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 …

When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans?  Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.  —  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think.  If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …

Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material  —  More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …

Obama returns to political fray for a Democratic Party cause  —  Former president Barack Obama will formally reenter the political fray this week less than six months after leaving office, headlining a fundraiser for a group that could prove critical to the Democratic Party's rebuilding efforts.

Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure  —  This is a mess of the party's own making and a Congress far more in touch with 2016 politics than 2017 governing.  —  The Republican plan to undo the Affordable Care Act has spun out of control.  GOP senators are frustrated …

Google Home Breaks Up Domestic Dispute By Calling the Police  —  We're gradually learning that smart home devices can be quite valuable for police.  Following a recent case in which Amazon handed over data from its Echo device to police investigating a murder, a Google Home called the police …

Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas  —  MORE FROM: … Last week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll on President Trump's proposed travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries revealed a somewhat surprising discovery: 60 percent of voters agreed with Trump's proposed ban.

Australian Journalist's Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20  —  In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump's performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.

Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance  —  A company would have replaced a CEO with behaviour as erratic as that of the president  —  Read next  —  Confusing civility with comity is a grave mistake in human or international relations.  Yes, the G20 summit did agree on a common communiqué after the leaders' meeting.