Hush-Money Probe Gathered Evidence From Trump's Inner Circle  —  Federal investigators, looking into payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, questioned longtime aides of the president and amassed more evidence than previously known  —  The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office has gathered …

Mick Mulvaney Tries Letting Trump Be Trump  —  WASHINGTON — When President Trump met with his embattled homeland security secretary on Sunday to force her out after months of stormy eruptions over immigration policy, the only other person in the room was Mick Mulvaney, who made no effort …

Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe  — Inquiry comes as House GOP pushes claims of anti-Trump bias  — Issue pursued as Democrats emphasize getting Mueller's report  —  Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions …

Trump's ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon  —  President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington.  —  During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.

Bernie Sanders, Now a Millionaire, Pledges to Release Tax Returns by Monday  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Bernie Sanders, whose $18 million fund-raising haul has solidified his status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Tuesday that he would release 10 years …

If Trump has his way, this major federal agency is on the way out  —  The White House is moving to do what no president has accomplished since the end of World War II: eliminate a major federal agency.  —  If the Trump administration succeeds at dismantling the Office of Personnel Management …

Warner Bros. Shut Down Trump's 2020 Video For Using The “Dark Knight Rises” Score  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday posted a video on Twitter that appeared to be part of his 2020 reelection campaign.  In less than three hours, it had already amassed over 1 million views, but by late Tuesday night, the video was no longer available.

What I've Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News  —  It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush.  —  Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who …

In tightly fought election, Netanyahu appears set to clinch fifth term in office  —  TEL AVIV — With the vast majority of votes counted in Israeli elections by Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked set to clinch a fifth term in office, despite corruption charges and a strong challenger.

Inside the (semi-)secret society for young Trump staffers  —  On the first Wednesday evening in February, Anthony Scaramucci entertained a packed house of like-minded souls at Rewind, a retro diner off Dupont Circle.  —  There, the former White House communications director fielded friendly questions …

McConnell privately advises Republicans to tell Trump about Cain concerns  —  Herman Cain: Let them go out and dig up old allegations  —  (CNN)Senate Republican leaders are sending a message to members troubled by President Donald Trump's controversial Federal Reserve picks: Speak up.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has book coming in the fall  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Nikki Haley, the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor, has a book deal.  —  St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday that Haley's book, currently untitled, will come out this fall.

Man wearing a Trump T-shirt abuses people at Christchurch mosque where more than 40 people died  —  A man wearing a Donald Trump T-shirt has yelled abuse at members of the Muslim community gathered at one of the mosques targeted in the Christchurch terror attack.

Parkland victim's father: Traumatized students shouldn't have been flung into politics  —  After the Parkland shooting, there was a maniacal emphasis on hashtags and photo-ops.  My community never got the help it needed to actually heal.  —  CONNECT  —  More than a year has elapsed since 17 students …

Former CBS News Reporter Lara Logan Joining Sinclair  —  The ‘60 Minutes’ journalist, who left the network last year, will be a special correspondent for the conservative media giant.  —  In late February, former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan outlined her conditions …

Trump digs in on false claim that he stopped Obama's family separation policy  —  “President Obama had child separation.  Take a look.  The press knows it, you know it, we all know it.  I didn't have — I'm the one that stopped it.  President Obama had child separation. ...  President Obama separated children.

Trump's cognitive deficits seem worse.  We need to know if he has dementia: Psychologist  —  We see signs that the president's abilities are declining, but the only way to find out for sure is to give him a full neuropsychological evaluation.  —  CONNECT  —  If Donald Trump were your father …

Contracts for April 9, 2019  —  ARMY  —  SLSCO Ltd., Galveston, Texas, was awarded a $789,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for border replacement wall construction.  Nine bids were solicited with six bids received.  Work will be performed in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 1, 2020.