Trump officials slow-walked court orders on travel ban  —  Hours after a federal judge ordered customs officers to provide lawyers to travelers detained at Dulles airport last Saturday, senior Trump administration officials instructed the guards to give the travelers phone numbers …

Inside the White House-Cabinet battle over Trump's immigration order  —  On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 28, as airport protests raged over President Trump's executive order on immigration, the man charged with implementing the order, Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, had a plan.

BuzzFeed sued over unverified Trump dossier  —  BuzzFeed faces a new lawsuit over its publication of an unverified dossier of claims against President Trump and others, McClatchy reported Friday evening.  —  McClatchy says XBT Holdings, a tech firm with Russian ties named in the document …

US government takes animal-welfare data offline  —  The US Department of Agriculture will no longer make lab inspection results and violations publicly available, citing privacy concerns.  —  Rights & Permissions  —  The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) agency charged with ensuring …

Look Who Funds The Group Behind The Call To Arms At Milo's Berkeley Event  —  The left-wing group that helped organize the violent shut down of the Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday is backed by a progressive charity that is in turn funded by George Soros …

DeVos opposition snowballs into avalanche  —  Adversaries of Betsy DeVos are mounting a furious last-minute bid to sink her nomination for Education secretary, with tactics that include a “tie-breaker telethon” in Alaska, a flood of emails to U.S. senators and celebrity appeals to millions of Twitter followers.

Trump's pick for Army Secretary drops out  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Army abruptly withdrew his name from consideration late Friday night, citing his inability to get around strict Defense Department rules concerning his family businesses.

Trump's pick for CIA No. 2 prompts fears  —  Senate Democrats and human rights activists are rallying against Donald Trump  —  's selection of an officer linked to the CIA's controversial enhanced interrogation program to take the number-two seat at the agency.

Trump's First Weeks Leave Washington— and the White House Staff—Panting  —  President's freewheeling style and a torrent of meetings and executive orders created turmoil, forcing him to clarify staff roles; 'we're cracking some eggs here'  —  President Donald Trump wasn't happy.

The method to President Trump's madness  —  Donald Trump's first two weeks have been a frenetic sprint that has unsettled Washington and left a rattled world wondering what's next.  —  Trump's White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is the provocateur who has engineered …

TV networks hiking ad rates for shows Trump watches  —  MSNBC and Fox News are capitalizing on President Donald Trump's TV watching habits, dramatically increasing issue advocacy advertising rates in recent weeks as companies and outside groups try to influence Trump and his top lieutenants.

Trump's Supreme Court Pick Wary of ‘Politicians With Robes’  —  Judge Neil Gorsuch recalls being blinded by tears in the middle of a ski run after someone rang his cellphone with news of the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.  The reaction illustrates not only the depth …