Top Items:


Trump rejected plans for a White House statement praising McCain — President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.
RELATED:


As a Nation Mourns McCain, Trump Is Conspicuously Absent — WASHINGTON — As leaders of both political parties and foreign dignitaries publicly mourned John McCain on Sunday, President Trump conspicuously avoided a national moment of tribute to a senator whose death seemed to be its own metaphor …
Discussion:
NewsBusters, HuffPost, Salon, NY State of Politics, CNN, Towleroad Gay News, Mediaite, CBS Denver, USA Today, Raw Story, Washington Post, New Republic and Wall Street Journal


In most of the country, McCain is being lauded as a hero. On Arizona's GOP campaign trail, he's a pariah. — It's possible to imagine a world in which Sen. John McCain's illness and death in office would send all three Republican candidates for Arizona's other U.S. Senate seat racing …
Discussion:
Business Insider Australia and Politico


Arizona Governor Faces a Tough Choice: A Senator Cut From McCain's Mold or Trump's — TWIN BRIDGES, Mont. — Senator John McCain's death this weekend laid bare the long-simmering Republican tensions over who will be appointed to fill his Arizona seat, pitting the pragmatic wing of the party …
Discussion:
Politico, AOL, ABC News, Discourse.net, The Root, New York Post and Washington Post


One moment from McCain's 2008 run made clear his character and foretold Trump's rise — It was both the most memorable moment from John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign and a glimpse into the future of the Republican Party and America's angry and divisive modern-day politics.
Discussion:
The Daily Beast

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SARAH PALIN ON JOHN MCCAIN …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo, Mother Jones, Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA

How Arizona will fill John McCain's seat — and who might fill it
Discussion:
Daily Wire and Mediaite

Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward suggests John McCain statement on ending treatment timed to hurt her campaign
Discussion:
Arizona Republic, Florida Politics, IJR, Raw Story, Slate, POLITICUSUSA, AOL, Mediaite and The Hill

John McCain's seat in Senate will stay empty until after burial, Gov. Doug Ducey says
Discussion:
Axios, POLITICUSUSA, TheBlaze and Politico


Scoop: Republicans secretly study their coming hell — Congressional Republicans are getting ready for hell. Axios has obtained a spreadsheet that's circulated through Republican circles on and off Capitol Hill — including at least one leadership office — that meticulously previews …
Discussion:
Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Common Dreams, Breitbart, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Guardian
RELATED:


Report: Worried GOPers Privately List Potential Probes If Dems Retake House — Congressional Republicans have expressed concern in recent months that they'll lose control of either chamber of Congress to Democrats. A Sunday report by Axios sheds light on just how concerned they are.
Discussion:
Breitbart


Baltimore man identified as gunman in Jacksonville shooting — Federal authorities were at a home near in Baltimore's Inner Harbor on Sunday night as part of an investigation into the Jacksonville mass shooting. (Justin Fenton / Baltimore Sun) — A Baltimore man has been identified …
Discussion:
New York Daily News, twitchy.com and Splinter
RELATED:


Pro-gamer, 24, who shot dead two and injured 11 after LOSING: Florida tournament killer ‘used a laser-sighted gun’ to carry out massacre captured on livestream audio before taking his own life — Police have identified the suspect in a mass shooting at a video game tournament in Florida …
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, more at Techmeme »


Three Dead, Including the Gunman, in Shooting at a Florida Gaming Tournament
Discussion:
Telegraph, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Daily Wire, Common Dreams, The Verge, The Right Scoop, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly

Multiple fatalities reported, including a suspect, in mass shooting at Jacksonville, Fla., video game tournament
Discussion:
WJXT-TV, NPR, Fox News, CBS Miami, New York Post, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, Breitbart, TheJournal.ie, twitchy.com, LifeZette, TheBlaze, Mashable, Refinery29, Boing Boing, Townhall, The Big Lead, Mediaite, AOL and Daily Wire

‘Multiple fatalities’ after shooting rampage at Madden tourney at Jacksonville Landing
Discussion:
BuzzFeed News, Towleroad Gay News, fox5sandiego.com and France 24


Attorney for Michael Cohen backs away from confidence that Cohen has information about Trump's knowledge on Russian efforts — An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investigators …
RELATED:

How Trump can survive the onslaught against his presidency
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit


Gather Round, Everyone. It's Time to Play ‘Find the Collusion’! — WASHINGTON — Have you heard the one about the collusion? Nobody can seem to find it. — It was about halfway through President Trump's speech to thousands of supporters last week in West Virginia — right after referring to …


Kansans drank contaminated water for years. The state didn't tell them. — The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.
Discussion:
Raw Story and Political Wire


Manafort, Cohen cases reveal weaknesses in enforcement of tax and election laws — Paul Manafort's multiyear tax fraud and Michael Cohen's ability to easily arrange campaign contributions as hush money could have been intercepted sooner based on existing tax and campaign rules.
RELATED:


Cancer eating the heart of Australian democracy — Beneath the sound and light show that passed for Australian politics last week, there is a much deeper question of what underlying forces have been at work that have brought us this low. The uncomfortable truth is since the coup of June 2010 …


Democrats fret Nelson is choking in Florida Senate race — Nelson's laid-back style and fundraising deficit have left Democrats concerned that Rick Scott will trounce him. — When Sen. Claire McCaskill began to choke in a Democratic Caucus lunch in June, Sen. Bill Nelson stepped in to perform the Heimlich maneuver.
Discussion:
ABC News


Dershowitz says New York probe, not Mueller, is ‘greatest threat’ to Trump — President Trump should be more worried about prosecutors in New York than about the ongoing Russia probe led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said Sunday.
RELATED:

The Prosecutors Who Have Declared War on the President
Discussion:
New York Times