Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld  —  You could tell by his eyes, the way they popped and gleamed and fixed on someone behind me.  Only one person gets that kind of look from Donald Trump.  “Oh!” the president said.  “Ivanka!”  —  Ivanka Trump lifted her hands, astonished.

Pence says Buttigieg bringing ‘attacks on my Christian faith’  —  Pence: Trump is expressing frustration of Americans  —  Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence hopes South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg will offer more than attacks on his religious faith or the character …

White House proposed releasing immigrant detainees in sanctuary cities, targeting political foes  —  White House officials have tried to pressure U.S. immigration authorities to release detainees onto the streets of “sanctuary cities” to retaliate against President Trump's political adversaries …

W. Samuel Patten sentenced to probation after steering Ukrainian money to Trump inaugural  —  An American political consultant whose guilty plea marked the first confirmation that illegal foreign money was used to help fund Donald Trump's inaugural committee was sentenced to probation Friday …

Here's the Law That Requires Mnuchin to Turn Over Trump's Taxes, or Lose His Office and Go to Prison  —  The law is clear, and it leaves no wiggle room.  The consequences for breaking it include removal from public office and up to five years in prison.  —  Donald Trump and his top White …

The Hidden Horror of Hudson Yards Is How It Was Financed  —  Since its official unveiling last month, critics have been teeing off on Hudson Yards, the $25 billion office-and-apartment megaproject on Manhattan's West Side.  The Guardian's Oliver Wainwright calls it “bargain-basement building …

Elizabeth Warren is the intellectual powerhouse of the Democratic party  —  It may well not be Warren who wins the Democratic nomination, but whoever does will be campaigning on her ideas  —  There's still nearly a year to go before the Iowa caucuses, the first contest of the Democratic presidential primary …

What We Already Know About the Mueller Report Should Scare Us  —  And Congress has a duty to push forward from here.  —  The Russia probe is too big and too important to be judged by a highlight reel.  Yes, there are some clear takeaways from Attorney General William Barr's summary of the report's conclusions.

Trump's new attorney general launches fresh changes to immigration courts  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr is making his first major moves on immigration policy since his confirmation, setting up big changes for the courts that decide whether immigrants will stay in the U.S. or be deported.

Undisclosed cash flowed at Trump inaugural ball with ties to China, embattled Saipan casino  —  Thousands of dollars in donations flowed to an undisclosed source at a Trump inaugural ball with links to China and dubious donors, but no financial records.  —  In the decked-out ballroom …

Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump  —  After Bernie Sanders lost his primary campaign for president against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election.

FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying  —  Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved “spying.”

A column suggested waiters could ‘tamper’ with Trump officials' food.  Amid backlash, the Boston Globe pulled it.  —  The roughly 1,200-word op-ed that appeared on the Boston Globe's website Wednesday began with the author looking back on one of his “biggest regrets” in life — “not pissing in Bill Kristol's salmon.”

Saudi Arabia Promised Support to Libyan Warlord in Push to Seize Tripoli  —  Days before Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive to seize the capital and attempt to unite the divided country under his rule, Saudi Arabia promised tens of millions of dollars to help pay for the operation …

Roger Stone's woes: He's broke.  Donald Trump doesn't call.  And his wife broke her ankle.  —  In a wide ranging interview with SiriusXM's “Jim Norton & Sam Roberts” Roger Stone said his living situation has plummeted, his savings are gone and his car was impounded.  —  South Florida Sun Sentinel

He Has Driven for Uber Since 2012.  He Makes About $40,000 a Year.  —  COTATI, Calif. — Uber's public stock offering next month will make a bunch of people remarkably rich.  Peter Ashlock is not one of them, although he has toiled for the ride-hailing company almost since the beginning.

Republicans are anti-voting and anti-democratic  —  By definition, you get a more robust democracy and leaders more reflective of the population as a whole when more people vote.  Democracy has little meaning if it doesn't rest on the broadest possible franchise.

Julian Assange Got What He Deserved  —  In the end, the man who reportedly smeared feces on the walls of his lodgings, mistreated his kitten, and variously blamed the ills of the world on feminists and bespectacled Jewish writers was pulled from the Ecuadorian embassy looking every inch …

With Polls and Private Meetings, Republicans Craft Blunt Messaging to Paint Democrats as Extreme  —  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are sharpening and poll-testing lines of attack that portray Democratic policies on health care, the environment and abortion as far outside the norm …

‘Fox News brain’: meet the families torn apart by toxic cable news  —  Fox News built a wall between Luke O'Neil and his mother, and he's just one of many families split by its viral ideology  —  I love my mother.  She is one of the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet and I would be nothing without her.

Trump's transgender military ban now in effect  —  The Pentagon initiated Friday the transgender military ban in accordance with Trump administration plans for the policy, returning the U.S. military to restrictions on LGBT service that harken to the days of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”

Barr Brings Accountability  —  Trump's foes call it ‘stunning and scary.’ Here's what they have to be scared about.

“They Just Had an Unbelievable String of Assholes Running the Place”: The L.A. Times, Once a Print-Media Tragedy, Is Rising from the Near-Dead  —  Having survived a foul-mouthed owner, frat boys, and new-media loopiness, L.A.'s paper of record is now journalism happy-news …

A Federal Judge Compared Trump's Criticism Of The Courts To The KKK And Segregationists  —  WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual public rebuke against President Donald Trump by a sitting member of the federal judiciary, US District Judge Carlton Reeves delivered a speech Thursday calling …

For Democrats, Twitter Is Not Real Life.  But It Could Be.  —  Democrats on Twitter are weirder than they appear.  The small slice of blue America that's visible on social media is much more ideological, progressive, white, college-educated — and, above all, interested in politics — than the Democratic coalition writ large.

Former White House aide who mocked McCain as ‘dying anyway’ joining pro-Trump PAC  —  Washington (CNN)Kelly Sadler, the former White House aide who was let go after she mocked the late Sen. John McCain, is joining the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action to handle communications, CNN has learned.

'We've done a lot more than you would think': How the health-insurance industry is working to pull Democrats away from Medicare-for-all  —  At a company town hall meeting in late February, a UnitedHealthcare executive assured employees that the private health insurance giant was indeed working …