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 …

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs  — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses to turn in their phones in order to access encrypted messaging applications, sources tell CNBC.

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 …

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 …

Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a ‘puppet’ for Trump, Cohen  —  Suit claims the attorneys tried to arrange for her to appear on Sean Hannity's show and deny affair  —  Stormy Daniels says in a new lawsuit that her former attorney betrayed her and became a “puppet” …

Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals  —  A top aide to Scott Pruitt, Millan Hupp, resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source briefed on the matter and correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic.  Her last day will be Friday.  —  Hupp, who worked as the director …

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.

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.

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 …

Odds of Democrats seizing the House just got worse  —  California's primary Tuesday was important because it could determine who wins control of the House of Representatives in November - along with the power to impeach President Trump.  —  With the caveat that many absentee ballots …

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 …

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 …

After Steel and Aluminum Tariffs, U.S. Allies Move to Coordinate Retaliation Efforts  —  Canada, Japan and the European Union look to step up pressure on Trump administration  —  U.S. allies Canada, Japan and the European Union are banding together to increase pressure on Washington following …

Trump Defends Melania Trump and Spreads Conspiracies About Her in the Process  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, who has long reveled in conspiracy theories, spent at least part of Wednesday morning lashing out at the news media about its coverage of the first lady, Melania Trump …

Republicans think Trump's culture war is the answer to winning in November  —  President Trump's instinct for exploiting America's deep cultural divisions could help Republicans nullify the Democratic resistance in the midterm elections, saving the party's vulnerable congressional majorities.

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 …

A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill  —  GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday.  The State Department evacuated at least …

‘Utter chaos’: ICE arrests 114 workers in immigration raid at Ohio gardening company  —  A swarm of immigration agents arrested more than 100 workers at an Ohio gardening and landscaping company Tuesday morning, one of the largest of several recent workplace raids carried out as part …

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.

Cynthia Nixon On “Being A Miranda” 20 Years After Sex And The City Premiered  —  When Sex and the City first aired, twenty years ago today, one thing quickly became clear - no one wanted to be a Miranda.  —  My character, Miranda Hobbes, was decidedly un-glamorous.

Mulvaney guts consumer bureau's advisory board  —  Consumer Financial Protection Bureau acting Director Mick Mulvaney has dismissed the members of the agency's Consumer Advisory Board after drawing complaints that he had canceled two meetings with the panel with little notice.

Trump seeks to reorganize the federal government  —  A soon-to-be released report will recommend combining safety-net programs under HHS while also recommending big changes at other agencies.  —  The Trump administration is preparing to release a sweeping plan for reorganizing the federal government …

Dem Senator Joe Manchin: ‘Im Open to Supporting’ Trump in 2020  —  Joe Manchin is an anomaly in the U.S. Senate.  The West Virginia politician is known for being a centrist Democrat in a state President Donald Trump won by a landslide, and has done what few others in his party have: teamed up with Trump on multiple occasions.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …