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 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”.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

The Trump show goes to the Supreme Court  —  The Supreme Court has mostly been able to stay insulated from Trumpworld — it hasn't had to grapple with the impulses and contradictions that tie the rest of official Washington in knots.  But that will likely have to change today as the court takes up President Trump's travel ban.

2 Dallas PD officers critically wounded in shooting in north Dallas; suspect at large  —  A civilian was also shot in the incident, which happened at a Home Depot store off U.S. 75 and Forest Lane.  —  Two Dallas Police Department officers have been critically wounded in a shooting …

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 …

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 …

Backing for Trump isn't growing ahead of meeting with Kim Jong Un  —  34 percent of voters say they have no confidence at all in the president to handle threats posed by North Korea.  —  Voters aren't gaining confidence in President Donald Trump ahead of his planned meeting with North Korea's leader …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.