John Boehner Unchained  —  WEST CHESTER, Ohio—He swings the golf club like a right-hander, which he is, but putts as a southpaw.  Maybe it's a metaphor for a conservative politician who often turned to liberals in crunch time, but I'm too busy losing $20 on this hole to appreciate it.

Puerto Rico's utility cancels controversial $300 million contract with Montana firm hired to repair electrical grid  —  BREAKING: Puerto Rico's utility cancels the controversial $300 million contract with a Montana firm hired to repair its electrical grid.  —  The announcement …

Trump's Approval Rating Drops to Lowest Level Yet in New NBC News/WSJ Poll  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has declined to the lowest point of his presidency, and nearly half of voters want their vote in the 2018 midterms to be a message for more Democrats …

Mueller charges would shift the script for Trump  —  Trump attacks Clinton, as Mueller charges loom  — Julian Zelizer: The political impact of the first charges in Mueller investigation will be just as important as the legal issues at play  — Depending on how Trump's team handles the fallout …

2 Navy SEALs Under Suspicion in Strangling of Green Beret in Mali  —  WASHINGTON — Navy criminal authorities are investigating whether two members of the Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 strangled to death an Army Green Beret on assignment in Mali in June, military officials say.

Maryland investigating Kushner Companies over apartments  —  What you need to know about Jared Kushner  —  The Maryland attorney general is investigating one of the Kushner family's real estate businesses after media reports surfaced earlier this year about allegedly abusive debt collection practices …

Texans plan pregame protest of Bob McNair's comments  —  Houston Texans players are planning to protest as a unit before Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks in the wake of team owner Bob McNair's controversial “inmates running the prison” comment, a league source told ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Roger Stone Says He Will Bring an ‘Antitrust Case’ Against Twitter  —  Roger Stone is in full-on cartoon villain mode since being banned by Twitter on Saturday night, vowing to sue the company while characterizing their dispute as a battle for free speech itself.

FBI Probe Of Paul Manafort Focuses On 13 “Suspicious” Wire Transfers  —  BuzzFeed News has learned of a series of wire transfers, made by companies linked to Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, that federal officials deemed suspicious.  Many of the wires went …

Bannon declares war on Singer in call with Trump  —  In a Friday night phone call, President Trump's former chief strategist and enforcer Steve Bannon told Trump he was going “off the chain” to destroy Paul Singer, a New York hedge fund billionaire who is one of the most influential donors to the Republican Party.

Kushner took unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia  —  President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner returned home Saturday from an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia — his third trip to the country this year.  —  Kushner left Washington, D.C., via commercial airline …

The Army let a convicted murderer into Bowe Bergdahl's trial.  He said ‘I got a firing squad standing by.’  —  FORT BRAGG, N.C. — An apparent security lapse enabled a convicted murderer to access Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's sentencing hearing last week where the individual made threatening remarks …

How Churches Die  —  There's a saying attributed variously to Robert Conquest or John O'Sullivan that “any institution that is not explicitly right-wing will become left-wing over time.”  A good case in point is the Episcopal Church, which was once known as “the Republican Party at prayer …

House GOP tosses conservative playbook in bid for tax reform  —  House Republicans are so desperate for a win on taxes that they're agreeing to proposals that would have caused internal party warfare just a year or two ago.  —  They're considering forgoing a big cut in the top income tax rate on the rich …

The Post's endorsements in Virginia  —  THE RESULTS of Virginia's gubernatorial primaries this spring, in which Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie each beat more extreme party challengers, looked promising for the commonwealth's voters, whose record of electing …