President Donald Trump was upbeat immediately after his news conference with Vladimir Putin in Finland, but by the time he returned stateside on Monday evening, his mood had soured considerably amid sustained fury at his extraordinary embrace of the Russian leader. Now, his aides are wondering how he'll respond to anger from even his staunchest supporters after he sided with Putin over US intelligence agencies investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Big news: Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman just became the first GOP House representative to announce he will sign the “discharge petition” to force a vote on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that would overturn the FCC’s disastrous repeal. The resolution already passed the Senate, and now that it has picked up bipartisan support in the House, we have a real chance of winning. Rep Coffman also introduced his own net neutrality legislation, which is largely symbolic, given that it will never reach the 60 votes it needs to pass the Senate.

When Donald Trump shocked the world and won the presidential election (with a little help from his Russian friends), leaders around the globe immediately sprang into action in an attempt to figure out how to interact with a guy who had spent most of his campaign flaming global alliances. Justin Trudeau whisked the president’s favorite child off to the theater. Emmanuel Macron rolled out the red carpet and presented Trump with an array of shiny objects, including a military parade. Angela Merkel held Trump’s hand and attempted to explain complex concepts in a way she thought his small brain could understand.

Hillary Clinton's tweet, ahead of Trump's summit with Putin, asking which team Trump plays for, seemed to foretell his display of trust in Putin over his own intelligence community, writes Anushay Hossain

US President Donald Trump has defended Russia over claims of interference in the 2016 presidential election. After face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies and said there had been no reason for Russia to meddle in the vote. Mr Putin reiterated that Russia had never interfered in US affairs. The two men held nearly two hours of closed-door talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki on Monday.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) violated federal law by using a common vendor to illegally coordinate with four Republican Senate candidates, according to a complaint filed by a non-partisan public interest watchdog. On Monday, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) submitted a 25-page complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging that that the NRA used a consulting firm to evade federal rules prohibiting coordination between congressional candidates and outside spending groups.

Make no mistake: Hacking the 2016 election was an act of war. It’s time we responded accordingly. By Mark Hertling, Molly K. McKew.

Find out what President Trump has said about where you live since he became US president.

America had better hope that its leaders and media learn from the clamor for invading Iraq in 2003. By Christopher A. Preble.

The president fails to protect the country from an ongoing attack.

America's least favorite whistleblower nonetheless did us a great service---and the U.S. case against him could be chilling. By Peter Van Buren.

European Council President Donald Tusk fired back at President Trump after Trump declared the European Union (EU) one of his biggest global foes. Tusk accused Trump of spreading “fake news” with a comment Trump made during an interview with CBS News that aired Sunday. “America and the EU are best friends,” Tusk tweeted. “Whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news.”

Is it a positive or negative development when the leaders in control of 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons meet? On Democracy Now.

Your tax dollars are being wasted, on an enormous scale, by uncompetitive socialist enterprises that ignore the basic rules of economics. I refer, of course, to the practice of politicians who give taxpayer dollars to subsidize the business of sports by paying for the construction and/or renovation of stadiums and arenas. These exercises in crony capitalism make no sense whatsoever. There has never been a decent reason to subsidize these successful businesses, which rarely produce a real return on the public’s investment. Nor is civic pride a justification.

Donald Trump said in a television interview released Sunday that he is going into his high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin expecting, well, not all that much really. “I go in with low expectations,” Trump said during the CBS News interview. “I’m not going with high expectations.” A widely-circulated New Yorker piece this weekend compared Donald Trump’s planned meeting on Monday with Vladimir Putin to “an amateur boxer up against Muhammad Ali.” Others have likened it to a lamb being led to slaughter.

The increasingly direct road to ruin. By Andrew Cockburn.

'This is going to end up with us all fighting each other, Muslims versus Muslims, Croats against Croats, Serbs against Serbs.' By Robert Fisk.

By now, it is beyond cliché to say that Donald Trump approaches his presidency (and/or entire existence) as though it were a reality-television show. But like Trump’s political career itself, that analogy is forever forcing its way into one’s consciousness, no matter how tired and irritating it has become. Take Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea. The president would surely like Pyongyang to forfeit its nuclear arsenal, all things being equal. But, at the end of the day...

Rosenstein and Mueller know that even if the Russians surrendered themselves to the U.S., the hacking case would never go to trial. The indictment is based on guesses and designed to manipulate public opinion against Trump. By Scott Ritter.

Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plans to slash his salary, earning less than half of what the current leader makes when he takes office as part of an austerity push in government. “What we want is for the budget to reach everybody,” he told reporters in front of his campaign headquarters on Sunday. Glancing at a piece of paper with numbers on it, Lopez Obrador revealed he’ll take home 108,000 pesos a month (£4,300), and no public official will be able to earn more than the president during his six-year term.

President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin opened their long-awaited summit Monday with a wink and slouch, respectively, then talked one on one behind closed doors for two-plus hours before the American leader declared their meeting was off to a “very, very good start for everybody.” Neither leader revealed what was discussed. But in advance of the talks, Trump listed a series of topics that did not include Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Claims parents are unsafe or criminals.

Donald Trump kicked off his diplomatic visit to the United Kingdom Thursday by gifting his host a political nightmare. In an interview with The Sun, a British tabloid, the president announced that Theresa May’s blueprint for a “soft Brexit” was a betrayal of British voters – one that, if implemented, “would probably end [Britain’s] major trade relationship with the United States.”

The UN General Assembly has agreed on a deal to better manage the international flow of migrants and protect human rights. Diplomats from every country except the United States negotiated as global tensions on the issue continue to cause political upheaval and harsh anti-immigrant sentiment. Known as the Global Compact for Migration - it will be formally adopted by world leaders in Morocco in December. The BBC's Nada Tawfik explains what’s in the agreement.

The spread of fake news may have less to do with ideological blinders and more to do with a lack of thinking, according to new research published in the journal Cognition. The two-part study of 3,446 participants found that more analytic people were less likely to believe fake news headlines than less analytic people, regardless of partisan bias.

F-35 versus A-10 fly-off designed to mislead? We take a look. By Dan Grazier.

President Trump is set to choose among four finalists and announce his Supreme Court nomination on Monday night.

A Mesa man was arrested for impersonating a police officer after he allegedly attempted to pull over two Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers this week. Matthew Allen Disbro, 44, allegedly tried to pull over the troopers as they were driving in an unmarked yellow Ford Mustang on the State Route 51 on Wednesday. The troopers saw Disbro’s black Dodge Charger, which was equipped with law enforcement-style emergency lighting in its rear window.

Here it comes, the moment we’ve been waiting for, when Trump and Putin meet in Helsinki to officially launch the Destruction of Democracy, and very possibly the Apocalypse itself. That’s right, folks, once again, it appears we’re looking at the end of everything… By CJ Hopkins.

G.J. Meyer, author of The World Remade, joins Signature to discuss a time in American history, during WWI, when censorship was the rule of the land.

The minority party needs some remedy when the majority leader is immune to considerations of fairness and consistency in his exercise of the Senate’s constitutional powers.

There’s no use debating a feeling. It’s time to change how we engage with Jordan Peterson. By Laurie Penny.

Trump appointees are (reportedly) refusing to release a blockbuster EPA report — because industry lobbyists asked them not to. By Eric Levitz.

Every year on the third day of July, a dozen Iranian children on board a ship throw gladiolas into the sea to commemorate the memory of innocent men, women, and children whose bodies were afloat, like the flowers, on the waters of the Persian Gulf. By Hossein Nazari.

E3 is a huge event, and it’s one of the rare opportunities where you’re given direct access to the creative talent behind a variety of games. Game publishers hold individual marketing events for their tentpole releases—a preview event here, a review event there— but E3 puts everyone under the same roof. There’s a chance to have a broad reading of the industry. We wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, so in nearly every one-on-one interview we scheduled...