House GOP intensifies assault on Mueller probe  —  House Republicans are intensifying a multipronged assault to chip away at special counsel Robert Mueller  —  's investigation into Russian interference in the U.S. election.  —  A vocal group of conservative members has for weeks blitzed …

Why hasn't Michael Wolff's dementia-Trump ever been seen in public?  —  President Trump is on TV and in newspapers more than any human on earth, and yet Michael Wolff, based on his time gossiping, has convinced the national media that grandpa got away and is now drooling in the Oval Office.

Sarah Silverman's response to a Twitter troll is a master class in compassion  —  After a troll lashed out at Silverman, she found him help for his pain.  —  Sarah Silverman may be known for her biting comedy, but her recent exchange with a Twitter troll is being held up as a model of compassion.

We are being defeated in a digital war - but there is still time to fight back  —  Last year, Russia and its allies engineered a rift between truth and lies, fact and fake news, humans and bots - and the bots are winning.  They're winning because social-media firms profit from all traffic …

Why 2017 Was the Best Year in Human History  —  We all know that the world is going to hell.  Given the rising risk of nuclear war with North Korea, the paralysis in Congress, warfare in Yemen and Syria, atrocities in Myanmar and a president who may be going cuckoo, you might think 2017 was the worst year ever.

Pro-Kremlin Twitter Trolls Take Aim at Robert Mueller  —  THE DENSE NETWORK of pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts tracked by the group Alliance for Securing Democracy has spent the last year spreading chaos and discord about topics as diverse as NFL players refusing to stand during the national anthem …

Breitbart editor fires back at Trump over Bannon attack: ‘Outrageous’  —  A Breitbart editor blasted a tweet from President Trump  —  attacking his former chief strategist and current Breitbart chairman Stephen Bannon, calling the post “outrageous.”  —  “This is outrageous even by POTUS standards …

Burlington man charged with motel machete attack  —  SHELBURNE, Vt. (WCAX) A Burlington man faces attempted murder charges after allegedly attacking a woman with a machete.  —  “It's pretty scary yes,” said Carl Mcmahon.  —  Mcmahon is staying at Harbor Place in Shelburne.

More than $100K raised for Moore accuser whose home was destroyed in suspicious fire  —  In less than 24 hours, more than $120,000 was raised in a GoFundMe for the Roy Moore  —  accuser whose house burned down in a suspicious fire.  —  Former Obama staffer Katie Jacobs Stanton started …

President Trump's Twitter-fueled foreign policy: Not as bad as you might think.  —  Yes, Trump is a maverick and populist.  But thanks to him, 2017 witnessed less of a dramatic departure from the norm in foreign policy than has been alleged.  —  With each new barrage of foreign policy tweets …

Official who improperly helped Redskins owner cut down trees picked as National Park Service deputy director  —  A former National Park Service official who improperly helped Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder cut down more than 130 trees to improve a river view at his Potomac, Md. …

Here are the people closest to Trump who might doubt his mental fitness  —  President Trump just dove headfirst into a question that many won't go near: Is he okay?  —  “The Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook …