John Kelly joins board of company operating largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children  —  In April, protesters outside the nation's largest facility for unaccompanied migrant children noticed a familiar face enter the massive, fenced site in Homestead, Florida: former White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders spoke by phone for an hour on Friday.  —  President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed …

This nation is at the mercy of a criminal administration  —  Imagine that you live in a town that has been taken over by gangsters.  The mayor is a crook and so are the district attorney and police chief.  You can't fight city hall.  But at least you know you can turn for help to the state or federal government.

De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he's running for president next week, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans.  —  The 2020 announcement could come as early as de Blasio's birthday on Wednesday, when he'll turn 58, said one source.

Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …

Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously …

Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …

Erik Prince Set Up Intel Training for Project Veritas, James O'Keefe: Report  —  Blackwater founder Erik Prince arranged for political activist James O'Keefe's conservative group Project Veritas to receive more than one round of “training in intelligence and elicitation techniques,” The Intercept reports.

Remarkably unremarkable: Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls as the first major openly gay candidate for president  —  SOMERVILLE — It was both a remarkable and entirely unremarkable sight: Pete Buttigieg's husband shaking hands with voters who had lined up outside the Somerville Theatre to hear …

Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls to the lowest since 1969  —  KEY POINTS  —  US added 263,000 jobs in April, vs 190,000 expected  —  The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation …

AP Exclusive: US missed chance to woo Venezuela generals  —  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Around May 2017, an unusual request from a prominent Venezuelan general made its way to the White House: Gen. Ivan Hernández, head of both the presidential guard and military counterintelligence …

Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”

William Barr Made A Major Disclosure In His Senate Hearing That Hardly Anyone Noticed  — Attorney General William Barr revealed during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer was an FBI source for information about George Papadopoulos.

Paul Winfree Under Consideration for Federal Reserve  —  The former domestic policy aide in the Trump White House now oversees economic policy at The Heritage Foundation  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's next nominee to the Federal Reserve board may be one of his former domestic policy aides …

“Teach Schmidt a Lesson”: Did the Department of Justice Give the Mueller Letter to the Post to Screw the Times?  —  The Times's Michael Schmidt and Mark Mazzetti thought they had a scoop—until it turned up in their biggest competitor.  And D.O.J. contacts told Times reporters it had been done to punish them.

Christian persecution ‘at near genocide levels’  —  The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.  —  The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen …

Sarah Kliff of Vox to Join Investigations  —  Sarah Kliff, a versatile journalist who has used a variety of media to explain complex health legislation, will be based in Washington.  Read more in this note from Rebecca Corbett, Dean Murphy and Carolyn Ryan.

Mother of Otto Warmbier calls U.S. diplomacy with North Korea a ‘charade’  —  The mother of Otto Warmbier on Friday criticized the Trump administration's diplomatic outreach to North Korea as a “charade” and blasted dictator Kim Jong Un's regime as “absolute evil” in the family's first public comments on the stalled negotiations.

Floridians Gave Ex-Felons the Right to Vote.  Lawmakers Just Put a Big Obstacle in Their Way.  —  NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — In November, Florida voters approved a groundbreaking ballot measure that would restore voting rights for up to 1.5 million people with felony convictions.