Congressional Candidate In Virginia Admits He's A Pedophile  —  Nathan Larson also ran online forums for pedophiles and misogynists.  —  Nathan Larson, a 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Virginia, is running for Congress as an independent candidate in his native state.

White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday.  “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious.  The collective silence by the left …

Dinesh D'Souza?  Really?  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.  —  The handful of pardons that President Trump has granted so far may appear to be scattershot …

LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats  —  Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels.  —  But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …

Paramedics wanted to enter Parkland school where kids were dying.  BSO said no.  —  During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.

Prosecutors interview Comey as they investigate whether McCabe should be charged  —  Investigators from the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office recently interviewed former FBI director James B. Comey as part of a probe into whether his deputy, Andrew McCabe, broke the law by lying to federal agents …

Scoop: Trump repeatedly pressured Sessions on Mueller investigation  —  President Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reclaim control of the Russia investigation on at least four separate occasions, three times in person and once over the phone, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter  —  The MSNBC host's controversial old blog posts continue to surface, as Reid and the network stick to hacking claims.  —  MSNBC host Joy Reid's new-defunct blog published an image …

I Went on a Date With Eric Schneiderman.  It Took Me Years to Process What Happened That Night.  —  Let's start at the beginning.  —  I'm 23, and the story I tell is called “The Time I Went Out with the (Relatively) Hot Older State Senator.”  I deploy it as a nerdy leg-up on the social ladder among friends.

Trudeau says NAFTA talks broke down after Pence made ultimatum  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.

The Curious Case of Mr. Downer  —  His story about the Papadopoulos meeting calls the FBI's into question.  —  To hear the Federal Bureau of Investigation tell it, its decision to launch a counterintelligence probe into a major-party presidential campaign comes down to a foreign tip …

Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party  —  Less than a week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.  —  In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results …

Robert Mueller Reveals The Price Tag For His Special Counsel Investigation  —  The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has cost nearly $17 million dollars so far, according to a new report from the Justice Department.

Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially  —  Following the revelation in March that Google had secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting edge artificial intelligence technology for drone warfare, the company faced an internal revolt.

One Reform to Save America  —  There are a bunch of different ways to do democracy.  In Western Europe, most countries have proportional representation and a lot of different parties representing voter interests.  In this country we've gone with a two-party system and winner-take-all elections.

Trump's Loudest Anti-Muslim Twitter Troll Is A Shady Vegan Married To An (Ousted) WWE Exec  —  @AmyMek anonymously spread hate online for years.  She can't hide anymore.  —  She was supposed to be a Russian bot.  That seemed like the best explanation for @AmyMek.  No normal person could be so prolific and prejudiced.

In the Battle Between Cuomo and Nixon, the Subway Becomes a Central Issue  —  It was a curious position: Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo helped hire the new leader of New York City's subway.  But when that leader released a sweeping plan to fix the failing system last week, Mr. Cuomo offered a tepid response, promising simply to review it.

APNewsBreak: Expelled Venezuela diplomat stays in US  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Venezuelan diplomat expelled by the Trump administration last week in retaliation for President Nicolas Maduro's kicking out of the top American diplomat in Caracas has remained in the U.S. despite an order to leave the country within 48 hours.

Leaked emails show Hoover academic conspiring with College Republicans to conduct ‘opposition research’ on student  —  Emails between the Hoover Institution's Niall Ferguson and well-known Republican student activists John Rice-Cameron '20 and Max Minshull '20 reveal coordination on …

Rubio Campaign Volunteer and Ex-Florida Lawmaker Says Obama Looks Like a Monkey … Susan Goldstein previously served as a Florida state representative for western Broward County from 2004 to 2006.  She's now a prominent figure in Tallahassee and serves on the board of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists.

Death toll in Nicaragua nears 100 as Ortega vows to stay  —  MANAGUA - The death toll from weeks of violent unrest in Nicaragua rose to almost 100 as embattled President Daniel Ortega rejected calls to step down and the Catholic church, which has tried to mediate the conflict, Thursday refused to resume the dialogue.

Oh, What a Stupid Trade War (Very Slightly Wonkish)  —  So, the trade war is on.  And what a stupid trade war it is.  —  My regular column for tomorrow is about health care, but I felt I needed to weigh in on this idiocy, and not just on Twitter.  —  The official - and legal …

Feinstein plans bill to halt separation of families at the border  —  (D-Calif.) plans to introduce legislation to prevent the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, as the Trump administration is facing deep scrutiny over its policy.