Ivanka Trump, Shifting Plans, Will Become a Federal Employee  —  Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, is becoming an official government employee, joining her husband in serving as an unpaid adviser to her father in the White House.  —  Ms. Trump already has an office in the West Wing …

Devin Nunes Is Dangerous  —  Representative Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne.  To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanishing into the night.  —  But Senator Lindsey Graham looks at him and sees a different character.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S POLITICAL CRONIES FILE DISCREDITED CHARGES AGAINST DAVID DALEIDEN  —  The bogus charges from Planned Parenthood's political cronies are fake news.  They tried the same collusion with corrupt officials in Houston, TX and failed: both the charges and the DA were thrown out.

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.

State Department Employee Arrested and Charged With Concealing Extensive Contacts With Foreign Agents  —  A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

Jeff Bezos Is Now the World's Second Richest Person  —  Amazon's founder adds $10.2 billion to his net worth this year  —  Warren Buffett falls $4.7 billion from peak during Trump rally  —  Jeff Bezos has leapt past Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett to become the world's second-richest person.

House GOP Weighing Another Try on Obamacare Vote Next Week  —  Two Republicans say leaders discussing new vote after setback  —  Trump and Ryan pulled the bill last week, citing lack of votes  —  House Republicans are considering making another run next week at passing the health-care bill …

Ex-Writer: Breitbart Broke the Law  —  A former Breitbart News writer alleged the site was acting as an illegal influence operation for its Washington, D.C. landlord, an obscure Egyptian politician cited this week by a Capitol Hill media association that denied Breitbart press credentials.

How to lose friends and ‘exfoliate’ people — Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is caught between 2 worlds, and his friends are cutting ties  —  Signing up to carry out Donald Trump's vision of America has come at a cost to many of the president's closest allies.

Poll: Paul Ryan's Support Slides after Ryancare Crash  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan's poll rating have slid nationwide after many GOP members rejected his draft Ryancare law.  —  Ryan has a nationwide “favorable” rating of just 39 percent, down from the post-election peak of 46 percent in December …

Trump not concerned about Mar-a-lago costs, criticism  —  President Trump isn't concerned about the rising costs associated with his regular trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., the White House press secretary said Wednesday.  —  Sean Spicer addressed the topic during his briefing …

Trump's U.S. Census proposes, immediately cuts LGBT survey questions  —  The inclusion of LGBT categories in the Planned Subjects for the 2020 Census Report unveiled on Tuesday must have been music to the ears of LGBT advocates seeking to include sexual orientation and gender identity in federal surveys.

A former Trump administration appointee who left without signing ethics pledge is now a lobbyist  —  He is the second known Trump appointee who left the administration without signing a pledge to limit his lobbying activities.

Energy Department climate office bans use of phrase ‘climate change’  —  A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases “climate change,” “emissions reduction” or “Paris Agreement” in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO.

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.

Fewer than 1 percent of papers published in scientific journals follow the scientific method, according to research by Wharton School professor and forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong.  —  Professor Armstrong, who co-founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Forecasting in 1982 and the International Journal …

Lawmaker's post warning of raids in Brockton roils ICE officials  —  Federal immigration officials are blasting a Brockton lawmaker for inciting “panic” after she took to Facebook to warn illegal immigrants about a rumored ICE sweep — a brazen move one fellow lawmaker said could put “lives in danger.”

New Huma Abedin Emails Reveal Additional Instances of Clinton Sending Classified Information through Unsecured Emails, Special Favors for Clinton Donors  —  Classified Document on Unsecured Email Included Discussion of Request for ‘Various Classified Intelligence Documents’ Concerning Guantanamo Terrorist Detainee Binyam Mohamed