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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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?

Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right.  Resist them.  —  How not to write about “radical” libertarians.  —  It's always hard in politics for people to take their opponents' views seriously, but it has become ever harder in Trump's America.

Jamie Dimon blows up at DC's dysfunction, says he's tired of ‘listening to the stupid s—’  — On the bank's earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon answered a question about his view on Washington's impact on the economy.  —  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed frustration …

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.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in a rare and candid moment, talks about the frustrations of his job  —  His boss contradicts him.  Sometimes sends him off to clean up messes.  Makes him explain controversial policies.  —  When you have been chief executive of one of the largest companies on the planet …

Kid Rock's Senate Run Is a Terrifying New Normal  —  Kid Rock—the goofy sobriquet of Robert James Ritchie, the forty-seven-year-old rapping rock star from Detroit—has been an inscrutable presence on the American political scene for several years now, and on Wednesday afternoon he appeared …

Gerken is the dean of Yale Law School and the Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law  —  Ideas

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.”