Ohio Special Election Results: 12th Congressional District  —  CandidatePartyVotesPct.  —  Dem.  —  14,211  —  Rep.  —  6,114  —  Green  —  20,481 votes, <1% reporting (0 of 591 precincts)  —  What to watch: Voters in Ohio's 12th District are choosing a replacement for Representative Pat Tiberi …

The Shadow Rulers of the VA  —  Last February, shortly after Peter O'Rourke became chief of staff for the Department of Veterans Affairs, he received an email from Bruce Moskowitz with his input on a new mental health initiative for the VA. “Received,” O'Rourke replied.

Top Trump Campaign Aides Are Portrayed as Corrupt at Manafort Trial  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The trial of Paul Manafort turned into a referendum on the character of two of President Trump's top campaign aides on Tuesday, as prosecutors cast Mr. Manafort as the architect of a sprawling swindle …

'It's Fantastic!'  Trump Warms to Rosenstein  —  Nearly fired by the president, the No. 2 Justice official—the man in charge of the Mueller probe—builds a rapport  —  Before President Trump headed to meet Vladimir Putin last month, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein requested a meeting in the Oval Office.

Kansas Primary Election Results  —  What to watch: The biggest race in Kansas is for governor, a job held by Jeff Colyer since Sam Brownback resigned to accept an ambassadorship.  Mr. Colyer is running against Secretary of State Kris W. Kobach, the face of President Trump's voter fraud panel, in the Republican primary.

Colbert Refers to National Review's Jonah Goldberg as One of 'Trump's Allies' (He's Not)  —  On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert weighed in on the comical exchange between National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani.  —  It all began Monday evening …

CEOs Who Cut White House Ties After Charlottesville Just Dined With Trump  —  President Trump is having dinner Tuesday night with five CEOs who distanced themselves from the White House after last year's white supremacist Charlottesville rally.  CNBC reports that the companies that are attending …

Kansas Dems choose Sharice Davids to challenge Rep. Kevin Yoder for seat in Congress  —  Sharice Davids could make history in November after Kansas Democrats selected the Johnson County attorney as their nominee for a race that could help decide control of the U.S. House.

POLITICO Playbook: Republicans' dueling political pictures  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  GOOD MORNING from COLUMBUS, OHIO.  —  HOUSE REPUBLICANS, who appear to be the narrow winners of last night's special election here, face a conflicting political picture.  Here's the picture many of them want to see …

St. Louis Voters Oust Prosecutor Who Didn't Bring Charges In Cop Killing Of Michael Brown  —  In a remarkable win for reformers, Wesley Bell, a city council member in Ferguson, Missouri, upset Robert McCulloch in Tuesday's Democratic primary.  —  Wesley Bell, who cast himself as a reformer committed …

Why Does Betsy DeVos's Family Yacht Fly a Foreign Flag?  Donald Trump's ‘America First’ Administration and the Cayman Islands  —  When someone untied a yacht owned by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's family, the episode was portrayed as an example of anti-Trump harassment.

War Without End  —  The Pentagon's failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.  —  Second Platoon did not hide its dark mood as its soldiers waded across the Korengal River in the bright light of afternoon.

How a senior DOJ official helped Dem researchers on Trump-Russia case  —  Hundreds of pages of previously unreported emails and memos provide the clearest evidence yet that a research firm, hired by Hillary Clinton  —  's campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …

Leaked document: Putin lobbied Trump on arms control  —  A list of issues he shared with Trump in Helsinki suggests Russia wants to continue traditional nuclear talks with the U.S. — but doesn't answer all questions about their meeting.  —  Vladimir Putin presented President Donald Trump …

Female Senator Asks Male Judges About Their Sex Lives  —  Only the sleaziest employer would dare ask a potential job candidate about their sex lives when such information is irrelevant to their position.  Yet here we are.  —  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) stated back in January that she would begin asking …

How America stopped prosecuting white-collar crime and public corruption, in charts  —  Memo to all those supposed law-and-order fans out there, including in the White House: The United States is currently on track to notch the fewest prosecutions of white-collar and public corruption crimes on record.

Can I Ruin Your Dinner Party?  —  One of the two pillars of the West is in jeopardy.  —  ROME — I've found lately that I can ruin any dinner party.  It's like magic.  Just get me going on Trump or Putin or climate change and I can put a frown on every face and a furrow in every brow.

A sports reporter took a new job.  Now his former newspaper is suing over a Twitter account.  —  The Roanoke Times spells it out right in its handbook: Employees who have been issued “Company-owned information assets, keys or other access items must return them to the Company upon termination of employment …

Police use Taser on 11-year-old girl accused of stealing from supermarket … Here's a short video about how tasers work.  Wochit  —  CONNECT  —  CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati police officer used a Taser to stun an 11-year-old girl allegedly stealing from a supermarket Monday, according to police.