Mueller probe outgrows its ‘witch hunt’ phase  —  Steve Bannon's eyes lit up.  Several months before he left his job as a senior White House adviser last August, Bannon was talking to President Trump about the brewing political storm over the Justice Department investigation into his campaign's alleged ties to the Kremlin.

Trump legal team readies attack on Flynn's credibility  —  President Trump's legal team plans to cast former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn as a liar seeking to protect himself if he accuses the president or his senior aides of any wrongdoing, according to three people familiar with the strategy.

Bannon adviser: Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen is ‘dead to us’ after inflammatory tweets  —  What you need to know about Steve Bannon  —  Breitbart executive chairman Steve Bannon has cut ties with Paul Nehlen, the far-right activist who is challenging Paul Ryan for his congressional seat …

2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege  —  I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at “political correctness.”  The Trump era has opened my eyes.  —  In college — this was in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the University of California, Berkeley …

Prince Harry interviews Barack Obama  —  2017 began with Barack Obama leaving the White House and handing over the baton of the presidency to Donald Trump.  —  Our guest editor today, Prince Harry, met President Obama, in Toronto in September during the Invictus Games to talk about his memories …

BuzzFeed has fired its White House correspondent after allegations of inappropriate comments to a colleague  — BuzzFeed News' White House correspondent Adrian Carrasquillo has been let go following an investigation into inappropriate comments to a colleague.

IRS says taxpayers trying to use deduction that will be scaled back can prepay 2018 property taxes only under limited circumstances  —  Many Americans have rushed to prepay their 2018 property taxes and save on their federal taxes, hoping to take advantage of a tax deduction that will be scaled …

Inspector general says mishandling of sexual harassment complaints at Justice Department is a ‘systemic’ problem  —  The Justice Department has “systemic” problems in how it handles sexual harassment complaints, with those found to have acted improperly often not receiving appropriate punishment …

Breitbart's Disgrace  —  When news cycles are crowded with outrage — some of it justified, much of it hysterical — it's easy to lose track of the significant stories.  There was one last week that conservatives can't let slide down the memory hole.  Breitbart's editor-in-chief, Alex Marlow …

How to crush Trump  —  Liberals, do not expect Robert Mueller to save you from President Trump.  Only politics can stop Trump and the Republican Party.  —  Many Democrats and liberals have spent 2017 fixated on the Russia-Trump story, especially the idea that Trump himself actively assisted Russian efforts …

Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter  —  Like many Jewish journalists who reported on Donald Trump's presidential campaign, I spent the 2016 election being harassed by a motley crew of internet racists who coalesced around the future president.  They sent me threats, photoshopped …

In the heart of Trump Country, his base's faith is unshaken  —  SANDY HOOK, Ky. — The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.  —  Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign …

GOP intraparty clash poised to shape U.S. Senate contest in Mississippi  —  Mississippi's 2018 U.S. Senate race is poised as the next possible front in the fight between rival wings of the Republican Party, a campaign that could test how the GOP's populist and establishment forces engage …

New Western Wall train station to be named after Trump  —  “The Western Wall is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and I decided to call the train station that leads to it after President Trump.”  —  A train station that will be built next to the Western Wall will be named after US President Donald Trump.

Federal prosecutors in N.Y. requested Kushner Cos. records on Deutsche Bank loan  —  Federal prosecutors have requested records related to a $285 million loan that Deutsche Bank gave Jared Kushner's family real estate company one month before Election Day, the company confirmed this week.

It wants checks on power except its own.  —  From Hollywood comes a steady stream of movies casting powerful liberals as embattled and marginalized conservatives as menacing.  Hollywood's latest tribute to a hopelessly entitled press, The Post, is in that vein.

McCain associate subpoenaed in Trump dossier probe … House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued a subpoena to David Kramer, a former State Department official who, in late November 2016, traveled to London to receive a briefing and a copy of the Trump dossier from its author, former British spy Christopher Steele.

Paul Ryan wants to cut entitlements to trim the deficit, but political reality stands in his way  — Revenue shortfalls created by the new GOP tax law could make House Speaker Paul Ryan's political goals easier to achieve.  — Ryan wants to cut so-called entitlement programs such as Medicare …

Many Comments Critical of ‘Fiduciary’ Rule Are Fake  —  Wall Street Journal analysis shows 40% of respondents didn't write the posts that were attributed to them  —  A significant number of fake comments appear among thousands criticizing a proposed federal rule meant to prevent conflicts …

We got it wrong on Brexit gloom, economists admit: Buoyant British economy is set to power past France by 2020  — Its economists accepted the fears they expressed last year that Brexit would leave the UK behind the French economy for five years were exaggerated

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Terror of the skies since 1995 … When United booted a paying customer from first class to make room for a member of Congress, the Internet erupted with good and healthy egalitarian outrage.  But don't blame the airline.  —  The congresswoman in question was Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.

Marines Take Out Taliban Kingpin Responsible for Killing, Maiming Troops  —  HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — A Taliban shadow governor who had planned and executed improvised explosive device attacks on Marines and Afghan soldiers for well over a decade was killed in a precision airstrike …