The Trump Administration's Voter-Suppression Plans Are Backfiring Badly  —  In an unprecedented show of bipartisan resistance, 44 states are refusing to hand over private voter data to Kris Kobach.  —  On June 28, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the vice chair of Donald Trump's presidential commission …

United States Files Civil Action To Forfeit Thousands Of Ancient Iraqi Artifacts Imported By Hobby Lobby  —  Cuneiform Tablets Were Falsely Labeled as Product “Samples” and Shipped to Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Two Corporate Affiliates  —  Earlier today, the United States filed …

How A Random GIF From Reddit Probably Ended Up On President Trump's Phone  —  Last Wednesday, a Reddit user named /u/HanAssholeSolo posted a GIF titled “Trump takes down fake news (Colorized, 2017)” to Reddit's largest pro-Trump subreddit, /r/The_Donald.  —  The post gained a few thousand upvotes and …

Condition Update: Rep. Steve Scalise Progress  —  Congressman Steve Scalise has been readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit at MedStar Washington Hospital Center due to new concerns for infection.  His condition is listed as serious.  We will provide another update tomorrow, July 6.

Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests  —  A newly discovered photograph suggests legendary aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands.

Trump Aides' Biggest Worry About Europe Trip: Meeting With Putin  —  WARSAW — President Trump arrived in Europe on Wednesday for three days of diplomacy that will culminate in a meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, which has the potential for global repercussions and political fallout back home.

U.S. Commandos Running Out of ISIS Targets … U.S. special operations forces have removed roughly 50 top ISIS leaders off the battlefield since President Donald Trump took office, down from 80 killed in the last six months of the Obama administration, according to figures obtained by The Daily Beast.

The Network Against the Leader of the Free World  —  Jeffrey A. Zucker hasn't been getting a lot of sleep lately.  But he says that's nothing new.  —  “I don't sleep that much anyway,” Mr. Zucker, the president of CNN, said on Wednesday in his fifth-floor office, just off the network's glassy Midtown Manhattan newsroom.

Chelsea Handler to Debate Tomi Lahren Live at Politicon  —  Comedian and TV host Chelsea Handler will take on controversial conservative pundit Tomi Lahren in a live conversation later this month at Politicon, The Daily Beast has learned.  The third annual political convention …

‘Repeal now, replace later’ will kill the GOP's health-care reform  —  When King Solomon proposed splitting the baby, he knew that actually splitting the baby would have killed it.  It was a ruse to save the child.  Yet some Republican senators don't seem to understand that splitting …

Dems try new slogan: ‘Have you seen the other guys?’ … The campaign arm for House Democrats on Wednesday tried out a new slogan: “I mean, have you seen the other guys?”  —  The sticker slogan, one of several floated as part of a fundraising effort by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee …

Police officer deaths on duty have jumped nearly 20 percent in 2017  —  The ambush shooting that killed a New York City police officer in the Bronx marked the latest in a growing number of officer deaths in 2017, up 18 percent from this time last year.  —  A total of 67 officers have died …

Trump's Own Government Admits Trump Is Lying About Obamacare's ‘Death Spiral’  —  President Trump likes to says things like, “Obamacare's dead, it's gone.”  More traditional Republicans — i.e., ones who don't talk like characters in Goodfellas — express the same idea in more highbrow terms.

CNN Just Published A Fake Quote From Abraham Lincoln  —  CNN tweeted out quotes from notable Americans for the Fourth of July.  Here was one of the quotes they tweeted from Abraham Lincoln:  —  The quote, which is also displayed at the Newseum, was interpreted as yet another attack from the media giant against the president.

Bill Gates in HUGE borders U-turn: ‘Brussels must make it HARDER for migrants to reach EU’  —  BILL GATES has made a massive open-borders U-turn and urged Brussels to make it more “difficult” for migrants to reach Europe.  —  GETTY  —  Bill Gates has made a massive U-turn on Europe's migrant policy

An inside look at One America News, the insurgent TV network taking ‘pro-Trump’ to new heights  —  One America News is an obscure TV channel struggling to emerge from the cellar of the cable ratings, but it is nonetheless one of President Trump's favorite media outlets.

Judge tells Martin Shkreli: Keep your mouth shut  —  Martin Shkreli arrives for the first day of jury selection in his federal securities-fraud trial June 26 in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Timothy A. Clary / AFP/Getty Images)  —  The Washington Post  —  Martin Shkreli, the boisterous former hedge-fund manager …

DNC email server most wanted evidence for Russia investigations  —  It is perhaps the key piece of forensic evidence in Russia's suspected efforts to sway the November presidential election, but federal investigators have yet to get their hands on the hacked computer server that handled email from the Democratic National Committee.