Russian Government Sought to Aid Trump's Candidacy, According to Email  —  WASHINGTON — Before arranging a meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the material …

Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions  —  Republicans increasingly say colleges have negative impact on U.S.  —  Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation's leading institutions - including the news media …

GOP struggles to revamp ailing Obamacare repeal bill  —  Republican leaders are frantically pushing for a vote on the Senate's ailing Obamacare repeal bill next week, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell racing to placate warring moderates and conservatives with a new draft due within days, according to senators and aides.

Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material  —  More than half of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …

One of the Biggest Reasons Republicans Stick by Trump  —  They blocked Obama's court nominees for years.  Now they're filling those seats, starting a huge shift rightward for the judiciary.  —  Although he's been thwarted so far on his legislative agenda before Congress, most notably on health care …

Federal government cancels costly, decade-long search for a new FBI headquarters  —  The federal government is canceling the search for a new FBI headquarters, according to officials familiar with the decision, putting a more than decade-long search by the bureau to move out of the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building back at square one.

California Democrats plunge into ‘civil war’  —  LOS ANGELES — Long-standing tensions between the Democratic Party's moderate and liberal wings have ignited in California, where progressive activists are redirecting their anger over Donald Trump and congressional Republicans toward Democratic leaders at home.

NRA Breaks Its Silence on Philando Castile Shooting  —  Spokeswoman Dana Loesch calls the incident “a terrible tragedy that could have been avoided.”  But by whom?  —  Yesterday the National Rifle Association broke its recent silence on the shooting of Philando Castile …

Jared Kushner Tried and Failed to Get a Half-Billion Dollar Bailout From Qatar  —  Not long before a major crisis ripped through the Middle East, pitting the United States and a bloc of Gulf countries against Qatar, Jared Kushner's real estate company had unsuccessfully sought …

Federal prosecutors step up probe of land deal pushed by wife of Bernie Sanders  —  A federal investigation into a land deal led by Jane Sanders, the wife and political adviser of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has accelerated in recent months — with prosecutors hauling off more than a dozen boxes …

Ed Perlmutter to drop out of Colorado governor's race, sources say  —  Decision coming just weeks after entry of fellow Democratic congressman Jared Polis into the race  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter plans to announce Tuesday that he will end his run for Colorado governor …

Woman Who Laughed At Jeff Sessions Could Face Jail Time This Week  —  The government argues that the jury that convicted a Code Pink protester may have believed her laugh “was a deliberate disruption” and “intentional.”  —  WASHINGTON A woman convicted after laughing during a confirmation hearing …

Young Japanese people are not having sex  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, leaving the country facing a steep population decline  —  Nearly half of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience, according to new research.

Trump's Trolls Are Waging War on America's Civil Servants  —  Alt-right bloggers are singling out government employees deemed hostile to the president's agenda.  —  On June 11, alt-right blogger Mike Cernovich published an article attacking an assistant to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster …

Exclusive — Mark Meadows Draws Line in the Sand: Next Spending Bill Must Fund President Trump's Border Wall  —  House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Breitbart News exclusively that the next government spending bill must fund President Donald Trump's promised border wall …

Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  New Jersey  —  Choice Words for “Beachgate”  —  Most think state is now worse off because of Gov. Christie  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The past few weeks have been no day at the beach for New Jersey's governor... except for that day at the beach, of course.

Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’  —  No reaction from other Tory MPs on the panel.  —  Deputy Political Editor, HuffPost UK  —  A Tory Brexiteer has described the UK leaving the EU without a deal as a “real n*****r in the woodpile” at a meeting of eurosceptics in Central London.

Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri  —  COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the fall of 2015, a grassy quadrangle at the center of the University of Missouri became known nationwide as the command center of an escalating protest.  —  Students complaining of official inaction …

F-35 Program Costs Jump to $406 Billion in New Pentagon Estimate  —  After declines, bill for Lockheed Martin fighter to rise 7%  —  Trump has publicly lobbied to get jet's contract costs down  —  The cost of the F-35 jet program, already the most expensive U.S. weapons program ever …

Lena Dunham selling the dress she wore the night Trump won  —  Lena Dunham is selling the dress she says she cried in on election night last year, when President Trump defeated Hillary Clinton  —  The Kenzo ruffle-accented printed dress is one of more than a hundred items up for grabs from the former …

Award-Winning Journalist Who Broke Story of Jewish Women Barred From Chicago ‘Dyke March’ Removed From Reporting Duties  —  An award-winning journalist who broke the story of the group of Jewish women ejected from an LGBTQ march in Chicago last month has been reassigned to non-journalistic duties …