CDC gets list of forbidden words: fetus, transgender, diversity … The Trump administration is prohibiting officials at the nation's top public health agency from using a list of seven words or phrases — including “fetus” and “transgender” — in any official documents being prepared for next year's budget.

‘Trump, Trump, Trump!’  How a President's Name Became a Racial Jeer  —  For more coverage of race, sign up here to have our Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox.  —  The high school basketball squad from Eagle Grove, population 3,700, had traveled 60 miles up Highway 69 …

Donald Trump And GOP Leaders Could Be Enriched By Last Minute Tax Break Inserted Into Final Bill  —  Republican congressional leaders and real estate moguls could be personally enriched by a real-estate-related provision GOP lawmakers slipped into the final tax bill released Friday evening …

FBI officials' text message about Hillary Clinton said to be a cover story for romantic affair  —  Two senior FBI officials who texted each other about President Trump and Hillary Clinton relied on work phones to try to hide their romance from a spouse and made the bureau's probe …

E.P.A. Contractor Has Spent Past Year Scouring the Agency for Anti-Trump Officials  —  One of the top executives of a consulting firm that the Environmental Protection Agency has recently hired to help it with media affairs has spent the past year investigating agency employees who have been critical …

Why Democrats failed to tank tax reform  —  The tax fight has all the ingredients that helped Democrats kill Obamacare repeal: party unity on Capitol Hill, energized liberal activists and legislation that polls in the toilet.  But this time it doesn't appear to be enough.

World's Most Expensive Home?  Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince  —  A $300 million chateau is one of a string of extravagant purchases for a prince who is cracking down on ill-gotten wealth and preaching fiscal austerity.  —  LOUVECIENNES, France — When the Chateau Louis XIV sold …

If Trump Fires Mueller, We Must Impeach  —  The country will find itself in a constitutional crisis, where the executive branch rejects checks and balances and the rule of law.  —  Walter Shaub, the former director of the US Office of Government Ethics who now serves as a senior director focusing …

Omarosa Manigault Newman's White House role fraught with tension, sources say  —  WATCH Omarosa Manigualt recalls last time she spoke to Trump, says he ‘not a racist’  —  Before she resigned from the White House earlier this week, Omarosa Manigault Newman, the firebrand antagonist from reality television's …

As a Must-Pass Republican Tax Bill Headed for the Finish Line, Rubio Saw an Opening  —  WASHINGTON — As the Republican Party sprinted toward notching its first, and much-needed, significant legislative win in the form of a $1.5 trillion tax cut, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida spied an opening.

The two expat bros who terrorized women correspondents in Moscow  —  Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming.  —  There's more than one way to harass women.  A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their companies, their jobs, their plum political posts.

Trump promised ‘America First’ would keep jobs here.  But the tax plan might push them overseas.  —  Delegates hold signs reading “Make America First Again” during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio.  It was a theme of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.  (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

Nine more women say judge subjected them to inappropriate behavior, including four who say he touched or kissed them  —  Nine more women say that Alex Kozinski — a high-profile judge who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit — subjected them to sexual comments or other conduct …

Roy Moore fundraising for ‘election integrity fund’ ahead of election certification  —  's campaign announced Friday that it is seeking donations for an “election integrity fund” following the former judge's unsuccessful bid for an Alabama Senate seat.  —  Moore has refused to concede the race …

Brookings fellow rips Trump: I entered through lottery system  —  A fellow at the Brookings Institution blasted President Trump  —  's derision of the visa lottery system on Friday, putting himself forward as an example of the program's effectiveness.  —  “I won a green card through …

Puerto Rico to Lose Tax Advantages Under GOP Plan, Expert Says  —  Plan likely signals sweeping changes to the island's economy  —  'It's so complicated, it's not even funny,' expert says  —  The final version of the Republican tax plan would end some of the tax advantages companies …

Trump hosted the NRA at the White House on the anniversary of Sandy Hook massacre  —  Not only did Donald Trump not tweet out messages of condolences for families who lost loved ones five years ago on Thursday at the Sand Hook gun massacre in Connecticut, and not only did White House press …

In Italy, #MeToo Is More Like ‘Meh’  —  ROME — The women took their seats behind each of the more than 600 desks in Italy's lower house of Parliament and listened to Laura Boldrini, the chamber's president, talk about how the “Weinstein scandal” had set off a worldwide reckoning with sexual harassment and misconduct.

The Grande Dame of Documentary is Leaving Her Home at HBO  —  After almost 40 years, she has reels of memorable film, a pile of awards and plenty of perspective on the current battle of the sexes.  —  When Sheila Nevins first started working in television in the 1970s, she thought …

With winds picking up, Thomas fire threatening hundreds of homes in Montecito … Spotters are in place.  Hillsides have been scrubbed of as much flammable vegetation as possible.  And now it's time to see whether it was all enough to stop the deadly Thomas fire from wreaking additional havoc.

Trent Franks rescinded my internship when I wouldn't come to his house  —  Melissa Richmond is vice president of Running Start.  —  I've always been proud of the ways I'm independent.  So when a middle-aged man stopped me in a parking garage and asked me to jump-start his car several years ago, I was happy to help.