'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 …

Giuliani: White House wants briefing on classified info  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election …

Kim Jong Un, South Korea's Moon Meet Amid Uncertainty Over U.S. Summit  —  Inter-Korean summit aimed at discussing a possible summit with U.S. President Donald Trump  —  South Korean President Moon Jae-in met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for two hours on Saturday in a surprise meeting aimed …

Irish Times exit poll projects Ireland has voted by landslide to repeal Eighth Amendment  —  Exit poll result suggests huge majority of younger people voted Yes  —  Updated:  —  Ireland has voted by a landslide margin to change the constitution so that abortion can be legalised …

Mr. President, Commute This Man's Sentence  —  Something for you to chew on to start the long holiday weekend.  If you're not in the mood to read, no problem.  There's a radio segment at the link too.  —  Matthew Charles was convicted of drug and weapons charges in the mid-90s.

Trump says he'll spare Chinese telecom firm ZTE from collapse, defying lawmakers  —  President Trump said late Friday he had allowed embattled Chinese telecommunications giant ZTE Corp. to remain open despite fierce bipartisan opposition on Capitol Hill, defying lawmakers who have warned …

Trump takes aim at federal bureaucracy with new executive orders altering civil service protections  —  President Trump issued three executive orders Friday aimed at overhauling the federal bureaucracy by making it easier to fire poor performers, sharply curtailing the amount of time federal employees …

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

In Anti-Bias Training, Starbucks Enlists Hip-Hop Artist Common, Chairman Howard Schultz  —  Employees will be asked to share stories of bias; experts say such training is hard to do, measure  —  Starbucks Corp. SBUX .42% is hoping that upcoming anti-bias training will help prevent fraught encounters …

Trump says the first lady is ‘doing great.’ She hasn't been seen in public for two weeks.  —  First lady Melania Trump, who spent five nights in the hospital following a kidney procedure, has been out of public view for 15 days running — an unusually long absence even for a first lady who relishes life outside the spotlight.

Roger Stone to Associate: “Prepare to Die”  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone.  Investigators have questioned former associates of Stone, the self-proclaimed political dirty trickster who has been a longtime official and unofficial adviser to Donald Trump.

Manafort's ex-son-in-law's attorneys quit over unpaid bills and ‘lack of candor’  —  Bankruptcy attorneys hired by Paul Manafort's former son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai are seeking to drop their representation of at least one of his businesses, citing unpaid bills and a ‘lack of candor.’

Why are Dutch-Americans so different from the Dutch?  —  The most conservative Americans, the most liberal Europeans  —  PETE HOEKSTRA seemed a good choice for America's ambassador to the Netherlands when President Donald Trump appointed him last year.  Mr Hoekstra, a former congressman …

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 …

Facebook's new political ad rules could upend June 5th primaries  —  Candidates are blocked from buying ads while they wait on authorization codes  —  Facebook introduced new disclosure rules for political advertisements this week designed to block bad actors from meddling in elections.

Donald Trump says ‘our ancestors tamed a continent’ and ‘we are not going to apologize for America’  —  President Donald Trump said at a Naval Academy commencement address Friday that “our ancestors tamed a continent,” adding that “we are not going to apologize for America.”

Mysterious wolf-like creature shot in northcentral Montana near Denton  —  Was it a wolf, some type of hybrid, or a creature that hasn't been seen in Montana since the Ice Age?  —  On May 16 a lone wolf-like animal was shot and killed on a ranch outside Denton.

How the Media Helped Legitimize Extremism  —  FOR THE PAST few years, reporting on far-right extremism and misinformation has been a messy free-for-all.  Sure, there have been some attempts to delineate best practices, and certain approaches to storytelling, such as those that seem to normalize neo-Naziism …

GDPR: US news sites unavailable to EU users under new rules  —  Some high-profile US news websites are temporarily unavailable in Europe after new EU data protection rules came into effect.  —  The Chicago Tribune and LA Times were among those saying they were currently unavailable in most European countries.

As Stormy Daniels pursues civil case against Trump, another adult-film star backs her story  —  A porn star said adult-film actress Stormy Daniels told her about being threatened to keep quiet about an alleged affair with Donald Trump, an account that could play a role in a civil case Daniels …

FBI issues formal warning on massive malware network linked to Russia  —  The FBI on Friday issued a formal warning that a sophisticated Russia-linked hacking campaign is compromising hundreds of thousands of home network devices worldwide and it is advising owners to reboot these devices in an attempt to disrupt the malicious software.

I was Jordan Peterson's strongest supporter.  Now I think he's dangerous  —  By BERNARD SCHIFFSpecial to the Star  —  Several years ago, Jordan Peterson told me he wanted to buy a church.  This was long before he became known as “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world …

3 False Claims From Trump's Naval Academy Speech  —  In a commencement speech on Friday, President Trump told Annapolis graduates that the military had received “no money” before him and that troops had just received their first pay raise in 10 years.  —  WHAT WAS SAID … THE FACTS  —  False.

Feds Hid Edits in Right-Wing Video Used to Prosecute Anti-Trump Protesters … Federal prosecutors hid evidence from anti-Trump activists set to go on trial, two judges ruled this week.  —  For months, prosecutors have claimed a video by the conservative group Project Veritas proved …