Trump, Putin discussed Mueller report and agreed no collusion, White House says  —  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the two leaders spoke by phone for an hour on Friday.  —  President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday and both agreed …

De Blasio expected to announce 2020 presidential run next week: sources  —  Mayor de Blasio is expected to announce he's running for president next week, according to three sources with knowledge of the plans.  —  The 2020 announcement could come as early as de Blasio's birthday on Wednesday, when he'll turn 58, said one source.

Letter from the Editor  —  Dear readers:  —  On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and researchers around the country.  Our aim was to provide a useful tool for readers to gauge …

Judges declare Ohio's congressional map unconstitutional  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal court ruled Friday that Ohio's congressional map is unconstitutional and ordered a new one be drawn for the 2020 elections.  —  A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court in Cincinnati ruled unanimously …

Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls to the lowest since 1969  —  KEY POINTS  —  US added 263,000 jobs in April, vs 190,000 expected  —  The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation …

Remarkably unremarkable: Pete Buttigieg rises in the polls as the first major openly gay candidate for president  —  SOMERVILLE — It was both a remarkable and entirely unremarkable sight: Pete Buttigieg's husband shaking hands with voters who had lined up outside the Somerville Theatre to hear …

Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union  —  Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang “This Land Is Your Land” to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988.  —  The just-married socialist mayor …

How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback  —  When Erik Prince arrived at the Four Seasons resort in the Seychelles in January 2017 for his now-famous meetings with a Russian banker and UAE ruler Mohammed bin Zayed, he was in the middle of an unexpected comeback.

Watergate had the Nixon tapes.  Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes.  —  The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”

William Barr Made A Major Disclosure In His Senate Hearing That Hardly Anyone Noticed  — Attorney General William Barr revealed during his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that former Australian diplomat Alexander Downer was an FBI source for information about George Papadopoulos.

Study: Major media outlets' Twitter accounts amplify false Trump claims on average 19 times a day  —  Major media outlets failed to rebut President Donald Trump's misinformation 65% of the time in their tweets about his false or misleading comments, according to a Media Matters review.

Sarah Kliff of Vox to Join Investigations  —  Sarah Kliff, a versatile journalist who has used a variety of media to explain complex health legislation, will be based in Washington.  Read more in this note from Rebecca Corbett, Dean Murphy and Carolyn Ryan.

The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating  —  Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates.  —  He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.

Mike Pence accuses centrist Joe Biden of ‘advocating a socialist agenda’ like other 2020 Democrats  —  KEY POINTS  — Vice President Mike Pence says in a CNBC interview that Joe Biden is “advocating a socialist agenda” along with other Democratic candidates vying to take on President Trump.