Exclusive: Mueller's team questions Russian oligarch about payments to Cohen  —  (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators have questioned a Russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments his company's US affiliate made to President Donald Trump's personal attorney …

Why Trump torpedoed Obama's Iran deal … The lobbying campaign to save the Iran nuclear agreement was intense and took months.  British Prime Minister Theresa May raised the deal with President Trump in more than a dozen phone calls.  French President Emmanuel Macron pressed him on it during an elaborate state visit.

9/11 Planner, Tortured by C.I.A., Asks to Tell Senators About Gina Haspel  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel to lead the C.I.A. has revived debate over the agency's post-Sept. 11 interrogation program and still-murky questions about her involvement.

West Virginia Primary Election Results  —  A tight three-way primary race is underway in West Virginia for the Republican nomination for Senate.  —  Read more  —  President Trump on Monday intervened and pleaded with voters to oppose one of the candidates, Don Blankenship …

Risk to intelligence source who aided Russia investigation at center of latest showdown between Nunes and Justice Dept.  —  Last Wednesday, senior FBI and national intelligence officials relayed an urgent message to the White House: Information being sought by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes …

MSNBC Under Fire After Host Hugh Hewitt Helped Broker Meeting With EPA Leader  —  “We'll get back to you,” an MSNBC spokesman told THR when asked about the host's role in brokering a meeting between EPA head Scott Pruitt and lawyers at his firm representing a California water district.

A Duke University VP Walked Into the Campus Joe Van Gogh, Heard a Rap Song, Demanded That the Employees Be Fired  —  On Monday, two employees of Duke University's Joe Van Gogh location had their contracts terminated after vice president for student affairs Larry Moneta and executive director …

N. Korea to release 3 U.S. captives: Cheong Wa Dae official … North Korea is expected to release three U.S. citizens held in the communist state on Wednesday, an official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of a historic meeting between …

I went back to the man who hit me.  Why?  —  It's been a quarter-century, and I can still hear clearly the sound of my voice that night.  It wavered with a plaintive, childish note as I spoke into the phone: “He hit me.”  That sound, which I had never before heard in my own voice, broke something.

As Melania Trump Faces Plagiarism Claims, Her Staff Lashes Out at News Media  —  WASHINGTON — Melania Trump's rollout this week of her “Be Best” initiative focusing on children was intended to give the first lady an agenda all her own.  Instead, it revived accusations that Mrs. Trump's ideas were really coming from somewhere else.

Challenger Mark Harris on verge of upsetting U.S. Rep. Pittenger of NC  —  Former Charlotte pastor Mark Harris was leading Rep. Robert Pittenger in Tuesday's primary in North Carolina's 9th District, threatening to make him the first incumbent in the country to lose this year.