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.

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 …

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,” …

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.

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.

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 …

Elizabeth Warren's campaign announces $6 million first-quarter haul as it makes huge hires in early states  —  Warren: I'm tired of a Washington that works for the rich  —  (CNN)Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised more than $6 million for her presidential bid in the first quarter of 2019 …

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 …

Netanyahu win would complicate prognosis for peace plan, analysts say  —  The apparent victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in Israeli elections clouds prospects for the Trump administration's yet-to-be-released peace plan and could further undermine bipartisan support for Israel in Congress, according to analysts.

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 …

Steve Mnuchin tried to tell Maxine Waters how to run a congressional hearing.  It did not go well.  —  “Please cancel your meeting and respect our time.”  —  During a hearing on Tuesday, an exasperated Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters …

The Smear Of Roger Scruton  —  The attempt to remove Roger Scruton from an honorary advisory role on the U.K. government's “Building Better, Building Beautiful” commission failed when it was tried last November.  But it succeeded today.  —  “You expect people who spend their lives on Twitter …

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

The confidential oil plan that could cost Trump reelection  —  The Trump administration is considering auctioning off Florida's coastal waters for oil and gas drilling — and Republicans are warning it could cost the president dearly in Florida in the 2020 election.

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 …

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 …

Mike Pence, facing criticism from 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg over his record on gay rights, says South Bend mayor ‘knows better’  — Vice President Mike Pence said Wednesday that Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg “knows better” days after the South Bend, Indiana …

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 …

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 …

A QAnon Believer Is Running for Congress and Is Currently Unopposed in His Republican Primary  —  Matthew Lusk says he is not a ‘brainwashed cult member.’ He just has some questions.  —  Believers in the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory are fond of telling each other to “Trust the Plan” …

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.