Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration … When President Trump spoke by phone with Sen. Richard J. Durbin around 10:15 a.m. last Thursday, he expressed pleasure with Durbin's outline of a bipartisan immigration pact and praised the high-ranking Illinois Democrat's efforts …

Aziz Ansari Is Guilty.  Of Not Being a Mind Reader.  —  I'm apparently the victim of sexual assault.  And if you're a sexually active woman in the 21st century, chances are that you are, too.  —  That is what I learned from the “exposé” of Aziz Ansari published this weekend …

U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch  —  Officials said the businesswoman could be trying to further Beijing's interests, people familiar with the matter say  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. counterintelligence officials in early 2017 warned Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son …

13 Siblings, Some Shackled to Beds, Were Held Captive by Parents, Police Say  —  A 17-year old girl who said she was being held captive by her parents in her home in Perris, Calif., escaped on Sunday and alerted the authorities, who then rescued her 12 siblings — several of whom were found shackled …

Trump dossier probes now include possible State Department involvement  —  Congressional investigations into the Trump dossier have so far been focused on the FBI and Justice Department.  They still are, but now investigators are also looking into a possible Obama State Department role …

U.S. Uninsured Rate Steady at 12.2% in Fourth Quarter of 2017  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance was essentially unchanged in the fourth quarter of 2017, at 12.2%, but it is up 1.3 percentage points from the record low of 10.9% found in the last quarter of 2016.

Why Trump voters need the immigrants they want to turn away  —  What does Trump's immigration stance mean for GOP?  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)The irony in President Donald Trump's hostility to immigration, expressed again in reports of his vulgar comments about Africa and Haiti last week …

Devin Nunes is under mounting pressure to release the transcript of a House Intel interview with Fusion GPS  — Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee want its Republican chairman, Devin Nunes, to release the transcript of the panel's interview with Fusion GPS cofounder Glenn Simpson.

Trump's Mar-a Lago cited by state inspectors for poor maintenance  —  A year after the discovery of foods that could sicken people at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, his Winter White House was just cited by inspectors for poor maintenance.

The Senate's push to overrule the FCC on net neutrality now has 50 votes, Democrats say  —  Fifty senators have endorsed a legislative measure to override the Federal Communications Commission's recent decision to deregulate the broadband industry, top Democrats said Monday.

Hope Hicks expected to talk to Hill committee  —  Who is Hope Hicks?  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)White House Communications Director Hope Hicks is expected to meet with the House Intelligence Committee as soon as this week, making her one of President Donald Trump's closest confidantes …

After 30 years in U.S., metro Detroit immigrant deported to Mexico  —  After 30 years of living in the U.S, a 39-year-old Lincoln Park man was deported this morning from Detroit Metro Airport to Mexico as family and friends wiped away tears.  —  Jorge Garcia was brought to the U.S …

North Korea scoffs at Trump's ‘nuclear button’ tweet  —  TOKYO (AP) — North Korea's state-run media say U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet about having a bigger nuclear button than leader Kim Jong Un's is the “spasm of a lunatic.”  —  Rodong Sinmun, the ruling party newspaper …

Trump's first-year report card: Voters say he's no genius  —  Donald Trump's quarterly report card is in — and if he were back in school, he'd find himself on academic probation.  —  More voters give Trump a failing grade for his first year as president than think he deserves an “A” or …

President Nobama  —  Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama's legacy.  —  Donald Trump continues to baffle.  Never Trump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist …

Column What if diversity isn't America's strength?  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham says he scolded the president for saying something scatological about certain countries and their immigrants.  “Diversity has always been our strength,” he allegedly said.  By my count, this makes Graham …