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.

Here's a Theory About That $1.6 Million Payout From a GOP Official to a Playboy Model  —  On May 2, Rudy Giuliani revealed that the Trump administration has been lying for months about the fact that Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen for the $130,000 he fronted …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Univision Is A Fucking Mess  —  Kate Conger, David Uberti, and Laura Wagner  —  This is the story of how corporate raiding, complacency, excess, and incompetence are gutting a media company that matters to tens of millions of people.  It's not a novel story, and perhaps not even scandalous …

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 …

Orrin Hatch apologizes to John McCain for funeral comment: 'I shouldn't have said anything' … Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has apologized to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for saying it was “ridiculous” for McCain to request that President Trump not attend his funeral, a remark that drew a swift rebuke from McCain's daughter Meghan McCain.

First Mueller convict reports to prison  —  Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan turned himself in Monday after being sentenced for lying to investigators.  —  A Dutch attorney now has the dubious distinction of being the first person imprisoned in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation …

New Florida poll shows dead heat governors' races, Rick Scott edging Bill Nelson  —  More than 42 percent of Republicans and Democrats remain undecided in gubernatorial primaries  —  Rick Scott has pulled narrowly ahead of Bill Nelson in Florida's closely watched U.S. Senate race …

Alleged Israeli strike reported in Syria after IDF sounds alarm in north  —  Air raid comes hours after IDF reports ‘abnormal’ activities by Iranian forces in Syria; explosion rocks el-Kiswah region, an area said to contain an Iranian base  —  Syrian state media reported on Tuesday night …