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.

What Will Trump Give Up for Peace with North Korea?  —  The announcement at the White House on Thursday evening that President Trump will meet the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, within two months raises more questions than it answers.  While the unpredictability of a meeting between …

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.

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 …

Why I could no longer serve this president  —  John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.  —  Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step …

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?

“Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA  —  The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend.  McMaster is likely next to go.  Then Jivanka.

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.

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.

Lloyd Blankfein Prepares to Exit Goldman Sachs as Soon as Year's End  —  Firm's co-presidents, Harvey Schwartz and David Solomon, are leading candidates to replace the 63-year-old CEO  —  Lloyd Blankfein is preparing to step down as Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s GS 1.34% chief executive as soon …

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.

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 …

Here's How The Trump Administration Has Been Quietly Dismantling Obama's Family Planning Policy  —  Over the past few months, HHS has taken quiet steps to move the agency toward supporting abstinence and “natural family planning” methods over contraception access.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC

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 …

O.J. Simpson, Confesses Murders to Book Publisher Judith Regan  —  O.J. Simpson — Confesses Murders To Book Publisher  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  O.J. Simpson had his lawyer call Judith Regan, the woman who published his book, ‘If I Did It,’ and said flat-out Simpson murdered Nicole Brown Simpson …

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 …

'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.

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 …

After a worried Howard student emailed her president about housing, he replied about her ‘tone’ … A Howard University student was concerned about whether she would get university housing, and wrote an email to the school's president explaining the predicament she and other students faced.

“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.

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 …