Job Changes for E.P.A. Officials Who Questioned Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — At least five officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, four of them high-ranking, were reassigned or demoted, or requested new jobs in the past year after they raised concerns about the spending and management …

For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …

Mueller probe tracking down Trump business partners, with Cohen a focus of queries  —  WASHINGTON  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators this week questioned an associate of the Trump Organization who was involved in overseas deals with President Donald Trump's company in recent years.

Mueller moved to seize bank accounts in Manafort probe  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office moved to seize bank accounts at three different financial institutions last year just one day before former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was indicted, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing Thursday.

By Firing Kevin Williamson,The Atlantic Shows It Can't Handle Real Ideological Diversity  —  Kevin Williamson has been fired from The Atlantic.  Since leaving National Review in March, the conservative writer has managed to produce just one column at his new perch, in which he declared the death of the libertarian moment.

Saudi crown prince says Jared Kushner handed him U.S. intelligence  —  Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman bragged of receiving classified US intelligence from Jared Kushner and using it as part of a purge of ‘corrupt’ princes and businessmen, DailyMail.com can disclose.

Lewandowski to Democrats: I'm not answering your ‘f—ing’ questions  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains language some people may find offensive.  —  (CNN)Corey Lewandowski had a blunt message for Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee: He wasn't going to answer their “fucking” questions.

Trump's Most Influential White Nationalist Troll Is A Middlebury Grad Who Lives In Manhattan  —  Twitter troll “Ricky Vaughn” had a bigger influence on the 2016 election than NBC News and the Drudge Report.  Here's who he really is.  —  Who is Ricky Vaughn?

Mulvaney gives big pay bumps to his hires at consumer agency  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's appointee to oversee the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has given big pay raises to the deputies he has hired to help him run the bureau, according to salary records obtained by The Associated Press.

Trump fires next shot in China trade war  —  President Trump tonight says he's directed the U.S. Trade Representative to consider an additional $100 billion in tariffs on China, and that the administration may take other actions to “protect our farmers and agricultural interests.”

Britain Pinpoints Secretive Russian Facility That Made Deadly Nerve Agent  —  Britain has identified the secretive Russian facility where it believes the deadly Novichok nerve agent, used in the attempted murders of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, was made.

Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data  — Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.

These Messages Show Julian Assange Talked About Seeking Hacked Files From Guccifer 2.0  —  DMs tie Assange to a Russia-linked hacker — and raise new questions about his Seth Rich conspiracy theory.  —  Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016 …

Why I'm suing for my right to flip off the president  —  Juli Briskman is a marketing and public relations professional living in Sterling.  —  One sunny Saturday last fall, I hopped on my bike and headed out for a ride near my home in Virginia.  President Trump decided to spend …

Trump's must-see TV: Judge Jeanine's show and her positive take on the president … President Trump and Chief of Staff John F. Kelly do not regularly give on-the-record interviews.  But both men recently sat down with Jeanine Pirro, the fiery Fox News host whom Trump loves …

Mueller has evidence raising questions about Prince testimony on meeting with Russian: Sources  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.

Potomac Yard Metro station is over budget and behind schedule … The Potomac Yard Metro station is going to cost $52 million more than previously estimated and might not open for passenger service until 2022, Alexandria city officials said this week.  —  Alexandria and Metro blame increases …

Conor McGregor reportedly arrested, expected to be charged with assault after ravaging UFC event … Conor McGregor responded to UFC President Dana White's decision to strip him of his lightweight belt in typically understated fashion: by tweeting an unprintable insult, crashing a pre-fight press event …

Number of women running for US House seats sets record  —  CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — The number of women running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives set a record Thursday, the vast majority of them Democrats motivated by angst over President Donald Trump and policies of the Republican-controlled Congress.

Woman says Las Vegas GOP campaign adviser made her his sex slave  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks (Photo obtained by Las Vegas Review-Journal)  —  GOP consultant Benjamin Sparks is pictured in this undated photo obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.  Sparks is accused of sexually enslaving and battering his ex fiancee.