Joe.My.God. LGBT News

CNN reports: President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dropped to 37%, while 58% of Americans disapprove of his performance so far as president, new Gallup figures show. Trump’s approval rating hovered in the mid-to-low 40s in the weeks following the beginning of his presidency. Aside from the controversy over Trump’s wiretapping claim, the latest poll numbers suggest growing dissatisfaction …

It’s a BUSY day on Capitol Hill. NPR reports: Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, begins his three-day confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Republicans have praised the federal appeals court judge as a brilliant jurist who would continue in the conservative mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who he’s vying to …

The Independent reports: Nicola Sturgeon has said an independent Scotland would seek full membership of the European Union and dismissed suggestions the country would have to join the back of the queue. Scotland’s First Minister also said she was willing to have “reasonable discussions” with Theresa May over the timing of a new plebiscite but warned it would not be …

UPDATE: Bumping this post back to the top as things begin. The hearing starts at 10AM but I’m posting the live-stream early as a heads-up. The Associated Press reports: A hearing Monday before the House Intelligence Committee, one of several congressional panels probing allegations of Russian meddling, could allow for the greatest public accounting to date of investigations that have …

The BBC reports: Prime Minister Theresa May is to officially notify the European Union next Wednesday that the UK is leaving. Downing Street said she would write a letter to the European Council, adding that it hoped negotiations on the terms of exit and future relations could then begin as quickly as possible. The move comes nine months after a …

The Dallas News reports: Thousands of boisterous, angry North Texans on Saturday challenged Rep. Pete Sessions to stop the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. They also asked him to seriously investigate Russia’s tampering in the 2016 presidential race and to squash President Donald Trump’s controversial budget proposal. But at the contentious town hall meeting at Richardson High School, a …

Last week the State Department appointed a hate group that advocates for criminalizing homosexuality to a United Nations delegation on human rights. Yes, really. Since then, the group appears to have violated the rules to be on that delegation. Via press release: The hate group Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) has used its place on the official US …

The Washington Post reports: Most members of President Trump’s Cabinet do not yet have leadership teams in place or even nominees for top deputies. But they do have an influential coterie of senior aides installed by the White House who are charged — above all — with monitoring the secretaries’ loyalty, according to eight officials in and outside the administration. …

Politico reports: Hours before FBI Director James Comey is set to testify before Congress on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential elections, President Donald Trump renewed his attacks against those who have accused him of having ties to the Russian government. Committees in both houses of Congress are currently investigating reported ties between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, …

The Week recaps: “Look, there is nothing wrong with cuts in principle, but with budgets, as with haircuts, it’s where and how you cut that matters,” Oliver said. For example, you don’t slash the EPA, State Department, USAID, public broadcasting, and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities as a cost-cutting measure — together they make up 1.62 percent …