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 …

PBS poll: 70 percent say civility has dropped since Trump's election  —  A majority of Americans in a new survey thinks civility has gotten worse since President Trump was elected.  —  A PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist Poll out early Monday found that 70 percent of Americans think civility has gotten worse since Trump's election.

Vagina surgery ‘sought by girls as young as nine’ because of pornography, doctors reveal  —  Girls as young as nine are reportedly seeking surgery on their private parts because of insecurities stemming from adult content such as pornography, according to leading doctors.

Medicaid Worsens Your Health?  That's a Classic Misinterpretation of Research  —  As a program for low-income Americans, Medicaid requires the poor to pay almost nothing for their health care.  Republicans in Congress have made clear that they want to change that equation for many …

GOP lawmaker to CNN: ‘You guys are getting played’ … Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) told CNN early Monday that the media is “getting played” by covering President Trump's tweets.  —  The congressman said the media needs to cover “real issues” instead of Trump's tweets when asked on CNN's …

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 …

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.

Donald Trump tweets ‘juvenile’ fake wrestling video of him beating up CNN  —  US President Donald Trump has stepped up his feud with the media by tweeting a mock video of himself tackling and repeatedly striking a man in a business suit, his face replaced by the CNN logo, outside a wrestling ring.

WaPo's Ignatius: Fighters in Syria cheer at mention of Trump name  —  “One Syrian Kurdish commander used a vulgar term, in Spanish it would be cojones, to describe what President Trump has got and why they like him.”  —  On a morning when you would have expected the Morning Joe panel …

Justice Kennedy Tells October 2018 Clerkship Applicants He's Considering Retirement, Right Before 2018 Midterms  —  Big news hiding in Nina Totenberg's story on Justice Gorsuch voting 100% with Justice Thomas: … This would put Justice Kennedy's retirement right before the 2018 midterms …