I was wrong about Jeff Sessions  —  An apology for a tweet about the attorney general that has gone viral  —  Full disclosure: The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts does not like Attorney General Jeff Sessions.  Not one little bit.  —  I didn't like him when he was the first Senator to endorse Donald Trump.

President Trump's thoroughly confusing Fox Business interview, annotated  —  President Trump spoke with Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo in an interview airing Wednesday morning, and it was par for the course for Trump.  —  By which I mean he rewrote history (on his views of attacking Syria) …

Trump Says Dollar ‘Getting Too Strong,’ Won't Label China a Currency Manipulator  —  President leaves open possibility of renominating Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. dollar “is getting too strong” and he would prefer the Federal Reserve keep interest rates low.

Trump's budget director on what's on, and off, the table for cuts  —  As President Donald Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney sits in the center of the storm.  —  He is drafting a White House budget that members of both parties call dead on arrival.  He's still trying to help bridge …

Trump won't definitively say he still backs Bannon  —  MORE FROM: … Washington's rumor mill is working overtime on the fate of aide Steve Bannon, who is said to be at the center of the rampant White House in-fighting.  When I asked the President Tuesday afternoon if he still has confidence in Bannon …

Republicans Just Barely Won The First Post-Trump Congressional Election  —  Democrat James Thompson gave Republicans a big scare in a deep-red district in Kansas, in the first congressional race of the Trump era.  —  WASHINGTON — The GOP breathed a huge sigh of relief Tuesday night …

New Front In White House Civil War as Kushner Asserts Authority at NSC  —  White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner is leading an unprecedented effort to meddle in the White House's National Security Council, causing mayhem for senior staff who say the president's son-in-law is interfering …

Tillerson and Putin Find Little More Than Disagreement in Meeting  —  MOSCOW — Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for nearly two hours Wednesday, but the two men appeared unable to agree on the facts involving the deadly chemical weapons assault …

AP Exclusive: Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump's campaign chairman.  —  Ukrainian investigators called it evidence …

United faces more questions as dragged passenger hires high-powered attorney  —  This video posted on social media shows a passenger on an April 9, 2017, United Airlines flight from Chicago O'Hare International Airport to Louisville being removed by security.  (Jayse D. Anspach)

Melania Trump - An Apology  —  The Mail Online website and the Daily Mail newspaper published an article on 20th August 2016 about Melania Trump which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model, and republished allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling.

FBI obtained FISA warrant to monitor Trump adviser Carter Page  —  The FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of an adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump, part of an investigation into possible links between Russia and the campaign, law enforcement and other U.S. officials said.

Bill O'Reilly Is Going on Vacation.  Will His Show Return?  —  Embattled Fox News host Bill O'Reilly announced tonight that he is taking a vacation.  O'Reilly's decision to go off the air in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal and advertiser boycott arguably has the appearance of a suspension …

Clinton campaign plagued by bickering  —  The following is an excerpt adapted from “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign,” which will be released on April 18.  Copyright © 2017 by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.  Published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.

‘White Privilege Checklist’ appears in Minnesota dorm  —  A display in a University of Minnesota residence hall provides an 11-point “checklist” to help students identify their “white privilege.”  —  The “White Privilege Checklist,” found hanging in Mark G. Yudof Hall and photographed by a current student …

Trump administration moving quickly to build up nationwide deportation force  —  The Trump administration is quickly identifying ways to assemble the nationwide deportation force that President Trump promised on the campaign trail as he railed against the dangers posed by illegal immigration.

‘Charging Bull’ sculptor says ‘Fearless Girl’ distorts his art.  He's fighting back.  —  With hopes of dispensing the “perfect antidote” to the stock market crash of 1987, Italian-born sculptor Arturo Di Modica spent two years welding a 7,000 pound bronze bull statue designed to capture the resilience of the American people.

Betsy DeVos rescinds protections for student loan borrowers  —  Student loan servicers have a poor track record of helping borrowers pay back their loans.  —  On Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reversed Obama administration directives that were supposed to make it easier for borrowers to pay back their student loans.

Ben Carson visits Miami public housing development — and gets stuck in elevator  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson's two-day visit to Miami — his third stop on a national listening tour — started with a big glitch.  —  Carson, Miami-Dade County Public Housing Director Michael Liu …

Alabama Senate votes to allow church to form police dept.  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Senate has voted to allow a church to form its own police force.  —  Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.

Americans have become lazy and it's hurting the economy  —  Technology is replacing jobs.  Are you ready?  —  Americans have become lazy, argues economist Tyler Cowen.  —  They don't start businesses as much as they once did.  They don't move as often as they used to.

How Trump Is Changing What ‘Conservative’ Means  —  From the moment Donald Trump first launched his unlikely ascent to the presidency, Republicans fiercely debated whether they could consider him a true conservative.  Now, there's evidence that Trump's conquest of the GOP is causing activists to redefine “conservatism” itself.