GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow, Took It Back to D.C. … Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

White House dispatches former campaign aides to help revive health care push  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Senate Republican efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare were quickly sinking on Tuesday after one-too-many Republican senators voiced their opposition to the legislation being pushed by GOP leaders.

Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow  —  President Trump has decided to end the CIA's covert program to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels battling the government of Bashar al-Assad, a move long sought by Russia, according to U.S. officials.

H.R. 1628, Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017  —  CBO and JCT estimate that enacting this legislation would reduce federal deficits by $473 billion over the coming decade and increase the number of people who are uninsured by 32 million in 2026 relative to current law.

Trump can't make a health care deal because he doesn't understand health care  —  Trump is uninformed, underprepared, and unclear — and this is is the result.  —  The blame in the Senate's health care omnishambles is attaching to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and understandably so …

U.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israel  —  The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the west.  In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing t-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel.

Criticize Trump at your peril, Republican candidates.  Just ask Kim Guadagno.  —  Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  TRENTON — Already trailing badly in the polls, Republican New Jersey governor candidate Kim Guadagno has been hit with another devastating 1-2 punch …

This poll should be a warning sign for Democrats  —  History suggests the 2018 election will almost surely be a bad one for Republicans.  Midterms are generally considered a referendum on the president, and the results are almost always bad for said president.

USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says  —  The United States Postal Service violated federal law by letting employees do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic candidates while on leave from the agency, according to an Office …

Supreme Court allows Trump travel ban enforcement, but says it must allow broader exemptions for relatives  —  The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to enforce its refu­gee ban for now, but said it must allow broader exemptions to the president's travel ban for family members, including grandparents.

This Shocking Video Appears To Show Baltimore Police Planting Drugs At A Crime Scene  —  The defendant charged in the case involving the drugs shown in the video was scheduled to go to trial this week.  The case has been dropped.  —  Shocking footage from a Baltimore police officer's body …

What Congressional Republicans Really Think About Trump and Russia  —  With each new revelation in the ongoing Trump-Russia saga, the same question inevitably gets asked: Will this be the moment Republicans in Congress finally turn on the president?  —  The answer, so far, has been an emphatic …

HHS analysis finds Cruz amendment lowers premiums, boosts enrollment  —  Sen. Ted Cruz plans to unveil to Senators at a White House meeting on Wednesday an analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services showing his healthcare Consumer Freedom amendment would lower costs …

Carrier lays off first 300 employees on 6-month anniversary of Trump's presidency  —  President-elect Donald Trump gave one number on the amount of jobs that would be saved and a union president, another.  So which is it?  Nate Chute/IndyStar  —  CONNECT

Mulvaney to Insurers on Trump Plans if Health Bill Fails: 'You Probably Won't Like It That Much'  —  Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told attendees of a Bloomberg Government dinner Tuesday night that a long-term commitment from the Trump administration …

Charlie Gard is given legal permanent residence in US by Congress so ‘he can fly to the States for world class treatment’  —  Charlie Gard is being given legal and permanent residence in the US by Congress in order to allow him to fly to America for treatment.

A reporter broke White House rules by streaming live audio of an off-camera briefing  —  It was only a matter of time.  —  At every White House news briefing since June 29 — and many before, too — President Trump's spokesmen have ordered a room full of smartphone-toting journalists …

I'm a scientist.  I'm blowing the whistle on the Trump administration.  —  Joel Clement was director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Interior Department until last week.  He is now a senior adviser at the department's Office of Natural Resources Revenue.  —  I am not a member of the deep state.

The Voter Purges Are Coming  —  The Trump administration's election-integrity commission will have its first meeting on Wednesday to map out how the president will strip the right to vote from millions of Americans.  It hasn't gotten off to the strongest start: Its astonishing request …

NRA's media outlet fearmongers about Black Lives Matter committing mass violence against whites  —  GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Our race relations are strained here in American after eight years of Barack Obama, but nowhere is near as bad as it is in South Africa where white families …