In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty.  Comey Demurred.  —  WASHINGTON — Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief.

Trump's Comey fight spooks Capitol Hill  —  There is widespread concern among Congressional leadership about Trump's frame of mind in the wake of the Comey firing.  —  Senior Senate aide: “It has to stop ... never seen anything like this in my entire career.”

Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.

The ‘Merrick Garland for FBI’ scheme shows why liberals lose  —  We live in a golden age of political stupidity, but I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this: The idea of pulling Judge Merrick Garland off the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court and into the FBI is one of the silliest ideas I've seen anyone in Washington fall for.

Trump lawyers claim his tax returns show no income from Russia with few exceptions  —  President Trump's lawyers on Friday said that a review of his last ten years of tax returns do not reveal “any income of any type from Russian sources” with some exceptions, but refused to release copies of his tax returns to verify such conclusions.

Judas, Tax Cuts and the Great Betrayal  —  The denarius, ancient Rome's silver coin, was supposedly the daily wage of a manual worker.  If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Act is repealed — tax cuts that are, obviously …

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/ newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ Theseindustries.mp3  —  JUDY WOODRUFF: We turn now to an overlooked story: why some men are not pursuing certain types of jobs that are mainly held by women.  —  Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has the story.

DON'T CALL ME CAITLYN: BABY NAME PLUNGES IN POPULARITY  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't call me Caitlyn.  —  A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby name, according to Social Security's annual list of the most popular baby names.

Republicans misstate, again and again on TV and at town halls, what's in their health-care bill  —  The American Health Care Act that narrowly passed out of the House earlier this month cuts $880 billion from Medicaid — but that won't affect anyone's coverage.

Aetna CEO in private meeting: “Single-payer, I think we should have that debate”  —  A top insurance executive signals openness to government-financed health care.  —  The chief executive of one of the country's largest health insurance companies says he is open to having a single-payer debate.

High school takes back yearbooks with ‘Build that wall,’ other inappropriate quotes  —  ROCKINGHAM, N.C.  —  All of the yearbooks that had been distributed at the Richmond Early College High School near Rockingham have been taken back by the school after some senior quotes were deemed controversial, the school system says.

If Liberals Hate Him, Then Trump Must Be Doing Something Right  —  If there was one principle that used to unite conservatives, it was respect for the rule of law.  Not long ago, conservatives would have been horrified at wholesale violations of the norms and traditions of our political system …

Five Reasons Why the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate  —  The tangled affair now known as Watergate began 45 years ago, before most of today's U.S. population had even been born.  (The median age of Americans is about 38, so most people in the country were born in 1979 or thereafter.)