Trump Campaign Manager: Trump Will Debate Cruz Once Judge Rules Him Eligible To Run  —  “Once you've gotten that ruling from the federal judge and you're the last man standing in this presidential contest next to Donald Trump, we'll be happy to have a debate with you one-on-one, anywhere you want.”

Bernie Sanders unloads on The Washington Post  —  DES MOINES — Move over, Donald Trump.  Stand aside, Fox News.  There's a new feud underway between a presidential candidate and a news media organization — this one between a Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and the editorial page of this newspaper.

A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei  —  A memo from POLITICO CEO Jim VandeHei:  —  “So now you know the news: I am leaving POLITICO after the election.  —  The timing is poetic: it will mark my 10th Anniversary, almost to the day.  I came in just as the Barack Obama phenomenon exploded …

Trump's New Pro-Veterans Website Directs All Donations To Trump's Personal Foundation  —  After ducking the final Republican presidential debate heading into next week's Iowa caucuses, GOP front-runner Donald Trump announced that he would hold his own pro-veterans event during the debate to raise money for veterans.

Document: Snyder Admin Trucked In Clean Water for State Building in January 2015  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  Contact: Sam Inglot, 616-916-0574, sam@progressmichigan.org  —  Latest revelation shows unequal treatment in Flint Water Crisis  —  LANSING — The Snyder administration quietly trucked …

Biden calls GOP 2016 field ‘gift from the Lord’  —  Baltimore (CNN)The cast of Republicans battling for their party's nomination has amounted to divine intervention for Democrats, Vice President Joe Biden said Thursday.  —  “We may be given a gift from the Lord in the presidential race here …

Barbie's dress won't fit.  —  I'm sitting in a bright pink room at Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., playing with a Barbie that only 20 people in the world know exists.  Her creation has been kept so secret that the designers code-named the endeavor Project Dawn so that even their spouses …

Donald Trump Is Shocking, Vulgar and Right  —  About 15 years ago, I said something nasty on CNN about Donald Trump's hair.  I can't now remember the context, assuming there was one.  In any case, Trump saw it and left a message the next day.  —  “It's true you have better hair than I do,” Trump said matter-of-factly.

Hillary Clinton and the audacity of political realism  —  In mid-2014, Noam Scheiber tracked down 10 former Iowa precinct captains for Barack Obama and asked whom they were supporting in 2016.  The answer?  Overwhelmingly, they were backing Hillary Clinton — the very candidate they had worked so hard to beat in 2008.

It's Still Bill Clinton, but the Old Magic Seems Missing  —  MASON CITY, Iowa — Bill Clinton came to the vote-rich city of Mason City on Wednesday night and recounted his wife's life experiences, recited her policy ideas, and ripped into the Republicans a bit.

Is This the End of the GOP as We Know It?  —  Historian Rick Perlstein on the rise of Trump, the fall of Reagan, and the fate of contemporary conservatism.  —  Rick Perlstein has established himself as the pre-eminent historian of modern conservatism.  Starting in 2001, with Before the Storm …

Oregon occupiers: What officials say happened at traffic stop  —  (CNN)A high-speed getaway attempt and a reach for the waistband are said to have prompted police SWAT team members to open fire on a group of leaders of the Oregon armed occupiers.  —  A law enforcement official described …

WH: Obama doesn't want Supreme Court appointment  —  White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday threw cold water on the idea President Obama would accept an appointment to the Supreme Court after he leaves office.  —  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton floated …

Va. will once again recognize concealed carry permits from other states  —  RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to announce Friday that Virginia will restore handgun reciprocity agreements with nearly all states, in a stunning reversal of a firearms policy that had angered Republicans and gun rights advocates across the nation.