Trump Launched Campaign to Discredit Potential FBI Witnesses  —  The president targeted three bureau officials who could provide key testimony in the Mueller probe.  —  President Donald Trump pressed senior aides last June to devise and carry out a campaign to discredit senior FBI officials …

The Follower Factory  —  Everyone wants to be popular online.  —  Some even pay for it.  —  Inside social media's black market.  —  Celebrities, athletes, pundits and politicians are buying millions of fake followers.  —  While the world's social media platforms look the other way.

Tronc Is Building A Shadow Newsroom Full Of Scabs, L.A. Times Staffers Fear  —  A mysterious new management team appears to be quietly building a non-union network.  —  As lunch was winding down Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times cafeteria, Bruce Upbin, one of several newly hired …

Wojo: Michigan State mired in full-blown crisis of trust  —  The crisis at Michigan State keeps expanding and twisting, no longer only a horrific sexual-abuse scandal, or only a hunt for justice.  For the school and whoever is left to lead, it's a crisis of trust.

Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President  —  If Donald Trump gets a little bored on his flight home from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he can always page through a book handed to him by a delegate not long after he arrived: “God and Donald Trump.”

The G.O.P.'s Bonfire of the Sanities  —  Like Alexis de Tocqueville's “Democracy in America,” Richard Hofstadter's “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” is often cited but less often read, which is a shame because the landmark 1964 essay helps explain our times.  Consider Ron Johnson, the Republican senator from Wisconsin.

'It's a Massacre': Taliban Bomb in Ambulance Kills 95 in Kabul  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb placed in an ambulance set off a huge explosion on a busy Kabul street on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and injuring at least 158 others, Afghan officials said.

RNC Silent So Far About Contributions From Steve Wynn After Allegations He Forced Women Into Sex … Just months after the Republican Party worked to tie Democrats to alleged serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein, the GOP's chief fundraiser has been accused of pressuring multiple women …

Exclusive: Data shows Trump's DC hotel was pricier and emptier than peers in 2017  —  Washington (CNN)Just a few months before President Donald Trump moved into the White House, his presence was already firmly established in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue …

Michael Wolff's ugly, sexist smear of UN Ambassador Nikki Haley  —  UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, one of the Trump administration's brightest stars, has been forced to deny an ugly, sexist rumor fueled by sleazeball Michael Wolff.  —  On Bill Maher's HBO program, Wolff — author of a best-selling …

Twitter Says Russian Bots Retweeted Trump 470,000 Times  —  Russian-linked accounts spurred 50,000 retweets of Clinton  —  Information comes in response to questions from Congress  —  Russian-linked Twitter bots shared Donald Trump's tweets almost half a million times during the final months …

EXCLUSIVE: Melania Trump has been spending nights at a posh D.C. HOTEL since the president was accused of having a fling with porn star Stormy Daniels - before the first lady unexpectedly flew to Palm Beach  — Melania Trump has been spending time away from Trump and the White House since news …

Some Americans are afraid to explore their own country, concerns that evoke the Jim Crow-era Green Book  —  It was the 1940s, and traveling to her parents' home town was not approached lightly after the family moved to Muskegon, Mich., during the Great Migration.