Justice Dept. Inquiry Into Matt Gaetz Said to Be Focused on Cash Paid to Women  —  The congressman and a former official in Florida sent money to the women using cash apps, receipts showed.  —  WASHINGTON — A Justice Department investigation into Representative Matt Gaetz …

Panic Rooms, Birth Certificates and the Birth of GOP Paranoia  —  In the 2010 midterm election, voters from all over the place gave President Obama what he himself called “a shellacking.”  And oh boy, was it ever.  You could be a total moron and get elected just by having an R next to your name …

Car rams Capitol barricade, injuring 2 officers; driver shot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A car rammed a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, injuring two Capitol Police officers and leading to the driver being shot, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

No Federal Taxes for Dozens of Big, Profitable Companies  —  FedEx and Nike are among those found to have avoided U.S. tax liability for three straight years.  —  Just as the Biden administration is pushing to raise taxes on corporations, a new study finds that at least 55 of America's largest paid …

Border crossings in March jumped to highest level in 15 years, data show  —  More than 171,000 migrants were taken into custody along the U.S. southern border in March, the highest monthly total since 2006, according to preliminary U.S. Customs and Border Protection data reviewed by The Washington Post.

Hunter Biden says laptop at center of Post exposé could ‘absolutely’ belong to him  —  Hunter Biden said the laptop at the center of The Post's explosive exposé last year “absolutely” could belong to him, he revealed in an interview Friday.  —  In a sit-down with CBS This Morning …

White House tells Democratic investigators it no longer has Trump White House Capitol attack documents  —  (CNN)The White House says it no longer has custody of the documents House Democratic investigators sought to shed light on the inner workings of then President Donald Trump's top aides in the lead up to …

Scottish Castles Are Rare, Huge and Very Expensive  —  Owners share the ups and downs of living in, and selling, these pieces of history  —  PORTRAITS OF James Ramsay's forebears line the walls of his Scottish castle, and although it is 36 times the size of a typical British home, there are plenty of ancestors to fill the space.

MLB moving 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting law  —  Major League Baseball announced Friday that it is moving the 2021 All-Star Game and 2021 draft out of Atlanta in protest of a new Georgia law that has raised concerns about its potential to disproportionately disenfranchise minority voters.

Vulnerable Dems fret after getting a shock: AOC's campaign cash  —  As the midterm campaign's first fundraising deadline approached this week, several vulnerable House Democrats got an unwelcome surprise in their accounts: $5,000 from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

What Georgia's Voting Law Really Does  —  The New York Times analyzed the state's new 98-page voting law and identified 16 key provisions that will limit ballot access, potentially confuse voters and give more power to Republican lawmakers.  —  Go page by page through Georgia's new voting law …

The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March as recovery gains steam again  —  The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March, the highest level in months, as vaccine distribution and declining caseloads helped accelerate a recovery in the labor market.  —  The unemployment rate edged …

Iran Nuclear Deal Participants to Meet in Vienna Next Week  —  President Biden has said he wants the U.S. to return to the deal that U.S. exited in 2018  —  Negotiations to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will take place among all parties in Vienna next week, senior western diplomats said Friday …

Exclusive: Fresh data reveal how Trump made inroads with Latinos  —  A new analysis of U.S. voters suggests — counterintuitively — that the coronavirus pandemic may have helped drive former President Donald Trump's surprising increase in support from Latinos last November.

When Online Conspiracies Turn Deadly: A Custody Battle and a Killing  —  Christopher Hallett's unorthodox legal theories gave Neely Petrie-Blanchard hope, and his online community of QAnon believers gave her a way to make sense of her disordered life  —  Christopher Hallett spent years …

My Kids' School Closed Again.  So I Started Calling Experts.  —  Many New York City public schools have been repeatedly closed because of two positive COVID-19 tests, even without evidence of in-school spread.  Experts call it “crazy.”  And it's driving me nuts. … Coronavirus

Never let truth get in the way of a good woke story  —  Last month's Atlanta shooting spree that killed eight people helped out the left-wing media.  Six victims were Asian, which let news organizations stoke alarm about white racism.  If you squint hard enough, set aside the two victims who weren't Asian …

The devil went down to Georgia to suppress the vote  —  Voter turnout hit record levels last year, which should have made everybody who is part of our democratic process happy.  —  Not only was turnout high but there was little voter fraud.  In a failed bid to overturn President Trump's defeat …

Vaccinated Americans are free to travel but should still take precautions, the C.D.C. says.  —  Americans who are fully vaccinated can travel “at low risk to themselves,” both within the United States and internationally, but they must continue to take precautions like wearing a mask in public …

Ending Sanctions and Visa Restrictions against Personnel of the International Criminal Court  —  Today, President Biden revoked Executive Order 13928 on “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Associated with the International Criminal Court (ICC),” ending the threat and imposition of economic sanctions …

I'm finally done with the Senate filibuster.  We're running out of time to save democracy.  —  This sounds apocalyptic and maybe a little crazy.  It is not.  The Trump presidency showed how quickly and completely our foundations can be shaken.  —  I worked as a counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for eight years.

President Biden, recidivist  —  Regular readers know we don't write fact checks to change the behavior of politicians.  Still, we'll admit it always warms our hearts when a politician drops a talking point or admits error in response to a fact check.  —  President Donald Trump frequently complained …