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 …

The ‘state’ of Donald Trump?  He thinks it couldn't be better.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is telling friends and aides in private that things are going great — for him.  —  Some reasons: He's decided that a key witness in the Russia probe, Paul Manafort, isn't going to “flip” and sell him out, friends and aides say.

Pelosi tells Democrats not to disrupt ‘slobbering’ Trump during SOTU  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is encouraging her caucus to behave during President Donald Trump's State of the Union address tonight, saying the focus should be on “his slobbering self.”

Trump Administration Admits It Cribbed Forbes Magazine To Create “Oligarch List”  —  The revelation is likely to invite criticism that a congressionally-mandated list designed to punish Russia for interfering in the US election is not being aggressively implemented.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC

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 …

Trump needles ‘monster’ Chuck Todd at off-the-record anchors' lunch  —  The president used his traditional pre-State of the Union sit-down to air his grievances with news coverage of his presidency, again.  —  Hours before his first formal State of the Union address, President Donald Trump …

Disagreement on North Korea policy derails White House choice for ambassador to South Korea … The White House's original choice for U.S. ambassador to South Korea is no longer expected to be nominated after he privately expressed disagreement in late December with the Trump administration's …

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 …

‘Glee’ Star Mark Salling Dead of Apparent Suicide  —  Mark Salling is dead of an apparent suicide, according to law enforcement ... TMZ has learned.  —  We're told his body was found near a riverbed in Sunland ... the area where he lived.  We do not yet know the manner of death.

Bill Nye Does Not Speak for Us and He Does Not Speak for Science  —  By attending the State of the Union with NASA administrator nominee Jim Bridenstine, the Science Guy tacitly endorses climate denial, intolerance and attacks on science  —  Tonight, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” …

Greg Gianforte, politician who assaulted Guardian reporter, to lead GOP workshop  —  Gianforte to give communications workshop for the NRCC, group that strives to get Republicans elected to Congress … The National Republican Congressional Committee has picked as the speaker …

Russian intelligence chief visits US to discuss war on terror — ambassador  —  The director of Russia's foreign intelligence has visited the United States for consultations with US counterparts … /TASS/.  The director of Russia's foreign intelligence SVR, Sergey Naryshkin …

Mike Cernovich Is Bidding $500,000 to Buy Gawker.com  —  A leaked pitch deck shows how Cernovich would turn Gawker into a platform for his media ambitions—and, perhaps, a cudgel to get back at a site that once called him a “D-list right-winger.”  —  PayPal co-founder and Gawker nemesis Peter Thiel …

Senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee at federal volunteer agency was banned by Uber over allegations of racial comments  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)A senior adviser who worked for disgraced Trump appointee Carl Higbie was banned from using Uber after an incident early …

Document shows police ID'd 2nd ‘person of interest’ in days after Las Vegas shooting  —  Scene's from day after the Route 91 Harvest shooting in Las Vegas October 2, 2017.  Richard Brian Las Vegas Review-Journal  —  A judge on Tuesday unsealed nearly 300 pages of search warrant records …

Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport  —  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint in early January.

Drug firms shipped 20.8M pain pills to WV town with 2,900 people  —  Over the past decade, out-of-state drug companies shipped 20.8 million prescription painkillers to two pharmacies four blocks apart in a Southern West Virginia town with 2,900 people, according to a congressional committee investigating the opioid crisis.

Jimmy Kimmel Strikes Out  —  Jimmy Kimmel is the host of one of the late-night talk shows.  I'm not sure which one, as I never watch any of them.  As I understand it, they do nothing but bash President Trump and are viewed only by cultists.  Kimmel announced that his special guest tonight …