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 …

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.

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.

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.

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:

Meghan McCain asks how WH staffer who joked about her father's brain cancer still has a job  —  White House aide joked of a ‘dying’ McCain  —  Washington (CNN)Meghan McCain responded Friday to a White House staffer who joked about her father's brain cancer, saying her family was doing …

Giuliani: Trump special counsel interview decision delayed  —  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump and his lawyers probably won't decide whether to sit down for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller until after the president's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month, according to the president's legal team.

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 …

Maggie Haberman and the Toxic Swamp  —  On this week's episode of my podcast, I Have to Ask, I spoke to Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for the New York Times and an analyst at CNN.  She previously worked at the New York Post and Politico, has been at the Times since 2015 …

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.

The Democrats' new star is an Obama with bite  —  As Gina Haspel, the first female nominee for director of the Central Intelligence Agency, found out Wednesday, it doesn't bode well to face Senator Kamala Harris at a congressional hearing.  —  Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was once …

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 …

The Price of Getting Inside Trump's Head  —  Michael Cohen has profited from it, but we're all Trumpologists now.  —  On Easter Sunday, Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, was holding forth in the green room at ABC News in New York before going on the air.

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 …

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.

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 …

Fox & Friends' Hegseth Trashes NY Times For Not Covering ISIS Capture Story First Reported by NY Times  —  Fox & Friends host Pete Hegseth had some fun mocking his favorite punching bag on Friday morning: The New York Times, which he proudly calls the “Failing New York Times,” a genius witticism he borrowed from Trump.

They mock vegans and eat 4lb of steak a day: meet ‘carnivore dieters’  —  For the last 18 months, Shawn Baker has eaten around 4lb of steak every day.  —  “I've got two rib-eye steaks waiting for me when I get off this call,” said the trained orthopaedic surgeon from Orange County, California.

Mothers Day  —  This Mother's Day, talk to your child about the Republican Party. www.nextgenamerica.org/register

How the Online Left Fuels the Right  —  I think I know what it feels like to be “red-pilled,” the alt-right's preferred metaphor for losing one's faith in received assumptions and turning toward ideas that once seemed dangerous.  —  For me, it happened over several visits to the West Bank.

The Trump Administration Just Rolled Back Rules That Protect Transgender Prisoners  —  The Bureau of Prisons is making the change after four Christian women sued.  —  The Trump administration on Friday rolled back rules that allowed transgender inmates to use facilities that match their gender identity …

Australia's worst mass shooting in 22 years leaves family of 7 dead  —  CANBERRA, Australia — A family of seven including four children was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday at a rural property in southwest Australia in what could be the country's worst mass shooting in 22 years, police and news media said.