Top Obama Adviser Sought Names of Trump Associates in Intel  —  White House lawyers last month discovered that the former national security adviser Susan Rice requested the identities of U.S. persons in raw intelligence reports on dozens of occasions that connect to the Donald Trump transition and campaign …

Blackwater founder held secret Seychelles meeting to establish Trump-Putin back channel  —  The United Arab Emirates arranged a secret meeting in January between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian close to President Vladi­mir Putin as part of an apparent effort to establish …

Mitch McConnell's Nuclear Trigger Finger  —  In the 1944 noir film “Gaslight,” a villain hides his crimes by convincing his innocent wife she's insane, feeding her barely perceptible lies and altering small aspects of her environment until she doubts her own instincts and observations.

Why Trump lies … Donald Trump did not invent the lie and is not even its master.  Lies have oozed out of the White House for more than two centuries and out of politicians' mouths — out of all people's mouths — likely as long as there has been human speech.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's Rent in Washington: $15,000 a Month  —  Owner is a Chilean magnate who bought house for $5.5 million  —  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's daughter and her White House adviser husband, are paying $15,000 a month to rent their new home …

North Korean Defector Tells Lester Holt ‘World Should be Ready’  —  SEOUL, South Korea — A senior North Korean defector has told NBC News that the country's “desperate” dictator is prepared to use nuclear weapons to strike the United States and its allies.  —  Thae Yong Ho is the most high …

EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Trump Aide Sebastian Gorka Backed Violent Anti-Semitic Militia  —  As a Hungarian political leader in 2007, Sebastian Gorka, President Trump's chief counter-terrorism adviser, publicly supported a violent racist and anti-Semitic paramilitary militia that was later banned …

Mercedes-Benz pulls ads from 'The O'Reilly Factor' — will others follow?  —  O'Reilly accuser: ‘My voice is not for sale’  —  Mercedes-Benz said Monday that it has “reassigned” its advertisements on “The O'Reilly Factor” following a report about five settlements with women who alleged sexual harassment …

AOL and Yahoo plan to call themselves by a new name after the Verizon deal closes: Oath  —  When Verizon merges Yahoo with AOL after its acquisition of Yahoo closes, the newly created division will get a new name.  —  That new name is Oath, sources tell Business Insider.

The big Russia questions loom even larger  —  Following his extraordinary testimony last week, former FBI special agent Clint Watts appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.  This exchange, in which he explained Russia's “active measures” during the 2016 campaign, was eye-popping:

The destruction of Hillary Clinton: sexism, Sanders and the millennial feminists  —  In this extract from her book, Susan Bordo asks how the most qualified candidate ever to run for president lost the seemingly unloseable election  —  any books have been written about the way racial differences …

Trump Can Pull Money From His Businesses Whenever He Wants — Without Ever Telling Us  —  When President Donald Trump placed his businesses in a trust upon entering the White House, he put his sons in charge and claimed to distance himself from his sprawling empire.

Trump donates first-quarter salary to National Park Service  —  President Trump will donate his first three months of salary to the National Park Service, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced Monday.  —  “The president has spoken with counsel and made the decision to donate …

Woman accused of threatening Sandy Hook parent jailed after she was a no-show for court  —  Lucy Richards was arrested on Saturday by Tampa City police.  She is accused of sending death threats to a Palm Beach County man whose son was murdered in the Sandy Hook mass shooting.  —  Sun Sentinel

Amid the storm, Devin Nunes' two worlds render vastly different judgments of him  —  At home, Devin Nunes remains what he has always been, an auspiciously successful man who rose swiftly to unexpected heights, a man high school teachers point to when they tell kids in this often-overlooked place what is possible in this world.

White House Releases Official Portrait of First Lady Melania Trump  —  The White House is announcing the release of the first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump, taken in her new residence at the White House.  —  “I am honored to serve in the role of First Lady …

Putin Derangement Syndrome Arrives  —  Whatever the truth about Trump and Russia, the speculation surrounding it has become a dangerous case of mass hysteria  —  So Michael Flynn, who was Donald Trump's national security adviser before he got busted talking out of school to Russia's ambassador …

The secret to Donald Trump's success might be his physical attractiveness, study concludes  —  President Donald Trump has insisted the mainstream media is pushing “FAKE NEWS!” and has called journalists the “enemy of the people.”  —  What follows might give him a reason to rethink that opinion.

White House, conservatives mull deal to revive Obamacare repeal  —  House conservatives and the White House are mulling a potential agreement to revive the GOP Obamacare replacement bill that was pulled from the House floor just over a week ago, POLITICO has learned.

How to Lose a Majority  —  The very public intra-party fight between President Trump and the Freedom Caucus is just the latest twist in the ongoing fight over the philosophical, strategic and ideological direction of the Republican party.  As has been his mode of operation since his candidate days …

The Southern Hemisphere Sees Its ‘Quietest’ Hurricane Season On Record  —  As we head into April, the Southern Hemisphere is in the midst of the “quietest” hurricane season on record.  —  Meteorologist Ryan Maue of Weatherbell Analytics noted tropical cyclone activity in the Southern Hemisphere …

Trump Supporter Labeled ‘Fake News’ By ‘60 Minutes’ Beats Everyone To Susan Rice Scoop  —  Mike Cernovich, a journalist who has promoted conspiracy theories and was deemed “fake news” by “60 Minutes,” was the first to break the news that Obama's former national security advisor Susan Rice …

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl … It was close to midnight on the coast of Libya, a few miles west of Tripoli.  At the water's edge, armed Libyan smugglers pumped air into thirty-foot rubber dinghies.  Some three thousand refugees and migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans …