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.

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.

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.

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” …

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 …

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 …

Trump: Voter fraud panel will find ‘full truth’  —  President Trump warned of the dangers of voter fraud Wednesday, as he kicked off the first meeting of his voter fraud commission that has so far been mired in controversy.  —  Speaking to his Commission on Election Integrity …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Watching ‘Fox & Friends,’ Trump Sees a Two-Way Mirror  —  The producers of children's television know the key to holding a distractible audience's attention: interactivity.  —  Dora the Explorer asks kids to repeat after her ("Swiper, no swiping!").  Mister Rogers broke the fourth wall to welcome them to his neighborhood.

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

Back to Work  —  How Democrats can win over Americans left behind in the new economy.  —  In the wake of Donald Trump's election, and amid the wilderness of uncertainty surrounding the presidential race in 2020, one thing is for sure: Democrats need to change the way they talk about the economy.