Eighth person in Trump Tower meeting is identified  —  An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged …

Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill  —  President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.

Steve Bannon Reportedly Attacked Paul Ryan As ‘A Limp-D**k Motherf**ker’  —  What?  —  Steve Bannon reportedly called House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “a limp-dick motherf**ker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” referring to the think tank whose fiscal conservative policies the representative espouses.

House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill  —  House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …

Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal  —  At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance.  —  Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine.  Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …

Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular  —  Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight  —  Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House  —  For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.

America's Most and Least Popular Governors — July 2017  —  Never miss the latest political data and news from Morning Consult.  Subscribe to Morning Consult's Washington email brief here.  —  Familiar faces remain affixed the top and bottom of the new Morning Consult Governor Approval Rankings …

Fox News' Sean Hannity calls colleague Shep Smith ‘so anti-Trump’  —  Is the chief news anchor at Fox News anti-Trump?  Sean Hannity thinks so.  —  Speaking on his radio show Monday afternoon with White House official Sebastian Gorka, Hannity said Shepard Smith was “a friend,” but someone who was no fan of President Donald Trump.

Is the President Fit?  —  Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart.  He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).

17-year-old Spokane girl pulls gun on home intruder on the run from Spokane County deputies  —  A 17-year-old north Spokane County girl protected herself and her home with her dad's gun when a suspected car thief on the run from Spokane County deputies came into her house Monday morning.

New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort  —  Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena  —  New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …

Exclusive: CNN witnesses US Navy's drone-killing laser  —  Watch the US Navy's laser weapon in action  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)In the sometimes hostile waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first — in fact, the world's first — active laser weapon.