The Danger of President Pence  —  Trump's critics yearn for his exit.  But Mike Pence, the corporate right's inside man, poses his own risks.  —  On September 14th, the right-wing pundit Ann Coulter, who last year published a book titled “In Trump We Trust,” expressed what a growing number of Americans …

You Need To Read This  —  The following is a rush transcript of President Trump's comments a few moments ago on Obamacare.  There may be small textual errors.  But it will give you a broad sense of what he said.  It's important to read.  —  Health care is moving along.

Ex-DEA agent: Opioid crisis fueled by drug industry and Congress  —  Whistleblower Joe Rannazzisi says drug distributors pumped opioids into U.S. communities — knowing that people were dying — and says industry lobbyists and Congress derailed the DEA's efforts to stop it

Trump Falsely Claims Obama Didn't Contact Families of Fallen Soldiers  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump falsely asserted on Monday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, and other presidents did not contact the families of American troops killed in duty, drawing a swift, angry rebuke from several of Mr. Obama's former aides.

‘Today’ editor fired over Lawrence O'Donnell meltdown leak … NBC has tracked down and fired the staffer who leaked the infamous — and wildly entertaining — tape of Lawrence O'Donnell's meltdown during which he swore at his crew because of “insanity in my earpiece.”

Here's the Memo the Kremlin-Linked Lawyer Took to the Meeting With Donald Trump Jr.  —  No dirt on Clinton, a passing mention of adoptions, and a lot on Bill Browder and the Magnitsky Act.  —  Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya arrived at a June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. armed …

Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist  —  Daphne Caruana Galizia, a blogger whose investigations focused on corruption, was described as a ‘one-woman WikiLeaks’  —  The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.

Trump gives his own performance a Trump-sized endorsement  —  The president called an impromptu Rose Garden press conference on Monday to sell reporters and the public on his job performance.  —  Friends say President Donald Trump has grown frustrated that his greatness is not widely understood …

Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship.  Now she's running for Congress.  —  WASHINGTON  —  Florida has a U.S. senator who once flew aboard the Space Shuttle.  —  A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she's been aboard a spaceship too.

The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Billions  —  Dressed in a blue suit and red tie, Donald Trump's 79-year-old pick for Secretary of Commerce sat before a panel of senators for nearly four hours in January, deflecting dozens of questions with relative ease.

Bowe Bergdahl pleads guilty to desertion, faces up to life in prison  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Fort Bragg, North Carolina (CNN)US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could spend the rest of his life behind bars after he pleaded guilty Monday to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran's health issues raise questions  —  Sen. Thad Cochran's extended absence from Congress has brought renewed questions as to whether the Mississippi Republican and Appropriations chairman is healthy enough to continue to serve.

Inside the ‘adult day-care center’: How aides try to control and coerce Trump  —  President Trump listens as officials heap praise on him at a Cabinet meeting June 12.  From left, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

Efforts to pry loose Trump tax returns hit a wall  —  LOS ANGELES — Efforts to pry loose President Donald Trump's tax returns at the state level have hit a wall, stalling in statehouses across the country including in California, a hotbed of anti-Trump resistance.

Stephen Sondheim, Theater's Greatest Lyricist  —  Lin-Manuel Miranda speaks to the man who has consistently remade the American musical over his 60-year career — and who is trying to surprise us one more time.  —  Sondheim: I hope you don't mind doing this upstairs, I'm feeling a bit under the weather.

Kushner Plan for Fifth Avenue Tower Is Being Blocked by Partner  —  Vornado wants modest renovation and to rent out offices  —  The building has been losing money since it was bought in 2007  —  An ambitious plan by Jared Kushner's family to recast its indebted Fifth Avenue office building …

‘I was running downstairs in heels with a cup of coffee and fell backwards!’:  Hillary Clinton appears on British TV show to promote her book hobbling on crutches and wearing a protective boot after BREAKING her toe  —  Hillary Clinton hobbled away from filming a British TV show interview …

White House brushes off House investigators over aides' use of personal email  —  The White House brushed off a bipartisan request from House investigators for details of senior administration officials' use of private email and encrypted messaging apps for government work …

Legal marijuana is saving lives in Colorado, study finds  —  Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a “reversal” of opiate overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health.  —  “After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use …

Roger Goodell Killed the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg  —  Y.A. Tittle died last week.  A Hall of Fame quarterback for the New York Giants, he is best known for the taking a knee on a football field.  Actually, it was two knees.  —  In September 1964, the Giants were facing the Pittsburgh Steelers at old Pitt Stadium.

Hill Russia investigators probe GOP operative who sought Clinton emails  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)House and Senate investigators are turning their attention to a Republican operative's hunt for Hillary Clinton's private emails from Russian hackers — and his possible connections to senior members of the Trump campaign.

How Carrie Fisher stuck up for friend who was sexually assaulted  —  Carrie Fisher's longtime friend Heather Ross says the late “Star Wars” actress stuck up for her when she was sexually assaulted by an Oscar-winning producer.  —  “Carrie sent me a message online and she said …