Donald Trump is not well  —  President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.  America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.

GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.

NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars … A report on Alex Jones' InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.  —  “There are no humans on Mars.  There are active rovers on Mars.

Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”

House passes Kate's Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown  —  House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.  —  One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate's Law …

Exclusive: Trump overrules cabinet, plots global trade war  —  With the political world distracted by President Trump's media wars, one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, administration sources tell Axios.

Hawaii challenges Trump stance on Supreme Court travel ban ruling  —  The State of Hawaii is asking a federal judge to rule that the administration's latest plan to carry out President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order defies the ruling the Supreme Court issued on the subject just four days ago.

Longer-Term Effects of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 on Medicaid Spending  —  Medicaid spending under the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would be about 35 percent lower in 2036 compared with CBO's extended baseline.  Such spending under the bill would increase each year throughout the next two decades.

Trump's voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in the U.S.  —  The chair of President Trump's Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth …

Progressive Journalists Are Outraged At The NRA For Pointing Out Leftist Violence  —  Two days before an assassination attempt on Republicans, the NRA posted a video on Facebook warning of leftist violence.  Progressive journalists are now pretending political violence is the NRA's fault.

It was 129 degrees in Iran Thursday, which is one of the Earth's hottest temperatures ever recorded  —  The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded.  —  It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured temperatures …

Family's amateur sting operation takes down man targeting young girl  —  DEL CITY, OK (KSWO)- A man accused of targeting a young girl for sex was taken down by an amateur sting operation put together by a Del City family.  —  The father of a 15-year-old girl found out about the relationship …

NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard  —  Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.

Ted Cruz has a big idea that just might unlock a Senate health care deal  —  Here's how it works.  —  An amendment is under consideration that maybe, just maybe, could unlock the whole Senate Republican health bill.  It might knock over the dominoes necessary for a deal, starting with regulations …