Russian Government Sought to Aid Trump's Candidacy, According to Email  —  WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material …

Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions  —  Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.  —  Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …

GOP struggles to revamp ailing Obamacare repeal bill  —  Republican leaders are frantically pushing for a vote on the Senate's ailing Obamacare repeal bill next week, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell racing to placate warring moderates and conservatives with a new draft due within days, according to senators and aides.

NRA Breaks Its Silence on Philando Castile Shooting  —  Yesterday the National Rifle Association broke its recent silence on the shooting of Philando Castile, a Minnesota carry permit holder who was killed during a traffic stop last summer by a cop who panicked when Castile reached for the wallet containing his driver's license.

Award-Winning Journalist Who Broke Story of Jewish Women Barred From Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Removed From Reporting Duties  —  An award-winning journalist who broke the story of the group of Jewish women ejected from an LGBTQ march in Chicago last month has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties …

Military plane crashes in Mississippi; 5 dead … JACKSON, Miss. — A military refueling aircraft crashed Monday afternoon in a soybean field in LeFlore County, claiming at least five lives, officials said.  —  Sheriff Ricky Banks said there were five confirmed dead as of 6:15 p.m. CT …

One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump  —  They blocked Obama's court nominees for years.  Now they're filling those seats, starting a huge shift rightward for the judiciary.  —  Although he's been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care …

Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters  —  The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long search by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one.

Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  New Jersey  —  Choice Words for “Beachgate”  —  Most think state is now worse off because of Gov. Christie  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The past few weeks have been no day at the beach for New Jersey's governor... except for that day at the beach, of course.

Trump Aides Recruited Businessmen to Devise Options for Afghanistan  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon's plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan …

How to Sell “Medicare for All” to All Americans  —  Democrats increasingly support a single-payer health care system—and Republicans are already on the attack.  Let the messaging wars begin.  —  Early in her campaign last year for the Democratic presidential nomination …

Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar  —  Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …

Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants  —  Alt-right bloggers are singling out government employees deemed hostile to the president's agenda.  —  On June 11, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich published an article attacking an assistant to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster …

Ed Perlmutter to drop out of Colorado governor's race, sources say  —  Decision coming just weeks after entry of fellow Democratic congressman Jared Polis into the race  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter plans to announce Tuesday that he will end his run for Colorado governor …

Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders  —  A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …

In Blow to Tech Industry, Trump Shelves Start-Up Immigrant Rule  —  The Trump administration said it would delay, and probably eliminate down the line, a federal rule that would have let foreign entrepreneurs come to the United States to start companies.  —  The decision, announced …

Young Japanese people are not having sex  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to new research.

CNN hired top al-Qaeda propagandist for award-winning Syria documentary and wants to cover its tracks  —  Star CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward worked with al-Qaeda “media man” Bilal Abdul Kareem  —  On June 16, an American media activist living in rebel-held Syrian territory sat …

Why not just ban women?  The Republican dress code is straight out of The Handmaid's Tale  —  The party is already making women's lives miserable with its healthcare bill - now it's kicking them out of the speaker's lobby for baring their arms.  In her weekly advice column, our style expert asks what's next in this brave new world?

California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’  —  LOS ANGELES — Long-standing tensions between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal wings have ignited in California, where progressive activists are redirecting their anger over Donald Trump and congressional Republicans toward Democratic leaders at home.