Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?  —  On June 14, 2016, the Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had broken into the Democratic National Committee's files and gained access to its research on Donald Trump.  A political world already numbed by Trump's astonishing rise barely took notice.

David Davis resigns as UK's Brexit secretary  —  LONDON — David Davis resigned late Sunday as the U.K.'s Brexit secretary amid ongoing tensions within Prime Minister Theresa May's Cabinet.  —  The Brexit secretary's resignation marks the biggest crisis for the British prime minister since …

Annexing Crimea was egregious.  Why does Trump disagree?  —  Inside the U.S. government there is virtual unanimity on the question of Crimea, the Ukrainian region invaded and abruptly annexed by Russia in 2014: It was an egregious act of aggression and, as the first forcible transnational seizure …

Trump Giving a Fresh Look to Thomas Hardiman for Supreme Court  —  BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — President Trump is expressing fresh interest in Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, the runner-up for last year's Supreme Court vacancy, as he pushes his decision on a replacement for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy …

A journalist's conscience leads her to reveal her source to the FBI.  Here's why.  —  It's pretty much an inviolable rule of journalism: Protect your sources.  —  Reporters have gone to jail to keep that covenant.  —  But Marcy Wheeler, who writes a well-regarded national security blog …

Mueller's ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation  —  Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller's “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort.

Electoral law has been broken - this is a fight for the soul of our democracy  —  Despite inadequate rules and toothless regulators, we must battle to safeguard our voting system  —  Seven years ago, during a night of rioting in London, a 23-year-old student popped into his local Lidl and carried out the …

U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials  —  A resolution to encourage breast-feeding was expected to be approved quickly and easily by the hundreds of government delegates who gathered this spring in Geneva for the United Nations-affiliated World Health Assembly.

Trump supporters enraged by ‘angry baby’ balloon to fly over London during president's UK trip  —  Protest called ‘cringeworthy’ and ‘juvenile’, while counter-campaign to fly a similar Sadiq Khan blimp has now reached its funding target  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Plans to fly a giant balloon …

De Blasio spends weekend at Bernie Sanders' summer home  —  Well at least it didn't involve a dead guy.  —  Mayor de Blasio, his wife, Chirlane, and their two kids spent a couple of days at Sen. Bernie Sanders' summer home on Lake Champlain in Vermont.  —  Photos show the progressive pols …

HBO Must Get Bigger and Broader, Says Its New Overseer  —  Change is coming to HBO, now that it is part of the AT&T corporate family.  That much was clear to the 150 employees who attended a recent town hall meeting at the network's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan.

Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb rocks out at the punk show of a band called Copstabber  —  Here's one way to relieve the stress of defending the president from that pesky Russia investigation: Former Trump lawyer Ty Cobb was spotted pumping his fists to the musical stylings of a punk band called Copstabber …

UK woman dies after being exposed to nerve agent novichok  —  Dawn Sturgess taken ill last weekend with a 45-year-old man, who remains in hospital  —  A woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire, died in hospital on Sunday evening.  The Met police have launched a murder investigation.

MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics.  It Encourages and Rewards Them.  —  During the 2016 primary and general election campaigns, various MSNBC hosts were openly campaigning for Hillary Clinton.  One of the network's programs featured Malcolm Nance …

Michelle Wolf's 4th of July Week Salute: ‘God Bless Abortions and God Bless America’  —  Comedian Michelle Wolf saluted abortions on the most recent episode of her Netflix show The Break, which dropped just in time for 4th of July week.  —  “Look, access to abortion is good and important,” Wolf said in the clip published on Sunday.

Priests' attendance at Trump rally causes furor  —  The attendance of four Roman Catholic priests from Montana at President Donald Trump's political rally in Great Falls Thursday has created a social media firestorm and apparently incurred the displeasure of the priests' superiors in the church.

Pompeo Sharpens Tone on North Korea: ‘The World Is a Gangster’  —  TOKYO — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shot back at North Korean officials for characterizing American diplomatic behavior as gangster-like, saying on Sunday that if that were true, then “the world is a gangster.”

‘This Week’ Transcript 7-8-18: Trump Adviser on Judicial Nominations Leonard Leo, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and President Trump's Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani  —  A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, July 1, 2018 on ABC News is below.