Democrats Go All-Out to Avoid Disaster in California House Races  —  IRVINE, Calif. — National Democrats, confronting mushrooming political chaos across Southern California, are pouring millions of dollars into congressional races to avert a self-inflicted disaster that could undermine their chances at taking control of the House.

Ireland votes to overturn its abortion ban, ‘culmination of a quiet revolution,’ prime minister says  —  DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish have swept aside one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the developed world in a landslide vote that reflects Ireland's emergence as a socially liberal country …

Trump's actions on North Korea have consequences.  Here's a list of them.  —  By Anne Applebaum Columnist May 25 at 7:55 PM Email the author Follow @anneapplebaum  —  It was mocked when it first appeared a few days ago.  But now the White House commemorative coin — the one struck to mark …

As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build … When a Nashville man named Matthew Charles was released from prison early in 2016 after a sentence reduction, he'd spent almost half his life behind bars.  But in a rare move …

Who killed Bobby Kennedy?  His son, RFK Jr., doesn't believe it was Sirhan Sirhan.  —  LOS ANGELES — Just before Christmas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pulled up to the massive Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center, a California state prison complex in the desert outside San Diego that holds nearly 4,000 inmates.

'Trump's son should be concerned': Wiretaps show Trump Jr. met with Putin ally  —  The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia's Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers …

Hillary Clinton Dons Heavy Coat and Scarf in Sweltering 90° Boston Heat  —  What is Hillary Clinton hiding?  —  On Friday, Hillary Clinton stepped out into the sweltering Boston, MA heat in a heavy coat and scarf.  —  Hillary Clinton dons heavy coat and scarf in Boston in sweltering heat

Must watch: Chris Hayes on ‘despicable’ new Trump policy11:10  —  Will growing support for DACA petition force Speaker Ryan to act on immigration?

Elon Musk, the Donald of Silicon Valley  —  He is prone to unhinged Twitter eruptions.  He can't handle criticism.  He scolds the news media for its purported dishonesty and threatens to create a Soviet-like apparatus to keep tabs on it.  He suckers people to fork over cash in exchange for promises he hasn't kept.

Border Patrol slightly changes account of undocumented woman's fatal shooting  —  (CNN)United States Customs and Border Protection on Friday released a slightly different account of a border agent's fatal shooting of an undocumented migrant near Laredo, Texas, raising new questions about what actually happened.

Former Trump Campaign Aide: My Russia Ties Are Not Nefarious!  —  MICHAEL CAPUTO'S FAVORITE novel is Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, the story of the Devil's visit to Moscow in the 1930s and all the oddball characters who surround him.  When the future Trump campaign official …

‘Reparations Happy Hour’ Invites White People to Pay for Drinks  —  In Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not to attend.

Publix halts donations to self-described ‘NRA sellout’ amid boycott, ‘die-in’ protests by David Hogg  —  The supermarket chain Publix on Friday announced that it would suspend its political contributions to Adam Putnam, a Republican candidate for Florida governor, after being faced …

In the Trump Era, We Are Losing the Ability to Distinguish Reality from Vacuum  —  The Trump Presidency is an age of unanswerable questions and lose-lose propositions.  How is one to maintain sanity, decency, and a measure of moral courage?  In a pair of thoughtful essays in Slate …

Spy Name Games  —  The Obama administration blatantly politicized the government's intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus.  —  'I  —  sn't it a fact that you're a scumbag?  Our contretemps over the nomenclature of government informants has me unable to shake this arresting moment from my memory.

DHS Chooses Late Friday Afternoon to Announce 15,000 more H-2B Visas  —  The Department of Homeland Security announced at 3:46 pm today that it will allow various U.S. employers 15,000 additional H-2B workers this summer; they will do unskilled, non-agricultural seasonal work.

Emails show cooperation among EPA, climate-change deniers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to rally like-minded people for public hearings on science and global warming …

Letters From the Children of Fallen Service Members to the Parents They Lost  —  This is what Memorial Day means to military children who have lost a parent.  —  Bayleigh Dostie was in kindergarten the year her family received a knock on the door.  At 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 30, 2005 …

‘Why am I going to die today?’:  The words of first responders to deadly Las Vegas shooting … First-hand accounts by Las Vegas police about their roles in the mass shooting last October that killed 58 people and wounded hundreds at an outdoor concert were released this week …