Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials  —  Former President Obama warned President Donald Trump against hiring Mike Flynn as his national security adviser, three former Obama administration officials tell NBC News.  —  The warning, which has not been previously reported …

E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency's regulatory reach …

Less Than A Third Of The Public Supports The GOP's New Health Care Bill  —  But Trump voters are considerably more supportive of this bill than the last version.  —  Less than a third of the public favors the new Republican health care bill just passed by the House of Representatives, a HuffPost/YouGov survey finds.

Keith Olbermann Was Once Cable News's Liberal Standard-Bearer.  Now He's Missing Its Boom Times.  —  Keith Olbermann doesn't look much like a warrior.  His gray hair is giving way to white, his midsection threatens the buttons of his sport coats and he walks gingerly, with a gnarly limp from an aging knee.

Why We Must Support Human Rights  —  Washington, D.C. — SOME years ago, I heard Natan Sharansky, the human rights icon, recount how he and his fellow refuseniks in the Soviet Union took renewed courage from statements made on their behalf by President Ronald Reagan.

Steve Bannon's Former Hollywood Partner Breaks Silence: “He's Not a Racist” (Q&A)  —  The Firm founder Jeff Kwatinetz, a passionate liberal who was in business with Bannon for two years, says the White House chief counsel has “great character.”  —  President Donald Trump's controversial …

35 of 37 economists said Trump was wrong.  The other two misread the question.  —  President Trump's administration says his tax cut will pay for itself.  It turns out it's really hard to find an economist who agrees.  —  The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business regularly polls economists on controversial questions.

A Hidden Hand in the Trump-Russia Drama Owns a Ramen Shop.  No, Seriously. … One of the better-connected, more knowledgeable people on the ties between the Kremlin and Trump Tower—other than the investigators currently working full-time on the topic—is a ramen shop owner named Jeff Jetton.

Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are fake populists: Sen. Sherrod Brown  —  True populism unites.  A true populist tells people the truth.  Our president divides with falsehoods.  —  CONNECT  —  Donald Trump is a populist.  So are Marine Le Pen and Steven Bannon.  —  Really?

Republicans Party Like It's 1984  —  There have been many bad laws in U.S. history.  Some bills were poorly conceived; some were cruel and unjust; some were sold on false pretenses.  Some were all of the above.  —  But has there ever been anything like Trumpcare, the health legislation Republicans rammed through the House last week?

George Will joins MSNBC  —  Washington Post columnist George Will has joined MSNBC and NBC News as a contributor.  —  Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was most recently a contributor at Fox News, though he became a free agent in January when Fox declined to renew his contract.

Georgia Republican enraged at court order making it easier for people to vote  —  Karen Handel said it should “boil your blood” that registration is temporarily reopened in Georgia's sixth district.  —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered Georgia to reopen voter registration before the June run-off …

Drug lobbyist arrested after drunken fracas  —  A Washington lobbyist for a major drug company was arrested at a Republican political event in Florida late Saturday after he got in an altercation with a man, screaming obscenities and making sexual advances on the person's wife, according to a police report.

We Could Have Been Canada  —  Was the American Revolution such a good idea?  —  And what if it was a mistake from the start?  The Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the creation of the United States of America—what if all this was a terrible idea, and what if the injustices …

How a Gawker-Affiliated Website Made ESPN Politically Correct  —  Deadspin ended the sports network's frat-boy culture, but also infused it with a deadening ideology.

EXCLUSIVE - Tiffany Trump goes to Washington: First Daughter will attend law school at Georgetown, joining her dad Donald and big sister Ivanka in the nation's capital  — Tiffany Trump will be attending law school at Georgetown University in the fall a spokesperson for the family revealed to DailyMail.com

Will Emmanuel Macron save the European Union?  —  The Western world breathed a sigh of relief on Sunday, as the centrist Emmanuel Macron decisively defeated the extreme-right Marine Le Pen to take the presidency of France.  It's not totally over, however: There are legislative elections next month …

For Fussy Liberals, It's Always Apocalypse Right Now  —  Liberals are upset - they're always upset - that the evil GOP of Hate has condemned America to a return to a marginally more progressive version of the nightmarish hellscape that was our country before Obamacare passed on March 21, 2010.

In angry letter, Page discloses ‘brief interactions’ with Russian official  — The former Trump campaign adviser attacked the Senate intelligence committee's “bitter” investigation  —  Washington (CNN)Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page told Senate investigators that he had …

Eric Trump denies report that Russia funded dad's golf courses  —  SEE ALSO  —  Eric Trump on Sunday condemned a report that claimed his father got funding for his golf courses from the Russians.  —  “It's a recollection from some guy three years ago through a third person,” …

‘Pepe the Frog’ creator kills off cartoon that became alt-right meme  —  The creator of the “Pepe The Frog” character has laid his popular Internet meme to rest.  —  In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of his famous comic, “Pepe The Frog,” in a casket at his funeral.

It sure sounds like John Kasich might primary President Trump in 2020  —  When it comes to challenging President Trump in a 2020 primary, John Kasich seems to have moved from “no” to “unlikely” to “who knows what'll happen?”  —  During a March appearance on CNN's “State of the Union,” …

The Billionaire and the Flood: How a Tragedy Transformed the Greenbrier Resort and the Blue-Collar Town that Depended on It  —  One year ago this June, a historic flood lashed West Virginia, killing 23 people and crumpling homes.  It also exposed the complicated relationship between a resort …

Coming soon: The fiscal cliff to end all fiscal cliffs  —  If President Donald Trump and the Republican Congress think they've been under pressure to produce lately, just wait a few months.  —  Over the next several months, Republicans will have to figure out how to cut deals with Democrats …

A 2016 Review: There's Reason to Be Skeptical of a Comey Effect  —  Hillary Clinton's national polling lead in the months before the election if the race was judged based on ...  On Friday, Oct. 28, James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, sent a letter to Congress about new evidence in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.