Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On  —  MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted …

For Many, Life in Trump's Orbit Ends in a Crash Landing  —  WASHINGTON — Another day, another casualty.  Or two.  —  By the time the sun set Thursday, Dr. Ronny L. Jackson was a failed cabinet nominee whose life had been picked apart for public consumption, and Michael D. Cohen was back in court facing possible criminal prosecution.

North and South Korea Set Bold Goals: A Final Peace and No Nuclear Arms  —  SEOUL, South Korea — The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to work to remove all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula and, within the year, pursue talks with the United States to declare …

Republicans on House Intelligence Panel Clear Trump Campaign in Russian Meddling  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence during a monthslong investigation that the Trump campaign aided Russia's election meddling, the lawmakers concluded …

Kellyanne Conway tells ‘Fox & Friends’ that Trump wants to come on once a month … Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway  —  told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Friday morning that President Trump  —  wants to come on the show regularly.  —  “The president has said he would like …

Sean Hannity: 400% rise in eviction orders since host bought Georgia apartment complex  —  Records show 61 different residents have received notice to vacate their homes in Perry complex since Hannity took over in 2014  —  The number of eviction orders obtained against tenants …

‘Mass firing’ at conservative site RedState  —  Salem Media, owner of the influential conservative outlet RedState, froze the site on Friday and dismissed many of its writers.  —  Bloggers were locked out of their accounts — some just temporarily, while the cuts were made, and others permanently.

Tenney's red-meat rhetoric alarms House Republicans  —  Rep. Claudia Tenney learned last week that she'd been outraised by her Democratic opponent for the second quarter in a row, a sign that her hold on a moderate upstate New York district is in peril.  —  But if GOP leaders thought …

The ex-con coal executive the GOP fears could be their nominee in West Virginia Senate race  —  Beckley, West Virginia (CNN)Watching Republican Senate candidate Don Blankenship on the campaign trail, he does not immediately come across as someone his party leaders would be concerned about.

Claims by Joy Reid's Cybersecurity Expert Fall Apart … MSNBC host Joy Reid claims that recently unearthed homophobic articles attributed to her are fakes.  And she says a cybersecurity consultant has proof that her old blog has been hacked.  —  But that consultant, Jonathan Nichols, had trouble producing the promised evidence.

Will Cohen Flip?  Tenuous Finances May Provide Crucial Clues  —  Taxes, loans, and collapsing medallion values take their toll  —  Does he have compromising information on Trump he can trade?  —  In the two weeks since federal agents seized the files of Michael Cohen …

Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)  —  Linda Vester had a reputation for covering tough stories.  As a war correspondent for NBC News in the '90s, she spent three tours of duty in the Middle East and took two assignments in Africa.

House Chaplain Was Asked to Resign.  He Still Doesn't Know Why.  —  The chaplain of the House said on Thursday that he was blindsided when Speaker Paul D. Ryan asked him to resign two weeks ago, a request that he complied with but was never given a reason for.

Scenes Unseen: The Summer of '78  —  Six months ago, a parks official cleaning out an office came across two cardboard boxes that had been sitting around for decades.  —  Inside were 2,924 color slides, pictures made in parks across New York City's five boroughs late in the summer of 1978.

The Puzzle of Sarah Huckabee Sanders  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders is best known to the American public for running the White House daily briefing, a televised performance in which, without so much as raising her voice, the president's press secretary manages to deflect questions …

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days.  He's not the only one who had to prove his citizenship  —  Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans.  —  But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens …

Rob Schneider thinks ‘Saturday Night Live’ is ruining the joke  —  “Saturday Night Live,” you can do it — better.  —  Comedian Rob Schneider burst out on the scene on “Saturday Night Live” in the 1990s, but nearly three decades later, he thinks the hit NBC comedy series is bursting …

Dear President Macron: Le Bromance with Trump Won't End Well  —  Just ask congressional Republicans.  —  Right before France's President Emmanuel Macron flew back to Paris from Washington on Wednesday, he popped out of a conference room at George Washington University to personally greet a final set of visitors.

There Is No Campus Free Speech Crisis: A Close Look at the Evidence  —  The campus free speech debate is heating up.  Last month I made the case (first in a Twitter thread and then again at the Washington Post's The Monkey Cage) that there is no campus free speech crisis.

Despite So Much Winning, The Right Feels Like It's Losing  —  Diamond and Silk caused a spectacle on Capitol Hill on Thursday.  —  “Facebook along with other social media sites have taken aggressive actions to silence conservative voices such as ourselves,” the pro-Trump social media stars charged.

National Income and Product Accounts  —  Gross Domestic Product: First Quarter 2018 (Advance Estimate)  —  Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.3 percent in the first quarter of 2018  —  (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

No charges against West Milwaukee officers in death of a mentally ill man hit 18 times with Taser  —  Two West Milwaukee police officers who broke down a mentally ill man's door and tased him in the shower 18 times before he died will not be criminally charged, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided.

After feting French leader, German leader comes to White House for toned-down affair  —  On the heels of a festive state visit in honor of French President Emanuel Macron, President Trump is set to welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House Friday for a more subdued business meeting.

What Do We Do With These Men?  —  The bad men are plotting their comebacks.  —  In recent days, Page Six reported that the former CBS anchor Charlie Rose, accused by employees of acts ranging from groping to walking around naked in their presence, is shopping a return to television.  His new project?

Brooks Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears  —  Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks suggested in a radio interview that Republicans are retiring en masse because of assassination fears.  —  Brooks was speaking on “The Dale Jackson Show” about the first Republican practice …