Donald Trump is not well  —  President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.  America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.

GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.

Trump overrules cabinet, plots global trade war  —  With the political world distracted by President Trump's media wars, one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, administration sources tell Axios.

Trump calls for “immediately” repealing ACA if Senate deal fails  —  Early Friday morning President Trump tweeted: “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!”  —  Why this tweet is extraordinary …

Here's The Audio Of Donald Trump's Private RNC Fundraiser At His Own Hotel  —  President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election campaign's financing efforts with a major fundraiser at his own Washington hotel Wednesday night, excluding media but charging attendees $35,000 each.

Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”

The Problem With Participatory Democracy Is the Participants  —  At backyard barbecues this holiday weekend, liberals will gab with one another about how much time they're spending on politics.  More than ever, they are watching cable news, and refreshing Twitter and Facebook feeds.

NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars … A report on Alex Jones' InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.  —  “There are no humans on Mars.  There are active rovers on Mars.

House passes Kate's Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown  —  House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.  —  One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate's Law …

Background Briefing on the Implementation of Executive Order 13780 Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States  —  Special Briefing  —  Senior Administration Officials  —  Via Teleconference Washington, DC  —  MODERATOR: Hi.

It was 129 degrees in Iran Thursday, which is one of the Earth's hottest temperatures ever recorded  —  The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded.  —  It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured temperatures …

White House Panel Asks States For Their Voter Rolls  —  A letter from Kris Kobach, the vice chairman of a new White House commission looking into voter fraud and other irregularities, is drawing firing from some state election officials.  The letter was sent Wednesday to all 50 states …

GOP senators call for McConnell to shorten August recess  —  The GOP's long-stalled agenda is boiling over.  —  A group of 10 senators is sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday morning asking for the GOP leader to shorten the August recess …

Family's amateur sting operation takes down man targeting young girl  —  DEL CITY, OK (KSWO)- A man accused of targeting a young girl for sex was taken down by an amateur sting operation put together by a Del City family.  —  The father of a 15-year-old girl found out about the relationship …

Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States  —  1Global Policy Laboratory, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.  —  2National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA.  —  3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences …

Doctors refuse to let Charlie Gard's parents take him home  —  Charlie Gard's bereft parents have blasted his ‘heartless’ doctors who have refused to let him come home to die, MailOnline can reveal today.  —  Connie Yates and Chris Gard have been told by Great Ormond Street their son's life support …

NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard  —  Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.

HOW SHE LOST: Study Reveals Near Half of Clinton's ‘Deplorables’ Once Supported Her  —  It wasn't Russia.  It wasn't even meme magic.  It was in fact the “deplorables” who once supported Hillary Clinton that propelled President Trump into the White House.  —  This is one of the major takeaways …