U.S. Government Ethics Chief Will Resign, Casting Uncertainty Over Agency  —  WASHINGTON — Walter M. Shaub Jr., the government's top ethics watchdog who has repeatedly gone head-to-head with the Trump administration over conflicts of interest, said on Thursday that he was calling it quits.

Trump Cites Russian Election Meddling But Blames Others Too  —  Says intelligence community's failings on Iraq raise doubts  —  Trump makes remarks ahead of meeting with Russia's Putin  —  President Donald Trump said he believes Russia meddled in the 2016 election but maintained that the U.S …

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.

Back to the Center, Democrats  —  The path back to power for the Democratic Party today, as it was in the 1990s, is unquestionably to move to the center and reject the siren calls of the left, whose policies and ideas have weakened the party.  —  In the early 1990s, the Democrats relied …

President Trump Apparently Couldn't Find A Hotel To Book For The G20 Summit  —  He is one of the most powerful people in the world.  He is coming to the meeting of 20 powerful countries.  And he has a problem: no hotel room for the G20.  —  White House officials apparently waited too long …

Russia-born dealmaker linked to Trump assists laundering probe  —  Felix Sater, who worked on Trump Soho, turns against Kazakh former business partners  —  Read next … Donald Trump faces renewed scrutiny of the riches that flowed into his real estate empire from the former Soviet Union …

United takes seat away from 2-year-old; resells ticket  —  With tickets in hand, Shirley Yamauchi - a teacher at Kapolei Middle school and her 27-month old son were on the final leg of an 18-hour flight from Hawaii to Boston.  —  “He and I, we had both our tickets scanned, we both went on board no problem,” Yamauchi said.

In TV Ratings Game, Networks Try to Dissguys Bad Newz from Nielsen  —  In a game largely sanctioned by TV-ratings firm Nielsen, television networks try to hide shows' poor performances on any given night by forgetting how to spell.  That can dramatically improve a show's average viewership.

18 States Are Suing Betsy DeVos Over For-Profit College Rules  —  The Trump administration has “sided with for-profit school executives against students,” one state attorney general said when announcing the lawsuit.  —  Eighteen states and Washington, DC, are suing Education Secretary Betsy DeVos …

GOP tensions rise over Cruz proposal  —  Tensions between Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell  —  (R-Ky.) and his old antagonist, Sen. Ted Cruz  —  (R-Texas), have reappeared in the high-stakes negotiation over healthcare reform.  —  Cruz is insisting on a reform to the Senate GOP bill …

Trump's voter data request poses an unnoticed danger  —  Michael Chertoff, U.S. homeland security secretary from 2005 to 2009, is executive chairman of the Chertoff Group, a security and risk-management advisory firm.  —  The Trump administration's Presidential Advisory Commission …

Photo ‘showing Amelia Earhart’ is not the US aviator  —  A photo of a woman claimed to be missing US aviator Amelia Earhart is said today to be proof that she survived a crash into the Pacific Ocean 80 years ago - but the picture has a major flaw, it can be revealed.

'There's a $3,000 bounty on your head in Philadelphia': Woman gets death threats after Facebook video of her urinating on an American flag goes viral  — She captioned the video, which she posted on Facebook and later deleted: ‘F*** your nationalism.  F*** your country.  F*** your stupid f****** flag’

The Trump administration is quietly making it easier to abuse seniors in nursing homes  —  Even if Trumpcare fails, the administration can still do a great deal to make our health care system meaner.  —  The Trump administration is poised to undo rules issued by the Obama administration …

Trump's Life-Tenured Judicial Avatar  —  So Neil M. Gorsuch, the aw-shucks humble servant of the law whom the country encountered during his mind-numbing confirmation hearing, turns out to be a hard-right conservative.  No real surprise there, and by now, no real news either …

The Remaking of Donald Trump  —  In the multicultural days of The Apprentice, he rose to a level of popularity with minorities that the GOP could only dream of.  Then he torched it all to prepare for a hard-right run at the presidency.  —  Donald Trump had been thinking about running …

Uncovering the Russia ties of Hillary's campaign chief  —  Former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta exits after meeting with the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on June 27.  —  Getty Images  —  Lawmakers failed to seize on an alarming development in the Russia collusion story …

We Should Cheer CNN's Ritual Suicide  —  If you ever had any doubt that Donald Trump was right that the mainstream media is the enemy of the American people, CNN corrected your inexplicable inability to comprehend this painfully obvious truth by choosing July 4th to threaten some guy for daring to make fun of Its Medianess Holiness.

Hoeven hears criticism of Senate health care overhaul  —  GRAND FORKS — The national health care debate came home Wednesday afternoon at a roundtable with Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., at Altru Hospital in Grand Forks.  —  Hoeven had been at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences earlier …

Microsoft plans up to 3,000 job cuts in a sales staff overhaul to fuel cloud growth  —  Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs, largely in sales.  —  The job cuts amount to less than 10 percent of the company's total sales force …

Rep Gianforte Responds To Trump Bodyslam Tweet … On Sunday President Donald Trump sent out a tweet that some interpreted as encouraging violence against reporters.  In a short video clip from Trump's 2007 appearance in a pro wrestling match, he can be seen bodyslamming a man with the CNN logo superimposed over his face.