In private meeting, Pence vows ‘full evaluation of voting rolls’ over claims of fraud  —  In a private meeting with congressional Republicans this week, Vice President Pence vowed that the Trump administration would pursue a wide-ranging probe of voting rolls in the United States …

Donald Trump's Mexico Tantrum  —  Less than a week into the job, President Trump on Thursday raised the specter of a trade war with America's third-largest partner, Mexico, as the White House warned that the United States could impose a 20 percent tariff on Mexican imports.

Trump won't attend Alfalfa Club dinner  —  President Donald Trump will not attend the annual Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday night, an exclusive black-tie dinner — and White House roast — that every president since Ronald Reagan has attended.  —  Instead of the president himself …

Trump pressured Park Service to find proof for his claims about inauguration crowd  —  On the morning after Donald Trump's inauguration, acting National Park Service director Michael T. Reynolds received an extraordinary summons: The new president wanted to talk to him.

Rod Blagojevich's 20-year-old daughter Amy unloads on Barack Obama  —  Patti Blagojevich with her daughters Annie, center, and Amy on Aug. 9, 2016, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's resentencing.  —  Scratch the Obamas off Amy Blagojevich's Christmas card list.

The Bannon coup  —  White House and Hill GOP leaders are astonished by the unambiguous, far-reaching power of Steve Bannon and policy guru Stephen Miller over, well, just about everything.  — They wrote the Inaugural speech and set in fast motion a series of moves to cement Trump as an America-first Nationalist.

How Author Timothy Tyson Found the Woman at the Center of the Emmett Till Case  —  With a renewed cultural interest in the 1955 murder that catalyzed the 20th century civil rights movement, an interview with the author of a new book who tracked down the long-hidden woman at its center.

Why the media keeps losing to Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump is obsessed with the media.  And the media is obsessed with Trump.  Let's take it as a given that this obsession is unhealthy.  The last time there was such a level of neurotic fixation and overwhelming distrust between a president …

Donald Trump Campaign Staffer Who Posted Racist Comments Joins The Administration  —  An email shows the staffer is one of 15 joining the Education Department.  —  Congressional Reporter, The Huffington Post  —  PHILADELPHIA A staffer on Donald Trump's campaign who posted racist material …

A viral Washington Post story about State Department resignations is very misleading  —  On Thursday morning, the Washington Post published a piece with an explosive headline: “The State Department's entire senior management team just resigned.”  The piece alleged that Undersecretary …

POWER DINNER: Jared and Ivanka break bread with TIM COOK and LISA JACKSON — PHILLY UPDATE: Peace...for now — PUTIN and TRUMP's Saturday phone date — RYAN INTVW: Today at 3 — B'DAY: Keith Olbermann  —  By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com …

Republicans Now Marching With Trump on Ideas They Had Opposed  —  PHILADELPHIA — From the time he became their candidate until he took the oath of office, congressional Republicans treated President Trump's policy pronouncements — largely out of step with Republican dogma — as essentially a distraction.

‘Calexit’ supporters can start work to make ballot  —  Californians who want their state to secede from the United States can now start collecting signatures to put the initiative on the 2018 ballot.  —  The Yes California Independence Campaign has been around for at least two years …

Mexico's Richest Man Carlos Slim Just Called a Rare Press Conference  —  Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press conference for Friday amid growing tensions between the two nations.

Trump's Little Mexican War  —  The President is treating our neighbor like Obama treated Israel.

Trump's radical immigration plan: Enforce the law  —  There's one fundamental difference between the new White House and the old when it comes to immigration: Barack Obama ordered his administration not to enforce a number of immigration laws.  Donald Trump has ordered his administration to enforce them.

ABC says Trump claimed 2 were shot dead in Chicago during Obama's speech.  But it never happened.  —  President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with automobile leaders on Jan. 24, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.  —  An ABC News transcript of its interview …

Shailene Woodley on Malia Obama's Presence at Sundance Standing Rock Solidarity Event Against DAPL  —  This is viewer supported news.  Please do your part today.  —  The Sundance Film Festival has been abuzz this year with sightings of former first daughter Malia Obama.

Sen. Franken: No Democrat will vote for Betsy DeVos as education secretary — and we're seeking Republicans to oppose her … Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) told Rachel Maddow on her MSNBC show Thursday night that no Democrat will vote to confirm Betsy DeVos, the Michigan billionaire tapped by President Trump to be his education secretary.

GOP chairman to introduce pre-existing conditions bill  —  The Republican chairman of a key healthcare committee will introduce a bill next week aimed at protecting people with pre-existing conditions in the event that ObamaCare is repealed.  —  “We want to make sure that people …

Melania Trump wins round in libel suit over blogger's ‘escort’ claims  —  First Lady Melania Trump prevailed Friday in the first round of a $150 million libel suit she filed against a Maryland blogger over a report he published last summer about claims that Trump worked as a “high-end escort.”