‘I Hope This Is an Instance of Fake News’: FBI Messages Show the Bureau's Real Reaction to Trump Firing James Comey  —  Then-FBI Director James Comey meets with North Dakotan state, local, and tribal leaders in 2016 (FBI)  —  When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May …

Dossier author Steele wrote another anti-Trump memo; was fed info by Clinton-connected contact, Obama State Department … A newly released document from the Senate Judiciary Committee says Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the Trump dossier, wrote an additional memo …

Think California politics is on the far-left fringe?  Just wait for the next elections. … SACRAMENTO — For those who think California politics is on the far-left fringe of the national spectrum, stand by.  The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation …

Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice - sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mick Mulvaney, head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has pulled back from a full-scale probe of how Equifax Inc failed to protect the personal data of millions of consumers …

Boycott the Republican Party  —  A few days after the Democratic electoral sweep this past November in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere, The Washington Post asked a random Virginia man to explain his vote.  The man, a marketing executive named Toren Beasley, replied that his calculus was simply to refuse to calculate.

Super Bowl anti-terrorism documents left on plane  —  (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security documents critiquing the response to a simulated anthrax attack on Super Bowl Sunday were marked “For Official Use Only” and “important for national security.”  —  Recipients of the draft …

Police: Man accused of driving drunk, killing 2 men, including Colts player Edwin Jackson, was in country illegally  —  INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The suspected drunk driver accused of killing two people, including Colts player Edwin Jackson, is in the United States illegally and has previously …

Trump ambassador nominee promoted fringe conspiracy theories on Twitter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to be the ambassador to Barbados and several other Caribbean countries spread fringe conspiracy theories and unfounded attacks about Trump's political opponents on Twitter …

‘Dreamer’ Talks Aim to End Budget Impasse  —  Republican Sen. John McCain, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons say they will propose path to citizenship for DACA participants, but no wall  —  WASHINGTON—Congress is expected this week to pass yet another short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown …

Some Philadelphia Eagles players skipping White House visit over Trump  —  (CNN)The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl for the first time in the franchise's history on Sunday, but several players have already indicated that they will not participate in the traditional White House visit …

Doritos to make ‘lady-friendly’ chips that don't crunch for women  —  Bosses at Doritos have revealed they are to launch a new “lady-friendly” version of the snack which are quieter to eat and a lot less messy.  —  Food and drinks giant PepsiCo — which owns Doritos …

Scott Pruitt called Trump an ‘empty vessel’ on ‘the Constitution and rule of law’ in another 2016 interview  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Pruitt called Trump an “empty vessel” on the Constitution and rule of law in a February 2016 interview with a local Oklahoma radio show

Exclusive: Massive Pentagon agency lost track of hundreds of millions of dollars  —  One of the Pentagon's largest agencies can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of spending, a leading accounting firm says in an internal audit obtained by POLITICO that arrives …

How Our Reporter Uncovered a Lie That Propelled an Alt-Right Extremist's Rise  —  Covering white supremacists poses difficult challenges for Times journalists.  Are we simply providing a platform for them to recruit followers and spread hate?  Are we casting a sympathetic light on people who should only be condemned?

Supreme Court won't block Pa. ruling that state redraw congressional boundaries immediately, in decision that could help Democrats  —  The Supreme Court denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to delay redrawing congressional lines, meaning the 2018 elections in the state probably …

Las Vegas Review-Journal killed story in 1998 about Steve Wynn sex misconduct claims  —  Cocktail waitresses at The Mirage sued over sexual discrimination in the 1990's.  Jim Laurie Las Vegas Review-Journal  —  A 1998 fax.  —  The Mirage in Las Vegas on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018.

‘The Hairs Really Went Up on the Back of Our Necks’  —  By the summer of 2016, Victoria Nuland's “Spidey sense” told her something was very wrong.  —  That spring, Nuland, the top State Department official charged with overseeing U.S. policy toward Russia, was one of those who had …

Here's the Trump Tax Loophole Your Accountant Can Blow Wide Open  —  New tax law allows 20% deduction for pass-through businesses  —  Tax pros are devising creative ways to avoid deduction limits  —  If exploiting a tax loophole is as much an art as a science, then the tax planning profession is poised for a creative renaissance.

Congress weighs leaving Dreamers in limbo another year  —  Congress may just end up punting on its Dreamer dilemma.  —  As lawmakers grasp for a solution for the young undocumented immigrants, one option is a temporary extension — perhaps one year — of their legal protections paired with a little bit of cash for border security.

Newsweek Guts Its Top Edit Staff Amid Legal Turmoil … Newsweek on Monday fired all of its top staff amid turmoil that has upended the newsroom.  —  In a company meeting, news director Christina Silvia announced that the outlet had fired Editor in Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li …

Panic time: Democratic cash swamps House Republicans  —  Is it time for Republicans to start freaking out?  —  More than 40 House Republican incumbents were outraised in the final quarter of 2017 by one — or several — of their Democratic opponents, according to the latest round of fundraising numbers.

Trump thought the British were protesting their health service.  They weren't. … LONDON — President Trump took a swing at Britain's beloved national health service on Monday, tweeting that Britons were taking to the streets because their universal health-care system was running out of money and not working.

‘The Memo’ Follows the Republican Plan to Destroy Neutral Authority  —  In 2009, hackers stole 3,000 emails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia.  Right-wing climate-science skeptics quickly seized upon snippets of conversation contained within …