Exclusive: Mueller's team questions Russian oligarch about payments to Cohen  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney …

Trump Withdraws U.S. From ‘One-Sided’ Iran Nuclear Deal  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump declared on Tuesday that he was pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, unraveling the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, and isolating the United States among its Western allies.

9/11 Planner, Tortured by C.I.A., Asks to Tell Senators About Gina Haspel  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the C.I.A. has revived debate over the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program and still-murky questions about her involvement.

Risk to intelligence source who aided Russia investigation at center of latest showdown between Nunes and Justice Dept.  —  Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes …

LIVE UPDATES: Big stakes in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio bellwether primaries  —  The candidates who emerge victorious from a fierce faceoff Tuesday night in tough and pricey primary battles in Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia will provide critical clues into which party might …

Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web  —  An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation.  Should we be listening?  —  By Bari WeissPhotographs by Damon Winter  —  Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard …

Woman details nightmare date with ‘repulsive’ Schneiderman  —  She says their blind date started off like a dream, with him bearing flowers as he picked her up in a luxury car to take her to dinner at Bette Midler's trendy New Leaf restaurant in Fort Tryon Park.

Richard Cordray Just Won Ohio's Democratic Primary.  His Party Thinks Trump Will Help Make Him Governor.  —  “People in Ohio know there's an opportunity here we have not had in a very long time.”  —  Reporting From  —  Richard Cordray, the Democrat who entered the Ohio governor's race with endorsements …

6 months before midterms, both parties face challenges - CBS News poll  —  Six months before Election Day, the 2018 midterms look like a contest that's up for grabs — both for control of Congress, and for which arguments will dominate the campaign.  —  More voters say they'd prefer …

MSNBC Under Fire After Host Hugh Hewitt Helped Broker Meeting With EPA Leader  —  “We'll get back to you,” an MSNBC spokesman told THR when asked about the host's role in brokering a meeting between EPA head Scott Pruitt and lawyers at his firm representing a California water district.

Deputy shoots groundhog blocking traffic in Carroll County  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  ELDERSBURG, Md. —  A Carroll County sheriff's deputy shot a groundhog that was holding up traffic Monday morning.  —  The Sheriff's Office said the deputy was traveling …

Remarks to the Traveling Press  —  Remarks  —  Secretary of State  —  On Plane ert Yokota Air Base, Japan  —  SECRETARY POMPEO: So the first time it was truly an intel effort, in that the South Koreans had made representations about things that North Korea was preparing to do that Kim Jong-un …

US military wives threatened by Russian hackers posing as IS  —  PARIS (AP) — Army wife Angela Ricketts was soaking in a bubble bath in her Colorado home, leafing through a memoir, when a message appeared on her iPhone from hackers threatening to slaughter her family.  —  “Dear Angela!” the Facebook message read.

U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants.  Trump officials did it anyway.  —  In the past six months, the Trump administration has moved to expel more than 300,000 Central Americans and Haitians living and working legally in the United States, disregarding senior U.S. diplomats …

Comey casts doubt on judge who slammed Mueller probe  —  Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday criticized a judge who voiced skepticism about the prosecution of Paul Manafort, saying the judge's comments about overstepping were themselves going too far.