McCain's Surgery May Be More Serious Than Thought, Experts Say  —  The condition for which Senator John McCain had surgery on Friday may be more serious than initial descriptions have implied, and it may delay his return to Washington by at least a week or two, medical experts said on Sunday.

U.S. Secret Service rejects suggestion it vetted Trump son's meeting  —  4 MIN READ  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president's son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.

Republicans Aren't Team Players  —  GOP Senators who defect from ObamaCare repeal will hurt themselves, their party and the country.  —  Politics is a team sport, and Republicans are playing it poorly.  They have one more chance in the Senate to repeal and replace ObamaCare—possibly their last hope for a victory.

Trump is killing the Republican Party  —  I did not leave the Republican Party.  The Republican Party left its senses.  The political movement that once stood athwart history resisting bloated government and military adventurism has been reduced to an amalgam of talk-radio resentments.

What campaign wouldn't seek motherlode of Clinton emails?  —  The public learned on March 10, 2015 that Hillary Clinton had more than 60,000 emails on her private email system, and that she had turned over “about half” of them to the State Department and destroyed the rest, which she said were …

Public to Trump: Lay off the Twitter (POLL)  —  Americans are highly disapproving of President Donald Trump in personal terms, with his tweeting habit a major irritant: Seventy percent say he's acted in an unpresidential manner since taking office, 68 percent don't see him as a positive role model …

Martin Landau, Oscar Winner for ‘Ed Wood,’ Dies at 89  —  His résumé includes ‘Mission: Impossible,’ ‘Tucker: The Man and His Dream’ and ‘North by Northwest.’ It does not, however, include ‘Star Trek.’  —  Martin Landau, the all-purpose actor who showcased his versatility …

Americans Feel Good About the Economy, Not So Good About Trump  —  Just 40 percent approve of president's performance in office  —  Narrow majority expect stock market to be higher by year's end  —  Almost six months into Donald Trump's presidency, Americans are feeling fairly optimistic about their jobs …

UAE orchestrated hacking of Qatari government sites, sparking regional upheaval, according to U.S. intelligence officials  —  The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir …

How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left's Favorite Insult of Liberals  —  A generation ago, “neoliberalism” was the chosen label of a handful of moderately liberal opinion journalists, centered around Charles Peters, then-editor of the Washington Monthly.  Some neoliberals started calling traditional liberals “paleoliberals.”

Don't Compare Trump to Nixon.  It's Unfair to Nixon.  —  Are we watching Watergate the rerun?  —  Six months into Donald Trump's already embattled presidency, references to the disgraced 37th president are everywhere.  Jack Farrell's sharp biography of Richard Nixon, years in the making, is a surprise bestseller.

Foreign-born recruits, promised citizenship by the Pentagon, flee the country to avoid deportation  —  Frustrated by delayed promises from the U.S. military for citizenship, and in fear of the Islamic State if he were deported back to Iraq, Ranj Rafeeq has given up the American Dream for a Canadian one.

Trump hasn't forgiven Sessions for Russia recusal  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions' administration allies were hoping President Trump could, as he himself might say, see his way clear to letting it go.  But that's not happening.  —  Trump's initial fury about Sessions' recusal …

Break-in reported at GOP Senator's office  —  DON'T MISS A BRIEF.  SIGN UP FOR OUR DAILY EMAIL.

Carville: It would be ‘very, very difficult’ for Dems to retake Senate in 2018  —  Democratic operative James Carville is expressing doubt that his party will take back the Senate in 2018, saying Saturday that it would be “very, very difficult,” to do so.  —  “I think right now most Democrats …

Nearly 150,000 attempts to hack SC voter registration system on Election Day: report  —  Hackers tried to infiltrate South Carolina's voter registration system nearly 150,000 times on Election Day 2016, according to a South Carolina State Election Commission report that was reported on by The Wall Street Journal.