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 …

The single-sentence Russia bombshell that Attorney General Barr delivered to Congress  —  Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.  —  Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Mnuchin, Waters engage in angry exchange with cameras rolling on Capitol Hill  —  Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) engaged in a fierce clash Tuesday, squaring off amid rising antagonism between the White House and congressional Democrats.

Look at the Forest, Not the Trees: What We Do and Don't Know About 2020  —  In this age of constant stimulation and news and information overload, it is harder than ever to get perspective.  I am as guilty as anyone of getting sucked into the vortex of political twitter, only to emerge hours later with little to show for it.

GOP senators try to undermine Kushner's immigration plan  —  Senate Republicans will introduce a bill to slash legal immigration in a challenge to the White House adviser's proposal.  —  A group of Senate Republicans is moving to slash legal immigration, a plan designed to undercut a proposal …

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 …

After yet another election win, what's next for Benjamin Netanyahu?  —  Benjamin Netanyahu has done it again, discreditably but indubitably.  If Tuesday's Israeli election was a referendum on his character as well as his competence, Netanyahu's campaign tactics explained why.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …