Trump Lawyers' Sudden Realization: They Don't Know What Don McGahn Told Mueller's Team  —  President Trump's lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel's investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed …

Cohen, Trump's Ex-Lawyer, Investigated for Bank Fraud in Excess of $20 Million  —  Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, committed bank and tax fraud have zeroed in on well over $20 million in loans obtained by taxi businesses …

Asia Argento, Who Accused Weinstein, Made Deal With Her Own Accuser  —  The Italian actress and director Asia Argento was among the first women in the movie business to publicly accuse the producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.  She became a leading figure in the #MeToo movement.

“A blue wave is obscuring a red exodus”  —  Dave Wasserman, the Cook Political Report's House analyst, says the most under-covered aspect of 2018 is that “a blue wave is obscuring a red exodus.”  Republican House members are retiring at a startling clip — a trend that senior White House …

U.S. Rebuffs Effort to Tether Bank Fine to Pastor's Release  —  Trump administration says U.S. minister must be set free before other issues are addressed  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has rejected an effort by Turkey to tie the release of a U.S. pastor with relief …

Cuomo, Again?  Heavy is the head that wears this crown.  —  Governor Andrew Cuomo asks the pilot to swing the state helicopter around so he can have a second look.  About 1,000 feet below us, in a patch of Atlantic Ocean two miles south of Shinnecock, Long Island, a cargo ship equipped …

Zephyr Teachout Is the Right Choice as Attorney General for Democrats  —  The office is a potential firewall against an out-of-control president and a historically corrupt New York State government.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.

Trump speechwriter fired amid scrutiny of appearance with white nationalists  —  A White House speechwriter for President Trump was terminated last week after revelations that he had spoken at a conference attended by well-known white nationalists, according to three people familiar …

Inside Trump's Judicial Takeover  —  How conservative operatives and Senate Republicans are helping the president pack the courts at a record pace  —  One evening last November, Don McGahn, the top lawyer in the Trump White House, walked onstage in an opulent ballroom at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington …

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Corbyn's secret trip to Israel to meet Hamas  —  UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) pictured in Jerusalem alongside Labour MP Andrew Slaughter (left), and Hamas officials Ahmad Attoun, Khaled Abu-Arafah, and Muhammad Totah.  —  Jeremy Corbyn visited Israel and the West Bank …

Videogame Developers Are Making It Harder to Stop Playing  —  Videogames have gotten harder to turn off, mental-health experts and parents say, raising concerns about the impact of long gaming sessions on players' lives.

Our recommendations in the District 27 congressional race to replace Ros-Lehtinen  —  DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY  —  A wealth of candidates, bringing new names, unexpected faces and diverse talents, signed up to be the Democrat who would replace Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress.

Keith Ellison, A Radical's Radical  —  The leading Democrat has somehow escaped real scrutiny.  —  The allegations against Keith Ellison are explosive, though at this point unproven.  The Minnesota congressman's ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan alleges that he verbally and physically abused her in 2016.

Manafort trial Day 15: Jury meets for third day as Trump-fueled political cacophony grows  —  Trump's comments calling Manafort a ‘good person’ and his trial a ‘very sad day’ intensified the pressure on jurors.  —  Paul Manafort's tax- and bank-fraud trial is set to kick off its third …

Interviewing Elon Musk  —  For our Corner Office columnist, an hour with a deeply emotional Mr. Musk was not just another C.E.O. interview.  —  Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times.

America is slouching toward autocracy  —  In their book, “How Democracies Die,” political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt write: “How do elected authoritarians shatter the democratic institutions that are supposed to constrain them?  Some do it in one fell swoop.

Nixon, Clinton and Trump  —  The more Trump is cornered, the more he mirrors Richard Nixon.  —  Twenty years ago last Friday, President Bill Clinton testified before Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and a grand jury about his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.