Trump sees Nunes memo as a way to discredit the Russia investigation  —  White House: Trump has not seen the FBI memo  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump continues to tell his associates he believed the highly controversial Republican memo alleging the FBI abused its surveillance tools …

Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting  —  WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials.

Democrat Accuses Republicans Of Secretly Changing Memo, Demands They Withdraw It  —  Rep. Adam Schiff said a Republican-written memo that questions the propriety of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe was changed before it was submitted to the White House for possible release.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC

Nearly 46 Million Viewers Watch President Trump's State of the Union Address  —  An estimated 45.6 million people tuned in to watch President Donald Trump deliver his State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018.  —  While coverage varied by network …

Top career US diplomat to step down in blow to State Dept  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top career U.S. diplomat announced Thursday he will step down, dealing a blow to the State Department as the Trump administration confronts numerous international challenges.

Special counsel seeks delay in scheduling Flynn sentencing  —  (CNN)Attorneys for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the special counsel's office told a federal court on Wednesday evening they are not ready to schedule a sentencing hearing for Flynn.

'I know that God's going to forgive me'  —  During the interview, Barry hesitated when asked whether she plans to resign, but said she will not, despite rumors swirling Wednesday that she might step down.  She also said she won't be taking a leave of absence and would be in the mayor's office Thursday.

Hapless in Democratland  —  'Can't stand church and family?  Neither can we!  Vote for the Democrats in 2018!'  It's mind-boggling, isn't it?  —  As America edges closer to the 2018 midterm elections, expect to hear a growing herd of weirdly confident political pundits talk about a coming and inevitable …

America's Most and Least Popular Governors  —  Republicans continue to dominate, at the top and bottom of the rankings  — Bill Walker (I-Alaska) is the least popular governor running for re-election this year, with net approval of -26%.  — Walker posted the largest net slide in approval …

Gowdy finally had it with Washington  —  Trey Gowdy is done with politics.  —  The House Oversight Committee Chairman for years has joked privately about quitting Congress and returning home to South Carolina.  On Wednesday, he finally pulled the plug — likely for good.

Behind Pence's plan to rescue the Republican majority in 2018  —  WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va. — Vice President Mike Pence is launching one of the most aggressive campaign strategies in recent White House history: he will hopscotch the country over the next three months …

Trump Restores the ‘We’  —  In The Meaning of Conservatism and several other books, the English philosopher Roger Scruton argues for the importance of the first-person plural—the “We” that binds us together as a community, a people, a nation.  Tuesday night, in his magnificent State of the Union Address …

The campaign is over.  The candidate might be dead.  But the spending never stops.  —  ★★★  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.  —  I T'S BEEN MORE THAN A DECADE since South Florida Rep. Mark Foley was forced out of Congress for sending sexual text messages to teenage boys.

Is Chelsea Manning eligible to run for U.S. Senate? … Questions about Chelsea Manning's eligibility to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland could imperil her already steep path to the Democratic nomination against two-term Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin.  —  In 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison …

Sen. Scarnati refuses Pa. Supreme Court order to turn over map data in gerrymander case  —  State Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati (R., Jefferson) said Wednesday he would not turn over any data requested by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the wake of the gerrymandering ruling …

President Trump opts out of Super Bowl interview  —  Timberlake returns to Super Bowl 2018  —  President Trump has decided not to participate in a Super Bowl Sunday interview this weekend.  —  “He is not doing a Super Bowl interview,” a White House official told CNN on condition of anonymity on Wednesday.

Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on ‘sexual revolution’ of 1960s in leaked audio  —  During a speech to pastors in Kansas City in December, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley linked the problem of sex trafficking to the sexual revolution of the 1960s.  —  Hawley, the top Republican prospect …