Antiabortion activists face 15 felony charges over undercover videos that targeted Planned Parenthood  —  David Daleiden, right, leaves a courtroom after a hearing in Houston last year.  (Pat Sullivan / AP)  —  Two antiabortion activists whose controversial undercover videos accused Planned …

Former Obama official discloses rush to get intelligence on Trump team  —  A former top Obama administration official has acknowledged efforts by her colleagues to gather intelligence on Trump team ties to Russia before Donald Trump took office and to conceal the sources of that intelligence from the incoming administration.

Poll: Health care debacle takes toll on Trump  —  Voter perceptions of President Donald Trump's job performance have eroded following the failure of a long-promised health care bill through Congress, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.  —  Trump's approval rating dropped …

Beto O'Rourke to challenge Ted Cruz in Texas' 2018 Senate race  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat and ex-punk rocker who pulled a stunning upset to win his House seat six years ago, plans to declare his candidacy on Friday for the Senate seat held by Ted Cruz, according to Democratic sources in Texas.

Bridgegate sentencing: Bill Baroni receives 2 years jail time in scandal  —  NEWARK—Bill Baroni, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority who became caught up in the bizarre scheme of political retribution that became known as Bridgegate, was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison.

Interior secretary hints border wall could be on Mexican land  —  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Tuesday said America can't give away the Rio Grande to Mexico in the process of building President Trump's signature border wall, implying the structure could wind up standing partially on Mexican land.

How North Korea could kill 90 percent of Americans  —  The mainstream media, and some officials who should know better, continue to allege North Korea does not yet have capability to deliver on its repeated threats to strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons.  False reassurance is given …

Sean Spicer's kiss of death: ‘Phenomenal’  —  The health care debacle, the travel ban setback, difficulties with Mexico, a slew of empty positions across the government — all are symptoms or causes of President Donald Trump's rocky first few weeks in office.

Chelsea Clinton: ‘I Am Not Running for Public Office’ (EXCLUSIVE) … Since the election, there's been endless chatter that Chelsea Clinton might follow in her parents' footsteps.  But in an interview with Variety, she quashed those rumors.  —  “I am not running for public office,” Clinton said.

Hatch: I may retire if Romney runs to replace me  —  (R-Utah) says he would consider retiring if Mitt Romney ran to replace him.  —  Hatch told National Journal in a Wednesday interview that he hasn't made a decision yet on whether he will run for reelection in 2018.

2 Black Women Sue Fox News, Claiming Racial Discrimination  —  Fox News, whose chairman, Roger Ailes, was ousted last year after a string of sexual harassment claims, is facing new allegations of discrimination.  —  In a lawsuit filed Tuesday night in State Supreme Court in the Bronx …

Russian dressing is actually from Nashua, New Hampshire  —  (CNN)The White House press secretary tried to twist a cap on reporters' questions Tuesday about the Trump team's alleged ties to the Kremlin.  —  “If the President puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russia connection,” Sean Spicer said.

Woman in custody after ‘criminal’ incident near Capitol; police say ‘no nexus to terrorism’  —  U.S. Capitol Police have apprehended a female driver after she nearly hit several officers and struck another vehicle near the U.S. Capitol, police said this morning.

Whatever Happened to Free Trade?  —  Companies and countries are scrambling to adjust to a strange new world created by a decade of economic retrenchment and an upswing in populism.

President Trump Risks the Planet  —  That didn't take long.  —  Only 10 weeks into his presidency, and at great risk to future generations, Donald Trump has ordered the demolition of most of President Barack Obama's policies to combat climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.

Trump's Favorite Fighter Jet Keeps Starving Pilots of Oxygen  —  Navy still has no solution to recurring ‘physiological events’  —  Trump favors Boeing's Super Hornet over Lockheed's F-35C  —  As President Donald Trump pushes for the Pentagon to buy more of Boeing Co.'s F-18 aircraft …

Why Democrats Have a Shot in a Georgia District Dominated by Republicans  —  In a special election, anything can happen.  —  “Anything” may already be happening in the special election in Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, heralded as a key test of whether Democrats can capitalize on President Trump's unpopularity.

The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them  —  They betrayed you for chump change  —  Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data.  Lawmakers provided no credible reason …

Trump's poll numbers are low.  But the people who put him in office say it's not time to judge him — yet  —  Trump supporter David Ambrulavage attends a minor league hockey game at the Mohegan Sun Arena — where Donald Trump held a rally during the election — in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (Noah Bierman / Los Angeles Times)