‘Simply Unworkable’: Insurers Blast New Provision In Senate Health Bill  —  The industry sounds just as angry as the patient advocates.  —  Two organizations representing the U.S. health insurance industry just called a new provision of the Senate Republicans' health care proposal …

MSNBC interview goes off the rails when Joy Reid holds Trump supporter's feet to the fire on Russia  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  An interview on AM Joy grew heated Saturday morning when host Joy Reid refused to let a defender of President Donald Trump duck answering questions …

Maryam Mirzakhani, Stanford mathematician and Fields Medal winner, dies  —  Stanford mathematics professor Maryam Mirzakhani, the first and to-date only female winner of the Fields Medal since its inception in 1936, died July 15 after a long battle with cancer.  Mirzakhani was 40 years old.

Kamala Harris meets with Democratic elite in Hamptons  —  MORE FROM: … The Democrats' “Great Freshman Hope,” Sen. Kamala Harris, is heading to the Hamptons to meet with Hillary Clinton's biggest backers.  —  The California senator is being fêted in Bridgehampton on Saturday …

Sandoval unmoved on health bill after meeting with White House officials; Price advises governors to disregard CBO  —  Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said a closed-door breakfast meeting on Saturday between Trump Administration officials and a large number of governors hasn't changed his position …

Huge Manafort Payment Reflects Murky Ukraine Politics  —  KIEV, Ukraine — Paul J. Manafort, President Trump's former campaign chairman, recently filed financial reports with the Justice Department showing that his lobbying firm earned nearly $17 million for two years of work for a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

Comey's Writing a Book, and Publishers Are Eager to Pay Big Money for It  —  James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director who was fired in May by President Trump, is writing a book about his experience in public service, including his tumultuous and brief tenure in the Trump administration.

Teen who blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ at cop's funeral booted from apartment  —  Julien Rodriguez (left) and Miosotis Familia  —  A cop-hating Bronx teen has been kicked out of his apartment for repeatedly blasting the rap song “F-k Tha Police” from the window as thousands of NYPD cops gathered …

Dropping the Bluster, Trump Revives Banter With Reporters  —  WASHINGTON — The Donald J. Trump who turned up in the press cabin of Air Force One on Wednesday evening, as his plane crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the way to Paris, was starkly different from the one who publicly pillories …

Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’  —  BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken.  Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran.  —  A new building goes up?

Russia says it's ‘ready to take reciprocal measures’ if U.S. does not return compounds  —  Russia said Friday that it is “ready to take reciprocal measures” if the United States does not return property in this country seized in December as part of the Obama administration's response …

Idaho news station apologizes for using photo of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in unrelated bank robbery story  —  An local CBS news affiliate in Idaho has issued a public apology to Black Lives Matter activist and educator DeRay McKesson after the station used a photo of McKesson in an unrelated story about a bank robbery.

Venus Williams falls in Wimbledon final to Garbine Muguruza  —  LONDON (AP) — Through it all, Venus Williams kept working, kept striving, kept eyeing yet another Wimbledon championship.  —  Through it all, through the difficult days of adjusting to life with an energy-sapping autoimmune disease …

Gay Couple Brutally Attacked in German Asylum Home  —  Residents of an asylum home in Germany beat a Serbian couple almost to death earlier this week, according to a gay rights activist.  —  Gay rights campaigner Javid Nabiyev posted a video to his Facebook page claiming that two Serbian men …

‘Lie after lie after lie’: Fox News's Shepard Smith has a Cronkite moment on Russia … Between its “Fox and Friends” morning show and Sean Hannity at night, Fox News has become a haven for those who think this whole Russia thing is nonsense.  On Friday morning, Steve Doocy even declared that …