Obstruction Inquiry Shows Trump's Struggle to Keep Grip on Russia Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump gave firm instructions in March to the White House's top lawyer: stop the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, from recusing himself in the Justice Department's investigation into whether …

Furious Trump Fires Off Tweet With New Nickname for Bannon  —  President Donald Trump seems absolutely furious about the upcoming Michael Wolff book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and he's making sure everyone knows it, firing off another tweet not only attacking the book …

Everyone in Trumpworld Knows He's an Idiot  —  One of the more alarming anecdotes in “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff's incendiary new book about Donald Trump's White House, involves the firing of James Comey, former director of the F.B.I. It's not Trump's motives that are scary …

FBI launches new Clinton Foundation investigation  —  The Justice Department has launched a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play politics or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton  —  served as Secretary of State, law enforcement officials and a witness tells The Hill.

About speculative execution vulnerabilities in ARM-based and Intel CPUs  —  Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known by two names, Meltdown and Spectre.  These issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all computing devices and operating systems.

Woman who accused Roy Moore of unwanted sexual contact sues him for defamation  —  In a lawsuit that echoes a civil case against President Trump, an Alabama woman on Thursday sued failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and his campaign for defamation, citing harsh personal attacks she faced …

Tillis no longer involved in key Senate negotiations on Dreamers  —  WASHINGTON  —  Editor's note: This story has been updated to include additional comments from Sen. Thom Tillis' office.  —  Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican who has sought to make immigration one of his signature issues …

Those Iguanas Falling From Trees in Florida?  They Probably Aren't Dead  —  Read the latest on the “bomb cyclone” winter storm hitting the East Coast with Thursday's live updates.  —  Beware the falling iguanas in South Florida.  —  When temperatures dip into the 30s and 40s …

Trump Moves to Open Nearly All Offshore Waters to Drilling  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will allow new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United States waters, it announced Thursday.  The plan would give the energy industry broad access to drilling rights in most parts …

Avoid Romaine Lettuce for Now, Consumer Reports Says  —  This salad green is likely the cause of recent cases of E. coli food poisoning  —  Over the past seven weeks, 58 people in the U.S. and Canada have become ill from a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria, likely from eating romaine lettuce.