Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump … Top lawyers with at least four major law firms rebuffed White House overtures to represent President Trump in the Russia investigations, in part over concerns that the president would be unwilling to listen to their advice …

Exclusive: Comey will stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice in Flynn probe, source says  —  There will be much in former FBI Director James Comey's upcoming congressional testimony that will make the White House uncomfortable, but he will stop short of saying the president interfered …

How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business  —  LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES, sponsored Cadillacs, Ferraris and Maseratis descend on the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, in September for the Eric Trump Foundation golf invitational.

Sen. Mark Warner: More state election systems were targeted by Russians  —  WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked …

Nevada's legislature just passed a radical plan to let anybody sign up for Medicaid  —  Nevada, with little fanfare or notice, is inching toward a massive health insurance expansion — one that would give the state's 2.8 million residents access to a public health insurance option.

Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bully Their Classmates And Teachers Don't Know What To Do About It  —  BuzzFeed News reviewed more than 50 reports of school bullying since the election and found that kids nationwide are using Trump's words to taunt their classmates.  If the president can say those things, why can't they?

Uber Fires 20 Amid Investigation Into Workplace Culture  —  Uber has fired more than 20 employees in conjunction with an internal investigation into its workplace culture, according to a current Uber employee.  —  The company disclosed the move at an all-hands meeting at its San Francisco headquarters …

Notre Dame: Man shot by French police after attacking them with hammer  —  Live: security operation near Notre Dame  —  French police have shot a man outside the Notre Dame in Paris after he tried to attack them with a hammer, according to local media.  One policeman was injured in the attack.

Senate health bill likely to have state waivers  —  The Senate is considering state waivers that would allow them to opt out of several of the the Affordable Care Act's insurer regulations, but not the ones protecting people with pre-existing conditions, according to three GOP aides.

Where Are the United States Attorneys?  —  Three months after President Trump abruptly fired half of the nation's 93 United States attorneys, following the resignations of the other half, he has yet to replace a single one.  —  It's bizarre — and revealing — that a man who called himself the …

We Found Mike Flynn's Secret Twitter Account … Retired three-star lieutenant general and former national security advisor Michael Flynn has a special counsel and grand jury exploring his dealings with Turkey, and he may have something else: a secret alt-Twitter account with just a single follower.

Twitter Users Blocked by Trump Seek a Reprieve, Citing First Amendment  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Twitter users blocked by President Trump after they criticized or mocked him are asking him to reverse the moves, arguing that the Constitution bars him from blocking people on the social media service.

In Trump's White House, Everything's Coming in ‘Two Weeks’  —  The president has a penchant for making and missing deadlines  —  Tax and infrastructure plans are taking longer than promised  —  President Donald Trump has a plan.  It'll be ready in two weeks.

It's the Hypocrisy, Stupid  —  Progressives go the full Jimmy Swaggart.  —  Some concerned Democrats are worried that their party may have lost the key blue-wall states because of its elitism, manifested as disdain for Americans between the coasts.  —  Perhaps emblematic of their worry …

The Trump effect: Everyone's thinking of running for president.  —  When former vice president Joe Biden announced a few days ago that he was setting up a new political action committee called American Possibilities, the political world read it as a signal: He's seriously thinking of running for president in 2020.

The $110 Billion Arms Deal to Saudi Arabia is Fake News  —  Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Markaz.  —  Last month, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and his administration announced that he had concluded a $110 billion arms deal with the kingdom.  Only problem is that there is no deal.

The Ku Klux Klan wants to rally in Charlottesville.  Now this college town is on edge again.  —  When torch-wielding white nationalists gathered in front of a Confederate statue in downtown Charlottesville last month, Mayor Michael Signer worried that the event harked back to “the days of the KKK.”

Woman screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ charged in Toronto store attack: Sources  —  TORONTO -  —  A Scarborough woman remains jailed on allegations that she, while masked in an ISIS bandana, swung a golf club at Canadian Tire employees while screaming threats and Islamic chants.

The Lawless Presidency  —  Democracy isn't possible without the rule of law — the idea that consistent principles, rather than a ruler's whims, govern society.  —  You can read Aristotle, Montesquieu, John Locke or the Declaration of Independence on this point.  You can also look at decades of American history.

An Excerpt From My Definitely Not a Presidential Campaign Book  —  I regret to say, friends, that the Potential Candidates are At It Again.  Chaos may currently reign, but some people have enough confidence in the future to sow seeds and conceive children, and other people have enough confidence …