The Latest: Manafort spokesman appears before grand jury

Jason Maloni, a president of a public relations firm, appeared Friday in front of a federal grand jury that special counsel Robert Mueller is using to investigate potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. Maloni said in a statement afterward that he was required to appear as a witness before the grand jury and that he had answered questions and complied with the obligation.

Robinson: The beauty of Medicare for all

The smartest, savviest people in Washington will tell you Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" idea is dead on arrival, a waste of time and energy. But since those same smart, savvy people told you Donald Trump didn't have a prayer of becoming president, I'd advise keeping an open mind.

Trump Drives Wedge Between Candidates and His Base

Charlie Cook : "There are now signs that President Trump is succeeding in driving a wedge in the GOP between his base and the Republican Congress, blaming his own party for a lack of progress on Capitol Hill, something that could spell trouble for incumbents like Dean Heller in Nevada, Jeff Flake in Arizona, and possibly others." "The danger is two-fold.

Anthony Weiner’s wife pleads for lenient sentencing for his sex crime conviction

Huma Abedin at the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York CIty, June 5, 2017. The wife of Anthony Weiner, a disgraced ex-congressman who sent sexual materials to a 15-year-old girl, pleaded with a federal court to show leniency when sentencing her husband, whom she is divorcing.

As Trump considers bipartisan immigration deal, some set their MAGA hats on fire

As President Donald Trump considers striking a deal with Congressional Democrats that would enshrine DACA protections into law in exchange for strengthened border security, some immigration hardliners in Trump's base fumed over what they perceived as a broken promise. Democratic minority leaders Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a joint statement Wednesday night that they agreed in principle to a deal with Trump that would enshrine DACA protections into law.

Democrats demand answers from Betsy DeVos on student loan decision

Two weeks after the Department of Education abruptly cut off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from student loan data, several congressional Democrats are asking Secretary Betsy DeVos to explain what happened. A total of 39 senators and representatives wrote to DeVos on Thursday asking for an explanation of the decision, and who the agency may have worked with before reaching it.

Hillary Happened

So someone has ghost-written another Hillary Clinton memoir. My biggest question when I picked it up was: Did Hillary stiff the writer out of the final payment as she did Barbara Feinman , real author of It Takes a Village ? You don't have to read any further than the cover of the book to answer the question posed by its title: What Happened : Hillary Clinton.

Trump, in new dig, mocks North Korea leader as ‘Rocket Man’

President Donald Trump on Sunday mocked the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea as "Rocket Man" while White House advisers said the isolated nation would face destruction unless it shelves its weapons programs and bellicose threats. Trump's chief diplomat held out hope the North would return to the bargaining table, though the president's envoy to the United Nations said the Security Council had "pretty much exhausted" all its options.

Equifax Could Have Fixed the Software Flaw That Led to Massive Data Theft

Credit agency Equifax traced the theft of sensitive information about 143 million Americans to a software flaw that could have been fixed well before the burglary occurred, further undermining its credibility as the guardian of personal data that can easily be used for identity theft. Equifax identified a weakness in an open-source software package called Apache Struts as the technological crack that allowed hackers to heist Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and full legal names from a massive database maintained primarily for lenders.

Single Payer …

How much government should be involved in the lives of Americans is an ongoing and evolving debate, as "progressives" such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., seem to believe that there is basically nothing that big brother shouldn't provide for its citizens. The left has completely lost the idea of personal responsibility, and its definition of safety-net programs has expanded to a list of entitlements that grows unchecked as the years go by.