UP: Russia sanctions
DOWN: President Trump’s plan to get along with Russian President Vladimir Putin
UP: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s spending on security
DOWN: Likelihood Pruitt would remain in any other administration
UP: Trump’s racist rhetoric on immigration
DOWN: Number of border apprehensions
UP: Chief of Staff John F. Kelly threatening to quit
DOWN: Kelly not quitting
UP: Democrats’ possible pickups in the midterms
DOWN: How tariffs play in farm country
UP: Market uncertainty
DOWN: Wall Street affinity for Trump
UP: Iranian and Russian influence in the Middle East
DOWN: U.S. retreating from the Middle East
UP: Danger of exiting the Iran deal
DOWN: A coherent plan to contain Iranian aggression
UP: Number of open Cabinet-level posts
DOWN: Chances Congress will achieve much of anything the rest of the year
UP: “A federal district court judge in Boston has upheld the state’s ban on assault weapons – AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and large-capacity magazines – finding that the issue is not a constitutional matter but one for each state to determine on its own politically.”
DOWN: The National Rifle Association