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 …

DOJ gives special counsel internal docs on thwarted Sessions resignation, source says  —  In the weeks before special counsel Robert Mueller's team interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Justice Department turned over a cache of internal correspondence, including documents related …

The Real Aim of the Secret Memo Is the Mueller Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said on Tuesday that he wanted Americans to see a secret memo that portrays the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation as scandalous, he also said he cautioned his Republican colleagues …

Justice Dept. officials appealed to White House to halt release of memo alleging FBI abuses related to author of Trump dossier … Top Justice Department officials made a last-ditch plea Monday to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly about the dangers of publicly releasing a memo alleging abuses …

Devin Nunes Won't Say If He Worked With White House on Anti-FBI Memo … The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee refused to answer when a colleague asked him if he had coordinated his incendiary surveillance memo with the White House, The Daily Beast has learned.

CNN Instant poll: Trump gets least positive reaction in at least 20 years  —  Washington (CNN)Almost half of Americans who watched President Donald Trump's first State of the Union address — 48% — say they had a “very positive” impression of the speech, down from 57% of speech-watchers …

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.

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 …

CDC director who traded tobacco stock resigns  —  Trump's top public health official resigned from her post Wednesday after mounting questions about financial conflicts of interest, HHS announced.  —  Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald's resignation comes one day after POLITICO reported she bought shares …

CDC Director Fitzgerald resigns  —  (Photo by Melissa Golden for The Washington Post via Getty Images)  —  (CNN)Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention resigned from her position on Wednesday.  The move comes one day after POLITICO reported Fitzgerald's purchase …