‘Executive Privilege’ for Eating Two Scoops of Ice Cream  —  CNN devoted not one, but two segments on how President Trump got two scoops of ice cream while his dinner guests only got one as the network tried to pass off a “scoop” about the president's eating habits as news.