Secret Memo Hints at a New Republican Target: Rod Rosenstein  —  WASHINGTON — A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring …

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: ‘I regret my role’ in Hillary Clinton false equivalence … So long as President Trump continues disgracing the Oval Office, thoughtful people will probe their own role in helping him get there.  —  Such appeared to be the motivation behind a mea culpa issued …

Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen announces retirement from House  —  (June 2017) Mitsu Yasukawa/NorthJersey.com  —  Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen announced Monday he will retire rather than seek another term in November, when he was expected to face the toughest campaign of his career in New Jersey's 11th District.

The Steele Dossier Fits the Kremlin Playbook  —  The likely objective was to undermine Republicans, Democrats—and American democracy.  —  When the “Steele dossier” was first published a year ago, it looked like a bombshell.  The document, drawn up by the British ex-spy Christopher Steele …

Melania Trump's Military Flights Before Her Move to Washington Cost More Than $675,000  —  First lady flew 21 flights in three-month period while living in New York after President Donald Trump's inauguration  —  First lady Melania Trump took 21 flights in a three-month period on Air Force jets …

Omarosa Goes From White House to Cast of ‘Celebrity Big Brother’  —  The former ‘Apprentice’ star, and adviser to President Trump, was the shock addition to the new season of CBS' reality show.  —  Omarosa Manigault, who left the White House under dramatic circumstances at the tail end of last year …

'He's not God': In the wake of porn-star allegations, most evangelicals stand by Trump … When news first broke this month about President Trump's alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels, it seemed the kind of story that would devastate a group of voters once known as “The Moral Majority.”

Beto O'Rourke outraises Cruz again, taking in $2.4M in latest quarter  —  Updated at 10:50 p.m. to include the latest fundraising figures from Sen. Ted Cruz.  —  WASHINGTON — The Texas Democrat hoping to oust Sen. Ted Cruz is posting his largest campaign fundraising haul yet: $2.4 million.

Russian Attacks on 21 States in 2016 Election  —  Oversight Dems Ask Gowdy to Subpoena Documents Withheld by Trump Administration … On October 20, 2017, Ranking Members Cummings and Kelly sent a letter requesting copies of the notifications that the Department of Homeland Security provided …

If Pelosi brings ‘Dreamers’ to the State of the Union, Trump should bring ICE agents  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and a number of other Democrats plan to fill the House gallery with illegal aliens when President Trump delivers his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Troubled Los Angeles Times Picking New Editor Amid Unrest  —  In an attempt to calm rising newsroom tensions at The Los Angeles Times, the paper was expected to name Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, as its next editor in chief on Monday, according to two company officials.

Trump abuses show we must turn traditions into laws: Bharara and Whitman  —  It's not enough to fret.  We're launching a bipartisan project to mend the gaps in our system and make sure our government is competent and trustworthy.  —  One year into the Trump presidency …

Trump is winning  —  Trump is making us a little more like him, and politics a little more like the tribal clash he says it is.  —  There are two Trump presidencies.  —  One of them is the official presidency of Donald Trump, leader of the Republican Party, driver of the legislative agenda, head of the executive branch.

Republican House ‘leaders’ are complicit in obstruction … While an occasional voice of sanity pops up now and then — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) (on a good day), retiring Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) (every day) — none of the voices urging strict oversight of President Trump …

Poll: Millennials say the country is on the wrong track, but they're not  —  Millennials think things in the country are off on the wrong track but at the same time, they're optimistic about their own futures, according to a new NBC News/GenForward survey.  —  Nearly two-thirds of millennials …

Trump Tower Russian Lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Exposed in Swiss Corruption Case … LONDON—The Moscow operation behind the now infamous Russian-Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 included a direct attempt to enlist a foreign country's law enforcement official as a virtual double-agent, according to a court case in Switzerland.

‘Fox & Friends’ host says the media's Trump coverage is ‘anti-American’ … “Fox & Friends” suggested without evidence Monday the New York Times sat for six months on last week's report that President Trump tried to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in June 2017.