Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III wrote a letter in late March complaining to Attorney General William P. Barr that a four-page memo to Congress describing the principal conclusions of the investigation into President Trump …

Clashes erupt in Venezuela as opposition leader Juan Guaidó, with troops, announces ‘final phase’ against President Maduro  —  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared Tuesday with troops at a Caracas military base to announce a “final phase” to remove President Nicolás Maduro from office.

GOP support for Stephen Moore falls apart, leaving Trump's Fed pick with slim chance of confirmation  —  One GOP senator has come out against him and predicted Moore wouldn't get confirmed.  —  President Trump's plan to put ally Stephen Moore on the Federal Reserve Board appeared on the edge …

We Asked All Of The 2020 Presidential Candidates Their Thoughts On Vaccines.  Here's What They Said.  —  Measles, an extremely contagious and potentially dangerous disease, continues to spread in the US, with more than 700 cases so far this year in outbreaks that public health officials …

A Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism  —  By publishing a bigoted cartoon, The Times ignored the lessons of history, including its own.  —  The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher.  It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.

Trump and Democrats prepared for a fight — but a truce broke out instead  —  The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter's insights  —  Even if only for 90 minutes, Washington had declared a truce.  —  In a freewheeling discussion initially scheduled to talk …

At Trump golf course, undocumented employees said they were sometimes told to work extra hours without pay  —  HILLSDALE, N.Y. — His bosses at the Trump country club called it “side work.”  —  On some nights, after the club's Grille Room closed, head waiter Jose Gabriel Juarez …

The hiring spreadsheet and the clash at The Markup  —  There are things about the recent implosion of The Markup that make it unique—in particular, that it raised $23 million with nothing but a trio of co-founders and a brief description of the product they wanted to create.

Congressional Democrats' emoluments lawsuit targeting President Trump's private business can proceed, judge says  —  The decision sets the stage for lawmakers to possibly begin seeking documents and depositions from the Trump Organization.  — Jonathan O'Connell, Ann E. Marimow, Carol D. Leonnig -

Trump Wants to Block Deutsche Bank From Sharing His Financial Records  —  Over two decades, Deutsche Bank lent Donald J. Trump billions of dollars, even as his tarnished financial record put him off limits for most of Wall Street.  —  “You are a great friend,” Mr. Trump wrote to his Deutsche Bank contact in 1998.

47 percent of black women say they'd back Biden: poll  —  Nearly half of black women say they would support former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary, according to a new Morning Consult poll.  —  Forty-seven percent of black women surveyed for the poll said Biden …

Announcing Slow Burn Season 3  —  Slow Burn, Slate's critically acclaimed narrative podcast, will return for a third season this year.  Once again Slow Burn will retell the story of one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century.  But this time we're turning our attention away from political scandal …

Kentucky's 2019 teacher of the year shuns White House visit in protest of Trump  —  Kentucky's 2019 teacher of the year skipped a formal ceremony at the White House on Monday — a snub Jessica Dueñas said was in protest of the Trump administration's embrace of school-choice policies.

Schiff Hires Ex-Chief of FBI Financial Crimes Section as House Intel Probes Trump's Finances  —  Patrick Fallon jumps from the upper echelon of the bureau to Congress as Democrats ramp up investigations of president's finances.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman …

The Anti-Trump Resistance Has a New Plan to Combat Gerrymandering  —  Three grassroots groups are teaming up to restore election fairness in districts rigged in favor of the GOP  —  WASHINGTON — Call it the Resistance 2.0.  —  Three liberal groups that launched in the chaotic aftermath …

The secret saga of Trump's tax cuts  —  On a balmy April day in 2017, a sandy-haired, square-jawed New York tax lawyer named Dana Trier was heading to Washington, D.C., for a graduate-level economics class at Johns Hopkins.  Trier, a tax policy official in the Ronald Reagan …

‘That notorious homosexual’: Liberal candidate in attack on Tim Wilson  —  Another Victorian Liberal candidate is embroiled in an extremism row, publicly endorsing an attack on his party colleague, Goldstein MP Tim Wilson, as a “notorious homosexual”.  —  The party's candidate for the seat of Wills …

Dear Republicans: Stop using my father, Ronald Reagan, to justify your silence on Trump  —  Patti Davis is the author, most recently, of the novel “The Wrong Side of Night” and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.  —  Dear Republican Party,  —  I have never been part of you, but you have been part of my family for decades.

Can Washington rethink Iran?  —  During the Obama administration, critics of the president's engagement policy with Iran constantly complained that journalists and analysts with little knowledge of Iran were parroting the White House line.  I can't speak to that, since during that time I was reporting …

Hunter Biden splits from brother Beau's widow Hallie  —  Hunter Biden has allegedly split from Hallie Biden — the widow of his late brother, Beau — Page Six has exclusively learned.  The breakup comes two years after we first reported that the former in-laws were dating in 2017.