President Donald Trump is actively discussing major changes in the White House, including having lawyers vet his tweets and shaking up his top staff, as he grapples with the fallout from probes into his campaign's dealings with Russia, according to several senior administration officials and outside advisers. Other revisions on the table include adding a roster of outside lawyers to help deal with the legal ramifications of the Russia investigation, officials and allies said.

New revelations have surfaced that the Obama administration abused intelligence during the election by launching a massive domestic-spy campaign that included snooping on Trump officials. The irony is mind-boggling: Targeting political opposition is long a technique of police states like Russia, which Team Obama has loudly condemned for allegedly using its own intelligence agencies to hack into our election.

Tammany Hall's fabled auditorium may be slated for demolition but Tammany-style patronage, nepotism and conflicts of interest live on in Rep. Joe Crowley's Queens Democratic organization. Whether it's his own campaign coffers or estates supervised by a Surrogate's Court beholden to the Queens machine, Crowley's kin and cronies manage to cash in.

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House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi fielded questions Thursday about President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East, and if it was successful. "I was in uh, like four countries five countries, whatever if anyone said anything to methey would bring up president Trump, and I would say: you know what? That is not why we are here.

Washington, UNITED STATES: US Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican from California, testifies on the business perspectives of comprehensive immigration reform during a hearing by the US House Judiciary committee's subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, 06 June 2007. A US Senate bill granting a path to citizenship for around 12 million illegal immigrants narrowly survived a key test Wednesday with the defeat of amendment which could have killed it.

Merkel pushes back against renewed Trump criticism of surplus - Chancellor Angela Merkel pushed back on Friday against renewed criticism of Germany's trade surplus from U.S. President Donald Trump, who told EU officials Germany was "very bad" on trade and suggested it was selling too many cars in the United States. The day's must-read political news and opinion pieces are scattered across hundreds of news outlets and blogs, too many for any one person to read.

Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret communications channel with Kremlin - Jared Kushner and Russia's ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin

Any starfish not hearty enough to survive until the tide rolls back in must die for the greater good of the starfish gene pool.

Montana Democrat Rob Quist's loss to Greg Gianforte in a special House election Thursday exemplifies the party's challenge in deeply Republican states. But Democrats have one more opportunity to score a big win this year-in Georgia, where voting begins next week.

The de Blasio administration, an administration plagued with corruption and poor policy , can now add one more item to their laundry list: child porn. Jacob Schwartz, 29, was a de Blasio administration staffer and a rising young Democratic figure before revelations came out about his obsession with child porn.

Brandon J. Whisenant, Jr.'s body was found Wednesday by a random individual. The police are attempting to determine if Whisenant's death was a "homicide, suicide, or something else."

President Donald Trump returns from a nine-day foreign trip on Sunday facing decisions about how to combat a federal investigation into Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election and how to secure legislative approval of his health-care and tax agendas. He is also considering a reshuffling of his top staff , a process he has been talking about privately since almost the start of his administration.

Hillary Clinton jumped into the Washington policy debate Friday, calling President Donald Trump's budget proposal cruel and making clear she had no plans to stay out of the political fray following her election loss last year.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's fiancA e will resign from her temporary role as CEO of the film financing company he founded, leaving when he divests his interest in the company by mid-June, the Treasury Department said this week in response to concerns from Senate Democrats. Louise Linton was named interim CEO of Ratpac-Dune Entertainment Holdings "in an uncompensated capacity" when Mr. Mnuchin stepped down as chairman before his confirmation, Treasury said in a Tuesday letter to Sen. Ron Wyden that was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Republicans won a hotly contested U.S. House race in Montana on Thursday, holding on to a seat despite the GOP candidate facing an 11th-hour charge of assaulting a reporter . Greg Gianforte, a tech entrepreneur and political novice, was declared the winner over Democrat Rob Quist by the Associated Press.

Texas teachers give 'most likely to become a terrorist' award to 13-year-old - Seventh-grader Lizeth Villanueva has been in her school's academic honors program for two years. She gets good grades and has never been a discipline problem.

The GOP inherits what Trump has wrought - The darker forces that propelled President Trump's rise are beginning to frame and define the rest of the Republican Party. - When GOP House candidate Greg Gianforte assaulted a reporter who had attempted to ask him a question Wednesday night in Montana

Trump's Allies, Convicted of High Crimes Without a Trial - Maybe Flynn committed treason. But so far no one has presented any evidence, just innuendo. That's not justice. - Heard any good Mike Flynn jokes lately? - How about this one from "Morning Joe," this week?

Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation - Investigators are focusing on a series of meetings held by Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and an influential White House adviser, as part of their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and related matters, according to people familiar with the investigation.