Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer  —  WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter …

Analysis: Trump will take health care credit or cast blame  —  If congressional Republicans succeed in repealing and replacing “Obamacare,” expect a big Rose Garden celebration with President Donald Trump taking credit.  —  If they fail?  Trump has already indicated he will hold Senate …

Six People Were Involved In The Trump Tower Meeting, But We Only Know About Five Of Them  —  Six people were involved in the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting, but so far only five have been publicly identified.  —  Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Rob Goldstone and Natalia Veselnitskaya …

The least convincing Republican holdout  —  It's Marco Rubio.  He went on a mini-tweetstorm on Wednesday night, saying he needed things like more hospital money for Florida and the ability to waive Medicaid spending limits if there's another outbreak like the Zika virus.

Watch never-ending handshake between Trump and Macron  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's saga of awkward handshakes continues.  —  On Friday, right before he left France, Trump said goodbye to France's President Emmanuel Macron, with the two grabbing and holding hands for a long, long handshake.

Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back , Bitch’  —  After hearing Rachel Maddow discuss our recent story about Kasowitz, a man emailed the attorney urging him to resign.  Kasowitz responded with threats and profanity.  —  Marc Kasowitz, President Trump's …

London acid attacks: 5 victims assaulted in 70 minutes  —  London (CNN)Five men were attacked with acid in London on Thursday night with one man suffering life-changing facial injuries in what police are treating as linked assaults.  —  The five attacks, which took place over 70 minutes …

Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton's emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show  —  In late June 2017, the Wall Street Journal published a story about a longtime Republican political operative from the Chicago area.  His name was Peter Smith and the story focused …

Trump Backed Off Putin Because ‘What Do You Do?  End Up in a Fistfight?’  —  PARIS — President Trump said on Wednesday that he had confronted President Vladimir V. Putin twice about whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election, and changed the subject after Mr. Putin flatly denied it because, “What do you do?

Hawaii Judge Orders Loosening of Trump Travel Ban  —  Ruling applies nationwide and means grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles and cousins are no longer subject to the ban  —  WASHINGTON—A Hawaii judge late Thursday ordered a nationwide loosening of President Donald Trump's temporary ban …

Bill Clinton: If You Want To Be President, You Have To Know Why The Heck You're Running  —  At an event Thursday evening at the George W. Bush Presidential Center, former Presidents Clinton and Bush reflected on their time in office and what it takes to become president.

ABC News: Christians Who Believe In The First Amendment Are A ‘Hate Group’  —  ABC News' Pete Madden and Erin Galloway smeared Christians who believe the Bill of Rights secures religious liberty as a “hate group,” in an article this week headlined, “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ but DOJ won't release his remarks.”

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - July 2017: What's Next for Republican ACA Repeal and Replacement Plan Efforts?  —  Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie  —  KEY FINDINGS:  — The July Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that most Americans (61 percent) …