GOP USA MIDDAY REPORT 06/12/2014

Establishment candidate Jeb Bush should rethink run If Jeb Bush was considering a White House run in 2016, he'd better think again. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning loss Tuesday night to underfunded Tea Party candidate David Brat in Virginia has sent shock waves through the Republican Party -- including to Jeb Bush, who will now have to reassess whether he even has a shot at the Oval Office.

Obama: Cantor loss not death knell of immigration Vowing not to give up on an overhaul of immigration, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he "fundamentally rejects" the notion that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's stunning primary election defeat means that tackling immigration legislation is now out of reach.

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VA Crises Getting Lost in Scandal Overload President Obama is embroiled in two Veterans Affairs scandals: 1) fabricated documents and secret waiting lists for health care, with dozens of veterans dying while waiting for appointments; and 2) waiting lists for disability benefits. The former is now the subject of a criminal investigation opened by the Phoenix office of the FBI just days after the release of a bipartisan letter from 21 U.S. senators to the Department of Justice calling for a criminal investigation.

Lawsuit challenges Seattle's $15 minimum wage A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday challenges Seattle's adoption of what would be the nation's highest minimum wage as unfair to small franchises.

Mexican national charged in crash that killed child A driver charged in connection with a head-on crash in Saugus Monday night that killed a 3-year-old boy is an unlicensed, illegal alien who's had a warrant outstanding for his arrest since 2005, according to prosecutors and court records.

Manmade Disaster It's a "humanitarian crisis," all right. That's what President Obama has called the recent wave of illegal Central American immigrant children spilling across Mexico's border into the United States. What the president hasn't disclosed is how it's a crisis almost entirely of his own making.