Inside Trump's fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations  —  President Trump spent the weekend at “the winter White House,” Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king.  The sun sparkles off the glistening lawn and warms the russet clay Spanish tiles …

Towergate: Trump's great gamble  —  I have learned that some — though definitely not all — members of President Trump's inner circle share his belief that the Obama administration tapped his Trump Tower phones in October.  And a White House official told me President Trump not only doesn't regret …

Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal U.S. Groups  —  Post-election crime wave by attackers demanding bitcoins  —  Center for American Progress said to be among victims  —  Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks …

U.S. Warned of Foreign Intel Operations After Russian Met With Team Trump at RNC  —  The day Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak mingled with Trump campaign advisers—including then-Sen. Jeff Sessions—at a conference near the Republican National Convention, the Department of Homeland Security began preparing …

State Dept. staffers have one question: Where's Rex?  —  The State Department resumes its formal press briefing on Monday — an event that offers Secretary of State Rex Tillerson an ideal setting to assert to the world that America remains a diplomatic force and reassure his jittery employees …

Schumer's plan to stop the wall  —  Chuck Schumer has concluded that denying President Trump his wall is perhaps the surest major defeat Democrats can hand the President in his first year.  —  Trump needs 60 Senate votes to fund construction of his “great wall” along the Southern border.

CNN/ORC poll: Most back special prosecutor for Russia investigation  —  Washington (CNN)About two-thirds of Americans say a special prosecutor should investigate contacts between Russians and Trump campaign associates, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, and 55% say they are at least somewhat concerned …

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The Middlebury Meltdown  —  Future historians of the liberal arts in American academic life will be able to pinpoint the time and place of its death with remarkable accuracy.  The fatal blow was delivered Thursday night, March 2, at Wilson Hall, Middlebury College, Vermont.

Donald Trump's Worst Deal  —  The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.  —  Heydar Aliyev Prospekti, a broad avenue in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, connects the airport to the city.

The Truth About Sweden  —  As Saul Bellow said, ‘A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep’  —  Firemen extinguish a burning car on the third straight night of riots by immigrant youths around Stockholm, May 21, 2013.

A Conspiracy Theory's Journey From Talk Radio to Trump's Twitter  —  WASHINGTON — It began at 6 p.m. Thursday as a conspiratorial rant on conservative talk radio: President Barack Obama had used the “instrumentalities of the federal government” to wiretap the Republican seeking to succeed him.

Trump's charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory  —  Donald Trump's presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails.  —  The president's accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” …

Trump and Democratic Smokescreens  —  When I woke up Sunday, I thought the morning news shows would all be talking about the unusual, perhaps dangerous, decision of the Obama administration to wiretap the offices of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.  —  I've been watching Chuck Todd's “Meet the Press” as I write this.