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 …

Ariana Grande Manchester Concert Ends in Explosion, Panic and Death  —  MANCHESTER, England — An explosion that may have been a suicide bombing killed at least 19 people on Monday night and wounded 59 others at an Ariana Grande concert filled with adoring adolescent fans, in what the police were treating as a terrorist attack.

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.

Opinion analysis: Court strikes down N.C. districts in racial gerrymandering challenge  —  Two North Carolina congressional districts, District 1 and District 12, have - as Justice Elena Kagan observed today - “quite the history before” the Supreme Court.  In the last 25 years …

Chris Christie: I warned Trump about Flynn  —  Source: Michael Flynn to plead the Fifth  —  Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on Monday that if it were up to him, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn never would have had a White House job.  —  After ending his own presidential bid …

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.

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 …

Trump Admin Declares Jerusalem Part of Israel in Major Policy Shift  —  After weeks of confused answers, Trump admin breaks from decades of U.S. policy to back Israel  —  The Trump administration declared the president is in “Jerusalem, Israel,” on Monday for a series of meetings with Israeli officials …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …