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.”

Supreme Court allows limited version of Trump's travel ban to take effect, will consider case in fall  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to allow a limited version of President Trump's ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries to take effect, and will consider in the fall …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Scoop: Trump group gives Heller a 2nd chance on health bill  —  Many Republicans wondered this weekend if it made sense for America First Policies, the outside group backing President Trump, to run attack ads against Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) for wavering on healthcare, when his vote is desperately needed.

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.”