Scoop: Trump has commuted Alice Johnson's life sentence  —  President Trump has signed a commutation for Alice Johnson, currently serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, according to a source with direct knowledge.  CNN reported earlier today that the White House had prepped …

Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting  —  Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow.  —  Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives …

Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs  —  Trudeau: No sign of US common sense prevailing  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel …

Kim Jong Un Begged for Summit ‘on His Hands and Knees,’ Giuliani Says  —  With the summit plans back in place, the U.S. has the upper hand, President Trump's lawyer said  —  TEL AVIV—President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un got …

APNewsBreak: Secret Obama-era license let Iran tap dollars  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration secretly sought to give Iran access — albeit briefly — to the U.S. financial system by sidestepping sanctions kept in place after the 2015 nuclear deal, despite repeatedly telling Congress and the public it had no plans to do so.

Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump's Charges of a Spy in His Campaign  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan agreed on Wednesday that the F.B.I. did nothing wrong by using a confidential informant to contact members of the Trump campaign as it investigated its ties to Russia, contradicting President Trump's assertions …

No, Democrats haven't shown they're going to win the House  —  WASHINGTON — The lesson of Tuesday night's primaries for Democrats: They still have a lot of work to do if they want to win control of the House in November.  —  They managed to avert the total disaster of getting “locked out” …

Cambridge Analytica director ‘met Assange to discuss US election’  —  Brittany Kaiser also claims to have channelled payments and donations to WikiLeaks  —  A Cambridge Analytica director apparently visited Julian Assange in February last year and told friends it was to discuss what happened during …

DOJ watchdog finds James Comey defied authority as FBI director, sources say  —  The Justice Department's internal watchdog has concluded that James Comey defied authority at times during his tenure as FBI director, according to sources familiar with a draft report on the matter.

Bid to recall Judge Aaron Persky appears successful in Santa Clara County  —  Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was on his way to being voted out of office Tuesday, two years after he set off national outrage by sentencing a Stanford athlete to six months in jail …

The New Yorker Staff Has Unionized  —  The era of white-collar organized labor is fully upon us: the editorial staff of The New Yorker wants to unionize.  This morning, organizers sent a letter to the magazine's editor, David Remnick, asking that the institution and its corporate owner …

There will be no Trump collapse  —  I've tried everything to avoid thinking about the next election — family travel, yard work, crossword puzzles.  But now it's only five months away, barely longer than the gestation period of a North American beaver, or the Stanley Cup playoffs.

It Looks Like America Is Finally Going To Have A Native American Congresswoman  —  Deb Haaland won her Democratic primary in New Mexico's congressional race.  She's likely to win in November, too.  —  Deb Haaland won the Democratic nomination for a New Mexico congressional seat on Tuesday …

The Post has mapped more than 52,000 homicides in major American cities over the past decade and found that across the country, there are areas where murder is common but arrests are rare.  —  Christopher Dickson felt justice had been served.  For weeks, he'd bragged around his neighborhood …

Democrat Arthur wins Missouri special election days after Greitens resigns  —  Democratic Rep. Lauren Arthur prevailed by a double-digit margin over Republican Rep. Kevin Corlew in a special election for a state Senate seat Tuesday night.  —  Republicans won't risk losing control …

Former college student who claimed rape admits it was all lies  —  A young Long Island woman who spent over a year insisting that she was raped by two Sacred Heart University football players officially admitted in court Tuesday that she's been lying the entire time.

State Department spokeswoman notes D-Day in answer on ‘strong relationship’ with Germany  —  Nauert invokes D-Day while praising US-Germany relations  —  Washington (CNN)State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert on Tuesday cited the D-Day invasion during an answer about the current state of US-German relations.

Trump Transition Team Goes to War Over Rogue FBI Agent … At the time, it was one of the more controversial moments of Robert Mueller's probe: Late last year, news broke that a federal agency turned over tens of thousands of private emails of Trump transition team officials to the special counsel's team …

Judge rules for Philadelphia in ‘Sanctuary City’ case  —  A federal judge has ruled for the City of Philadelphia in its highly contentious “sanctuary city” case against the Trump administration, saying the Kenney administration's refusal to help enforce immigration laws is based on policies that are reasonable, rational and equitable.

Group that advises gov't watchdog is disbanded, members say  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Members of a group of outside experts required by law to meet twice a year with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Wednesday that the group has been dissolved by CFPB head Mick Mulvaney.

Steve Mnuchin Blacked Out Schedule on Days of Controversial Trips … Before stepping off a military jet in Kentucky last summer where he viewed a solar eclipse at Fort Knox, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was doing something else in secret.  —  Mnuchin and his wife's trip on August 21 …

If Trump team had done wrong, it would have leaked long ago  —  A little over a week ago, Trump's attorney Rudy Guiliani said that the basis of special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's investigation was illegitimate and he was absolutely correct.  —  Instead of discussing presidential pardons or subpoenas, President Trump

Why Is Trump Mad at Sessions?  A Tweet Provides the Answer  —  WASHINGTON — For nearly a year, President Trump has been relentlessly attacking his handpicked attorney general for recusing himself from the Russia investigation that has so nettled him.  And so in that sense …

Trump to sign veterans health bill as White House works against plan to fund it  —  President Trump is preparing to sign a sweeping new law Wednesday aimed at expanding veterans' access to private-sector health care.  But behind the scenes his administration is fighting a bipartisan Senate effort to fund the legislation.

GOP elects white supremacist who rioted in Charlottesville  —  Emboldened by Trump's racism, a record number of white supremacists are making their way into mainstream Republican politics.  —  A participant in last summer's deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville has been elected …