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Rod Rosenstein to lead the FBI investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein The tale of the "tapes" has been a sordid one, a head-scratcher that puts some of President Trump's least-subtle impulses on awkward display. Without the tweet, it's possible we still don't know James Comey's side of the story … and that Robert Mueller never gets the job the president thinks he may be too biased to be holding.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill designed to make it easier to fire Department of Veterans Affairs employees. Trump promised during the campaign to dismiss VA workers ‘‘who let our veterans down.’’ He cast Friday’s signing at a White House ceremony as fulfillment of that promise. Trump says the law represents one of the biggest reforms to the VA in a generation or more.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The law is designed to make it easier to fire Department of Veterans Affairs employees.   In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president laid out his belief that special counsel Robert Mueller is biased in the expanding Russia investigation.

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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories CAPITAL SOURCE Walsh campaign spokeswoman Rachel Goldstein said — as the campaign had previously — that the payments to the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo have nothing to do with the ongoing federal probe, which led to the indictments of two of Walsh’s department heads (both have plead not guilty).

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories The law is designed to make it easier to fire Department of Veterans Affairs employees.   In an interview on “Fox & Friends,” the president laid out his belief that special counsel Robert Mueller is biased in the expanding Russia investigation.

Posted at 3:00 pm on June 22, 2017 by Ernie Mannix   Hugh Jass, reporting. (Special to the New York Review.) BREAKING NEWS:  The New York Review can now confirm that Russia interfered with the Georgia 6th District special election. Our sources within Ivy League colleges and far-left hate groups have brought to light new information that Vladimir Putin was indeed responsible for a computer hack on the Georgia 6th District election.

Posted at 5:51 pm on June 22, 2017 by Jay Caruso Steve Scalise is still in the hospital, recovering from gunshot wounds suffered after an angry Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire on the Republican baseball practice. In the wake of that shooting, the media in their infinite wisdom resurrected talk of political rhetoric, how dangerous it is and how it contributed to the shooting of Gabby Giffords in 2011. Except, of course, it did not.

Posted at 6:00 pm on June 22, 2017 by Susan Wright And there are still rubes buying it. Trump, unwilling and incapable of running a reasonably successful, scandal-free presidency took amateur hour to the stage in Iowa, to allow fawning sycophants to witness the parody live. At some point, you would hope somebody would recall everything that was not in the budget bill recently put forth (Hint: No funds for a wall, and no plan for gathering funds), and would come with questions.