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 …

Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.

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 …

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.

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 …

When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls  —  It's hard to tell who started it.  —  Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?

Inside Trump's Trade War: How the Protectionists Beat the Free Traders  —  From the administration's early days, free-trade-advocate Gary Cohn battled tariff proponent Peter Navarro—while the president waited  —  WASHINGTON—From his earliest days in office, President Donald Trump instigated …

DNC vice chair Keith Ellison and Louis Farrakhan: ‘No relationship’? … Ellison, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and one of two Muslim members of Congress, faced questions about his association with Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, when he sought the chairmanship of the DNC in 2017.

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.

Biden aides prepping for 2020 run: report  —  is moving closer to a 2020 run for president, with close aides telling Politico that they are preparing for a number of scenarios ahead of a possible campaign announcement.  —  Politico reports that a close circle of Biden aides is preparing …

A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  —  FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag.  It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.

Nonfarm payrolls increase by 313,000 in February vs. 200,000 est.  — Nonfarm payrolls rose by 313,000 in February while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000.  — Wage growth was muted, however, with average hourly earnings up 2.6 percent on an annualized basis …

The Economy Is Looking Awfully Strong  —  Blockbuster job growth in February suggests this economy, already nine years into expansion, may yet have room to run.  —  There are 39 pages in the Labor Department's February report on the employment situation in the United States …

'It's killing the agency': Ugly power struggle paralyzes Trump's plan to fix veterans' care  —  Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is managing the government's second-largest bureaucracy from a fortified bunker atop the agency's Washington headquarters.

Amazon Knows Why Alexa Was Laughing at Its Customers  —  For weeks, users of Amazon's digital assistant, Alexa, have reported versions of the same unsettling event: being startled as they went about their day by Alexa letting out an eerie laugh.  —  Now, Amazon says that it knows why that's …

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 …

“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”  —  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, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.

Mike Pence urged ABC News star Joy Behar to apologize to Christians she offended - she didn't listen  —  Joy Behar apologized to Mike Pence for mocking his faith, but the vice president didn't get what he really wanted: A bigger mea culpa to “millions of Christians” who watch “The View.”

Trump is all bluster on trade, but Democrats haven't shown voters they can do better  —  Democrats have yet to develop an economic message to counter Trump's talk on trade and tariffs. … Our commander in chief, noted admirer of military parades, might finally have his war: a trade war.

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.

Newsweek Exec in Secret Tape: We Gotta Turn the Business Around or We're Dead … Two weeks ago, Newsweek Media Group Chief Content Officer Dayan Candappa said the company had just five weeks to turn around its business, or it might have to shutter for good.