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 …

Nadler threatens to hold Barr in contempt if DOJ doesn't comply with new Democratic offer on Mueller report  —  Sarah Sanders: Nadler ‘incapable’ of asking Barr questions  —  Washington (CNN)House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler on Friday sent his latest offer Attorney General William Barr …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

‘Lock her up’ redux?  Biden's son becomes the right's new target  —  President Donald Trump's political allies and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani have begun mobilizing to cast a legal cloud over Joe Biden and demanding that the Justice Department should open an investigation that could ensnare …

How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback  —  When Erik Prince arrived at the Four Seasons resort in the Seychelles in January 2017 for his now-famous meetings with a Russian banker and UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, he was in the middle of an unexpected comeback.

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?”

Study: Major media outlets' Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times a day  —  Major media outlets failed to rebut President Donald Trump's misinformation 65% of the time in their tweets about his false or misleading comments, according to a Media Matters review.

The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates.  —  He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.

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.

Cohen's prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services  —  NEW YORK (AP) — “The Situation” and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there.  President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next.  —  It's not reality TV.  It's a federal prison 70 miles …