Kelly furious over leak of warning to Trump to not congratulate Putin  —  WaPo: Trump warned not to congratulate Putin  —  Washington (CNN)White House chief of staff John Kelly is furious about the quick leak of a warning to President Donald Trump to not congratulate his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin …

Austin bombing suspect, 24-year-old man, dies as police close in, chief says  —  5:50 a.m. update: The suspect in a string of bombings in Austin is dead, interim Austin Police Chief Brian Manley confirmed early Wednesday.  —  The name of the suspect, described only as a 24-year-old white man …

Trump Hacked the Media Right Before Our Eyes  —  Let's get one thing straight: I am not a fan of Facebook.  I'm confident that social media is a cancer on our private lives and a source of derangement in our politics.  I take it for granted that the tech barons are acquiring the power to tilt elections …

What The Dan Lipinski-Marie Newman Democratic Primary in Illinois Means  —  A race that was watched as a bellwether of the future of the Democratic Party, the contest between Rep. Daniel Lipinski and Marie Newman for the Democratic nomination to represent Illinois' 3rd Congressional District …

Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say  —  Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis, sources say … The data analytics firm that worked on the Donald Trump election campaign was offered material …

Watch: Tucker Carlson rails against America's demographic changes  —  “This is more change than human beings are designed to digest,” he said.  “How would you feel if that happened in your neighborhood?”  —  On his top-rated Fox News show Tuesday night, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson opined …

White House opposed Republican picked to replace Cochran  —  White House officials this week told Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that President Donald Trump did not plan to campaign for or endorse Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith if she was appointed to the state's open Senate seat, saying they were worried that the former Democrat would lose.

New poll finds Bredesen with narrow lead over Blackburn in US Senate race  —  Former Gov. Phil Bredesen has a slight edge over U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn in a new poll on the U.S. Senate race from a Democratic-leaning firm.  —  The poll, conducted by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling …

Karen McDougal is the woman with the best chance of bringing down Trump  —  There has been extensive media coverage of Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006.  Daniels' new attorney, Michael Avenatti, has been a fixture on TV.

Trump is right: The special counsel should never have been appointed  —  is right in saying that a special counsel should never have been appointed to investigate the so-called Russian connection.  There was no evidence of any crime committed by the Trump administration.

Mulvaney, Acosta Override Regulatory Office to Hide Tips Rule Data  — Sources: DOL released rule to permit restaurant tip sharing over objections of regulatory chief Neomi Rao  —  Labor Department leadership convinced OMB Director Mick Mulvaney to overrule the White House regulatory affairs chief …

YouTube Bans Firearm Sales and How-To Videos, Prompting Backlash  —  Google's new policy prohibits promotion of guns, bump stocks  —  At least one video gun blogger ditched YouTube for PornHub  —  YouTube, a popular media site for firearms enthusiasts, this week quietly introduced tighter restrictions …

Breitbart's readership plunges  —  Breitbart, the alt-right news site whose executive chairman Steve Bannon was pushed out in January after feuding with President Donald Trump, has lost about half its readership according to comScore, raising questions about its future.

A University of Wisconsin campus pushes plan to drop 13 majors — including English, history and philosophy … (Note: An earlier version dropped part of the university's full statement because of coding errors and said the school faced a $4.5 million deficit over two days rather than two years.

Police fired 20 times at South Sacramento man fatally shot while holding a cellphone  —  Stephan Clark was holding only his cellphone when he was fatally shot Sunday night by two Sacramento police officers who fired at him 20 times, the department said Tuesday.

Will We Ever Learn What Bob Mueller Knows?  —  Over the weekend, Jon Lovett—a former speechwriter for President Obama and a fixture of the Pod Save America podcast—tweeted an interesting question: … Later, on the show itself, he and his cohosts discussed the matter.  “It's an open question,” Lovett said.

Fed hikes rates and raises GDP forecast again  — The Federal Reserve raises rates for the sixth time since the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee began raising rates off near-zero in December 2015.  — “The economic outlook has strengthened in recent months,” the committee says in its post-meeting statement.

FBI searching home linked to Tallahassee white supremacist after false claims  —  The FBI is searching a home linked to a Tallahassee white supremacist in connection with false claims he made about ties between his paramilitary group and the alleged Parkland school shooter.

Children's Book About Mike Pence's Gay Bunny Jumps to No. 1  —  This is the story of a little gay bunny.  —  A little gay bunny who belongs to Vice President Mike Pence.  —  A little fictional gay bunny whose book is beating the memoir of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, on the Amazon best-seller list.