VA nominee drunkenly banged on female employee's door during overseas trip, sources say  —  (CNN)During an overseas trip in 2015, Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, was intoxicated and banged on the hotel room door of a female employee, according to four sources familiar with the allegation.

Mulvaney's Advice to Bankers: Up Campaign Donations to Diminish Consumer Watchdog  —  WASHINGTON — Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations …

A National Security Aide's Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner  —  WASHINGTON — In the ceaseless churn of the Trump administration, there are many ways to leave the White House.  Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the ousted national security adviser, exited to the applause of colleagues who lined the West Wing parking lot.

Federal judge: Trump administration must accept new DACA applications … A federal judge in Washington on Tuesday delivered the toughest blow yet to the Trump administration's efforts to end deportation protections for undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers,” ordering the administration …

Addressing Recent Claims of “Manipulated” Blog Posts in the Wayback Machine  —  Some recent press stories (1, 2) have discussed archived blog posts of a prominent journalist, Joy Ann Reid, in the Wayback Machine and her claims that some of these posts were “manipulated” by an “unknown, external party”.

Sessions Declines to Recuse Himself From Probe Into Trump Lawyer  —  Attorney general's recusal from Mueller probe angered Trump  —  Sessions still may step back from some issues involving Cohen  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation …

Miss Universe 2013 Host Thomas Roberts Confirms: Trump Stayed Overnight in Moscow … In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion …

EXCLUSIVE: Comey Has Brought On Former U.S. Attorney Pat Fitzgerald As One Of His Lawyers  —  This story was updated at 8:40 p.m. with Fitzgerald's and Comey's confirmations of TPM's previously reported information.  —  Fired FBI Director James Comey has retained former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald …

Toronto mass-murder suspect Alek Minassian linked to incel rebellion and praise for misogynistic killer Elliot Rodger  —  Was today's mass murder in Toronto motivated by hatred of women?  —  That's a question being asked after a social-media account with the suspect's name praised an obscure movement of men.

Pruitt's Security Chief Moonlighted for Tabloid Publisher That Helped Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during …

Two Officers Shot, One Dead After Shooting Near Home Depot in Northeast Dallas  —  Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall is expected to provide an update at 7:30 p.m., which can be viewed live in the above video player.  —  Two Dallas police officers and a civilian have been shot near The Home Depot in northeast Dallas, police confirm.

Video shows Port Authority commissioner telling cops: ‘You may shut the f— up!’  —  Full video: Port Authority commissioner confronts police during N.J. traffic stop  —  Flashing her commissioner's gold badge and boasting of her influence during a routine traffic stop involving her daughter …

Prime Minister Issues Friendly Reminder To UK Parents That The State Owns Their Children  —  LONDON—Upon the news of a high court ordering life support removed from 2-year-old Alfie Evans, English Prime Minister Theresa May issued a brief, friendly reminder to citizens of the U.K …

ERIC TRUMP VOWS TO FIGHT RESIDENTS WHO WANT TO STRIP ‘VISIONARY’ FATHER'S NAME FROM NEW YORK CONDO  —  Eric Trump has vowed to fight the residents of a New York condo who want the Trump name removed from the building's façade.  —  Residents of Upper West Side apartment block 200 Riverside Blvd. voted …

EXCLUSIVE: My Trump campaign lover wanted to abort baby we conceived when his wife was pregnant and said Kellyanne Conway had ‘shriveled up fun bags’, claims his ex in bitter court case which he calls ‘harassment’  — Former Trump communications director Jason Miller and ex-campaign adviser …

Holding Up a Mirror to the Intellectuals of the Left  —  Tending toward conformity and enforcing political correctness, the left wing is missing out on the contributions of many of its own thinkers.  —  Paul Krugman recently made a splash in a New York Times column by suggesting there are no …

Arizona Special Election Results: Eighth House District  —  CandidatePartyVotesPct.  —  Rep.  —  82,294  —  Hiral Tipirneni  —  Dem.  —  73,188  —  155,482 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 143 precincts)  —  The former Arizona state senator Debbie Lesko fended off an energetic Democratic challenge …

Hannity's shady real estate deals just came back to bite him in humiliating fashion  —  A quicksand of conflicts of interest has enveloped Fox News entertainer Sean Hannity in the wake of revelations that he hired President Trump's hush money fixer Michael Cohen as his attorney.

How a lifelong anti-gun liberal became an NRA life member  —  One guy held a gun in my face and the other held a gun to the back of my head.  But after 33 years of being an anti-gun advocate, my views didn't change overnight.  —  I was 14 years old when John Lennon was killed …

Trump White House Offered to Help Prep Scott Pruitt for Hearings.  EPA Told the White House to ‘Get Lost’ … Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces a make-or-break moment on Thursday, when he's slated for a pair of congressional hearings, but he'll be heading to the Hill without …

The New York Times with one hell of a correction about Israel  —  The New York Times may have the correction of the year, and it's only April.  —  The paper published a report this weekend detailing the steady rise of Facebook's head of news partnerships, Campbell Brown.

The great exodus out of America's blue cities  —  Am I the only one in my spinning class at Equinox in Manhattan who's fed up paying $200 every month for a gym with clean showers, $3,000 in rent every month for an apartment without cockroaches and $8 every morning for a cup of coffee?

A Miracle in Liverpool  —  A witness against the culture of death.  —  Alfie Evans was supposed to die.  On Monday evening, doctors at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool, England, removed the 23-month-old toddler's respirator following an effective death sentence handed down by Britain's High Court of Justice.