Russia investigation expands to include Donald Trump's personal attorney  —  One of President Donald Trump's closest confidants, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, has now become a focus of the expanding Congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign.

Kathy Griffin Beheads Donald Trump in Shocking Photo Shoot (PHOTO + VIDEO)  —  Kathy Griffin wants Donald Trump's head ... but she wants it bloody and detached from his body.  —  The comedian posed for the gory shot during a photo session with famed photog Tyler Shields, who's known for edgy, shocking pics.

No One Wants The Big White House Job That Just Opened Up  —  “Hell no,” one Republican said when asked about the communications director job in President Trump's administration.  “That would be career suicide.”  —  By Henry J. Gomez (BuzzFeed News Reporter) Tarini Parti (BuzzFeed News Reporter) …

Huma Abedin has invited Anthony Weiner back home  —  Just when you thought Huma Abedin finally had enough, the Hillary Clinton aide has invited her admitted sex offender hubby back home again, The Post has learned.  —  SEE ALSO  —  Anthony Weiner's long-suffering wife filed for divorce earlier this month …

US conducts successful missile intercept test, Pentagon says  —  The U.S. military successfully shot down a mock nuclear warhead simulating the speed and range of a potential North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said Tuesday.

Why Conservatives Still Attack Trump  —  Trump is too far from their ideal leader for some conservatives to support him.  —  When people you know well and admire, and who share your values, do something you strongly oppose, you have two options:  —  (1) Cease admiring them or (2) try to understand them and change their minds.

Stabbing victim Micah Fletcher: 'I'm just trying to heal and recover' … PORTLAND, Ore. — During an emotional interview Tuesday morning with KGW, Micah Fletcher, one of three men stabbed during last week's racist attack on a MAX train, said he's having a hard time processing what happened to him.

Guardian's Ben Jacobs gets new glasses after assault by Montana congressman … Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs replaced his glasses on Tuesday, after they were broken when he was assaulted by Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte.  —  Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault …

Trump, home all alone  — Instead of celebrating a victory lap after his trip, Trump returns to a raging controversy over Russia, writes Gloria Borger  —  (CNN)It's not that President Trump was excited about his first foreign trip.  He complained to friends beforehand it was going to be too long …

Sources: Russians discussed potentially ‘derogatory’ information about Trump and associates during campaign  —  Sources: Russians talked potentially ‘derogatory’ info  —  (CNN)Russian government officials discussed having potentially “derogatory” information about then-presidential candidate Donald …

Spicer's ‘middle finger’ to the press  —  The hardest job in Washington is getting only harder.  —  White House press secretary Sean Spicer is once again expected to take on the additional role of communications director with the resignation of Michael Dubke, meaning he'll juggle the two jobs …

Scott Pelley out of ‘CBS Evening News’ … Scott Pelley is out at “CBS Evening News,” Page Six has exclusively learned.  —  Sources tell us that 'Poison Pelley's' office was being cleared out on Tuesday while the anchor was away on an assignment for the network's news magazine “60 Minutes.”

Men investigating Ivanka Trump brand in China arrested, missing: report  —  One man has been arrested and two others are missing after investigating working conditions at a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-brand shoes, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Fox News: New York Times boycotted Obama surveillance story.  Fox News: Oops, maybe not.  —  Conservatives last week devoured a story by John Solomon and Sara Carter at Circa with this title, “Obama intel agency secretly conducted illegal searches on Americans for years.”

Schmucks Like Us  —  Before you laugh at Tiger Woods . . .  Before you get too distracted mocking Tiger Woods and his problems, ask yourself: Would you pass the Iverson test?  —  I don't think I would.  —  I was for some years professionally obliged to follow the career and life of Allen Iverson …

Did Barack Obama try to hack the election?  —  The Obama administration's illegal spying may have been worse than Watergate.  —  In 1972, some employees of President Nixon's re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug.

Pissed off artist adds statue of urinating dog next to ‘Fearless Girl’  —  Artist Alex Gardega put his own Pissing Pug next to Wall Street's Fearless Girl.  —  Gabriella Bass  —  Gee whiz, artists are so sensitive!  —  City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the Fearless Girl statue …

Gregg Jarrett: Jared Kushner gets mugged by the media mob  —  “This nation was dedicated to freedom under law, not under mobs.”  —  So wrote the late Justice, Tom Clark, who gave me my first tour of the Supreme Court in the 1970s.  Justice Clark cared deeply about the role of the news media in holding our government accountable.

Republican US Rep. Lance contrasts with Trump, gets applause  —  Republican U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance told his constituents, at times to applause, that he opposes President Donald Trump's budget proposal, rejects the GOP-led House's health care overhaul and strongly supports NATO.

A federal appeals court just reached a huge decision for transgender rights.  Seriously, it's big.  —  The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals just sided with a transgender student in a landmark decision.  —  A single student's case has turned into a massive legal decision for all transgender Americans.

GOP leader tempers ObamaCare expectations  —  (R-Ky.) is tempering expectations that the Senate will pass an overhaul of the nation's healthcare system, promising his colleagues a vote but not success.  —  McConnell in his public comments and private conversations about the ObamaCare repeal …

Blame Obamacare and Congress for the coming drought of doctors … When you go to the Internet or phone book today, there are hundreds of physicians listed in most urban areas.  But in the next two decades, you can expect more difficulty finding a physician in your hometown …

Trump Administration Moves To Roll Back Birth Control Coverage  —  Nancy Pelosi called the draft of a new rule “sickening.”  —  WASHINGTON The Trump administration is on the verge of rolling back a federal rule that requires most employers to cover birth control in their health insurance plans at no cost to women.

Howard Schultz told Starbucks workers that Trump is creating ‘chaos’ that is impacting the economy in leaked video  —  Donald Trump is creating “chaos” that is impacting the American economy, according to Starbucks' longtime CEO and current chairman Howard Schultz.  —  “The world is screwed up.

Putin's Defender  —  An American Russia scholar on why he doesn't believe the New York Times, doesn't think the DNC was hacked, and just wants the U.S. and Russia to get along.  —  Stephen F. Cohen has long been one of the leading scholars of Russia and the Soviet Union.