Where the Senate Health Care Bill Fails  —  Speaking at a rally for his wife's presidential campaign last year, Bill Clinton called Obamacare “the craziest thing in the world.”  As he put it, “The people who are out there busting it, sometimes 60 hours a week, wind up with their premiums doubled and their coverage cut in half.”

No, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Is Not Retiring Tomorrow  —  Based on this weekend's reunion of his law clerks, reports of AMK's retirement are greatly exaggerated.  —  [Please note the UPDATES I have added, and will continue to add, at the end of this story.]

Kushner firm's $285 million Deutsche Bank loan came just before Election Day  —  One month before Election Day, Jared Kushner's real estate company finalized a $285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near Times Square in Manhattan.  —  The loan came at a critical moment.

Trump's Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies  —  In the span of 72 hours, President Trump described the email hacking that roiled the 2016 campaign as a Democratic “hoax” and as clear aggression by Russia that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, failed to address.

CNN Is Imposing Strict New Rules On Its Russia Coverage  —  The decision came after the network deleted and retracted a post on Friday.  —  CNN is imposing strict new publishing restrictions for online articles involving Russia after the network deleted a story and then issued a retraction late Friday …

The National Enquirer's Fervor for Trump  —  The tabloid is defined by its predatory spirit.  Why has it embraced the President with such sycophantic zeal?  —  Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan …

A ‘very credible’ new study on Seattle's $15 minimum wage has bad news for liberals  —  When Seattle officials voted three years ago to incrementally boost the city's minimum wage up to $15 an hour, they'd hoped to improve the lives of low-income workers.  Yet according to a major new study …

Frank Rich: Nixon, Trump, and How a Presidency Ends  —  “Let others wallow in Watergate, we are going to do our job,” said Richard Nixon with typical unearned self-righteousness in July 1973.  By then, more than a year had passed since a slapstick posse of five had been caught in a bungled burglary …

Ivanka Trump: ‘I try to stay out of politics’  —  Ivanka Trump may keep an office in the White House and hold an official position within her father's administration, but when it comes to politics, the first daughter said in an interview that aired Monday that she tries to stay out of President Donald Trump's way.

The Senate health care bill's biggest fan makes the case for it  —  “I'm an advocate of market-based universal coverage.”  —  This week, Senate Republicans could pass a health care bill that leading conservative health care expert Avik Roy would consider “the greatest policy achievement by a GOP Congress in my lifetime.”

Gay Pride marchers with Jewish flags told to leave Chicago parade  —  U.S. LGBT PRIDE LGBT ISRAEL-PALESTINE  —  Jewish people celebrating LGBT Pride in Chicago were told not to display Star of David flags because other people found them ‘offensive.’  —  The Jewish Star of David flag …

On Russia, a senator's deception and a timeline of Trump frustration  —  Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley's accusation that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer lied about President Trump and the Russia investigation — that Schumer said the president was under investigation after he, Schumer …

Support for Same-Sex Marriage Grows, Even Among Groups That Had Been Skeptical  —  For first time, as many Republicans favor as oppose gay marriage  —  Two years after the Supreme Court decision that required states to recognize same-sex marriages nationwide, support for allowing gays …