PHOTOS: Christie, family soak up sun on N.J. beach he closed to public  —  Gallery: Gov. Chris Christie and family on closed Island Beach State Park in N.J.  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  BERKELEY TOWNSHIP — People hoping to visit Island Beach State Park this holiday weekend …

Scoop: Bannon pushes tax hike for wealthy  —  Steve Bannon is causing a stir inside the administration by pushing an idea that's anathema to most Republicans: raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans to pay for steep middle and working-class tax cuts.  (Some officials who've heard Bannon's idea …

Trump Foot Soldier Sidelined Under Glare of Russia Inquiry  —  Just over a decade ago, Donald J. Trump was locked in conflict with a group of apartment owners who had taken control of the condominium board at his new glass tower across from the United Nations.

Deportation a ‘Death Sentence’ to Adoptees After a Lifetime in the U.S.  —  SEOUL, South Korea — Phillip Clay was adopted at 8 into an American family in Philadelphia.  —  Twenty-nine years later, in 2012, after numerous arrests and a struggle with drug addiction, he was deported back to his birth country, South Korea.

A Reddit user who wrote about stabbing Muslims is claiming credit for Trump's CNN video  —  The user whose screen name is an unprintable corruption of “Han Solo” spent about a year on Reddit before attaining stardom, courtesy of a share from President Trump.  —  Some posts were unpopular.

GOP leaders have few sure votes on debt ceiling  —  Only 16 House Republicans who are currently in office backed the last “clean” debt hike, and few of them will say they are certain to support it this year.  —  If the debt ceiling is raised with a clean hike — a distinct possibility given …

A Muslim Comes to Rural Minnesota  —  This morning the Washington Post tweeted a news alert that said: … The tweet linked to this article by reporter Stephanie McCrummen.  It tells the story of Dr. Ayaz Virji, a graduate of Georgetown University medical school who practiced family medicine …

Why the media has broken down in the age of Trump  —  MORE FROM: … I've been a journalist for a long time.  Long enough to know that it wasn't always like this.  There was a time not so long ago when journalists were trusted and admired.  We were generally seen as trying to report the news in a fair and straightforward manner.

Independent Press Is Under Siege as Freedom Rings  —  Happy Birthday, America, I guess.  —  You're old enough to know that you can't always have a feel-good birthday.  And let's face it: This Fourth of July just isn't going to be one of them.  —  How could it be when one of the pillars …

Trump Tweets a Video of Him Wrestling ‘CNN’ to the Ground  —  President Trump posted a short video to his Twitter account on Sunday in which he is portrayed wrestling and punching a figure whose head has been replaced by the logo for CNN.  —  The video, about 28 seconds long …

Trump's Leaner White House Payroll Projected To Save Taxpayers $22 Million  —  If the White House payroll is a leading indicator of the president's commitment to shrink government then voters have a reason to cheer.  Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million.

Sasse: Trump shouldn't ‘weaponize distrust’ of press  —  Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said Sunday that President Trump should not “weaponize distrust” of the press.  He noted that a free press is one of the necessary freedoms included in the First Amendment of the Constitution.