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Opinion: I can't wait for the old politics of being gay in America to die off.

“Is the reaction all good? No, but that’s never the goal,” says Valerie Jarrett.

“Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished,” Clinton says.

Among all likely GOP voters, 49 percent said they have an unfavorable opinion of Trump.

It's the latest moves in a major makeover of the underperforming pro-Clinton super PAC.

South Carolina lawmakers are not touching over a thousand Confederate flags that are displayed on government property.

Speaker John Boehner will lead the congressional delegation to South Carolina to attend the funeral of the slain leader of the Emanuel AME Church.

“How many more of these tragedies are we going to have to come and try to explain away here?” Senator Harry Reid said.

Nearly three dozen lawmakers are expected to attend funeral services in South Carolina for the nine people killed last week in a shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Gov. Rick Scott's budget-slashing move drew an openly hostile reaction from state senators who have been feuding with the governor since his November reelection. (POLITICO Florida)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is still not winning any favor with Garden State voters.

Michael Oren says he timed his books release to raise alarm bells about President Barack Obama’s nuclear talks with Iran.

It will give lawmakers time to travel to funeral services in Charleston for the nine individuals killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz broke with the GOP and voted against advancing the bill.

The government is expected to end its policy of threatening criminal prosecution against families of American hostages who try to pay ransom for their relatives to groups like the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.

Ash Carter also made clear that not every detainee at Guantanamo could be freed, and that he favors getting rid of the facility, which he called “an extra talking point” for Islamic extremists.

“Jeb Bush continues to lead, but Donald J. Trump has emerged as an anti-Jeb Bush alternative in New Hampshire.”

Without some sort of compromise between Democrats and Republicans the government could be at risk of shutting down like it did in 2013.

“I would take it down, yes,” the billionaire real estate mogul said. “I think they should put it in a museum and respect whatever it is you have to respect.”

Donald J. Trump offers his plan for replacing Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill. http://politi.co/1Ljo9d4

It was an extraordinarily difficult vote for many Democrats.

‪#‎Breaking‬: The Senate voted Tuesday to advance a bill to give President Barack Obama fast-track trade authority to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The key 60-37 vote to break a filibuster clears the way for Trade Promotion Authority to be signed by the president by the end of the week.

Full story: http://politi.co/1LjoWuD

Rand Paul: “I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody, I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing."

Mississippi's state flag and license plates are new targets in the push to eradicate the divisive symbol.

For Moscow's right-wingers, payback means teaming up with a band of Texas secessionists.

The film also distorted American political culture in all the wrong ways for many decades to come. (POLITICO Magazine)

With the election still a year and a half away, Democrats insist they have plenty of confidence.

Republicans are still grappling with how much of the law to repeal, in part because of the cost.

Today’s front page: Conservatives in the House lash out at Boehner, GOP leaders

100 years ago, Birth of a Nation reimagined the Civil War and created the modern and enduring cult of the noble Lost Cause. Via POLITICO Magazine

EU leaders rushed to Brussels for what was billed as a last-ditch push for a Greek debt deal. But all they got was another delay. Via POLITICO Europe

Recording devices are prohibited from both the Supreme Court Press Room and the adjacent Public Information Office, as well as from the court room generally.

"It’s time to focus our attention on acquiring the resources necessary to continue our success at the ballot box,” read an email sent Monday from Andy Gardiner to his Republican members.

The gangs that have formed in American prisons since the early 1960s have come to wield power far beyond prison walls, stretching into cities and influencing the lives of inmates long after they’re released.

Opinion: Democrats are moving left. And America may be too. Via POLITICO Magazine

Walmart’s decision follows South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s announcement Monday afternoon that she supports the removal of the Confederate flag from the state’s capitol.

Photos: While the slaying of nine people inside a historic African-American church in Charleston has renewed the controversy surrounding South Carolina's embrace of the Confederate flag, tensions surrounding it are far from new.

“Racism: We’re not cured of it,” Barack Obama Obama told Marc Maron.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley began informing people on Friday of her decision, while Lindsey Graham worked the phones with business leaders.

Barack Obama has launched an unprecedented regulatory assault on greenhouse gas emissions.

The poll found the former secretary of state garnering 75 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary.

The latest political cartoon from POLITICO's Matt Wuerker

Opinion: How the persistence of the Confederacy led to the Charleston slaughter.

“I think Hillary Clinton could handle me — easily,” Kelly told Variety.

Key Democrats appear to be breaking in favor of fast-track.

Donald J. Trump files his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission.

“The problems we’re having in South Carolina and around the world aren’t because of a symbol, but because of what’s in people’s hearts,” Lindsey Graham said.

America earns $3 billion a year charging strapped college parents above-market interest. “It’s like ‘The Sopranos,’ except it’s the government.”

Donald J. Trump says his remarks about Mexicans and border security were not "inflammatory."

“The flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our state,” South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said. http://politi.co/1IuXwgh

“After the Eurogroup there is no ground for an agreement. This summit can only be about consultation,” Angela Merkel said. (POLITICO Europe)

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said Monday that he has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — a “very advanced and very aggressive” form of cancer that Hogan said has spread throughout his body.

President Barack Obama will deliver a eulogy on Friday for the pastor gunned down last week along with eight of his parishioners in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

“For many people in our state, the flag stands for traditions that are noble,” said Nikki Haley. “At the same time for many others in South Carolina, the flag is a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.

Americans say they are more likely to support an atheist than a socialist for president next year, according to the latest Gallup survey.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, with Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott and a bipartisan array of other lawmakers beside her, called Monday for the state to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol grounds. http://politi.co/1K7Ns2C

"This has been a very difficult time for our state," Haley said. "We have stared evil in the eye. ... Our state is grieving, but we are also coming together."

"It's time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds," Haley said.

Walter Scheib, 61, was the presidential chef for 11 years under President Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

The House Select Committee on Benghazi on Monday released 60 new Libya-related emails between Hillary Clinton and longtime ally Sidney Blumenthal that were never turned over to the panel.

Independent Maine Sen. Angus King will have surgery to treat prostate cancer this week and intends to run for reelection in 2018.

“Given the growing physical and cyber threats to our national security, it is past time to reverse the trend in defense and intelligence spending,” Jeb Bush said.