Lobbyist couple had to change the locks on Pruitt  —  Scott Pruitt was only supposed to be living in the Capitol Hill condominium that has become a focal point of his latest ethics controversy for six weeks last year while he got settled in Washington - but the new Environmental Protection Agency administrator …

Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress  —  This is a developing story.  —  WASHINGTON — Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.

Congrats, Jeff Goldberg.  You Just Martyred Kevin Williamson.  —  Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg climbed out on a limb last month to add conservative fire-breather and Never Trumper Kevin D. Williamson of National Review to join his growing staff.

Trump threat of $100 billion tariffs will ‘wake up’ China, Mitt Romney says  —  SANDY — U.S. Senate candidate Mitt Romney sees President Donald Trump's proposed $100 billion in new tariffs on China as a shot across the bow but doesn't think it would lead to trade war.

For Trump and his generals, ‘victory’ has different meanings … President Trump's pronouncement that he would be pulling troops out of Syria “very soon” has laid bare a major source of tension between the president and his generals.  —  Trump has made winning on the battlefields of Iraq …

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety  —  A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.

Will We Stop Trump Before It's Too Late?  —  Fascism poses a more serious threat now than at any time since the end of World War II.  —  On April 28, 1945 — 73 years ago — Italians hung the corpse of their former dictator Benito Mussolini upside down next to a gas station in Milan.

Michelle Obama: My Husband Was ‘The Good Parent,’ Trump Is ‘The Fun Parent’  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama threw a few barbs at President Donald Trump while speaking to a group of women at the Simmons Leadership Conference in Boston on Thursday.  —  Asked whether she would consider …

Kudlow just learned of Trump's latest tariffs move last night  —  The president's top economic adviser has spent the past week tirelessly pushing the White House's controversial trade proposals.  —  National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow appears to have been blindsided …

‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl  —  As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?  —  Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.  —  Earlier this year, the Criterion Collection, which is “dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world,” released a restored version of “The Breakfast Club,” …

As vultures circle, The Denver Post must be saved … The photo on the left shows 142 members of The Denver Post's newsroom staff in the newspaper's lobby on May 15, 2013, a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Aurora theater shooting.

Treasury Designates Russian Oligarchs, Officials, and Entities in Response to Worldwide Malign Activity  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), in consultation with the Department of State, today designated seven Russian oligarchs …

Department Of Homeland Security Compiling Database Of Journalists And ‘Media Influencers’  —  In today's installment of “I'm Not Terrified, You Are,” Bloomberg Law reports on a FedBizOpps.gov posting by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the relatively benign-sounding subject, “Media Monitoring Services.”

Mueller has evidence that Trump supporter's meeting with Putin ally may not have been a chance encounter: Sources  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller has obtained evidence that calls into question Congressional testimony given by Trump supporter and Blackwater founder Erik Prince last year …

Republican Trey Gowdy Was Known For Being Hyperpartisan — Until Trump (HBO) … South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy is retiring from Congress an unhappy man.  He's even counting the number of trips to the airport he has left until he can leave DC for good.

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg's messages from recipients' inboxes  —  Facebook says it was for security, but is it a breach of user trust?  —  You can't remove Facebook messages from the inboxes of people you sent them to, but Facebook did that for Mark Zuckerberg and other executives.

April House Overview: Ratings Changes in 13 Districts  —  The good news for Republicans is that President Trump's approval rating has, on balance, ticked up from 38 percent to 40 percent since January as attention has shifted from unpopular GOP proposals on healthcare and taxes to the economy, tariffs and Stormy Daniels.

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The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage  —  The United States government has seized Backpage.com, the controversial classifieds website.  A notice informing visitors of the seizure was posted on the site, and a Justice Department spokesperson confirmed the notice.

With important elections coming up in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan and more countries in the next year, one of my top priorities for 2018 is making sure we support positive discourse and prevent interference in these elections.  —  After we identified Russian interference in the 2016 US elections …

ICE raids meatpacking plant in rural Tennessee; 97 immigrants arrested … Federal officials arrested 97 immigrants at a meat-processing plant in rural Tennessee late Thursday in what civil rights organizations said was the largest single workplace raid in a decade and a sign that the Trump administration …