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 …

NCAA president Mark Emmert was alerted to Michigan State sexual assault reports in 2010  —  Though the NCAA has announced its intention to open an investigation into Michigan State's athletic department, it remains unclear what exactly the purview of the investigation would be.

Taliban attacker driving ambulance packed with explosives kills 95 in Kabul  —  Ambulance packed with explosives kills dozens  —  Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)An attacker driving an ambulance packed with explosives detonated them Saturday in the Afghan capital of Kabul, leaving 95 people dead and 158 others injured, Afghan officials said.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

Maxine Waters Is Giving A National Address On BET After Trump's State Of The Union  —  Get your popcorn ready.  —  One of President Donald Trump's fiercest critics on Capitol Hill will address the country just after next Tuesday's State of the Union.  —  Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat …