Trump asked intelligence chiefs to push back against FBI collusion probe after Comey revealed its existence  —  President Trump asked two of the nation's top intelligence officials in March to help him push back against an FBI investigation into possible coordination between his campaign …

19 dead in possible suicide blast at Ariana Grande UK concert  —  At least 19 people were killed and about 50 others were injured in a suspected suicide bombing Monday night after an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in England, authorities said.  —  Greater Manchester Police said the incident was being treated as terrorism.

Fox News Staffers ‘Embarrassed’ by Hannity's Conspiracy Theory Crusade … Fox News staffers are growing increasingly dismayed as network star Sean Hannity and others continue to promote the unfounded conspiracy theory that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered last year for talking to WikiLeaks.

What a Conservative Sees From Inside Trump's Washington  —  Republicans wish all that bad news was fake.  But no, it's real: The administration is destroying itself.  —  The conservative voters who elected Donald Trump seem to feel especially betrayed when those who document his failures and violations are fellow conservatives.

Key Senate Republican offers dim outlook for Trump budget  —  (R-Texas) warned on Monday that President Trump's budget may be a non-stater on Capitol Hill, noting lawmakers routinely craft their own legislation.  —  Cornyn made the comment after he was asked whether a proposed cut to Medicaid in Trump's budget was too steep.

The price tag on universal health care is in, and it's bigger than California's budget  —  It would cost $400 billion per year to remake California's health insurance marketplace and create a publicly funded universal heath care system, according to a state financial analysis released Monday.

Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court on 5-3 Vote Affirms NC Racial Gerrymandering Case, with Thomas in Majority and Roberts in Dissent  —  The Supreme Court has issued this 5-3 opinion in Cooper v. Harris.  Justice Kagan wrote the opinion for the Court, with Justice Thomas making the fifth vote for affirmance.

The ugly truth behind Saudi Arabia's love for Melania Trump  —  Anushay Hossain is a writer and media personality based in Washington.  For more, visit AnushaysPoint.com.  The views expressed are her own.  —  (CNN)Donald Trump's first major trip overseas may be fraught with diplomatic land mines …

Suspect tells police he killed Tampa Palms roommates for disrespecting his Muslim faith  —  TAMPA — A man accused of shooting his roommates in a New Tampa apartment told police he shared neo-Nazi beliefs with the two men until he converted to Islam then killed them because they disrespected his faith.

Trump close to choosing outside counsel for Russia investigation  —  President Trump is moving rapidly toward assembling outside counsel to help him navigate the investigations into his campaign and Russian interference in last year's election, and in recent days he and his advisers …

Trump eyeing Lewandowski, Bossie as crisis managers  —  The White House is looking to wall off the scandals threatening to overtake the president's agenda by building a separate crisis management operation.  —  President Donald Trump personally reached out to two of his former campaign aides …

Roger Ailes's Dream Was My Nightmare  —  This is not another obituary for Roger Ailes, who died last week a year after being ousted at Fox News.  It is, I hope, instead an obituary for the culture he purveyed — a culture that affected me profoundly and personally.

MSNBC Reaches No. 1 for First Time in Weekly Primetime Ratings, Fox News Drops to Third  —  For the first time in its history, MSNBC ranked number one in both total viewers and the key adults 25-54 demographic during primetime for a full week among the big three cable news networks, according to Nielsen data.

The President Just Told a Room of Israelis That He “Just Got Back From the Middle East”  —  Another great moment for America courtesy of President Donald Trump, who is in Jerusalem meeting with Israeli leaders—who, I guess, he does not consider Middle Eastern because they are not Arabs:

What the Mariel Boatlift of Cuban Refugees Can Teach Us about the Economics of Immigration: An Explainer and a Revelation  —  Do immigrants from poor countries hurt native workers?  A study by an influential immigration economist at Harvard University recently found that a famous flood …

Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find  —  The history of human evolution has been rewritten after scientists discovered that Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa.  —  Currently, most experts believe that our human lineage split from apes around seven million years ago …