Mueller Asked Ford for Records After It Rejected Michael Cohen Consulting Overture  —  Trump's personal lawyer touted his proximity to the president  —  WASHINGTON)— Michael Cohen, who has served as President Donald Trump's personal attorney, made an overture to provide consulting services …

White House Refuses to Apologize for Aide's Joke About McCain  —  WASHINGTON — The White House declined on Friday to renounce or apologize for an aide whose joke at a meeting that Senator John McCain was irrelevant because he would soon die went viral, outraging relatives, friends and admirers of the ailing lawmaker.

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians.  Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord  —  The Russian company charged with orchestrating a wide-ranging effort to meddle in the 2016 presidential election overwhelmingly focused its barrage of social media advertising …

Transcript: White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly's Interview With NPR  —  Editor's note: This post contains language some may find offensive.  —  NPR's Southwest correspondent John Burnett speaks with White House chief of staff John Kelly.  Here's a partial transcript of their conversation, which has been edited for clarity.

Rudy Giuliani showed up in court.  His client wasn't the President.  —  (CNN)One day after Rudy Giuliani announced he was leaving his law firm to offer his “sole concentration” to President Donald Trump, Giuliani appeared in a Broward County, Florida, courtroom Friday to represent a woman accused in an insurance fraud case.

Black activist jailed for his Facebook posts speaks out about secret FBI surveillance  —  Now he is believed to be the first prosecuted under a secretive US effort to track so-called ‘black identity extremists’  —  Rakem Balogun thought he was dreaming when armed agents in tactical gear stormed his apartment.

Pompeo: US hopes to have NKorea as ‘close partner’ not enemy  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States aspires to have North Korea as a “close partner” and not an enemy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday, noting that the U.S. has often in history become good friends with former adversaries.

Without Nuclear Deal, U.S. Expects Resurgence in Iranian Cyberattacks  —  Inside the Pentagon's cyberwarfare unit, analysts have been closely monitoring internet traffic out of Iran.  Six thousand miles away, Israel's elite cyber intelligence Unit 8200 has been running war games in anticipation …

Time for Europe to Join the Resistance  —  U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal marks the temporary suspension of the trans-Atlantic alliance.  What now?  —  Trump's renown is rooted in American hero myths.  Trump says that women like Carla Bruni lust after him …

Top State Department Nuclear Expert Announces Resignation After Trump Iran Deal Exit  —  Officials warn of brain drain across government offices.  —  One of the State Department's top experts on nuclear proliferation resigned this week after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal …

Pruitt's Dinner With Cardinal Accused of Abuse Was Kept Off Public Schedule  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, dined last year in Rome with Cardinal George Pell, a prominent climate-science denialist and Vatican leader who was also facing sexual abuse allegations.

GOP has few takers for 2020 convention  —  Cities across the country are turning down the opportunity to host the 2020 Republican National Convention, where President Trump  —  is expected to be nominated for a second term.  —  The cities that have rejected hosting duties insist Trump …

If Good Reporting Was In Any Way Useful to Conservatives, They'd Already Be Doing It  —  Ben Howe, a longtime conservative media veteran and former Red State contributor (until the site's owners purged the site of its anti-Trump voices), appears in the Daily Beast with a polite request of his compatriots:

Police drag 65-year-old woman from car at traffic stop: Video  —  A police department in Georgia has opened an internal investigation into why an elderly female driver was dragged out of her vehicle at a traffic stop, according to a Facebook post by Alpharetta police.  —  “I just panicked.

Democratic House candidate in Pennsylvania deletes tweets blasting progressives, praising Trump  —  (CNN)A Democrat running for a US House seat in Pennsylvania offered praise for then-President-elect Donald Trump, called on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and said progressives …

The Red and the Brown  —  On Aug. 23, 1939, the foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and the Third Reich secretly met in Moscow to sign a treaty of non-aggression.  The infamous “red-brown pact” paved the way for the Nazis' conquest of large swathes of central Europe.

Congressional F-bomb ad set to air Friday at noon  —  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) - People see a lot of outrageous political ads, but it's not usually the language that's controversial.  —  Albuquerque City Councilor Pat Davis wants people to see his congressional campaign spot …

‘Tricked by the devil.’ They backed Trump.  Now, his foreign labor cuts may ruin them.  —  Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business.  Now, he says, the Trump administration's restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.

Kushner-backed health care project gets ‘devastating’ review  —  The first stage of a multibillion-dollar military digital health program championed by Jared Kushner has been riddled with problems so severe they could have led to patient deaths, according to a report obtained by POLITICO.

D.C.'s Biggest Homeless Shelter Is About to Close.  Will Amazon Take Its Place?  —  On a recent spring evening, a group of mothers at D.C. General Family Homeless Shelter were enjoying the weather, chatting outside near the building's entrance.  Two young boys whizzed past on scooters, colorful lights flashing.

SEAL Team leaders investigated for alleged sexual misconduct  —  The commander and the senior enlisted officer of a SEAL Team currently deployed to Africa are being investigated for allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment, officials said.  —  Both senior leaders have been sent …

Why Did the US Ambassador to Germany Defend a Human Trafficker?  —  It's no secret that the Trump administration, in office for almost 16 months now, has a devilish time filling top positions.  An unprecedented number of plum jobs in our nation's capital, including senior ones of the kind …

Richard Overton, America's Oldest Veteran, Is Cooler Than You  —  Richard Overton, America's oldest veteran — and oldest man, period — is cooler than you.  That's because Overton is cooler than pretty much everyone.  The WWII veteran turned a stunning 112 years old today …

FBI Issued Vekselberg Foundation Warning in 2014  —  Viktor Vekselberg - the sanctioned Russian oligarch who may have funneled money to Michael Cohen through an American company tied to his own - is the president of a foundation the FBI warned U.S. companies to steer clear of back in 2014.  —  NPR: