AP Interview: Pelosi: 'I don't trust Barr; I trust Mueller'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she doesn't trust Attorney General William Barr and suggested his statements alleging President Donald Trump's campaign was spied on undermine Barr's independence as the nation's top law enforcement officer.

National Enquirer expected to be sold imminently as parent company faces pressure  —  American Media Inc. is actively seeking to sell off the National Enquirer, according to three people familiar with the process who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

WASHINGTON—Former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig expects to be indicted in the coming days on charges stemming from work he performed for Ukraine in 2012, Mr. Craig's legal team said.  —  Mr. Craig has refused to accept a plea deal, and the matter could be presented to a grand jury …

Retiring as a Judge, Trump's Sister Ends Court Inquiry Into Her Role in Tax Dodges  —  President Trump's older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has retired as a federal appellate judge, ending an investigation into whether she violated judicial conduct rules by participating in fraudulent tax schemes with her siblings.

Treasury denies Democrats' request to hand over Trump's tax returns by the end of Wednesday, says it will confer with Justice  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied House Democrats' demand to release six years of President Trump's tax returns, saying the department could not complete …

Broken Friendships, Family Fights and Prison Sentence Anguish: How Lori Loughlin Is Coping With Her New Normal  —  Whatever happened to the woman who once declared her family wasn't interesting enough for prime time TV?  —  “We've been asked to do a reality show a couple times,” …

Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa  —  Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.  Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening.

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 …

Pete Buttigieg, Gay and Christian, Challenges Religious Right on Their Own Turf  —  WASHINGTON — As a religious gay man who believes his party has ceded discussion of religion and spirituality to Republicans, Pete Buttigieg, a Democratic candidate for president, is talking about God and sexuality …

A Texas bill would make it possible to put women to death for having abortions  —  Men and women, young and old, native Texans and immigrants, they rose to ask lawmakers to protect life, describing a “genocide” and foreseeing the arrival of “God's wrath.”  —  The act of public atonement …

Is This the Dumbest Moment in Congressional History?  —  A Kentucky congressman's impossibly daft line of questioning left John Kerry flabbergasted  —  Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) may have studied robotics at MIT, but he is now responsible for one of the most asinine moments in congressional history.

DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016  —  Joint Intelligence Bulletin issued in March says Russian hacking efforts were wide-ranging.  —  A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation …

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.

Kirsten Gillibrand's CNN Town Hall Pulls in Rock Bottom Ratings  —  CNN has hosted a series of 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates for town halls.  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Sen. Kamala Harris, New Jersey Senator Corey Booker, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar have all participated.

European leaders offer a long Brexit delay, avoiding chaotic exit on Friday  —  BREAKING NEWS: Although British Prime Minister Theresa May had asked for an extension until the end of June, E.U. leaders are tired of emergency Brexit summits and skeptical of what she can accomplish in less than three months.

SF supervisors reject housing complex that would cast shadow on SoMa park  —  The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously rejected a 63-unit apartment complex, including 15 below-market-rate units, because it would cast an evening shadow on a South of Market park.

What the President May Now Fear Most in Mueller Report  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report is predicated, as far as we know, on a potentially explosive assumption.  —  Consider a head scratching set of conclusions.  The Special Counsel wrote that “the evidence does not establish …

Tiny bees found in woman's eye, feeding off tears  —  (CNN)Doctors treating a Taiwanese woman for a swollen eye were shocked to find four tiny bees living under her left eyelid.  —  The miniscule insects, known as sweat bees, are 3 to 4 millimeters (0.12-0.16 inches) in length, according to CNN affiliate CTS.

White House eyeing former head of anti-immigration group for DHS job  —  The White House is considering nominating the former head of an anti-immigration group to lead U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, according to a White House official and three people briefed on the deliberations …

By claiming ‘total exoneration,’ does Trump risk a ‘Mission Accomplished’ moment?  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  President Trump paused on the White House South Lawn Wednesday to describe special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation …

Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, the administration is silent on whether the president's own company is being scrutinized  —  President Trump has shown he is willing to take dramatic steps to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States, but his administration has been silent …

Darkness Visible, Finally: Astronomers Capture First Ever Image of a Black Hole  —  Astronomers at last have captured a picture of one of the most secretive entities in the cosmos.  —  Astronomers announced on Wednesday that at last they had captured an image of the unobservable: a black hole …

Memo to the Press: How Not to Screw Up on the Mueller Report  —  Back in February, writing with Susan Hennessey and Mikhaila Fogel, we laid out “Four Principles for Reading the Mueller Report.”  The report was then still vapor, a document whose preparation was widely hypothesized by most analysts …

Pentagon Pulls Funding for Team of Academics Who Work on the Most Difficult Scientific Problems  —  The U.S. Department of Defense under Patrick M. Shanahan has quietly pulled funding for an independent organization called the Jason Group under the Pentagon's latest budget proposal.