Friday's Headlines: ‘Bigger than Watergate’: Trump joins push to expose an FBI source

The Fix: Why Mueller probably won't — and maybe shouldn't — indict Trump; Probe of leaked banking records related to Michael Cohen grows after New Yorker report; The Fix: Will...

Democracy Dies in Darkness     The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors   'Bigger than Watergate': Trump joins push to expose an FBI source President Trump's allies are trying to undercut the Russia investigation by targeting a top-secret source. The dispute pits Trump and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee against the Justice Department and intelligence agencies. By Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey  •  Read more » The Fix: Why Mueller probably won't — and maybe shouldn't — indict Trump Doing so would be legally controversial and likely reduce the odds of peaceable resolution. By Aaron Blake  •   Read more »   Probe of leaked banking records related to Michael Cohen grows after New Yorker report The Treasury Department's inspector general will look at the uncorroborated allegation that records were removed from a government database of suspicious transactions. By Beth Reinhard and Emma Brown  •   Read more »   The Fix: Will Cohen's mounting frustration lead him to turn on Trump? "I just can't take this anymore," Cohen has reportedly confided to friends. By Callum Borchers  •   Read more »   Alarm grows as Ebola is confirmed in Congo city of 1.2 million In what is now the most serious outbreak since the epidemic that raged across West Africa between 2014 and 2016, a World Health Organization official called the first urban case "a game changer." By Max Bearak  •   Read more »   Today's WorldView: The quiet return of Ebola With the world focused on Iran, Syria and North Korea, there's a new outbreak in Congo. By Adam Taylor  •   Read more »   Critic's Notebook The 12 best series finales of TV's current golden age As FX's "The Americans" comes in for a conclusion, we rank the finest finishes on the small screen since 2005. From tightly wrapped endings ("Six Feet Under") to tests of faith ("The Leftovers"), these finales made sure viewers never forgot how things ended. By Hank Stuever  •   Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT Opinions   Republicans want Big Government, too. They just want it to help fewer people. By Catherine Rampell  •   Read more »   The Trump era is a renaissance of half-witted intolerance By Michael Gerson  •   Read more »   Congratulations, America, indeed By Ruth Marcus  •   Read more »   Hold the 'year of the woman' euphoria By Karen Tumulty  •   Read more »   Maximum pressure on North Korea is gone, and it isn't coming back By Josh Rogin  •   Read more »   A GOP senator stands up to pressure — and rebukes the House on Russian interference By Editorial Board  •   Read more » ADVERTISEMENT More News   Trump's 'recklessness' spurs jitters in the Middle East The U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem and the withdrawal from the Iran deal are stirring new anger against the United States and raising the risk of a wider war. By Liz Sly  •  Read more »     'Korean-origin 007': Who is that mystery man at the center of the U.S.-North Korea summit? A CIA official in the middle of summit planning has become the subject of intense speculation in the South Korean media. By Anna Fifield and Min Joo Kim  •   Read more » Amid trade talks, China drops anti-dumping probe into U.S. sorghum imports China's Commerce Ministry concluded that the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures it had imposed on sorghum imports in April would affect the cost of living for Chinese consumers and were not in the public interest. By Simon Denyer  •   Read more »     White House and House GOP leaders reopen negotiations on immigration A vote on restrictive immigration policies could hand political ammunition to rivals of many Republicans in swing districts whose success is critical to retaining the party's House majority. By Mike DeBonis and Seung Min Kim  •   Read more »   Invasion of the scooter bros: A new tribe whizzes by haters on D.C. streets The arrival of zippy electric scooters for rent in Washington has been met with a giddy embrace from riders and annoyance from plenty of others. But is it the scooters that so irritate their detractors — or is it the people on them? By Lavanya Ramanathan  •   Read more »   Lawyer who threatened to call ICE about deli employees speaking Spanish is now target of complaint Two New York officials identified the man in the video as lawyer Aaron Schlossberg and submitted a formal complaint that accused him of misconduct for his rant. By Eli Rosenberg and Marwa Eltagouri  •   Read more »   Analysis Erosion? Cliffs collapsing? At science committee hearing, a lawmaker suggests reasons for sea-level rise. During a hearing of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Rep Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) pressed the president of Woods Hole Research Center to name potential causes and then suggested some of his own. The effects of those suggestions would be minuscule. By Philip Bump  •   Read more »         Share Today's Headlines:    Twitter     Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. 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