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.

Lewandowski: The President Is Going To Close The Deal On O'care Repeal Today  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign manager thinks the President will probably “close the deal today” on an Obamacare repeal bill because Trump is “a great dealmaker.”  —  Appearing on “Fox and Friends” …

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.

The President's Base vs. the Republican Party  —  Trump voters care more about having a leader who understands them than about quick policy wins.  —  The GOP's inability to scrap ObamaCare this week means, among other things, that President Trump will end his first six months in office without a major legislative accomplishment.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Poland may be stripped of EU voting rights over judicial independence  —  Rightwing government's planned reforms for legal system could prompt triggering of article 7 for the first time … The EU is on the brink of taking the nuclear option of stripping Poland of its voting rights in Brussels …

Arizona Senate candidate under attack for being Muslim  —  Laurie Roberts: Responses to Deedra Abboud's Facebook posts have ranged from disturbing to just plain scary.  —  CONNECT  —  She's the other challenger to Sen. Jeff Flake.  —  A native of Little Rock, Ark. A Phoenix attorney and civil rights activist.

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 …