Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin  —  Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton.

Puerto Rico Is Burning Its Dead, And We May Never Know How Many People The Hurricane Really Killed  —  People whose bodies are cremated are largely not being counted in the official death toll.  The government says it's the fault of funeral directors, while funeral directors say they've received no guidance from the government.

Conway confirms Trump wanted FBI informant's gag order lifted  —  Washington (CNN)In response to reporting that President Donald Trump personally pressed for an informant's gag order to be lifted, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Friday that he wanted the informant to be free to speak out.

Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire  —  SALT LAKE CITY, Utah—Senator Orrin Hatch has privately told allies in Utah that he is planning to retire at the end of his term next year, and if he does, Mitt Romney intends to run for his seat, according to five sources familiar with the situation.

Gaffes, TV ratings concerns dominated as NFL, players forged anthem peace  —  NOBODY KNEW WHERE to sit.  Side by side or across from one another?  —  It was the final question raised by a group of 11 NFL team owners as they mingled inside the sixth-floor conference room …

I'm one of Mark Halperin's accusers.  He's part of a bigger problem we need to fix.  —  (Ben Hider/Getty Images for Concordia Summit)  —  Lara Setrakian is chief executive and executive editor of the digital media outlet News Deeply.  —  I was one of the five anonymous women who shared …

If Republicans can't oppose Roy Moore, they're headed for extinction  —  Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore serves as a convenient dividing line.  If Republicans cannot oppose a former state supreme court justice ousted twice from the bench who espouses rabidly anti-Muslim views …

Dana Boente announces resignation as U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Virginia  —  (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)  —  Dana Boente, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has submitted his resignation, a spokesman confirmed Friday.

White House: the women who accused Trump of sexual harassment are liars  —  “We've been clear on that from the beginning.”  —  The Trump White House is sticking by the president's assertion that the multiple women who have accused him of sexual assault and harassment over the years are lying.

Trump Allows Release of Most but Not All Remaining Kennedy Assassination Files  —  The National Archives published nearly 3,000 previously sealed or censored documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Thursday, but the White House said it was delaying the release of others.

This Is What the Trump Abyss Looks Like  —  The past week was another watershed, it seems to me, in the rising power of Donald Trump.  Flake is quitting; Corker is retiring; McCain is mortal.  Sasse, Murkowski, Collins, and Paul remain, but the odds are mounting against them.

‘Terry Richardson Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’  —  This week, in an apparently defensive move after a social media outcry, the biggest fashion magazines cut ties with the photographer Terry Richardson over his history of alleged sexual harassment.  —  On Monday, The Telegraph broke …

The Attempted Remaking of Michael Grimm  —  Steve Bannon looked at a convicted felon — and saw a populist.  —  It was Friday, which meant it was Michael Grimm's cheat day.  —  The muscle mass he carried during his time as a Marine, an undercover FBI agent, and even as a congressman has …

Leon Wieseltier: A Reckoning  —  It was never an “open secret” among me and my then-colleagues that Leon Wieseltier, the longtime literary czar of the New Republic, behaved inappropriately with women in the workplace.  It was simply out in the open.  This week, Wieseltier's previously …

The Week Trump Won  —  One hundred years ago on Friday, John Reed was in St. Petersburg watching Lenin, Trotsky and the rest of the Bolsheviks take over Russia.  It was interesting to read his account, “Ten Days That Shook the World,” this week — the week when Donald Trump and Steve Bannon solidified …

Unsealed Documents Show That Kris Kobach Is Dead Set on Suppressing the Right to Vote  —  For almost a year, Kris Kobach, the secretary of state of Kansas, has struggled to hide the truth about his efforts to lobby the Trump administration to make it much harder for Americans to vote.

Man locked in Kwik Trip beer cooler stays and drinks  —  MARSHFIELD - A 38-year-old Marshfield man who police say decided to buy beer but got locked inside a cooler is facing two citations for drinking the beer.  —  A manager at Kwik Trip, 101 N. Central Ave., Marshfield …

Sen. Lindsey Graham: If we don't pass tax reform, Democrats will take the House and try to impeach Trump  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that if Republicans don't pass tax reform, then Democrats will take back the House of Representatives …

Thanks to the Clinton/DNC revelation about the ‘Trump dossier,’ Robert Mueller can stop investigating Trump … In a court of law when it is discovered that evidence has been contaminated or a witness is lying, that evidence is thrown out and a jury is instructed to ignore the witness testimony.

Update on Our Advertising Transparency and Authenticity Efforts  —  When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.  —  That level of transparency is good for democracy and it's good for the electoral process.

More ACA Plans to Come With No Premiums in 2018  —  Trump indirectly bolstered the federal subsidies that help consumers with their insurance premiums  —  Insurers selling Affordable Care Act plans have a compelling new pitch: free health insurance.  —  When sales of plans …