Trump Is Said to Accept North Korea's Invitation to Discuss Its Nuclear Program  —  WASHINGTON — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, an audacious diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed …

Trump Donor's Meeting With Russian Executive Draws Scrutiny of Special Counsel Mueller  —  Witness testimony appears to conflict with Blackwater founder's account to House panel  —  A meeting in the Seychelles weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration between a Russian executive …

Obama in Talks to Provide Shows for Netflix  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama is in advanced negotiations with Netflix to produce a series of high-profile shows that will provide him a global platform after his departure from the White House, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Woman named in Stormy Daniels' document accused Trump of unwanted advances  —  (CNN)A woman who previously accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual contact was named in the non-disclosure agreement signed by porn star Stormy Daniels as having “confidential information” about Daniels' alleged affair with Donald Trump.

Interior mum on whether Zinke spent $139K on office door  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Records show the Interior Department spent nearly $139,000 last year for construction at the agency that was labeled on a work order as “Secretary's Door.”  —  A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke …

The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …

The Ever-Changing ‘Russia Narrative’ In American Politics Is Cynically False Public Manipulation  —  In the comedy movie “Wag the Dog,” a fictitious U.S. president is on the cusp of losing an election over a real scandal.  So a political spin doctor and Hollywood producer hired …

Disgraced Parkland deputy heard shots inside school building, told cops to stay away  —  Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not from inside the building.

Inside Trump's private meeting with the video-game industry — and its critics … Republican lawmakers and conservative media critics pressed President Trump on Thursday to explore new restrictions on the video-game industry, arguing that violent games might have contributed to mass shootings …

STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON STEEL & ALUMINUM TARIFFS  —  Washington, D.C. ­- U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on President Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum:

Understanding Student Mobbists  —  Students across the country continue to attack and shut down speakers at a steady pace, from Christina Hoff Sommers to Jordan Peterson.  I confess that I find their behavior awful.  My gut reaction is that these student mobbists manage to combine snowflake fragility …

“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”  —  Looking for news you can trust?  —  This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News …

We can stop school shootings.  I'll match your donations up to $2.5 million.  —  Nikolas Cruz, like many shooters, lacked positive role models.  Donating to these organizations can provide the help to avert similar tragedies.  —  If we are going to help avoid new generations of school violence …

Treat Russia Like the Terrorist It Is  —  Whether the Skripal poisoning can be conclusively pinned on Moscow is beside the point.  —  It's too soon to conclude whether the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are Moscow's latest overseas victims.

Info Commissioner tears into Google's ‘call us journalists’ trial defence  —  No wriggling out of regulation, snarls ICO chief  —  UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has declared war on Google, urging the High Court to throw out the ad biz's defences in the Right To Be Forgotten trial because they are “impermissibly broad”.

U.S. Media Long Carried Putin's Water - Odd Given Today's Hysteria  —  With special counsel Robert Mueller's latest indictments of alleged Russian trolls, Facebook is facing heavy fire from prominent critics at the New York Times, Washington Post, and other legacy media for uncritically spreading Russian misinformation.

'We're going to burn down your store!':  Trump supporters caught on camera threatening California book shop  —  A pair of Trump supporters were caught on camera this past weekend issuing unhinged threats to a left-wing bookstore in Berkeley, California.  —  The video, which was posted …

‘We hate black people’: British university student films racial slurs outside her bedroom … A British university student who was subjected to racial slurs outside her dormitory room videoed the incident and shared it on Twitter Wednesday, sparking widespread fury.

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Team Biden mulls far-out options to take on Trump in 2020  —  One possibility is picking a running mate out of the gate, perhaps someone younger or from outside of politics.  —  Joe Biden knows that winning in 2020 would require a shoot-the-moon set of circumstances and luck.

Trump called Gary Cohn a ‘globalist.’ Here's why some people find that offensive. … President Trump took a moment Thursday to label his outgoing chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, with a derogatory term frequently employed by some of his most fervent supporters.