Trump lawyers issue letter fighting tax return request  —  Trump on releasing his tax returns: Speak to my lawyers  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump continues to hold his ground against Democratic efforts to obtain his tax returns, with one administration official telling CNN …

Trump ditches his nominee to lead ICE, says he wants someone ‘tougher’ for top immigration enforcement role  —  President Trump said Friday he is looking for someone “tougher” to lead the country's top immigration enforcement agency, hours after the White House unexpectedly withdrew its nomination …

Trump Is Already Plotting His Post-White House Tell-All Memoir  —  The president is ‘excited’ about penning a dishy book.  So much so that he keeps talking about the scores he plans to settle.  —  As he navigates turbulent domestic and international affairs, President Donald Trump …

A photo of me and Joe Biden went viral.  I want him to take ownership for his actions.  —  Sofie Karasek is a survivors' rights advocate and progressive organizer.  —  Two days before my photograph was taken with then-Vice President Joe Biden, as I stood on the 2016 Oscars stage with Lady Gaga …

Elizabeth Warren will back ending the Senate filibuster  —  Interviewer chases Warren as she runs to catch train  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren is set to call Friday for eliminating the filibuster, publicly endorsing for the first time a drastic change to Senate rules that would allow Democrats …

In New Documents, Cohen Says Trump “Instructed” Him To Lie  —  WASHINGTON — Attorneys for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former fixer, submitted documents to lawmakers Thursday night accusing Trump and his team of lawyers of instructing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

Exclusive: Teresa Tomlinson is taking first official step toward a US Senate bid  —  Former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson is planning to take the first official steps today toward challenging Republican U.S. Senator David Perdue in the 2020 election, according to an exclusive interview Thursday with the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts.  Stop pretending he's in control.  —  Because so many of us got it so wrong in 2016, there's a tendency among many commentators to reflexively assume President Trump possesses some kind of hidden sway over the political environment that we're all missing.

If Biden Runs, They'll Tear Him Up  —  The old Democratic Party was warm, like him.  The new one rising is colder, less human and divisive.

That Noise?  The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone  —  The extremely loud and incredibly expensive renovations that have shattered a formerly quiet residential block in Manhattan.  —  In the middle of West 69th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue …

Critical Carlos reads ‘Healthy Holly’  —  Inside the children's book that has landed Baltimore's mayor in a political scandal  —  Hi, I'm Critical Carlos, and I want you to read books like I do!  Reading is good for your brain and helps us all learn.  If you read enough books, then one day …

Accused of money laundering in Russia, former NC congressman's bank loses license  —  A Russian bank owned by former North Carolina Congressman Charles Taylor has been accused of money laundering and lost its license, according to Bloomberg News.  —  The Commercial Bank of Ivanovo …

Appeals court narrows path for disclosure of grand jury info in Mueller report  —  A federal appeals court on Friday tossed an obstacle in the way of grand jury information in special counsel Robert Mueller's final report being released directly to the public, but the decision may not slow disclosure of that material to Congress.

What the heck does Steve King do all day?  —  Shunned by his party's leadership, bounced from congressional hearings, removed from key parts of the legislative process, and serving in the House minority — the Republican from Iowa has less to do than any congressman in recent history.

Biden: 'I'm not sorry for anything that I have ever done'  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that he's not sorry for his past actions that some women have said made them uncomfortable, but that he's sorry he didn't understand more at the time.  —  “The fact of the matter …

Saudi Arabia arrests more activists, including 2 US citizens  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia detained eight people, including two dual U.S.-Saudi citizens, in a new round of arrests in the kingdom targeting individuals supportive of women's rights and those with ties to jailed activists …

Trump's next possible Fed nominee can't understand basic policy issues  —  Nein, nein, nein.  —  That should be the Senate's response if President Trump actually nominates his friend Herman Cain, the former pizza magnate turned failed Republican presidential candidate, to the Federal Reserve Board, as Trump said he plans to do.

‘Why are you crying, Mami?’  In Venezuela, the search for water is a daily struggle.  —  CARACAS, Venezuela — Jakeline Moncada had faith that her household reserves would hold out until Venezuela's water service was restored.  —  But two nationwide blackouts and now the rationing …

The “Witch Hunt” Lives: Trump and the Investigation That Just Won't End  —  President Trump may have thought that he was done with the Mueller investigation, but it is not yet done with him.  A barrage of news that came out in the course of a few hours on Wednesday reinforced …

Trump to have dinner at his for-profit golf course near L.A. during West Coast trip  —  President Trump plans to have dinner at his for-profit golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Friday night, with his son Eric Trump, the city council and dozens of friends and supporters, according to one person who was told about the gathering.

The unspoken Barr memo travesty: Using two spaces after a period |  The Angry Grammarian  —  The attorney general of the United States has just executed a cover-up so brazen, so grotesque, so audacious, that it was done in plain view.  Right under our noses.  —  He put two spaces after his periods.

Donald Trump reacts to Barbara Bush quotes  —  President Trump said he was not surprised by former first lady Barbara Bush's attacks on him, as posthumously quoted in a new biography.  —  “I have heard that she was nasty to me, but she should be.  Look what I did to her sons,” …

So Yale Law School endorses anti-religious bigotry now?  —  What starts in the ivory tower of academia — including blatant discrimination against religious groups and students — won't stay there for long.  —  CONNECT  —  What happens at our nation's elite law schools rarely stays there.

Campaign consultants frozen out of DCCC money create ‘The Blacklist’  —  Campaign consultants who face being frozen out tens of millions of dollars in contracts with the Democratic Party's congressional arm are pushing back.  —  A new website called “The DCCC Blacklist” …

The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy.  It Didn't Go Well.  —  Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people.  But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.