‘When you lose that power’: How John Kelly faded as White House disciplinarian … After White House chief of staff John F. Kelly pressured President Trump last fall to install his top deputy, Kirstjen Nielsen, atop the Department of Homeland Security, the president lost his temper …

Security for EPA chief comes at a steep cost to taxpayers  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's concern with his safety came at a steep cost to taxpayers as his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.

1 Man Dead, 6 Firefighters Hurt Following 4-Alarm Fire At Trump Tower  —  NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A man has died of his injuries following a four-alarm fire at Trump Tower.  —  The FDNY responded to an automatic alarm that sounded on the 50th floor of the high-rise on Fifth Avenue shortly after 5:30 p.m. Saturday.

Among the Abortion Extremists  —  A few weeks ago, The Washington Post's deputy editorial page editor, Ruth Marcus, wrote two columns explaining why, had either of her children been diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero, she would have accepted the “ghastly” nature of a second-trimester abortion and terminated the pregnancy.

Keystone pipeline leak in South Dakota about double previous estimate: paper  —  (Reuters) - The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since 2010, a newspaper report on Saturday said.

Ex-Trump Aide Says Jason Miller Forcing Long Custody Battle For ‘Revenge’  —  A.J. Delgado feels she has been misled by Jason Miller since the two first started dating while working as high-profile spokespeople for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.  —  At the start of their relationship …

Roger Stone claimed to know of WikiLeaks email release date, despite saying otherwise  —  (CNN)Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, said he knew the date of upcoming WikiLeaks disclosures in October 2016, despite claiming on Friday in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that he didn't.

New School professor had orgy with students: lawsuit  —  Administrators at The New School let a star psychology professor who sexually harassed multiple students and even participated in an orgy with lab students quietly resign, according to a lawsuit by one of his alleged victims.

Palestinian journalist in vest marked ‘PRESS’ shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza … GAZA CITY — Yaser Murtaja had often filmed from the sky, but he never lived to fulfill his dream of flying on an airplane though the clouds.  —  The young journalist shot drone images and video for Ain Media …

Watch Out, Ted Cruz.  Beto is Coming.  —  HOUSTON — Count me among the swelling ranks of the infatuated.  I, too, have been Beto-struck.  —  I have seen the alternative to Ted Cruz — Lord knows we need an alternative to Ted Cruz — and he's a peppy, rangy, toothy progressive with ratios …

Several dead in Germany as van ploughs into crowd in Muenster  —  Several people have been killed in the city of Muenster, in western Germany, after a van drove into pedestrians.  —  The driver of the vehicle has killed himself, police said, without providing further details.

Democrats' Chances Of Taking Over The House Just Got Better, Per New Forecast  —  The outlook is rosy despite Donald Trump's rise in the polls.  —  Democrats' shot at taking control of the U.S. House of Representatives just got slightly better, according to a new analysis of polling data conducted by The Cook Political Report.

The Architect of Trump's Threatened China Trade War  —  U.S. Trade Rep Bob Lighthizer argued that years of negotiation with Beijing had produced little and now the time had come for a confrontational approach  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump's tough policy on China trade took shape …

How an anti-illegal immigration YouTuber turned a $280 fine into a federal criminal trial  —  It began as a $280 citation for using a video camera in a courthouse.  —  But to Gary Gileno, at stake was much more than the couple hundred bucks he was told to pay.

Breaking: Fair Anchorage Announces Defeat of Prop 1  —  ANCHORAGE — Today Fair Anchorage announced, based on the most recent numbers released by municipal officials, that Proposition 1, a ballot measure that would have removed nondiscrimination protections for transgender people from Anchorage's city ordinances, has been defeated.

Michelle Obama may be best Dem hope for 2020, but says she doesn't want the job  —  I'm still predicting that if Republicans hold the House and Senate in November 2018, Democrats will beg Michelle to run.  —  In my New Year's 2018 predictions, I wrote:  —  1. Republicans will pick …

Richest 1% on target to own two-thirds of all wealth by 2030  —  World leaders urged to act as anger over inequality reaches a ‘tipping point’ … The world's richest 1% are on course to control as much as two-thirds of the world's wealth by 2030, according to a shocking analysis that has lead to a cross-party call for action.

Justice Department Probes Colleges' Early-Decision Admission Practices  —  Multiple schools received letters inquiring about possible antitrust violations  —  The U.S. Department of Justice is looking into whether communications among officials at competing colleges about early-decision …

The Radical Freedom of Dungeons & Dragons … C.J. Ciaramella from the May 2018 issue - view article in the Digital Edition  —  You might not recognize the name Gary Gygax.  But even if you've never rolled a critical fail on a d20, you have almost certainly consumed some movie, TV show …

Trump's freak-out moment  —  We can't overstate the severity of President Trump's buyer's remorse from signing last month's spending bill.  It could even be a turning point in his presidency, on the issue of immigration and his level of cooperation with Republican leaders:

'You are in Saskatchewan's hearts': 14 confirmed dead in junior hockey team bus crash  —  Semi-trailer collided with passenger bus about 30 kilometres north of Tisdale, Sask.  —  The RCMP confirmed 14 fatalities and 14 injuries in a collision involving a junior hockey team's bus in Saskatchewan on Friday …