Republicans concede key FBI ‘footnote’ in Carter Page warrant  —  Republican leaders are acknowledging that the FBI disclosed the political origins of a private dossier the bureau cited in an application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, undermining a controversial GOP memo released Friday …

Trump's Lawyers Want Him to Refuse an Interview in Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Trump have advised him against sitting down for a wide-ranging interview with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, according to four people briefed on the matter …

White House Official Called Trump ‘a Deplorable’  —  The White House principal deputy press secretary, Raj Shah, called President Donald Trump “a deplorable” and referred to the release of the Access Hollywood tape as “some justice,” according to private messages independently obtained and verified by New York.

Dow falls over 1,000 points  —  The Dow had its worst week in two years.  Why?  —  The markets plunged Monday, with the Dow falling nearly 1,600 points in the largest intraday point decline ever.  —  The selloff knocked the Dow down as much as 6.3%.  —  At its worst levels …

Trump: Democrats' muted State of Union reaction ‘treasonous’  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday called Democrats' stone-faced reaction to his State of the Union address last week “treasonous” and “un-American” during a visit to a manufacturing plant in Cincinnati.

Chaos at Newsweek: Top editors suddenly out  —  Employees at Newsweek have been told that editor-in-chief Bob Roe and executive editor Ken Li have been fired, sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.  —  A reporter, Celeste Katz, who had written articles about financial issues …

Pennsylvania GOP lawmaker: Impeach justices for ruling against gerrymander scheme  —  The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to Pennsylvania Republicans Monday, rejecting the party's desperate attempt to save gerrymandered congressional maps that the state supreme court …

Bob Mueller's Investigation Is Larger—and Further Along—Than You Think  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED in a tweet over the weekend that the controversial Nunes memo “totally vindicates” him, clearing him of the cloud of the Russia investigation that has hung over his administration for a year now.

Well, Well, Well: Nunes Admits the Partisan Origins of the Dossier *Had* Been Disclosed After All  —  Listen up, young people: Emily Litella is a character developed by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live.  Each week, she would fly into a rage about something that she had misheard …

‘Frasier’ Star John Mahoney Dead at 77  —  John Mahoney, the beloved dad on “Frasier,” has died in Chicago ... TMZ has learned.  —  According to John's publicist ... he passed away Sunday in hospice care.  —  The British-born actor famously played Martin Crane, the father of Kelsey Grammer …

The GOP's Misguided Midterm Optimism  —  Recent polls have made some Republicans feel better about November.  They shouldn't.  —  All of our national elections are important, but there is always a special significance to the last midterm elections before the congressional and state-legislative redistricting processes take place.

Polls swing toward GOP, easing fears of midterm disaster  —  Republicans are feeling better about their prospects in the midterm elections, buoyed by recent polls that show their numbers improving.  —  An ebullient President Trump  —  touted the shift in public sentiment reflected …

'I wasn't hearing any call from God': Michele Bachmann opts out of running for Al Franken's Senate seat … Former U.S. representative Michele Bachmann has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by Al Franken, just weeks after she told a televangelist she was mulling the decision.

Steve Wynn Set Up LLC to Pay His Accuser  —  The casino mogul and his legal representatives took steps to conceal $7.5 million settlement  —  Steve Wynn and his legal representatives set up a company separate from his Wynn Resorts Ltd. WYNN -0.65% , according to public records …

Quentin Tarantino Explains Everything: Uma Thurman, The ‘Kill Bill’ Crash & Harvey Weinstein  —  EXCLUSIVE: Since Saturday morning when The New York Times published Uma Thurman's depiction of assault at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, the writer/director most closely associated with her biggest successes …

Pence trip to Asia, Olympics aimed at countering NKorea  —  Vice President Mike Pence's six-day swing through Asia, anchored by a stop at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, is set to focus less on sports than the host country's bellicose neighbor to the North.