The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned  —  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult.  The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus …

Trump Strategist Steve Bannon Says Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut’  —  WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's chief White House strategist, laced into the American press during an interview on Wednesday evening, arguing that news organizations had been “humiliated” …

Trump Plans 20% Tax on Mexican Imports to Pay for Border Wall  —  PHILADELPHIA — President Trump plans to make Mexico pay for his border wall by imposing a 20 percent tax on all imports into the United States from Mexico, raising billions of dollars that would cover the cost of the new barrier.

It turns out Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner is also registered to vote in two states  —  Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and one of his closest White House advisers, is registered to vote in both New Jersey and New York, according to elections officials and voting registration records …

Alex Jones Says Infowars Has Been Invited To Trump's White House Press Briefings  —  ALEX JONES: He keeps saying CNN is fake, and I'm not going to any of your fake news.  What's CNN doing in the front row, when [White House press secretary Sean] Spicer keeps going to them?

Dems to David Brock: Stop Helping, You Are Killing Us  —  As David Brock attempts to position himself as a leader in rebuilding a demoralized Democratic Party in the age of Trump, many leading Democratic organizers and operatives are wishing the man would simply disappear.

Elon Musk Floated the Idea of a Carbon Tax to Trump, an Official Says  —  Issue raised at White House meeting this week on manufacturing  —  Idea has been backed by secretary of state nominee Tillerson  —  Tesla Motors Inc. founder Elon Musk is pressing the Trump administration to adopt …

TRANSCRIPT: ABC News Anchor David Muir Interviews President Trump  —  ABC News “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House.  The following is a transcript of the interview:  —  DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, it's an honor to be here at the White House.

Official: Border Patrol Chief Tells Agents He Was Forced Out  —  The Border Patrol chief has been forced out a day after President Donald Trump announced an ambitious plan to build a wall at the Mexican border and hire 5,000 Border Patrol agents, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Americans Think Trump Will Be Worst President Since Nixon  —  PPP's newest national poll finds Donald Trump continuing to fare poorly with the public in his first week in office.  Voters split evenly in their appraisals of his job performance with 44% approving and 44% disapproving of him.

Democrats launch scorched-earth strategy against Trump  —  What began as a high-minded discussion about how to position the Democratic Party against President Donald Trump appears to be nearing its conclusion.  The bulk of the party has settled on a scorched-earth, not-now-not-ever model of opposition.

The Doomsday Clock's Most Dire Warning Since the Cold War  —  The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Thursday that the Doomsday Clock now stands at two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, suggesting that existential threats now pose a greater danger to humanity than they have at any time since the height of the Cold War.

Google has banned 200 publishers since it passed a new policy against fake news  —  The company routinely weeds out “bad ads.”  Now it weeds out more bad ad publishers, too.  —  Google kicked 200 publishers off one of its ad networks in the fourth quarter, partly in response to the proliferation of fake news sites.

Dallas ISD teacher in hot water over faux-assassination of Trump with toy gun  —  UPDATED: Dallas ISD has placed Payal Modi, an art teacher at Adamson, on administrative leave Thursday afternoon.  —  A Dallas ISD teacher has been placed on administrative leave by the district for posting …

A Conversation With Kellyanne Conway: “I'm the Face of Trump's Movement”  —  The president's counselor — now the most powerful (and ridiculed) woman in America — talks ‘SNL,’ “alternative facts,” the “public cesspool” of Twitter and the apoplectic, outraged media: “I can go on any show at any time.”

CIA head was ‘blindsided’ by waterboarding memo  —  CIA director Mike Pompeo was “blindsided” by a draft executive order that could open the door for American intelligence agencies to resume waterboarding and other “enhanced interrogation techniques” at newly reopened CIA “black site” …

The End of the American Century  —  In 1941, a year before America entered World War II, Henry Luce, the founder and publisher of Time, wrote an essay called “The American Century.”  It was an argument not just against isolationism but for America as a global moral beacon.