Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair  —  (CNN)A former Trump World Tower doorman who says he has knowledge of an alleged affair President Donald Trump had with an ex-housekeeper, which resulted in a child, is now able to talk …

Trump Meets QAnon Kook Who Believes Democrats Run Pedophile Cult … President Donald Trump posed for Oval Office photos on Thursday with one of the leading promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that top Democrats are part of a global pedophile cult.

Rudy Giuliani distances himself from Trump over his ‘flipping’ comments: ‘The President is not a lawyer’  —  When it comes to flipping, Rudy Giuliani won't budge.  —  The former federal prosecutor — famous for coaxing New York mobsters into spilling the beans on their bosses …

Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon  —  The president's comments are being read as a signal that he wants to ignore his lawyers and exonerate his former campaign chairman.  —  President Donald Trump's lawyers and a cadre of informal White House advisers claim they've convinced …

TPUSA Members Quit in Protest of ‘Exploiting’ Mollie Tibbetts' Death … The University of Iowa chapter of a conservative student organization declined a proposal that the campus host two of the group's highest-profile national leaders for an “immigration event” following the alleged murder …

Stop Blaming Investigators More Than Criminals for Trump's Woes  —  At the end of a yet another tawdry, scandalous week, I'm seeing the same thing I see at the end of every other tawdry, scandalous week.  Lots of folks on the right continue to believe that the true scandal is not that the president …

Trump says it's ‘probably tougher’ for GOP to retain control of House  —  COLUMBUS — President Trump acknowledged a “probably tougher” path to retain GOP control of the House at the state party's annual dinner here, injecting some political reality into his standard rhetoric that boasts of a “red wave” in November.

At GOP event, Trump is silent on dying McCain  —  President Donald Trump said nothing Friday at an Ohio Republican dinner about Sen. John McCain, following the announcement that the Arizona senator had opted to stop receiving treatment for terminal brain cancer.

‘How do you stay married to a guy who does that?’  —  Hill Republicans are appalled by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is facing indictment, blaming his wife.  —  House Republicans are whispering one word over and over again to describe embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter: Shameless.

Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin's Plans for Midterms  — The spy agency does not believe its Russia informants have been killed, but sources have gone largely dormant amid heightened scrutiny and rising threats.  — Technology companies and political campaigns …

How This Will End  —  Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean's testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace.  Others agree: This is an inflection point.

Putin's Economic Armor Suffers Cracks in Showdown Over Sanctions  — Bank of Russia pauses foreign-currency purchases to aid ruble  — Growing fears of U.S. curbs put Russian assets under pressure  —  The upheaval set off by the threat of American sanctions is roiling …

U.N. Says Saudi-led Airstrike Killed at Least 22 Yemeni Children  —  The United Nations said Friday that a Saudi-led airstrike had killed at least 22 children and four women in Yemen as they fled a fighting zone — the second mass killing of Yemeni civilians by Saudi Arabia and its military partners in two weeks.

How Far America Has Fallen  —  The thing with every shocking revelation about Trump is that it's already baked into his image.  I've never met a Trump supporter who did not know exactly who he is.  —  RIDGWAY, Colo. — It's different in the West.  It's easier to feel in touch with some essence of what America is.

Devin Nunes silent after Trump gang's 16 convictions and guilty pleas  —  Rep. Devin Nunes seems to hope that ignoring the damning news will make it go away.  —  Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is one of Trump's most outspoken defenders.  He even admitted, during a private fundraiser …

Trump Admin Cuts U.S. Aid to Palestinians  —  Aid cuts follow recent passage of the Taylor Force Act in Congress  —  The Trump administration late Friday announced that it had cut $200 million in U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until it can ensure this American taxpayer money …

Michael Avenatti's Next 2020 Move: His Own PAC  —  Michael Avenatti, the self-described potential 2020 contender and lawyer representing Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Donald Trump, is launching his own federal PAC to support Democratic candidates with “the size and the presence …

Trump, Undeterred by Sessions's Rebuke, Urges Him to Examine Corruption on the ‘Other Side’  —  WASHINGTON — Undeterred by his attorney general's pledge to keep politics out of the Justice Department, President Trump again attacked Jeff Sessions on Friday, urging him to look into “corruption” …

Gillibrand Says Trump Should Resign  —  U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told reporters in Syracuse Friday that President Donald Trump should resign after his former personal lawyer implicated him in violating campaign finance law.  —  But she stopped short of saying whether impeachment proceedings …

Tucker Carlson walks back bogus South Africa scaremongering  —  On his Wednesday evening program, Fox News host Tucker Carlson roared about the issue of land reform in South Africa.  “The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun — and you may have seen this in the press …

Police: Drunken undocumented immigrant sets fire to Washington Adventist Hospital ER  —  A highly inebriated man set a fire within the Washington Adventist Hospital emergency room, putting dozens of lives at risk, the Montgomery County Fire Marshal's Office tells ABC7.  —  It was 9:15 a.m. on Sunday, May 27.

Former head of CDC Tom Frieden arrested and charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment  —  Tom Frieden, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been arrested amid allegations of forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment.

How a Trump tariff is strangling American newspapers  —  Print isn't dead.  But the soaring cost of newsprint is contributing to the slow death of America's newspapers.  —  A months-long spike in the price of paper, driven by federal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Canadian suppliers …

No One Is Safer.  No One Is Served.  —  An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church.  —  The legendary Chicago oral historian and moral force Studs Terkel once said, “There is a decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”