Trump “loved” Scaramucci's quotes — but he hates being upstaged  —  Top Republicans tell us that yesterday may have been an inflection point in the West Wing meltdown — that if behavior like this continues, apparently sanctioned by the President, people will finally leave.

STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON VOTING “NO” ON “SKINNY REPEAL”  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on voting “no” on the so-called “skinny repeal” of Obamacare:  —  “From the beginning, I have believed that Obamacare …

Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag  —  Vladimir Putin's former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC on the eve of a planned meeting with the U.S. Justice Department, according to two FBI agents whose assertions cast new doubts on the US government's official explanation of his death.

Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor  —  Half his tweets show utter weakness.  They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn.  —  The president's primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive.  It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider.

Couple jump to their deaths because they 'can't afford' health care  —  A couple jumped to their death in Murray Hill early Friday.  —  Seth Gottfried  —  Manhattan parents struggling to pay their doctor's bills jumped to their deaths early Friday - leaving double suicide notes pleading …

Why I'm running for president  —  John Delaney, a Democrat, represents Maryland's 6th Congressional District in the House.  —  The American people are far greater than the sum of our political parties.  It is time for us to rise above our broken politics and renew the spirit that enabled us to achieve the seemingly impossible.

‘Our beautiful boy has gone’: Little Charlie Gard's parents announce that their brave warrior whose plight touched the world has finally died after battling devastating genetic illness he fought for so long  — Charlie's parents had fought a lengthy legal battle to take their severely ill baby son to the US for treatment

Sally Yates: Protect the Justice Department From President Trump  —  The spectacle of President Trump's now daily efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country.  But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship …

Mark Meadows: New healthcare bill is coming ‘that can get to 51’  —  Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman.

Choire Sicha wins Times Styles Section Bake-Off  —  After a prolonged search, the former Gawker and Awl editor ascends.  —  Choire Sicha will be the next editor of The New York Times Styles section, multiple sources familiar with the matter confirmed to Vanity Fair.

Russia probe could reveal Trump's closest-held secrets  —  Since Election Day, President Trump's businesses have sold at least 30 luxury condos and oceanfront lots for about $33 million.  That includes millions of dollars in properties to secretive shell companies, which can hide the identities …

Who Paid for the ‘Trump Dossier’?  —  Democrats don't want you to find out—and that ought to be a scandal of its own.  —  It has been 10 days since Democrats received the glorious news that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley would require Donald Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort to explain …

Al Gore's Climate Sequel Misses a Few Inconvenient Facts  —  Eleven years after his first climate-change film, he's still trying to scare you into saving the world.  —  They say the sequel is always worse than the original, but Al Gore's first film set the bar pretty low.

Russia Seizes 2 U.S. Properties and Orders Embassy to Cut Staff  —  MOSCOW — Russia seized two American diplomatic properties on Friday and ordered the United States Embassy in Moscow to reduce its staff by September, in the Kremlin's first retaliatory steps against proposed new American sanctions.