First on CNN: Justice Dept. will not defend executive order on travel restrictions  —  Federal lawsuit filed against travel ban  —  Washington (CNN)The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending President Donald Trump's executive order …

BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order  —  Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …

Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’  —  Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …

Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee  —  Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy.  —  With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …

Suspect in Quebec Mosque Attack Quickly Depicted as a Moroccan Muslim.  He's a White Nationalist.  —  A mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque last night left six people dead and eight wounded.  The targeted mosque, the Cultural Islamic Center of Quebec, was the same one at which a severed pig's head was left during Ramadan last June.

Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded.  —  “This will be the biggest such act …

A Dangerously Isolated President  —  The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one.  The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.

Angry Republicans lash out at Trump for not consulting them on travel ban  —  President Trump's temporary ban on refugees and other foreigners has significantly deepened fissures in his already fragile relationship with congressional Republicans, as GOP leaders on Capitol Hill complained angrily Monday …

Republicans Have One Big Incentive to Stick With Trump  —  Despite the growing protests against President Trump's executive action on refugees and other people from seven predominantly Muslim countries, relatively few members of his party have spoken out against the policy — a familiar pattern since the election.

Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens  —  Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.

Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says  —  Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.

Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner  —  The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …

Billy Bush's wife is furious about that Donald Trump tape  —  Media insiders are buzzing that Andy Lack wants NBC to become “the next Fox News” after he poached cable stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly from the network.  —  “He believes he's building MSNBC and NBC into the next Fox.

Trump says Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from F-35 program  —  President Trump said Monday that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from its next lot of 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, capping weeks of private meetings with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson and public criticisms of the program's cost.

Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?  —  President Donald Trump on Monday accused Sen. Chuck Schumer of crying “fake tears” at a news conference criticizing his controversial executive order on refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.