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.

Trump Data Guru: I Tried to Team Up With Julian Assange … Alexander Nix, who heads a controversial data analytics firm that worked for President Donald Trump's campaign, wrote in an email last year that he reached out to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about Hillary Clinton's missing 33,000 emails.

Key Russia Probe Splinters as Grassley, Feinstein Set Own Paths  —  Judiciary chairman, top Democrat launch separate inquiries  —  Grassley looking into Hillary Clinton emails, uranium case  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee's bipartisan Russia probe has fractured, with Chairman Chuck Grassley …

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.

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 …

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 …

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: ‘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.

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.

‘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 …

Why Joe Biden Didn't Run . . . And Why He's Not Ruling Out 2020  —  In a cruel twist, Joe Biden's planned 2016 presidential campaign was upended by the death of its foremost booster, his 46-year-old son, Beau, from brain cancer.  Will the former vice president make a run in 2020?

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.

Las Vegas shooter's laptop missing its hard drive  —  A laptop computer recovered from the Las Vegas hotel room where Stephen Paddock launched the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was missing its hard drive, depriving investigators of a potential key source of information on why he killed …

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 …

Progressive, “Fair Wage” Pizza Shop Closing Its Doors  —  In the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston back in 2015, the people at the nonprofit organization Haley House came up with a novel idea.  They would open a pizza shop based on the principles of economic justice and fair wages to support the community.

YouTube Trumpkin and Former Milo Intern Kills His Own Dad for Calling Him a Nazi … Something had set Lane Davis off, but that wasn't unusual.  —  It was a clear summer afternoon on July 14, on Samish Island—a small, idyllic community off the northwest coast of Washington state—where Lane …

With business booming under Trump, private prison giant gathers at president's resort  —  DORAL, Fla. — In recent years, the private prison company GEO Group has held its annual leadership conference at venues near its Boca Raton headquarters.  But this year, the company moved its gathering …

Child faces deportation after crossing checkpoint for gall bladder surgery  —  A Guatemalan migrant mother and son have called an Austin, Texas church home for more than a year.  They have no intentions of leaving it, due to their fear of being deported.  (Feb. 23) AP  —  CONNECT

Record-High Support for Legalizing Marijuana Use in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to warm to legalizing marijuana, with 64% now saying its use should be made legal.  This is the highest level of public support Gallup has found for the proposal in nearly a half-century of measurement.