Las Vegas Shooter Wired $100,000 to Philippines Last Week  —  Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock wired $100,000 to an account in his live-in girlfriend's home country of the Philippines in the week before he unleashed the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, according to multiple senior law enforcement officials.

Puerto Rico hasn't updated the Hurricane Maria death toll in 6 days  —  The outdated death count is a sign the government is broken.  —  Twelve days ago, Hurricane Maria trashed Puerto Rico, demolishing its already weak power, communications, and transportation infrastructure.

Ryan asked White House to reconsider ousting Price  —  Speaker Paul Ryan last week urged the White House to reconsider ousting Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, his longtime friend who had come under fire for often using a taxpayer-funded private jet for travel, according to two people with knowledge of the call.

The GOP Tax Plan Is Already Hitting Speed Bumps  —  Corker questions whether GOP has fortitude for tax overhaul  —  Republicans split on whether tax plan can add to the deficit  —  The White House is showing “softness” on ending a $1.3 trillion federal tax deduction filers get for their state …

Mueller Tasks an Adviser With Getting Ahead of Pre-Emptive Pardons  —  Dreeben defended more than 100 U.S. cases to Supreme Court  —  Criminal law expert could bulletproof Mueller team's work  —  U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a distinctly modern problem.

Pence's chief of staff floats ‘purge’ of anti-Trump Republicans to wealthy donors  —  Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff railed against congressional leaders in closed-door remarks to wealthy donors and called for a “purge” if GOP lawmakers don't quickly rally behind President Donald Trump's agenda.

Hedge fund billionaire flew top Mnuchin aide on private jet to Palm Beach  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's top aide flew on a hedge fund billionaire's private jet to Palm Beach several months ago, people familiar with the trip said, the latest example of senior Trump administration …

HALEY REPRIMANDED FOR HATCH ACT VIOLATION  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Washington, D.C.—Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley violated the Hatch Act by retweeting a political message endorsing candidate Ralph Norman, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ruled based on a complaint filed …

E.P.A. Chief's Calendar: A Stream of Industry Meetings and Trips Home  —  WASHINGTON — For lunch on April 26, Scott Pruitt, the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined with top executives from Southern Company, one of the nation's largest coal-burning electric utilities …

This Supreme Court Case Could Radically Reshape Politics  —  Keith Gaddie has “hung up his spurs.”  —  The election expert from the University of Oklahoma no longer helps state legislatures draw new district lines to maximize their partisan advantage.  —  He was still wearing those spurs …

DOJ releases overruled memos finding it illegal for presidents to appoint relatives  —  The Justice Department has released a series of recently overruled legal memos concluding that presidents cannot appoint their relatives to the White House staff or presidential commissions, even to unpaid posts.

“Pro-life” GOP votes on new abortion ban after kicking 9 million kids off health insurance  —  The supposedly “pro-life” Republican House is too focused on denying women access to health care to bother protecting health care for kids.  —  When conservatives talk about being “pro-life,” one has to wonder just what lives they mean.