Michael Cohen used Trump company email in Stormy Daniels arrangements  —  President Donald Trump's personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.

Trump Lawyers Seek Deal With Mueller to Speed End of Russia Probe  —  Legal team seek to use interview with president as leverage in negotiations  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to negotiate a deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that uses an interview …

“Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA  —  The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend.  McMaster is likely next to go.  Then Jivanka.

Gov. Rick Scott signs gun, school security legislation over NRA opposition  —  Parkland parents attend bill signing ceremony at Capitol in Tallahassee.  —  After extensive discussions with the families of victims, Gov. Rick Scott signed new gun restrictions Friday in response to last month's massacre …

‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says, ‘This is my fault’  — Convicted fraudster Martin Shkreli is sentenced for securities fraud related to two hedge funds he ran and to his former drug company Retrophin.  — The notorious “pharma bro” …

EXCLUSIVE: Trump's hotel group wrote $151,470 check to the U.S. Treasury as it handed over all 2017 profits from business with foreign governments  — Trump Organization wrote the check on Feb. 22, representing all the hotel and related profits from foreign governments that it could account for

The endangered GOP senator who thinks Justice Kennedy could save him  —  Dean Heller knows he's the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country.  But he thinks Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might just help him hang on to his seat.  —  “Kennedy is going to retire around sometime early summer …

Playbook scoop: Elizabeth Warren goes after Kushner Companies loans  —  THIS SCOOP MIGHT IRK TRUMP — SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN IS GOING AFTER JARED'S COMPANY ... The Massachusetts Democrat — along with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) …

3 hostages taken, shots fired at Yountville Veterans Home  —  Woman on lockdown at Yountville Veterans Home speaks with KTVU  —  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (KTVU) - Three people were taken as hostages and shots were fired at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville — the largest in the United States …

The Sam Nunberg exit interview: 'Now the game's over'  —  WASHINGTON — We in the media might not have Sam Nunberg to kick around anymore.  Then again, who knows for sure?  —  Late Thursday evening, hours before he appeared before a grand jury hearing as part of special counsel

The E.P.A Chief Wanted a Climate Science Debate.  Trump's Chief of Staff Stopped Him.  —  Want the latest climate news in your inbox?  You can sign up here to receive Climate Fwd:, our new email newsletter.  —  John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has killed an effort by the head …

Why I could no longer serve this president  —  John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.  —  Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step …

Trump pardons sailor in submarine photos case  —  President Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy submariner sentenced to prison for taking photos inside the classified engine room of a nuclear submarine, the White House announced on Friday.  —  Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier pleaded guilty …

Bay Area coffee shop won't serve police for ‘safety of customers’  —  Hasta Muerte Coffee: ‘We need support of the actual community to keep this place safe, not police’  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  A coffee shop in Oakland is refusing to serve law enforcement officers for the …

‘Stand down’: How the Obama team blew the response to Russian meddling  —  Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books) by Michael Isikoff, Chief Investigative Correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.

A Quiet Exodus: Why Blacks Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches  —  FORT WORTH — Charmaine Pruitt wrote the names of 12 churches on a sheet of paper, tore the paper into 12 strips, and dropped them into a Ziploc bag.  It was Sunday morning and time to pick which church to attend.

Why Is Louis Farrakhan Back in the News?  —  Louis Farrakhan, the 84-year-old head of the Nation of Islam, has been back in the headlines after a previously unreleased photo of him with President Barack Obama was published in January, and Mr. Farrakhan gave an anti-Semitic speech at his organization's annual convention last month.

When Smug Liberals Met Conservative Trolls  —  It's hard to tell who started it.  —  Was it the populist right, reared in the meme swamps of Reddit and 4chan, who emerged blinking into the daylight of politics and set about baiting anyone who disagreed with their chosen Republican king?

IT'S TIME TO ABOLISH ICE  —  A mass deportation strike force is incompatible with democracy and human rights.  —  Dan Canon is running for Congress in Indiana's ninth district this year.  A career civil rights lawyer, Canon filed one of the cases against gay marriage bans that eventually became …

ACLU accuses US of broadly separating immigrant families  —  HOUSTON (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the U.S. government of broadly separating immigrant families seeking asylum.  —  The lawsuit follows action the ACLU took in the case …