How Trump gets his fake news  —  White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump.  —  Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers.

Frelinghuysen Targets Activist in Letter to Her Employer  —  The most powerful congressman in New Jersey, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, wrote a fundraising letter in March to a board member of a local bank, warning him that a member of an activist group opposing the Republican worked at his bank.

Ann Coulter Is Worried The ‘Trump-Haters Were Right’  —  Conservative author Ann Coulter was one of the most vocal supporters of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign.  —  She wrote “In Trump We Trust” and proclaimed that she worships him like the “people of North Korea worship their Dear Leader - blind loyalty.”

If Americans Can Find North Korea on a Map, They're More Likely to Prefer Diplomacy  —  Here are guesses from 1,746 adults:  —  Where is North Korea?  —  Each represents a respondent's guess.  —  Just 36 percent got it right.  Here are the countries they selected:

Mika and Joe: Kellyanne Conway Secretly Hates Donald Trump ‘Doing This For The Money’  —  Morning Joe dropped a very revealing nugget on Monday's show, with both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski accusing White House Counsellor Kellyanne Conway of being a fraud.

Chelsea Manning to remain on active duty, receive health care after prison release  —  WASHINGTON — Pvt. Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier and convicted national security secret leaker, will remain an active-duty, unpaid soldier, eligible for health care and other benefits …

The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week's cyberattack  —  Early Friday morning the world experienced the year's latest cyberattack.  —  Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally …

MARVEL CANCELS TA-NEHISI COATES' BLACK PANTHER & THE CREW COMIC AFTER TWO ISSUES  —  Ta-Nehisi Coates, the celebrated public intellectual, faced a setback in his attempt to introduce racial diversity to the world of comic books when Marvel announced that Black Panther & The Crew …

“Motivated ignorance” is ruining our political discourse  —  Talking with a political opponent is almost as unpleasant as getting a tooth pulled.  —  If you ever thought, “You couldn't pay me to listen to Sean Hannity / Rachael Maddow / insert any television pundit you violently disagree with here” — you are not alone.

Miss USA Winner Angers Liberals With Health Care Answer  —  Kára McCullough, a 25-year-old scientist, won the crown at the Miss USA pageant on Sunday night while surprising and angering liberals with her interview answers on health care and feminism.  —  McCullough works …

Are there still public servants who will say no to the president?  —  Preet Bharara, a scholar in residence at New York University Law School, was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2009 until this March.  —  The most dramatic hearing I helped to arrange as chief counsel …

Lawrence O'Donnell's Future At MSNBC Is Unclear  —  As his contract nears its end, a renewal doesn't appear to be on the horizon for “The Last Word” host.  —  Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's “The Last Word,” has just four weeks left in his contract, and the cable network does not appear to be interested in renewing his deal.

Liberals Are An Inferno Of Flaming Crazy And We Should Pour Gasoline On The Fire  —  Pity the Democrats, to the extent you can without bursting into hysterical laughter at their agony.  America has thoroughly rejected them in every branch of the federal government plus out in the states …

Barron Trump to attend private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Maryland this fall  —  Barron Trump, the 11-year-old son of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, will attend the private St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., this fall after he moves from New York to Washington with his mother.

Trump's Madness Invites Mutiny  —  When people behave as if they have something to hide, it is often because they do.  For me, this is a basic law of human behavior.  —  That's why President Trump's baffling, outrageous, unfathomable and just plain bizarre behavior last week strengthened …

Political chaos in Washington is a return on investment for Moscow  —  Russia has yet to collect much of what it hoped for from the Trump administration, including the lifting of U.S. sanctions and recognition of its annexation of Crimea.  —  But the Kremlin has gotten a different return …

Young Black Democrats, Eager to Lead From the Left, Eye Runs in 2018  —  MACON, Ga. — In Georgia, a Democratic lawmaker planning a run for governor promises to confront President Trump and what she calls the “fascists” surrounding him.  In Maryland, a former president of the N …

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Why Are Democrats Afraid of the Election Integrity Commission?  —  They know that the voter rolls are breeding grounds for potential fraud.  —  Last Thursday, President Trump announced the formation of a bipartisan commission to investigate voter irregularities and fraud as well as charges of voter suppression in America.

Supreme Court leaves in place ruling that struck down N.C.'s voter ID law  —  The Supreme Court is leaving in place a ruling that struck down North Carolina's voter identification law as unconstitutional because it was intended to suppress the votes of African Americans.

Women Can Wear Pants on Fox News Now, But Not Much Else Has Changed  —  When Rupert Murdoch left his office on a recent Monday afternoon, the 86-year-old mogul was ambushed by a BBC reporter seeking comment on the ongoing scandals at Fox News.  “Nothing's happening at Fox News, nothing,” Murdoch declared.

Amazon is now worth two Walmarts  —  On the 20th anniversary of its IPO, Amazon's market cap stands at $459 billion.  Walmart's?  $228 billion.  —  It took Amazon 18 years as a public company to catch Walmart in market value.  It took less than another two years for Amazon to be worth twice as much.

US Support for Gay Marriage Edges to New High  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-four percent of U.S. adults say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid.  Although not meaningfully different from the 61% last year, this is the highest percentage to date and continues …