The figure raises concerns about the new child separation policy.

The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., in May 2016, a top Spanish prosecutor said Friday.

TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan's most prominent former leaders, Yasuhiro Nakasone, has turned 100, fitting in a country known for longevity.

“Crypto is an oddball fucking thing…” By Davis Richardson.

The justifications being issued for why to continue supporting the NFL despite the recent decision to force ‘patriotic’ speech are nothing less than Orwellian newspeak. By Joshua Scott Hotchkin.

Classic Paul. By Jordan Weissmann.

"That means for example that if all the climate scientists in the world were wiped out by a freak meteor at a conference, climate science would quickly reappear and say basically the same things again, as more or less happened when the Catholic Church tried to suppress heliocentricism." By Thomas R. Wells.

Michael Cohen took at least $400,000 to arrange a meeting between Ukraine leader and Trump, sources tell BBC.

A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years. By Scott Alden.

US pair's private chat sent to coworker by AI bug. By Kieren McCarthy.

If influential outlets like the Times opinion section and CBS News are going to help build up bin Salman’s image as a “reformer” and a champion of women’s rights, don’t they have a unique obligation to inform their readers and viewers when the image they built up is so severely undermined? By Adam Johnson.

The Environmental Protection Agency is barring The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.

It’s polarizing our politics, making us ignore inconvenient facts and impeding real activism.

The motorcycle maker in January told Kansas City workers it would close a plant there. Days later, it announced a nearly $700 million stock buyback plan.

An introductory course in massaging your crimes and dehumanizing your enemies… By Nathan J. Robinson.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is taking a big gamble in trying to settle a decades-old name dispute with neighboring Macedonia which could backfire in a pre-election year among voters already jaded by his economic austerity policies.

The White House is preparing for a meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un on June 12. Despite Pyongyang's threats to back out, the White House has made a coin commemorating the event.

To restore our democracy after Trump, we will need to reduce the material inequalities that were eroding popular sovereignty long before his rise. By Eric Levitz.

Ministers say there will be no change to the rights of the Irish to live and work freely in the UK. But the government doesn't seem to realise that new legislation will be needed. By Patrick Maguire.

All to avoid "inconvenience." Sound familiar?

Special counsel Robert Mueller may be pulling on another thread in relation to foreign influence on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. According to The Wall Street Journal, his team of investigators have obtained a nine-slide presentation created by the Israeli firm, Psy-Group, which claims to have links to Israeli intelligence agencies.

He's buying District Attorneys left and right!

It’s getting harder for Angela Merkel and the German elite to hold back growing anti-Americanism. By Leonid Bershidsky.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions ruled on Thursday that immigration judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals do not have the general authority to indefinitely suspend cases through administrative closures. Sessions issued the decision late Thursday, report the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR. He ruled in a case involving a boy who came to the United States in 2014 from Central America and then failed to show up at five immigration hearings.

Facebook announced a new system to make political ads more transparent. It’s got holes. By Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, Madeleine Varner.

After securing the Democratic nomination, Abrams will compete in November.

President Trump accused the F.B.I. on Friday, without evidence, of sending a spy to secretly infiltrate his 2016 campaign “for political purposes” even before the bureau had any inkling of the “phony Russia hoax.” In fact, F.B.I. agents sent an informant to talk to two campaign advisers only after they received evidence that the pair had suspicious contacts linked to Russia during the campaign.

The Atlantic Council will help Facebook identify emerging threats and disinformation campaigns around the world.

Japan has notified the World Trade Organization that it reserves the right to take countermeasures against U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

Europe’s biggest challenge in resisting US sanctions on Iran is not legal or even geopolitical. It is psychological: European leaders act as if the US still cares about a trans-Atlantic alliance of shared interests, values, and approaches.

Dozens of Berlin nightclubs have organized a dance party to protest a march led by the far-right Alternative for Germany.

On Spy Fiction. The spy novel departs from its social-realist cousins, even the police procedural: crime gathers a large web of social interactions; espionage remains sealed off from the world at large. Cause and effect do not ramify outward, in horizontal networks; they move from big, those cold brains in a small room, to little, in a vertical cascade. The answer is inside, but it is also obvious, a purloined letter too large for any other genre’s frame. By Nicholas Dames.

The court struck down a federal law that required states to ban gambling on the outcome of sporting events.

John Guandolo said it was “treason” for former president Obama to address a Muslim organization in the US. By Talal Ansari.

Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party. By Gerry Shih.