Privatizing the V.A. Will Hurt Veterans  —  It has been my greatest professional honor to serve our country's more than 20 million veterans.  Almost three years ago, I left my private sector job running hospitals and came to Washington to repay my gratitude to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.

EXCLUSIVE: More cabinet trouble for Trump?  EPA chief lived in condo tied to lobbyist ‘power couple’  —  For much of his first year in Washington, President Trump's EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt occupied prime real estate in a townhouse near the U.S. Capitol that is co-owned by the wife …

Trump Rings Up Roseanne Barr After Her Show Is a Ratings Winner  —  President Trump made a personal phone call on Wednesday to a political supporter with a huge megaphone — Roseanne Barr.  —  Mr. Trump called Ms. Barr to congratulate her on the revival of her comedy, “Roseanne,” and to thank her for her support.

Jeff Sessions Is Winning for Donald Trump.  If Only He Can Keep His Job  —  Sessions greets law-enforcement officers in Kentucky.  “The fundamental question is, Who rules the streets?” the U.S. Attorney General says.  “The government or the outlaws?”  Philip Montgomery for TIME

Crazed girls flood Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz with fan mail  —  Sun Sentinel  —  Mass murderer Nikolas Cruz is getting stacks of fan mail and love letters sent to the Broward County jail, along with hundreds of dollars in contributions to his commissary account.

Gov. Scott Walker calls special elections and Senate leader drops bill to sidestep court order  —  MADISON - After a three-month delay, a lightning-quick lawsuit and three orders from as many judges, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker called two special elections Thursday and GOP senators dropped legislation to block the contests.

Rival Korean leaders to meet April 27 in historic summit  —  PAJU, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27, the South announced Thursday, for a rare summit that could prove significant in global efforts …

Jeb fires Trump barbs at Yale talk  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush's psychiatrist wants him to move past the 2016 presidential election.  —  “I'm not going to talk about the 2016 election,” Bush joked on Tuesday in a talk sponsored by the The William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale.

FBI looked into Trump plans to build hotel in Latvia with Putin supporter  —  Exclusive: US authorities made inquiries even before 2016 election campaign into Trump property dealings in former Soviet Union … They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.

We may know why Paul Manafort has kept quiet.  But his bet is still risky.  —  Harry Litman practices law at the firm Constantine Cannon and teaches constitutional law at the University of California at San Diego.  He served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department …

Inside the Cutthroat Battle to Be the Next Hope Hicks  —  Hope Hicks plans to depart Washington by Good Friday, over a month after she resigned as the White House communications director on February 28.  She will leave behind a press operation that is inherently broken …

The House Exodus  —  How the historically high number of open seats affects the November calculus  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — As of this writing, just 379 of 435 House districts will have incumbents running in them this November.  That's the second-lowest total of the post-World War II era.

'You're a mother': Laura Ingraham faces boycott for taunting Parkland teen over college rejections … Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is calling for advertisers to boycott Laura Ingraham's show after the Fox News host taunted the high school senior over his college rejections.

ICE Now Detaining Pregnant Women, Thanks to Trump Order … Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ending its practice of automatically releasing pregnant women from detention, according to internal communications reviewed by The Daily Beast.  —  This is because of President Donald Trump's executive order …

Larry King Says the Second Amendment Was Created to Fight Off Slave Uprisings  —  Larry King has an interesting tidbit for why the Second Amendment should be repealed — and it's got to do with what he says is the real reason it was created ... to fight off slaves.

64% of assailants in mass attacks suffered from symptoms of mental illness, Secret Service report finds  —  WASHINGTON — A striking number of suspects linked to violent attacks in schools and other public places last year were stalked by symptoms of mental illness and nearly half were motivated …

“Otherwise, they subpoena”: White House lawyer Ty Cobb on why Trump is cooperating with Mueller  —  Vox speaks with the White House's top Russia lawyer.  —  White House lawyer Ty Cobb has one of the hardest jobs in Washington: persuading President Trump to continue cooperating …

Sacramento Home For Sale, But Not To Trump Supporters  —  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A Sacramento area home is up for sale, but it comes with a catch.  —  The homeowner has a political preference in mind for the next owner of her house, which has been in her family for decades.

‘Kiss Up, Kick Down’: Those Recalling Bolton's U.N. Confirmation Process Say He Hasn't Changed  —  WASHINGTON — The last time — perhaps the only time — John R. Bolton inspired bipartisan agreement, it was over the shared conclusion that he was perhaps the least diplomatic personality …

Ben Shapiro to take his podcast to radio  —  A favorite of young conservatives enters a talk-radio world dominated by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.  —  Ben Shapiro, the conservative firebrand whose clashes with liberal academia have helped him attract a huge social media following, will be taking his podcast to old-fashioned radio.

Kathy Griffin Is Returning to TV, and Still Taking on Trump  —  Almost a year after Kathy Griffin appeared in a widely condemned photograph that depicted her holding the severed head of President Trump, this comedian and actress is making a TV comeback of sorts.

Father crashes daughter's proposal, holds up sign reading ‘Say no’  —  It was a moment Allison Barron and Levi Bliss would remember for the rest of their lives.  —  No, we're not talking about Levi's proposal — although that was certainly memorable, too.  We're talking about the moment Allison's dad …

Tom Steyer's Impeachment Campaign Is Building Him a Political Death Star … Ask a professional Democrat for his or her opinion on billionaire political donor Tom Steyer, and the answer you often get is a variation of the following: Why would someone with so much money spend it all on a fruitless attempt to impeach Donald Trump?

Onion Inc. has unionized  —  We've decided to form a union here at Onion Inc., home of The A.V. Club and our sister sites The Onion and ClickHole.  First, all of The A.V. Club staff, along with an overwhelming majority of Onion Inc. staff, signed cards signaling our desire to unionize.

Tesla Urges Workers to Prove the ‘Haters’ Wrong and Ramp Up Production  —  Some Model S and X workers may switch to Model 3 line Friday  —  Reaching goal would be ‘incredible victory,’ executive says  —  Tesla Inc. is pulling out all the stops to hit its production goals …

Extreme vetting: State Dept. to demand tourists' social media history  —  New application will warn immigrants against female genital mutilation  —  The State Department will publish new rules this week that would require most visitors and immigrants to the U.S. to turn …

The Fascist Right Is Bloodied and Soiled  —  Recently, on a cold, gray Monday afternoon in East Lansing, Michigan, about 500 militant anti-fascists gathered in a parking lot with the intention of stopping Richard Spencer, the high-profile white nationalist, from speaking at Michigan State University.

Scalise comeback fuels talk of succeeding Ryan  —  ATOP THE OLYMPUS TLP OIL RIG IN THE GULF OF MEXICO — With one arm snaked around his crutches and the other gripping a handrail, Steve Scalise climbed gingerly up hundreds of stairs to the peak control room of a hulking oil rig 77 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

We finally got an answer about whether Trump knew about the Stormy Daniels payment … The White House and Michael Cohen have spent weeks declining to answer a basic question: Was President Trump involved in the $130,000 hush-money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels?  —  Well, we finally have a denial.

Los Angeles Rams' male cheerleaders make NFL history  —  SportsPulse: NFL owners voted on Tuesday to overturn the league's confusing catch rule, but will the new verbiage make a difference?  USA TODAY Sports' Mike Jones thinks so.  USA TODAY Sports  —  CONNECT