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President Donald Trump kicked off the White House's "Made in America Week" Monday, modeling a $1,000 Stetson cowboy hat, hopping into the cab of a firetruck and gripping a baseball bat.

The group of Soviet-born individuals that top Trump campaign officials met last summer include a cast of characters accused of tactics that read like a Cold War spy novel -- including allegations of secret lobbying campaigns and links to money laundering investigations and counterintelligence.

The news of Sen. John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis was immediately met with shock and grief Wednesday night, with many taking to social media to express support for the Arizona Republican.

Sen. John McCain, 80, has been diagnosed with a primary glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor, Mayo Clinic doctors directly involved in the senator's care told CNN exclusively. The doctors spoke directly to CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

A Government Accountability Office report published in 2000 details how companies in the US set up bank accounts that came under investigation for money laundering -- and it involved Ike Kaveladze, the eighth person who has now been identified as attending the June 9, 2016 meeting that Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer.

President Donald Trump gave a 50-minute, wide-ranging interview to The New York Times on Wednesday, in which he expressed discontent with a host of key figures in the ongoing probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fired FBI Director James Comey and Robert S. Mueller, the special counsel in the Justice Department's investigation.

Rep. Joaquin Castro said Wednesday that the circumstances of the second meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit earlier this month are "not normal."

Donald Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort have been scheduled to testify before the Senate judiciary committee on July 26, the panel announced Wednesday.

The chants of vocal activists echoed through the hallways of Senate office buildings Wednesday, as hundreds staged sit-ins to protest the Republican health care plan that's already on shaky ground.

As the White House sought to downplay a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 dinner, experts fretted that Trump's cavalier approach to engaging with Putin could come back to bite him.

Sen. Dean Heller has carefully avoided endorsing a politically unpopular Republican health care bill.

CalExit is a comic book now.

CNN has learned that US intelligence indicates that North Korea is making preparations for another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or intermediate range missile test.

The Senate Republican health care bill is dead and the prospect of a show-me vote on full repeal without replacement is a zombie stalking the halls of Capitol Hill. Over at the White House, President Donald Trump began Wednesday with a pair of tweets demanding some kind of resurrection, but even now, what he truly wants is an open question.

The vice chair of President Donald Trump's voter integrity commission said Wednesday he isn't sure if Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election.

GOP senators meet at the White House about the failed health care bill. And Trump's voter fraud panel meets for the first time. Here's what's happening in Washington today.

CNN Politics' Hunter Schwarz is driving across the country to California. Every day, he's writing about his travels, the people he meets and the things he sees.

Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, according to an annual State Department report that pointed to ISIS as the primary non-state threat to US interests and allies.