Judge Calls Barr's Handling of Mueller Report ‘Distorted’ and ‘Misleading’  —  The judge said the attorney general lacked credibility on the matter and said he would review the report to decide whether to make its redacted portions public.  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge …

As Bernie Sanders Pushed for Closer Ties, Soviet Union Spotted Opportunity  —  Previously unseen documents from a Soviet archive show how hard Mr. Sanders worked to find a sister city in Russia when he was a mayor in the 1980s.  Moscow saw a chance for propaganda.

Sick cruise passengers await coronavirus results at sea as officials debate quarantine  —  A Princess Cruises ship that recently carried people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus was still being kept off the coast of California Thursday as officials sent kits to test passengers …

‘Doomed from the Start.’ Experts Say the Trump Administration's Coronavirus Response Was Never Going to Work  —  The Trump Administration's strategy to combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, began with a relatively simple focus: keep it out of the United States.

Was It Always Going to Be the Last Men Standing?  —  For Elizabeth Warren, the historic number of women in the 2020 field and the Democrats who supported them, the question will linger.  —  WASHINGTON — In the end, the pink wave carried two white men ashore.

Controversial execution carried out despite pleas from advocates  —  Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey refused to step in and stop the lethal injection.  —  The controversial execution of Nathaniel Woods was carried out late Thursday in Alabama just minutes after the Supreme Court denied a temporary stay, issued only hours earlier.

Coronavirus: White House concedes US lacks enough test kits  —  The White House has acknowledged the nation does not have enough coronavirus test kits as cases of the disease ticked upwards on both US coasts.  —  Vice-President Mike Pence said the Trump administration would not be able …

Romney could derail Republican subpoena targeting Bidens  —  A Republican effort to subpoena records about Joe Biden and his son Hunter could be derailed amid concerns from at least one GOP senator that the push appears politically motivated.  —  The Senate Homeland Security Committee is set …

'It's Pure Panic': A Wrenching Wait at Nursing Home Where Coronavirus Took Hold  —  Cut off from their relatives inside a virus-stricken nursing center, families are frantically searching for help and basic information.  —  KIRKLAND, Wash. — The hardest day of Debbie de los Angeles's life …

Elizabeth Warren Was the Wrong Kind of Radical  —  She wanted to reform everything except the Democratic Party itself.  —  Mr. Shenk is a co-editor of Dissent.  —  Remember when Elizabeth Warren was going to save the Democratic Party?  —  Back in 2016, it looked as if she had been engineered …

Jim Clyburn Saves the Democrats  —  He didn't just endorse Biden when his campaign was in trouble.  He showed him how to revive it.  —  No one has seen anything like it.  It will live in our political lore.  There'll be some bright 32-year-old kid running a campaign in 2056 and his guy …

Mike Bloomberg plans new group to support Democratic nominee  —  Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to form a new independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staff in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.

Trump's Gut Collides With Science On Coronavirus Messaging  —  President Trump is known to say what's on his mind, to go with his gut and accentuate the positive.  That approach is now colliding with a public health emergency in the form of coronavirus.  —  The challenge posed …

Elizabeth Warren's pandering and dishonesty brought her campaign to an end  —  “Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy.”  —  This embarrassing, obsequious, pandering line, tweeted by Elizabeth Warren in November as her campaign began …

Why Americans should care about Syria  —  The situation in Syria is catastrophic.  The Assad regime and its Russian and Iranian allies are bombarding the rebel-held enclave of Idlib, continuing their wholesale slaughter of civilians.  Turkey, drawn into the conflict by the chaos along its border …

POLITICO Playbook: The next coronavirus crisis  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THINK ABOUT THIS: What if this is only the beginning of the coronavirus economic downturn?  Imagine if stocks keep on slipping and, even more concerning, if Americans truly stop traveling domestically and internationally over the spring and summer.

AP Exclusive: Gun found inside Epstein jail during lockdown  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led …