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 …

OTL: Michigan State secrets extend far beyond Larry Nassar case  —  MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY administrators have long claimed, to the federal government and public, that they have handled sexual assault, violence, and gender discrimination complaints properly.

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 …

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 …

Exclusive: Frustrated State Department employees hire attorneys, charging ‘political retribution’  —  Ex diplomat: US ability to ‘avert disasters’ at risk  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — Several officials tell CNN they have retained attorneys after repeatedly trying unsuccessfully to raise concerns

Sorry, Blue States: You Can't Fix the Tax Bill  —  In the end, federal deductibility changes maybe simply force New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to cut their rates to compete with red states.  —  It's an unhappy time to be a high-income professional in a blue state — or their governor.

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.

Air Force One's new refrigerators cost $24 million  —  Washington (CNN)Air Force One is primed to receive an upgrade that will include new refrigerators expected to cost American taxpayers nearly $24 million.  —  The US Air Force awarded Boeing a $23.6 million contract in December to replace two of the five …

Conservative Writer Says Republicans ‘Sacrificed Their Honor’ By Attacking FBI  —  Noah Rothman, an editor for Commentary magazine, tells NPR's Rachel Martin that “Trump's advocates across the Republican political spectrum” are grasping at straws by attacking the FBI.  —  RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Trump divorce lawyer penning ‘tell-all’ book  —  's divorce lawyer — who the commander in chief once called his “most important” attorney — is penning a “tell-all” book.  —  Jay Goldberg, who worked on the headline-grabbing 1992 divorce battle between Trump and his first wife, Ivana …

2 dads nabbed by ICE as they drop off kids at NJ school; 3rd takes shelter in church  —  HIGHLAND PARK, N.J. — ICE agents detained two men in Middlesex County Thursday morning and a third fled to the Reformed Church of Highland Park where he will be sheltered from the government.

Elephants Are Very Scared of Bees.  That Could Save Their Lives.  —  Elephants are afraid of bees.  Let that sink in for a second.  The largest animal on land is so terrified of a tiny insect that it will flap its ears, stir up dust and make noises when it hears the buzz of a beehive.

'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.

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.

NY Daily News Editor Accused Of Harassment Fostered A Culture Of Silence  —  Managing editor Rob Moore told staffers he would get rid of people who complained about his behavior, sources said.  —  At the New York Daily News, the managing editor, Rob Moore, has been heard on more than one occasion offering …