New York Has Prepared Paul Manafort Charges If Trump Pardons Him  — Cy Vance has been investigating ex-Trump aide since 2017  — District Attorney sees way to avoid double jeopardy protection  —  New York state prosecutors have put together a criminal case against Paul Manafort …

Jussie Smollett Dropped From Remainder Of 'Empire's Season By Producers  —  One day after Jussie Smollett was arrested on multiple felony charges for the alleged racist and homophobic attack of last month, the producers of Empire have cut the actor from the rest of the show's fifth season

‘He is not going to be the nominee’: Dems slam Sanders over Maduro stance  —  Florida Democrats are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for refusing to call Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a dictator — a politically explosive issue in the nation's biggest swing state.

Trump aides worry he'll get outfoxed in North Korea talks  —  President Donald Trump is eagerly anticipating his second summit with Kim Jong Un, touting his “really meaningful” relationship with the North Korean strongman and insisting he's ready to give up his nuclear arsenal.

An open letter to my Republican colleagues  —  Adam B. Schiff, a Democrat, represents California's 28th Congressional District in the House and is chairman of the Intelligence Committee.  —  This is a moment of great peril for our democracy.  Our country is deeply divided.

You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information.  Then They Tell Facebook.  —  Wall Street Journal testing reveals how the social-media giant collects a wide range of private data from developers; ‘This is a big mess’  —  Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps …

Pfizer executive Sally Susman to host 2020 presidential fundraiser for Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand  — Presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is slated to attend a fundraiser at the home of Sally Susman, a top Pfizer executive, on March 31, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

Ex-Fox News Quack Doctor Keith Ablow Accused of Sexually Exploiting Patients  —  The infamous TV huckster allegedly lured multiple female patients into sexual relationships, according to lawsuits, before engaging in physically abusive behavior.  —  A former member of Fox News' “Medical A-Team” …

Sex in New York City Parks?  It's Less of a Thing Than It Used to Be  —  A decade ago, New York City police officers handed out hundreds of tickets for “sex in park.”  Last year, they wrote six.  —  In a wild, overrun corner of Fort Tryon Park, a secluded area had become a popular destination …

Early Poll of New Hampshire Voters Shows Potential Problems for Republican Presidential Primary Season  —  UMass Amherst Poll Finds GOP Voter Support for Primary Challenge  —  AMHERST, Mass. - With nearly 40 percent of likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire saying they would welcome …

Federal prosecutors broke law in Jeffrey Epstein case, judge rules  —  Federal prosecutors, under former Miami U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, broke the law when they concealed a plea agreement from more than 30 underage victims who had been sexually abused by wealthy New York hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein …

Here's What Beto Could Unleash on Trump  —  AUSTIN, Texas—With rain hammering outside, Zack Malitz stood in a warehouse space lit by strands of bistro lights and began to reveal the campaign strategy of Beto O'Rourke in exacting detail.  Malitz, who was the field director of O'Rourke's Senate campaign …

A federal election will be rerun because of fraud.  Republicans aren't talking about it much.  —  The 2018 midterm elections are not yet over.  —  North Carolina's State Board of Elections voted Thursday to throw out the results of the election held in November in the state's 9th Congressional District …

Netanyahu's Most Cynical Ploy Yet  —  By allying himself with one of Israel's most despicable parties, the prime minister is jeopardizing his legacy.  —  Most Americans have probably never heard of Yifat Ehrlich, or for that matter her former center-right political party in Israel, Bayit Yehudit.

Schiffting to Phase 2 of Collusion  —  Conspiracy theorists look for something new, anticipating a Mueller letdown.  —  There's been no more reliable regurgitator of fantastical Trump-Russia collusion theories than Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff.  So when the House Intelligence Committee chairman sits …

Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite  —  Charlie Sykes is sitting behind a desk in a sparse, disheveled office—blank walls lined with empty filing cabinets, windows covered with crooked blinds—as he tries to conjure the perfect metaphor for The Bulwark, the anti-Donald Trump conservative news site he recently helped start.

House Dems introduce measure to revoke Trump border edict  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats on Friday introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border.

Congress could block big chunk of Trump's emergency wall money  —  Full funds likely to be unavailable from the sources president has identified  —  A reporter's homage to government workers — unsung heroes of transparency Trump Ignites New Budget Fights by Targeting Pentagon Programs Inhofe open to ‘exaggerated’ war budget

Jim Risch tries to calm Republicans furious with Trump  —  Sen. Jim Risch was on the verge of facing down an insurgency from his GOP colleagues.  —  Top Senate Republicans were fuming at the Trump administration last week for ignoring congressional demands to further investigate the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Audience of One: Why Flattery Works in Trump's Foreign Policy  —  When the commander of U.S. forces in Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, met privately with members of Congress at the Munich Security Conference, last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham finished the meeting with a blunt question.

Mark Zuckerberg Promised A Clear History Tool Almost A Year Ago.  Where Is It?  —  Facebook spent most of 2018 embroiled in one scandal or another.  But there was a point early on in the year when Mark Zuckerberg thought he could turn down the heat by offering a fix for the public's privacy concerns.

PBS NewsHour Continues to Expand Its Team by Naming New Foreign Affairs Producer  —  Some notable revolving door news to report this morning: PBS NewsHour has named Ali Rogin the nightly news broadcast's newest foreign affairs producer.  —  “I am delighted to welcome Ali to the NewsHour …

No great sense of panic as Trump team prepares for “imminent” Mueller report  —  President Trump's team believes Robert Mueller will submit his report “imminently,” but is unsure exactly what that means, two sources familiar with the situation tell Jonathan Swan.

First court appearance for alleged domestic terrorist plotting mass killing  —  Prosecutors said the charges presented are just the “tip of the iceberg.”  —  47m ago  —  FDA says mineral sunscreens are safe, chemical sunscreens need more research  —  The agency is working on new rules about over-the-counter sunscreens.

Facebook Grew Too Big to Care About Privacy  —  Once it became indispensable, it gained the power to reverse promises it had made not to gather certain data.  —  Two years ago, a Yale Law School student published what became an influential paper about how antitrust law should apply …

Who is Nomiki Konst?  —  Nomiki Konst, the 35-year-old TV pundit casting herself as the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the New York public advocate's race, readily acknowledges that her background is politically unconventional.  —  She's wandered from Tucson to Buffalo to Florida to Los Angeles …

Rep. Duncan Hunter gets help with legal expenses from government contractors, others  —  Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, and his wife and former campaign manager, Margaret appear in this file photograph.  —  Nine donors, including at least two who had already reached political contribution limits …