NEWSMAX — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is expected to schedule a vote Tuesday to bring legislation to repeal Obamacare outright to the floor for debate in hopes of forcing Republicans to own their positions.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A team of property rights advocates, lawyers and state lawmakers has joined forces for a nationwide campaign to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — There are some 90 million members of China's Communist Party, and all of them now have been banned from having religious beliefs.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — The police knew there was a problem in the Women's Medical Society of Philadelphia, but they didn't realize just what the problem was until they got there.... (more)

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — President Donald Trump's rant against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in an interview with the New York Times, is a foolish bit of revisionist history. Sessions erred in the rashness and overbreadth of his recusal from the Russia investigation, but the president has himself to blame for the appointment of a special counsel.... (more)

BYRON YORK — The Republican president has a job approval rating around 40 percent. The GOP has an unfavorability rating around 56 percent. And Republicans trail Democrats by nine points in an average of "generic ballot" polls.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Hawaii has begun planning for a potential North Korean nuclear attack through educating the public and dusting off Cold War-era training manuals. Hawaii News Now reports that the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is urging residents of the island state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to be prepared if the rogue nation decides to attack the U.S.... (more)

GARTH KANT — The new White House communications director's very first challenge was to communicate that his own hiring had not put the West Wing into turmoil. New York financier Anthony Scaramucci appeared at the White House daily press briefing to try to put to rest widespread reports in the media that his appointment had been strenuously opposed by top presidential aides, especially Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who resigned Friday after just six months on the job.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — In another White House staff shakeup, President Trump appointed friend and New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director Friday, a move that prompted press secretary Sean Spicer to resign.... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump's decision to put Anthony Scaramucci in charge of the White House communications shop has rocked the West Wing and raised questions about how the shake-up will shape Trump's messaging machine.... (more)

WESLEY PRUDEN — A lot of snakes and scorpions live with the alligators in the swamp, and there are even more dangerous monsters there. No swamp creature is deadlier than a Washington lawyer.... (more)

THE INDEPENDENT — A High Court judge has asked people protesting about the Charlie Gard case not to upset other visitors to Great Ormond Street hospital, where the critically ill baby is on life support.... (more)

BOB UNRUH — An executive agency of the United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has issued a report recommending that seminaries include "queer theology" in their courses and that even Sunday schools teach "LGBTI beliefs."... (more)

BOB UNRUH — The left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been in the spotlight recently for its practice of designating conservative non-profits as "hate groups," has gone on defense. For adhering to a biblical perspective on homosexuality, for one thing. The Family Research Council, wrote Cohen, has a "long track record of using dehumanizing language and outright lies to portray LGBT people as sick, evil, and a danger to children and society. As stated on its website, it opposes the acceptance of homosexuality 'in the law, in the media, and in the schools.'"... (more)

BOB UNRUH — A federal judge who sent Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis to jail for refusing to violate her faith now has awarded nearly $223,000 in state taxpayer funds to American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who sued Davis.... (more)

THE LOCAL — An influential German institute has studied thousands of article published by daily newspapers during the refugee crisis. Their conclusion: journalists lost their objectivity and drove a wedge through society. As hundreds of thousands of refugees arrived in Germany in 2015 and early 2016, daily newspapers took on the role of "public educators" rather than objective critics of public policy, a team of researchers at the Otto Brenner Institute conclude, according to a report in Die Zeit this week.... (more)

NEWSMAX — Leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday that they will take steps to force fellow Republicans to vote for a straight repeal of Obamacare.... (more)

WORLDNETDAILY — It's full-steam ahead on health-care reform for President Trump, even if the U.S. Senate can't seem to get its act together. While Trump says he's disappointed in the Senate's failure to pass a health-care bill, the president added that he doesn't "think it's dead."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Trump has reached out to Sen. Mike Lee, the conservative who helped deal what appeared to be a fatal blow to the Senate healthcare bill, as part of a last ditch effort to revive the legislation.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — In unusually strong language about his predecessor, President Trump called President Obama a liar Wednesday on the thorny subject of Obamacare."Obamacare was a big lie," Mr. Trump said in a White House meeting with Republican senators seeking to craft a new health care plan.... (more)

TUCSON.COM — U.S. Sen. John McCain revealed Wednesday evening that he has a brain tumor. The announcement follows a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix last Friday, where a pathology report revealed the glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor.... (more)

JOE WILSON — In a gesture of solidarity with 11-month-old Charlie Gard, a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives just approved an amendment granting Charlie and his parents permanent residency in the United States.... (more)

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Supreme Court dealt President Trump a partial victory Wednesday in the legal battle over his travel ban, allowing the administration to restore strict limits on refugees that were blocked last week by a federal judge in Hawaii. The win for Mr. Trump, however, was tempered by the high court's decision to uphold the same judges' ruling that exempted grandparents and other relatives of U.S. citizens from the administration's travel ban on six Muslim-majority countries.... (more)

FOX NEWS — Rosie O'Donnell is encouraging her Twitter followers to play an online game that allows players to push President Trump off of a cliff. "Push Trump Off A Cliff Again," O'Donnell tweeted along with a link to the game. The game's name is a riff off of Trump's campaign slogan "Make American Great Again."... (more)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Bill Nye specifically targeted the elderly this week as he spoke out against climate change deniers, saying that climate science will start to advance when old people start to "age out," according to a report. The "Science Guy" said that generationally, the majority of climate change deniers are older.... (more)