The Buck Stops Everywhere Else  —  Trump undermines his own travel ban and Justice Department.

Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump … Top lawyers with at least four major law firms rebuffed White House overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice …

Trump will live-tweet during testimony of former FBI Director James Comey: report  —  President Donald Trump will reportedly respond live on Twitter as former FBI Director James Comey testifies to a Senate committee this week.  —  On Thursday, Comey is expected to testify …

How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner  —  Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker.  Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named “Reality Winner” was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept.

In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in ‘Two Weeks’  —  The president has a penchant for making and missing deadlines  —  Tax and infrastructure plans are taking longer than promised  —  President Donald Trump has a plan.  It'll be ready in two weeks.

The $110 Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia is Fake News  —  Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.  —  Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom.  Only problem is that there is no deal.

Bird-flipping welcome for US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in New Zealand  —  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at Premier House on a bleak Wellington day.  —  The weather was awful and the mood of the locals wasn't much better when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Wellington.

Notre Dame: Man shot by French police after attacking them with hammer  —  Live: security operation near Notre Dame  —  French police have shot a man outside the Notre Dame in Paris after he tried to attack them with a hammer, according to local media.  One policeman was injured in the attack.

Nevada's legislature just passed a radical plan to let anybody sign up for Medicaid  —  Nevada, with little fanfare or notice, is inching toward a massive health insurance expansion — one that would give the state's 2.8 million residents access to a public health insurance option.

Ben Sasse is insufferable  —  The Vanishing American Adult, Sen. Ben Sasse's slick new paean to hard work and old-fashioned middle-class American family values, is the most boring book I've ever read.  —  The Nebraska Republican is, if not absolutely insufferable, the least sufferable person in the Senate.

The Trump effect: Everyone's thinking of running for president.  —  When former vice president Joe Biden announced a few days ago that he was setting up a new political action committee called American Possibilities, the political world read it as a signal: He's seriously thinking of running for president in 2020.

The Lawless Presidency  —  Democracy isn't possible without the rule of law — the idea that consistent principles, rather than a ruler's whims, govern society.  —  You can read Aristotle, Montesquieu, John Locke or the Declaration of Independence on this point.  You can also look at decades of American history.

London mayor calls for cancellation of Trump visit to UK  —  London Mayor Sadiq Khan is calling on the British government to cancel a state visit from President Trump after Trump criticized his response to this weekend's terror attacks in London.  —  “I don't think we should roll …

Where Are the United States Attorneys?  —  Three months after President Trump abruptly fired half of the nation's 93 United States attorneys, following the resignations of the other half, he has yet to replace a single one.  —  It's bizarre — and revealing — that a man who called himself the …

“Show them a body”: Senate Republicans prepared to take a failed vote on Obamacare repeal  —  It's not their first choice, but it may be their only option.  —  Senate Republicans are pushing desperately this week to find a health care plan they can coalesce around — but hopes are fading, even among lawmakers.

More than 130 British imams refuse to bury London attackers  —  (CNN)More than 130 imams from Britain are refusing to offer Islamic burials to the three men who launched attacks Saturday night in London, killing seven and wounding dozens more.  —  “We will not perform the traditional Islamic funeral prayer …

Voters head to the polls to pick L.A.'s next congressman in under-the-radar special election  —  Attorney Robert Lee Ahn, left, and Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez are running to replace Xavier Becerra in the 34th Congressional District.  (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

Macho Putin in Driver's Seat as He Takes Oliver Stone for a Ride  —  Director quizzes president on U.S., Snowden in four-part film  —  Putin says he's 'not a woman, so I don't have bad days'  —  He could be just another Moscow commuter driving home from the office.

Third London attacker told Italian police: 'I'm going to be a terrorist'  —  Youssef Zaghba was stopped by Italian police at Bologna Airport in March 2016.  —  The Moroccan-Italian man who has been identified as the third London attacker told Italian authorities “I'm going to be a terrorist …

Emotional support dog bites passenger on Delta flight  —  Airline industry, airport, Atlanta, Delta, Hartsfield-Jackson, health, planes.  —  A passenger on a Delta Air lines flight was bitten by another passenger's emotional support dog.  —  The incident happened Sunday during boarding …

Pruitt's claim that ‘almost 50,000 jobs’ have been gained in coal  —  “Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector.  In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs.”  — Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency …