Trump's Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton  —  President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …

WikiLeaks proposes Assange to lead Trump's US-Russia cyber security unit  —  WikiLeaks suggested on Sunday that its founder, Julian Assange, should lead the U.S.-Russian cyber security unit after President Trump announced the idea on Twitter.  —  “Why not put @JulianAssange in charge of it?

The Foolishness of Never Trumpers  —  Note: On January 22, 2017 I wrote a column that made clear that the claim 17 intelligence agencies agreed that Russia was responsible for the interference in the election was a lie.  Last week, both the NYT and AP retracted their statements and stated …

BRUTAL: Australian Journalist Sums Up Trump's G20 Visit In 2 Minutes  —  This is the most brutal and succinct analysis of Donald Trump, the man and the scripted, fake President*, I have seen since election day.  Take 2 minutes and watch this.  Then, pick your jaw up and wipe your tears.

Germany's Newest Intellectual Antihero  —  After the German historian Rolf Peter Sieferle took his own life last September at age 67, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the country's progressive paper of record, called his erudition “breathtaking.”  For three decades Mr. Sieferle had applied …

‘Grandstanding’ or truth teller?  CNN's Acosta walks a fine line with Trump.  —  These are times that try a White House reporter's soul.  Jim Acosta hasn't kept quiet about what's been troubling his.  —  CNN's senior White House reporter has been frustrated by many things …

Glum House leaders begin search for fallbacks  —  House Republican leaders are beginning to give significant thought to what their exit-for-August bills look like if they don't have healthcare to leave on.  — What we're hearing: House members are super-anxious about health care …

At Private Dinners, Pence Quietly Courts Big Donors and Corporate Executives  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence has been courting scores of the country's most influential donors, corporate executives and conservative political leaders over the past several months in a series of private gatherings and one-on-one conversations.

Republicans voice growing doubts on U.S. healthcare bill's fate  —  Republicans expressed increasing pessimism on Sunday about the prospects for the healthcare bill in the U.S. Senate as lawmakers prepared to return from a week-long recess.  —  One prominent Republican lawmaker …

Senate Cancel August Recess Alabama GOP Asks Leaders ObamaCare Tax Work  —  A freshman Republican senator said he sent a letter to GOP leadership asking them to cancel the annual August recess because there is a lot left to do on Capitol Hill.  —  “We need to work as hard as President Trump is working …

Pope Francis: US-Russia alliance ‘dangerous’  —  Pope Francis issued a stark warning against “dangerous” international alliances, including between the U.S. and Russia, on Saturday.  —  The Pope said that he was afraid of “very dangerous alliances among [foreign] powers that have a distorted vision …

These Coloradans say Earth is flat.  And gravity's a hoax.  Now, they're being persecuted.  —  The Flat Earth movement is growing in Colorado, thanks to technology and skepticism about science … Every Tuesday at 6 p.m., three dozen Coloradans from every corner of the state assemble …

U.S. officials say Russian government hackers have penetrated energy and nuclear company business networks  —  Russian government hackers were behind recent cyber-intrusions into the business systems of U.S. nuclear power and other energy companies in what appears to be an effort to assess their networks …

The Congressional War on Expertise  —  Talk about a lousy recess.  —  Even as members of Congress were sprinting out of town for the July 4th holiday, the hard-working nerds at the Congressional Budget Office were handed the number-crunching equivalent of a colonoscopy …

Why People Hate The Media, Chapter MDCXIII  —  I had dinner tonight with a friend who knows Congressman Steve Scalise, the Republican from Louisiana who was critically injured in last month's assassination attempt.  He told me a story that's personal, that almost nobody knows, but that reflects very well on Scalise's character.

Muslim leaders begin European bus tour against terrorism in the name of Islam  —  The tour, involving around 60 imams, will visit the sites of terror attacks by Islamist extremists.  —  Muslim leaders launched a European bus tour in Paris on Saturday to express opposition to terrorism in the name of Islam.