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.

Kabul attack: Taliban kill 95 with ambulance bomb in Afghan capital  —  A suicide bombing has killed at least 95 people and injured 158 others in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, officials say.  —  Attackers drove an ambulance laden with explosives past a police checkpoint in a secure zone …

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.

‘Scumbag and liar’: Ex-White House ethics chief hammers Trump apologist Jack Kingston for attacking Mueller investigation  —  During a CNN panel discussion on a report that President Donald Trump asked White House lawyer Doug McGahn to fire special counsel Robert Mueller …

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.”

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.