Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas  —  President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans …

Bannon Pushed Trump to Use Health Care Vote to Write Up “Enemies List”  —  Following the embarrassing collapse of Trumpcare, everyone is asking the same question, What went wrong?  And while there are several different angles to answer the question, there seems to be one constant …

Senate Committee to Question Jared Kushner Over Meetings With Russians  —  Senate investigators plan to question Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and a close adviser, as part of their broad inquiry into ties between Trump associates and Russian officials or others linked to the Kremlin …

Back home, Freedom Caucus' Meadows hailed as anti-Obamacare hero  —  HIGHLANDS, N.C. — House insurgent Mark Meadows embarrassed the White House and forced his fellow Republicans to turn tail on a seven-year pledge to tear down Obamacare.  —  His constituents are throwing him a party.

Chairman and partisan: The dual roles of Devin Nunes raise questions about House investigation  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was on his way to an event in Washington late Tuesday when the evening's plans abruptly changed.  After taking a brief phone call, Rep. Devin Nunes …

Dealt a Defeat, Republicans Set Their Sights on Major Tax Cuts  —  WASHINGTON — Picking themselves up after the bruising collapse of their health care plan, President Trump and Republicans in Congress will start this week on a legislative obstacle course that will be even more arduous …

The Weekly Standard's Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: ‘Facts, Logic and Reason’  —  When Breitbart News ran a blaring headline last week suggesting that new evidence “vindicates” President Trump's still-baseless claims that former President Barack Obama put him and his team under surveillance ...

Report: Ryan pleaded on one knee for ObamaCare repeal vote  —  The Washington Post detailed the House GOP's fight over the ObamaCare repeal and replacement plan this week, rounding up the dramatic details of leadership's fight to win support for the measure.  —  At one point, the paper said, House Speaker Paul Ryan

Trump administration weighs deeper involvement in Yemen war  —  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has asked the White House to lift Obama-era restrictions on U.S. military support for Persian Gulf states engaged in a protracted civil war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to senior Trump administration officials.

Nearly 1 out of every 3 days he has been president, Trump has visited a Trump property  —  For the eighth weekend in a row, President Trump has visited a property that bears his name.  He has done so on 21 of the 66 days he has been in office, meaning that for the equivalent of three full weeks …

Massive opposition protests challenge Putin  —  Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, arrested during Sunday's large demonstration, seeks to tap into frustration with corruption.  —  MOSCOW — Russian police detained Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin critic who wants to take on Vladimir Putin …

Mary Katharine Ham Is Not Here to Entertain You  —  The right-wing pundit doesn't much care about shock value or tossing red meat to the base—yet somehow she's more popular than ever.  How she managed to scale the ranks of Washington media while grieving the death of her liberal-activist husband.

Reporter and photographers say they were assaulted by Trump supporters at Huntington Beach rally  —  An OC Weekly reporter and two photographers said Sunday that they were physically assaulted by pro-Trump demonstrators at a Make America Great Again rally in Huntington Beach and are seeking …

The Art of the Possible in an Age of Recrimination  —  As Otto von Bismarck several times had occasion to observe, “Politics is the art of the possible.”  On at least one occasion he added, “the attainable—the art of the next best.”  —  Since, as Henry Kissinger once observed in a long essay on Bismarck …