Scoop: CIA director Pompeo considered to replace Tillerson  —  Trump advisers and allies are floating the idea of replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, age 53 — someone who's already around the table in the Situation Room, and could make the switch without chaos.

Why the Harvey Weinstein Sexual-Harassment Allegations Didn't Come Out Until Now  —  I have been having conversations about Harvey Weinstein's history of sexual harassment for more than 17 years.  —  The conversations started when I was a young editorial assistant at Talk, the magazine he financed …

Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled White Nationalism Into The Mainstream  —  In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that “there's no room in American society” for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.

Official: Las Vegas shooter tried to buy tracer rounds before massacre  —  (CNN)Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock tried to buy tracer ammunition at a gun show in the Phoenix area in recent weeks, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells CNN.

Facebook Cut Russia Out of April Report on Election Influence  —  The drafting of the report sparked internal debate over how much information to disclose about Russian influence campaigns on the social network  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.67% cut references to Russia from a public report in April …

Getting to No  —  Donald Trump was frustrated.  Five days earlier, on July 12, 2017, the president had decided for the second time in his young administration that he would certify to Congress Iran's compliance with the nuclear deal he'd promised as a candidate to dismantle.

Exclusive: Mueller's team met with Russia dossier author  —  Washington (CNN)Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators met this past summer with the former British spy whose dossier on alleged Russian efforts to aid the Trump campaign spawned months of investigations that have hobbled …

Inside Tim Murphy's reign of terror  —  Rep. Tim Murphy, a staunch anti-abortion advocate, thought he could withstand the media furor that engulfed him after reports that he'd encouraged his extramarital lover to end her apparent pregnancy.  —  He was wrong.

Trump Administration Set to Roll Back Birth Control Mandate  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is poised to roll back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, vastly expanding exemptions for those that cite moral or religious objections.

Seven Flights for $800,000: Mnuchin's Travel on Military Jets  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has flown on military aircraft seven times since March at a cost of more than $800,000, including a $15,000 round-trip flight to New York to meet with President Trump at Trump Tower …

Inside the Saudi King's 1,500-Person Entourage in Moscow  —  Saudi officials booked two entire luxury hotels and brought their own carpets and hotel staff with King Salman bin Abdulaziz on his historic visit.  —  , and  —  Evgenia Pismennaya  —  Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz brought 1,500 people …

That's Disturbing  —  At 6:10 PM this evening President Trump began a meeting with top military leaders and gave a short prepared statement to pool reporters at the White House.  It was quite an aggressive statement but not terribly different from other things we've heard from the President.

US economy sheds jobs for first time since 2010 as hurricanes hit  —  The US economy in September lost more jobs than it created for the first time in seven years due to the damage caused by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.  —  Nonfarm payrolls fell by 33,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly report on Friday.

Russian government hackers used antivirus software to steal U.S. cyber capabilities  —  Russian government hackers lifted details of U.S. cyber capabilities from a National Security Agency employee who was running Russian antivirus software on his computer, according to several individuals familiar with the matter.

The Cancer in the Constitution  —  One of the great disconnects of our history is how a nation birthed on the premise that all men are created equal could enshrine an entire race of people as three-fifths of a human being.  We tried to fix that, through our bloodiest war and a series of amendments that followed.

As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the law  —  For months, officials in Republican-controlled Iowa had sought federal permission to revitalize their ailing health-insurance marketplace.  Then President Trump read about the request in a newspaper story …

For Republican Leaders in Congress, the Headaches Keep Mounting  —  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Congress are under intensifying attack from all sides of their own party, battered by voters from the right and left, spurned by frustrated donors and even threatened by the Trump White House …

How Long Until We Debate Real Gun Laws?  —  After the slaughter in Las Vegas, Republican leaders in Washington tried to stifle the public's demands for action with the same technique they've deployed after mass shootings in the past: offering up pious exhortations not to “politicize” …