State Dept. Was Granted $120 Million to Fight Russian Meddling.  It Has Spent $0.  —  WASHINGTON — As Russia's virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching, the State Department has yet to spend any of the $120 million it has been allocated since late 2016 …

Scoop: Mueller's hit list  —  Axios has reviewed a Grand Jury subpoena that Robert Mueller's team sent to a witness last month.  —  What Mueller is asking for:  — Mueller is subpoenaing all communications — meaning emails, texts, handwritten notes, etc. — that this witness sent and received regarding the following people:

Donald Trump's bubble presidency  —  When President Barack Obama felt he needed to show off his common touch, he'd go for cheeseburgers at Ray's Hell Burger — where he treated the Russian president to an onion-jalapeño-and-mushroom- topped patty — or to Five Guys …

Why Is Brooklyn Barbecue Taking Over the World?  —  Brooklyn BBQ is spreading to every corner of the world—Colombia, Spain, Panama, Sweden, England, and Japan—looking like it came straight out of Williamsburg.  But why aren't these countries taking cues from Texas or Kansas City?

Rudy Giuliani's tasteless Hillary joke  —  On Friday night, President Trump entertained around 250 Republican donors in his Mar-a-Lago ballroom.  Spotted in the audience: Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, who recently admitted to paying $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Ryan Seacrest Faces Potential Oscar Red Carpet Delay From E! Over Allegations  —  EXCLUSIVE: Concerns that sexual harassment allegations against Ryan Seacrest could see things become very uncomfortable or even become confrontational today on E!'s pre-Oscars Live From the Red Carpet show …

Jimmy Kimmel Opens Oscars with Killer Jabs at Weinstein, Trump and Pence … Last year, the elephant in the room at the Academy Awards was the newly-elected President Donald Trump.  This time, there were many more elephants for host Jimmy Kimmel to address, starting with the biggest, most disgusting one of them all: Harvey Weinstein.

10 years after financial crisis, Senate prepares to roll back banking rules … The Senate is preparing to scale back the sweeping banking regulations passed after the 2008 financial crisis, with more than a dozen Democrats ready to give Republicans the votes they need to weaken …

Read Trump's remarks at Gridiron dinner  —  on Saturday took part in the Gridiron Club dinner's tradition of presidential speeches filled with self-deprecating humor and casting barbs at his own White House and his usual targets.  —  You can read Trump's comments below:  —  “Well, thank you very much.

‘Like a pinball machine’: Lawmakers struggle to negotiate with an erratic Trump … President Trump began last week trumpeting his idea to arm teachers.  A couple of days later, he alarmed fellow Republicans by embracing broader background checks and suggesting police should seize guns …

Mother arrested after boy shoots 4-year-old sister in Ashland County  —  HAYESVILLE - A mother was arrested Saturday evening after an 8-year-old boy shot his 4-year-old sister Saturday afternoon, the Ashland County Sheriff's Office reported.  —  The sheriff's office was notified around 2:30 p.m. Saturday …

Watch: Frantic Florida lawmaker has a complete meltdown in bonkers AM Joy interview about arming teachers  —  In a interview that occasionally spiraled into chaos, MSNBC host Joy Reid peppered a Florida congressman about his knowledge of gun laws and the history of restrictions on weapons …

ICE Shackled 92 Somalis for 40 Hours On a Failed Deportation Flight.  That Was Just the Start of the Abuse.  —  For a brief moment in December 2017, the international spotlight shined on the case of 92 deportees who were on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement-chartered flight to Somalia.

Wounds From Military-Style Rifles?  ‘A Ghastly Thing to See’  —  Trauma surgeons tell what it is really like to try to repair such devastating injuries.  “Bones are exploded, soft tissue is absolutely destroyed,” one said.  —  Perhaps no one knows the devastating wounds inflicted …

Florida Senate rejects ban on assault weapons as it advances school safety proposals  —  TALLAHASSEE  —  The emotional fault lines that have divided the state since the school shooting in Parkland were on display in the Florida Senate on Saturday as lawmakers passionately rejected …

Undermined and Beleaguered, H.R. McMaster Soldiers On  —  Pentagon looks for new assignment for a National Security Adviser trapped between competing agendas, even though White House says his job is secure for now  —  WASHINGTON—Even before he took the job last winter as President Donald …

Power to the Parents  —  The teenage crusade for gun control has given new energy to an idea that I once supported fervently: Voting rights for 16- year-olds.  My support peaked when I was that age myself; I thought that lowering the voting age was literally the least that adults …

Merkel's Fourth Term Likely to Be Her Last  —  The term would make her Europe's longest-serving post-war leader  —  BERLIN—It's not the end of Angela Merkel's remarkable political career.  But it is surely the beginning of the end.  —  Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party voted …