Internal Justice Department probe eyes McCabe's role in final weeks of 2016 election … The Justice Department's inspector general has been focused for months on why Andrew McCabe, as the No. 2 official at the FBI, appeared not to act for about three weeks on a request to examine a batch …

Viewers approve of Trump's first State of the Union address - CBS News poll  —  Views of the speech  —  Three in four Americans who tuned in to President Trump's State of the Union address tonight approved of the speech he gave.  Just a quarter disapproved.  —  How did the speech make you feel?

Giving North Korea a ‘bloody nose’ carries a huge risk to Americans  —  Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown University and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  —  North Korea, if not stopped, will build an arsenal with multiple nuclear missiles meant …

Trump's lawyers argue Mueller has not met threshold for presidential interview  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorneys are arguing that special counsel Robert Mueller's team has not met the high threshold they believe is needed to interview a president in person …

Fact-checking Donald Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech  —  President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment of American life in his first State of the Union address — but several of his points were factually flawed.  —  “This is our new American moment,” Trump said.

The most important work of my life has been to support and empower women.  I've tried to do so here at home, around the world, and in the organizations I've run.  I started in my twenties, and four decades later I'm nowhere near being done.  I'm proud that it's the work I'm most associated with …

In Joe Kennedy's speech, Democrats rediscovered Barack Obama's compelling vision  —  America is about equality, across all dimensions.  —  No State of the Union response speech has ever been a truly great speech, but Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) delivered what's probably the best entry in the genre that I've ever heard Tuesday night.

Donald Trump is teaching Republicans how to fight  —  It's an observation so strikingly true that you wonder why you didn't think of it earlier.  “Donald Trump,” a friend said the other day, “is teaching the Republican Party how to fight and how to win.”  —  The evidence is everywhere every day …

Trump's top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts  —  The Trump administration's top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use — the leading cause of preventable disease …

Donald Trump is still the man to these blue-collar voters  —  VENETIA, PA. — Tony and Michelle Ripepi always make sure their children are civically engaged, from following local and national elections to watching big decisions, speeches and moments coming from the White House.

State of the Union 2018: Read the full transcript  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.  Read the President's speech as prepared for delivery and released by the White House:  —  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress …

What Trump's address sounded like, in eight American living rooms … In Milwaukee, a retired factory worker sipping coffee in his burgundy recliner cheered as President Trump promised in his State of the Union address to build new roads, bridges, waterways and other infrastructure improvements.