FBI's Wray Opposes GOP Memo Release, Citing Inaccuracies  —  Trump overheard saying memo ‘100 percent’ should be released  —  Republicans say memo raises doubts about Russia probe  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray has informed the White House of his opposition to releasing a controversial …

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?

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, resigns amid tobacco stock furor  — Fitzgerald's departure comes less than a day after Politico revealed she bought stock in a tobacco company within a month of taking her job.

Justice Department seeks dismissal of Menendez case  —  The Justice Department will not pursue its case against Sen. Bob Menendez and has filed a motion seeking the dismissal of the indictment against the New Jersey Democrat.  —  The decision, revealed in a court filing Wednesday …

Attorney: Rep. Bob Brady not running for re-election  —  Action News has learned that Democratic Congressman Bob Brady will not run for re-election.  —  The word comes from Bob Brady's attorney.  —  The congressman is expected to hold a press availability at 1:30 p.m. today.

Train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — hits a truck  —  (CNN)A train carrying members of Congress — including House Speaker Paul Ryan — to their legislative retreat in West Virginia hit a truck Wednesday, multiple sources told CNN.

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 Rating Ticks Up; Support for Tax Plan Increases  —  GOP gains on Dems in generic House ballot  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Donald Trump's job approval rating has bounced back from the record low registered in last month's Monmouth University Poll , as more Americans now see the president …

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 …

CIA director Mike Pompeo met with Russian counterpart in U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration let a top Russian spy official visit the United States last week for meetings with U.S. intelligence officials even though there are sanctions against him that typically prohibit such visits, sources confirmed to CBS News.

Donald Trump Just Asked Congress to End the Rule of Law  —  Donald Trump's first State of the Union was a deeply dangerous speech.  —  It was deeply dangerous because he finally followed in the footsteps of European leaders like Hungarian President Viktor Orban who have long ago learned …

The Cabinet Files reveal national security breaches, NBN negotiations, welfare reform plans  —  Hundreds of top-secret and highly classified cabinet documents have been obtained by the ABC following an extraordinary breach of national security.  —  This was not a leak — here's what it took to unlock national secrets

Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries Into Fake Accounts  —  Federal and state authorities are investigating the sellers of artificial followers and other fraudulent social media engagement.  —  More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users …

Virginia Tech freshman had assault rifle, attempted to buy 5,000 rounds of ammo, police say  —  Man, 19, had been Tech student for six months  —  BLACKSBURG, Va. - Police have arrested a Virginia Tech student they say illegally had an assault rifle.  —  Virginia Tech police arrested 19 …

A Paper Tears Apart in a City That Never Quite Came Together  —  LOS ANGELES — When an ambitious Civil War colonel from Ohio seized control of a fledgling daily newspaper here in the late 19th century, Los Angeles was a rough-hewed frontier town with no paved streets and a population of a few thousand people.