Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill  —  Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid …

Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians  — Coats and Rogers said interactions with Trump about the Russia investigation were odd, uncomfortable  —  (CNN)Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team …

Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years.  He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa …

WATCH: Morning Joe panel slams ‘dear leader’ Trump with horrifying 2-minute mashup of his Iowa lies  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A “Morning Joe” panel examined President Donald Trump's lie-filled rally in Iowa, where his supporters cheered each falsehood and jeered when he attacked the media.

Kamala Harris Was Silenced.  Then She Silenced Us.  —  Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Irresistible  —  Georgia's Karen Handel pins another defeat on the anti-Trump left.

FBI Fired Sebastian Gorka for Anti-Muslim Diatribes … The inflammatory pundit Sebastian Gorka worked for the FBI while he was a paid consultant to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, lecturing bureau employees on counterterrorism issues.  —  Until the FBI terminated Gorka for his over-the-top Islamophobic rhetoric.

Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC  —  MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned.  —  As part of the expansion, conservative radio talk show host and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt is getting a half hour show, airing Saturdays at 8 a.m. ET.

Column: What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln  —  Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper.  —  But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit …

The GOP's Suburban Nightmare  —  Surveying the Democratic wreckage after a disastrous 1952 campaign, Robert Taft, the typically taciturn Ohio Republican senator, made a bold prediction about the opposition.  “The Democratic Party,” the one-time Senate majority leader asserted …

Trump appointee is a Saudi government lobbyist  —  Richard Hohlt earning six figures from kingdom bent on influencing Trump  —  President Donald Trump talks with Saudi King Salman as they pose for photos with leaders at the Arab Islamic American Summit, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center …

Trumps suggests creating law that has been enacted since 1996  —  President Trump in a rally on Wednesday evening said immigrants who enter the United States should not be eligible for welfare benefits for five years, though such a law has already existed for 20 years.

D.C. cops used ‘rape as punishment’ after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says  —  Wide array of unconstitutional tactics alleged in suit over chilling round-up that hit peaceful protesters, journalists, and anarchists alike.  —  When black-clad marchers began smashing windows in Washington …

White House Tries to Get G.O.P. to Water Down Russia Sanctions Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The White House is quietly lobbying House Republicans to weaken a bill overwhelmingly passed by the Senate last week that would slap tough new sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 election …

2 Cosby holdouts prevented guilty verdict, juror says  —  In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a juror in the Bill Cosby sexual assault case said that after dozens of hours of grueling deliberations in a tiny room, 10 of the 12 jurors agreed he was guilty on two counts.

Gingrich: Media was right, special elections were a referendum … Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Thursday said he thinks the media is correct in that the recent Congressional special elections have been a referendum on President Trump.  —  “The news media had it right,” Gingrich said on “Fox & Friends.”

Op-Ed The case for restricting hate speech  —  Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2010.  (Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press)  —  As a sociologist and legal scholar, I struggle to explain the boundaries of free speech to undergraduates.

Ex-Homeland Security official says politics molded Russia response  —  Former President Obama's Homeland Security secretary on Wednesday defended his response to Russian interference in the 2016 election, arguing the last administration's careful characterization was intended to ensure …