Five women accuse journalist and ‘Game Change’ co-author Mark Halperin of sexual harassment  —  Veteran journalist Mark Halperin sexually harassed women while he was in a powerful position at ABC News, according to five women who shared their previously undisclosed accounts with CNN and others …

Second Woman: George H.W. Bush Groped Me  —  Earlier this week, actress Heather Lind said in a now-deleted Instagram post that former president George H.W. Bush had sexually assaulted her.  “He touched me from behind from his wheelchair with his wife Barbara Bush by his side,” she wrote.

What to Know About the Dossier of Trump Research and Who Paid for It  —  What is the dossier?  —  It is a 35-page collection of research memos written by Christopher Steele, a respected former British intelligence agent, primarily during the 2016 presidential campaign.

As G.O.P. Bends Toward Trump, Critics Either Give In or Give Up  —  Despite the fervor of President Trump's Republican opponents, the president's brand of hard-edge nationalism — with its gut-level cultural appeals and hard lines on trade and immigration — is taking root within his adopted party …

Trump-Linked Company Reached Out to WikiLeaks on Hacked Emails  —  Approach came from chief of data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica as Wikileaks was releasing emails related to Clinton  —  The chief executive of a data-analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign reached …

Fox News Poll: Storms erode Trump's ratings  —  Was it the tweet storms or the hurricanes?  Something hit President Trump's numbers.  His personal ratings have deteriorated and his job approval has hit a low.  —  Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the job Trump is doing in a new Fox News poll, down from 42 percent last month.

Hey, I Can Play This Game Too, Guys  —  I have a confession to make.  I'm black.  —  I'm a black guy with black parents and black relatives and even some black friends.  I also work at Morgan State, a historically black university.  And since we're keeping it 100, I'm the political editor at The Root …

Pitched as Calming Force, John Kelly Instead Mirrors Boss's Priorities  —  WASHINGTON — Last summer, the Trump administration debated lowering the annual cap on refugees admitted to the United States.  Should it stay at 110,000, be cut to 50,000 or fall somewhere in between?  John F. Kelly offered his opinion.

Reddit Is Removing Nazi And Alt-Right Groups As Part Of A New Policy And Some Users Are Confused  —  Reddit is purging Nazi, white supremacist, and other hate-based groups from its site as part of a new policy change announced Wednesday that targets and bans certain violent material.

10-Year-Old Immigrant Is Detained After Agents Stop Her on Way to Surgery  —  A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has been detained by federal immigration authorities in Texas after she passed through a Border Patrol checkpoint on her way to a hospital to undergo emergency gall bladder surgery.

Exclusive: Trump to declare public health emergency for opioids, a partial measure to fight drug epidemic  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump will order his health secretary to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency Thursday — but will stop short of declaring a more sweeping state of national emergency, aides said.

Cory Booker, Lindsey Graham expected to testify at Menendez bribery trial  —  What to know about Sen. Menendez's trial  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Newark, New Jersey (CNN)A courtroom in New Jersey will briefly turn into a rare scene of bipartisan unity Thursday as Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham …

‘I Was Blind And Complicit And Just, Like, Did Nothing’: New Republic Staffers Speak Out  —  The magazine's literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, is accused of harassment and inappropriate behavior.  —  WASHINGTON Soon after the long-whispered allegations concerning Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein came …

Kellogg's to replace racially insensitive Corn Pops boxes following Twitter call out  —  Kellogg's will be redesigning Corn Pops cereal boxes after a complaint about racially insensitive art on the packaging.  —  The Battle Creek, Mich.-based cereal and snack maker said on Twitter Wednesday …

Trump: ‘I went to an Ivy league college’  —  President Trump on Wednesday cited his Ivy League education in pushing back at the notion that he is an uncivil leader.  —  “You know people don't understand, I went to an Ivy League college,” he told reporters at the White House.  “I was a nice student.

Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico  —  Tesla has used its solar panels and batteries to restore reliable electricity at San Juan's Hospital del Niño (Children's Hospital), in what company founder Elon Musk calls “the first of many solar+battery Tesla projects going live in Puerto Rico.”

Trump associate Cohen sold four NY buildings for cash to mysterious buyers  —  WASHINGTON  —  Donald Trump's long time business lawyer Michael Cohen may be best known for his aggressive campaign television defenses of the real estate mogul, his role in an abortive effort to build a Trump Tower …

How to Read the JFK Assassination Files  —  If President Trump is true to his word, the American public is about to be flooded with thousands of long-secret documents that could help resolve at least some of the conspiracy theories about a turning point in the nation's history - the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

U.S. Has Three Aircraft Carriers in West Pacific for First Time in a Decade  —  Navy also deployed a SEAL-carrying submarine to region  —  U.S. says arrival is part of previously planned cycle  —  The U.S. Navy has three aircraft carriers and their assorted missile-carrying vessels deployed …

FBI informant in Obama-era Russian nuclear bribery cleared to testify before Congress  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday night released a former FBI informant from a confidentiality agreement, allowing him to testify before Congress about what he witnessed undercover …

Ben Carson On His Critics: ‘People Are So Stupid’  —  The doctor and former presidential candidate says he's perfectly qualified to run the nation's housing programs.  —  WASHINGTON Ben Carson said Wednesday that people who doubt his qualifications to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs are just a bunch of dumb-dumbs.

Jeff Glor named anchor of CBS Evening News  —  Emmy-award winning CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor has been named anchor of the CBS Evening News, the network's flagship evening news broadcast, it was announced today by CBS News President David Rhodes.  —  Glor has reported across the globe …