Michael Cohen says family and country, not President Trump, is his ‘first loyalty’  —  Michael Cohen — President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney and a former executive vice president at the Trump Organization — has always insisted he would remain loyal to the president.

Exclusive: A leaked Trump bill to blow up the WTO  —  Axios has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration bill — ordered by the president himself — that would declare America's abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.  —  Why it matters: The draft legislation is stunning.

Leftist Wins Mexico Presidency in Landslide With Mandate to Reshape Nation  —  MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory …

A bad week for Democrats gives rise to a big problem: Outrage could become an obstacle in midterms  —  Growing liberal agitation over a pivotal Supreme Court retirement and a simmering crisis about immigrant child separation have left Democratic leaders scrambling to keep the political outrage …

Ex co-worker no fan of Democrat darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is being hailed as the new face of the Democratic party after vanquishing Queens party boss Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary, but one former co-worker isn't jumping on her bandwagon.

Trump's ‘Purple’ Family Values  —  In the months leading up to Donald Trump's election, I noticed a divide in how my acquaintances spoke about his family values — or lack thereof.  —  People I knew from college or had met in New York expressed distaste for Mr. Trump's behavior.

In Denmark, Harsh New Laws for Immigrant ‘Ghettos’  —  COPENHAGEN — When Rokhaia Naassan gives birth in the coming days, she and her baby boy will enter a new category in the eyes of Danish law.  Because she lives in a low-income immigrant neighborhood described by the government as a …

North Korea Expands Key Missile-Manufacturing Plant  —  New satellite imagery indicates Pyongyang is pushing ahead with weapons programs even as it pursues dialogue with Washington  —  SEOUL—North Korea is completing a major expansion of a key missile-manufacturing plant …

Rubin: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Should Be Harassed Publicly As a ‘Life Sentence’  —  On Sunday's AM Joy, MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that Sarah Huckabee Sanders deserves a “life sentence” of being harassed publicly as she asserted that the White House press secretary …

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters … The gathering at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Ala., was by no means the largest of Saturday's nationwide protests against President Trump's “zero tolerance” border policies, though it was memorable for other reasons.

I never said that!  High-tech deception of ‘deepfake’ videos  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hey, did my congressman really say that?  Is that really President Donald Trump on that video, or am I being duped?  —  New technology on the internet lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.

‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans  —  The check arrived out of the blue, issued in his name for $1,200, a mailing from a consumer finance company.  Stephen Huggins eyed it carefully.  —  A loan, it said.

FBI arrests man it says was plotting July 4 attack in downtown Cleveland  —  The FBI in Cleveland has arrested a 48-year-old man it says was planning a July 4 attack in the city's downtown, authorities said.  —  The man — who lived in Maple Heights, a southeastern suburb of Cleveland …

Trade Fight Threatens Farm Belt Businesses  —  Many farmers, who depend on shipments overseas for one-fifth of the goods they produce, say they are anxious  —  The U.S. Farm Belt helped deliver Donald Trump to the White House, drawn to his promises to revive rural America and deregulate industry.

How Donald Trump could speed up Robert Mueller's Russia investigation: Talk to him.  —  Executive privilege claim is more political theater than legal firewall as Donald Trump tries to avoid a Robert Mueller interview on Russia.  It's likely to fail.  —  CONNECT

Top GOP Fundraiser to Stop Hush Payments Over Affair  —  Elliott Broidy says ex-model's lawyer breached $1.6 million deal that was arranged by Michael Cohen  —  A top Republican fundraiser will stop making payments to a former mistress who signed a hush-money agreement that was negotiated …

Holy smoke: Jesus used cannabis oil to perform ‘miracles’  —  JESUS used cannabis and was an early champion of its medicinal properties, a growing consensus of experts agree.  —  And acceptance of this theory could help promote the controversial drug's use in treating a range of illnesses.

The Left Is Slipping into Terminal Irrelevance  —  Well, last week was quite a week.  For one side, a week of winning.  For the other, a week of wailing.  —  It will be no secret to regular readers that I am in the former camp.  I think it is a good thing that so-called “public-sector unions” …

Rupert Murdoch: The media mogul says goodbye to much of the company he built  —  It all started with a few glasses of wine and two media titans talking about how hard life is.  —  Rupert Murdoch, the 87-year-old founder and co-executive chairman of 21st Century Fox and News Corp., and Bob Iger …