A Grotesque Spectacle in Jerusalem  —  On Monday, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and other leading lights of the Trumpist right gathered in Israel to celebrate the relocation of the American Embassy to Jerusalem, a gesture widely seen as a slap in the face to Palestinians who envision East Jerusalem as their future capital.

The Daily 202: Trump supporters suffer unintended consequences of his policies … THE BIG IDEA: President Trump sometimes seems impervious to the second and third order consequences of his decisions.  —  Several recent developments have highlighted the unintended — though often foreseeable …

Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project  —  Trump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE.  —  WASHINGTON - A mere 72 hours …

The Strzok-Page Texts and the Origins of the Trump-Russia Investigation  —  Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's texts shine a highly redacted light on how the Trump-Russia investigation began.  —  It was July 31, 2016.  Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened …

Not An Onion Story: Blake Farenthold Gets A New Job Lobbying Congress  —  It's only been a month since he quit his House seat amid an ethics committee probe into sexual harassment allegations.  —  WASHINGTON A month after abruptly resigning from Congress in an apparent effort to avoid …

Scoop: Inside Trump's 2020 startup  —  As President Trump's campaign aides quietly launch his reelection campaign, they're eyeing two states as possible pickups for 2020: Minnesota, where Trump came close in 2016 without even trying; and Colorado, where his hands-off approach to marijuana enforcement is a possible selling point.

$1 million mystery gift to inauguration traced to conservative legal activists  —  WASHINGTON  —  One of the largest contributions to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee in 2016 appears to have been orchestrated by a set of powerful conservative legal activists who have since …

Mueller may have a conflict — and it leads directly to a Russian oligarch  —  has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.  —  But there's one episode even Mueller's former law enforcement comrades — and independent ethicists …

Exclusive: Former for-profit college executive shaped Education Department policy that could benefit former employers: Documents  —  A senior U.S. Department of Education official hired straight out of the for-profit college sector helped dismantle regulations designed to protect student defrauded …

Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan's Denial of Reliance on Dossier  —  Former CIA Director John Brennan's insistence that the salacious and unverified Steele dossier was not part of the official Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian interference in the 2016 election is being contradicted by two top former officials.

The Untold Story of Robert Mueller's Time in Combat  —  Robert Mueller's job is to make sense of how Russia hacked the 2016 election.  But to make sense of Mueller, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.  —  ONE DAY IN the summer of 1969, a young Marine lieutenant …

‘Real’ Americans are a myth.  Don't you dare buy it. … The most offensive and corrosive idea in our politics today is that some Americans are more “real” than others.  Don't you dare buy it.  —  Republicans are cynically peddling this un-American conceit.

Allies fume over Trump's withdrawal from Iran deal but have few options to respond  —  America's three closest friends in Europe — Britain, France and Germany — are near-bursting with anger and exasperation at the United States.  In a frenzy of meetings and phone calls among them over the past week …

In leaky West Wing, not even a phone ban can stop embarrassing disclosures  —  Washington (CNN)The dustup over a White House aide's crass remark about Sen. John McCain's health has once again inflamed the White House's frustration with staffers who reveal the inner workings of the West Wing to reporters outside the building.

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980  —  The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.  —  The United States devotes a lot more of its economic resources to health care than any other nation …

‘The Great Revolt’  —  America's political experts got it wrong in 2016, not because they took too few polls but because they made the false assumption that American elections are immune to societal change.  —  The experts are, in large part, still getting things wrong …

Morning Mediawire: The paper that portrayed rejoicing in Israel  —  Las Vegas paper puts ‘elated’ editorial by owner's wife on page one on deadly day in Israel  —  After Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal was exposed in December 2015, the billionaire GOP mega-donor promised …

Bill O'Reilly in talks to return to cable news  —  Bill O'Reilly is in talks to head back to cable news in his old 8 p.m. slot, but this time at Newsmax TV, sources exclusively tell Page Six.  —  A year after O'Reilly's abrupt exit from Fox News, where he was the top-rated host in cable news …

Senate GOP chides Trump over McCain treatment  —  ‘Just out of common decency they should apologize,’ one Republican said of the White House ahead of a Trump lunch with GOP senators.  —  Senate Republicans are openly seething over the White House's treatment of John McCain …

2 parents of murdered Parkland teens run together for Broward school board  —  MIAMI — Two parents of children murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School turn their grief into political activism Tuesday as they announce they're running together for two seats on the Broward County School Board …

Bharara Said to Weigh Independent Race for N.Y. Attorney General  — He has the name recognition, resume and money to make the race  — Former prosecutor plays coy about run and says ‘Stay Tuned’  —  When a New York jury convicted ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on bribery charges last week …

Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in blockbuster ‘Superman,’ dies at 69 … Margot Kidder, a raspy-voiced actress who played ace reporter Lois Lane in the “Superman” movie phenomenon but whose career was eclipsed by her struggle with bipolar disorder, died May 13 at her home in Livingston, Mont. She was 69.

Michael Avenatti is using Trump tactics to battle Trump, a strategy that comes with risks  —  Ten weeks ago, Michael Avenatti was a California lawyer known for his successes in class-action lawsuits.  Then he sued President Trump on behalf of adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and …

Welcome to the Age of the Twink  —  There's a scene in “Call Me by Your Name” that I can't get out of my head.  (No, not that one.)  It happens near the beginning of Luca Guadagnino's gay odyssey, when Armie Hammer's character, Oliver, sweaty from volleyball, pauses to steal a drink from Elio, played by Timothée Chalamet.