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 …

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.

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 D.C. federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and …

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 …

James Comey says Patrick Fitzgerald has been his lawyer ‘since I was fired’  —  Former FBI Director James Comey, left.  (Ralph Alswang/ABC via AP); Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, right, in 2013.  File Photo.  Chandler West/For Sun-Times Media  —  Ousted FBI Director James Comey told …

Don Blankenship, West Virginia Candidate, Lives Near Las Vegas and Mulled Chinese Citizenship  —  KEYSER, W.Va. — Don Blankenship is running for the United States Senate as a proud West Virginian with Appalachian roots, but his primary residence is a $2.4 million villa with palm trees and an infinity pool near Las Vegas.

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 …

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”.

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 …

Trump travel ban is focus of Supreme Court's last arguments  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last.  The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.

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 …

Vox rewrites history to make Barbara Bush-hating professor the victim  —  Vox's fundamental problem isn't that many of its writers are astonishingly ignorant.  It's that they are aggressively dishonest.  —  Consider, for example, how the website that promises to “explain the news” …

A Lynching Memorial Is Opening.  The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It.  —  The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday in Montgomery, Ala., is dedicated to victims of white supremacy.  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In a plain brown building sits an office run by the Alabama Board …

Democrat Wins New York Assembly Seat, the 40th Legislative Flip Since Trump's Inauguration  —  Democrat Steve Stern won his race in New York's 10th Assembly District on Tuesday night, a Long Island district that had been in the hands of Republicans for more than three decades.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Exclusive: Russian civilians helping Assad use military base back home - witnesses  —  MOLKINO, Russia (Reuters) - The Kremlin says it has nothing to do with Russian civilians fighting in Syria but on three recent occasions groups of men flying in from Damascus headed straight to a defense ministry base …

We must stop giving mass killers what they want … There it was again.  On the car radio after this morning's school drop-off: The killer's motives are unknown.  Maybe you heard it on the evening news.  Maybe it popped into your mobile device.  Maybe it appeared in the morning paper.

9,000 Nepalis face deportation as Trump administration prepares to cancel residency permits  —  The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to cancel the temporary residency permits of about 9,000 immigrants from Nepal, the Trump administration's latest move to expel foreigners living …