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.

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.

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.

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 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.”

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

Daily Beast Sues Department of Justice Over Nunes Memo  —  The Daily Beast has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for multiple alleged violations of the nation's privacy laws.  —  Filed on behalf of the media outlet by attorneys with the James Madison Project …

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.

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 …

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.

Who has any use for conservative intellectuals?  —  The firing of Kevin Williamson has led, predictably, to outrage from other conservatives, and in particular from anti-Trumpers like Bill Kristol and Erick Erickson.  I can't help thinking that much of their outrage is rooted in fear.

Trump Says An Unprecedented Number Of Rapes Are Occurring During The Caravan.  Our Reporter Is There And Says That's False.  —  The president was reviving remarks he made at his campaign debut about Mexicans being rapists.  —  Reporting From  —  Traveling with the caravan in Mexico