A huge clue about Mueller's endgame  —  Axios has learned that special counsel Robert Mueller has focused on events since the election — not during the campaign — in his conversations with President Trump's lawyers.  The top two topics that Mueller has expressed interest in so far …

Cambridge Analytica scrambles to halt Channel 4 exposé  —  Cambridge Analytica, the data firm alleged to have used the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge in its work for Donald Trump's election campaign, is trying to stop the broadcast …

What Hope Hicks Knows  —  The departure of the Trump whisperer has left the White House in even deeper chaos.  Which surely pleases some outsiders angling to get back in.  —  On the morning of Wednesday, February 28, Hope Hicks arrived at the White House just after 8 a.m. Within a week …

Trump had senior staff sign nondisclosure agreements.  They're supposed to last beyond his presidency. … Back in April 2016, when the notion of Donald Trump in the White House still seemed fanciful, The Post's Robert Costa and Bob Woodward sat down with Trump, and Costa, at one point …

Sons of Rich Black Families Fare No Better Than Sons of Working-Class Whites  —  Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping …

AP Exclusive: Kushner Cos. filed false NYC housing paperwork  —  NEW YORK (AP) — When the Kushner Cos. bought three apartment buildings in a gentrifying neighborhood of Queens in 2015, most of the tenants were protected by special rules that prevent developers from pushing them out, raising rents and turning a tidy profit.

D.C. lawmaker says recent snowfall caused by ‘Rothschilds controlling the climate’ … A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.  —  D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. …

Two injured in explosion in Austin, police say … Austin police are investigating an explosion on the city's southwest side that caused multiple injuries, authorities said Sunday night.  —  Two men in their 20s were injured in the explosion on the 4800 block of Dawn Song Dr. …

Why I'm Leaving The GOP  —  The former Republican congressman from Hawaii says he can no longer remain in a party led by Donald Trump.  —  Today, after much consideration, I abandon my party because I am unwilling to abandon my principles.  I can no longer stand with a Republican Party …

Public Troubled by ‘Deep State’  —  Bi-partisan concern that government is tracking U.S. citizens  —  West Long Branch, NJ - A majority of the American public believe that the U.S. government engages in widespread monitoring of its own citizens and worry that the U.S. government could be invading their own privacy.

Kushner Companies confirms meeting with Qatar on financing … Jared Kushner's father met with Qatar's finance minister three months after President Trump's inauguration, a New York City session at which funding for a financially troubled real estate project was discussed, the company acknowledged Sunday.

Republicans bet their Senate majority on Trump  —  His approval rating is perpetually underwater, and the pandemonium surrounding his presidency only grows the longer he's in the job.  —  But Senate Republicans are nevertheless making a counterintuitive, all-in bet that President Donald Trump …

Inside Apple's Secret Plan to Develop and Build its Own Screens  —  The company has a secret manufacturing facility in California  —  Apple Watch to be first Apple product with MicroLED technology  —  Apple Inc. is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time …

Will Trump let Assad get away with using chemical weapons in Syria?  —  The Trump administration maintains that it won't tolerate chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al-Assad's regime and its partners in Syria, despite reported widespread use of chlorine gas, along with credible reports of the nerve agent sarin.

During an interview last week with an Indian news publication, I was asked about 2016, and whether Trump is the “virus” or a “symptom” of something deeper going on in American society.  Like most Americans, people overseas remain shocked and dismayed at what they are witnessing daily.

Disney to ask Toronto court to seal documents in Harvey Weinstein sex assault lawsuit  —  A Toronto courtroom on Monday will hear Disney argue for a publication ban on its employment agreements with the disgraced Miramax executive.  —  What was the nature of Walt Disney Co.'s dealings with disgraced Miramax executive Harvey Weinstein?

Kamala Harris Is Dreaming Big  —  Photographed by Zoe Ghertner, Vogue, April 2018  —  IT'S A COLD JANUARY NIGHT in D.C., and I'm at the Hart Senate Office Building, trailing U.S. Senator Kamala Harris into a conference room.  Inside, a group of young Latino congressional staffers has gathered …

This barber tried for years to cut an autistic boy's hair.  Then they had a breakthrough. … The first time 10-year-old Jordie Rowland came into the barber shop it was a “disaster,” barber Lisa Ann McKenzie said.  —  Jordie, who has autism, struggled with his parents to run back outside …

Higher Deposit Rates May Finally Be Coming to Your Bank Account  —  With Fed poised to raise interest rates a sixth time, savers so far have seen few rewards  —  Is the sixth time the charm?  The Federal Reserve has raised short-term rates five times since late 2015, but banks largely stood pat …