FEMA Contract Called for 30 Million Meals for Puerto Ricans.  50,000 Were Delivered.  —  The mission for the Federal Emergency Management Agency was clear: Hurricane Maria had torn through Puerto Rico, and hungry people needed food.  Thirty million meals needed to be delivered as soon as possible.

The cowardice among Republicans is staggering  —  According to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the declassified Devin Nunes memo — alleging FBI misconduct in the Russia investigation — is “not an indictment of the FBI, of the Department of Justice.”  According to President Trump …

White House Chief of Staff: Trump not expected to extend DACA deadline … White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly said Tuesday that President Trump is not expected to extend the March 5 deadline when work permits will begin to expire for young immigrants known as “dreamers.”

Performers And Staffers At “Sleep No More” Say Audience Members Have Sexually Assaulted Them  —  Former performers and staff at the wildly popular immersive theater production say the show's fantasy environment emboldens some audience members to commit sexual misconduct.

Falcon Heavy, in a Roar of Thunder, Carries SpaceX's Ambition Into Orbit  —  KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — Sign up for the Science Times newsletter and sync your calendar with the solar system.  —  From the same pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, a big, new American rocket arced into space on Tuesday.

Can You Still Date a Co-Worker?  Well, It's Complicated  —  Some employers are starting to review their rules and are now ‘drawing a hard line in the sand’  —  Is it still OK to date someone you work with?  —  Yes.  —  Well, actually, it depends.  —  You might need to disclose it.

Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph  —  A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post.  —  The 2150 Acela was traveling from Washington D.C. to the Big Apple when the incident happened at about 11:20 a.m …

Kellyanne Conway's ‘opioid cabinet’ sidelines drug czar's experts  —  President Donald Trump's war on opioids is beginning to look more like a war on his drug policy office.  —  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken control of the opioids agenda, quietly freezing out drug policy professionals …

After approving Medicaid work requirements, Trump's HHS aims for lifetime coverage limits  —  WASHINGTON  —  After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the Trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults' access to coverage.

Reality is catching up with Trump — everywhere  —  President Trump, in his State of the Union address last week, boasted to the nation about stock market gains: “The stock market has smashed one record after another, gaining $8 trillion and more in value in just this short period of time.”

The Republican Fiscal Stimulus Could Be Bigger Than Obama's  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are pouring government stimulus into a steadily strengthening economy, adding economic fuel at a moment when unemployment is at a 16-year low and wages are beginning to rise, a combination that is stoking fears …

Sessions calls for ‘fresh start’ at FBI  —  Sessions: Rosenstein is leadership we want  —  Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions says he believes the FBI needs a “fresh start” following FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's decision to step down.  —  “Well, I have believed …

Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to Write and Produce a New Series of Star Wars Films  —  David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are going from Winterfell to a galaxy far, far away.  —  It was announced today that Benioff and Weiss, creators of the smash-hit …

Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary … It was Christmastime in Washington, and Ben Carson couldn't stop talking about the apocalypse.  —  “Did you know,” the secretary of housing and urban development asked his acting chief of staff, Deana Bass …

Biden: Trump should avoid Mueller interview, has ‘difficulty with precision’  —  Washington (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that if he were one of President Donald Trump's attorneys, he would suggest Trump not consent to a special counsel interview for fear of being caught misleading investigators.

“He Wants a Killer”: Post-Bannon, Post-Nunes, Post-Kelly Friction, a Frustrated Trump Searches for a West Wing Reset  —  He pines for old campaign hands Jason Miller, Corey Lewandowski, and David Bossie—but will Ivanka have the final say?  —  After the much-hyped Nunes memo failed to deliver …

Google is buying Chelsea Market building for over $2 billion  —  Jamestown in contract to sell the 1.2M sf office-and-retail property at 75 Ninth Avenue  —  Google did not have to search far and wide for results.  —  The tech giant is close to acquiring the Chelsea Market building …

Trump immigration plan could keep whites in U.S. majority for up to five more years … President Trump's proposal to cut legal immigration rates would delay the date that white Americans become a minority of the population by as few as one or as many as five additional years, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It's Taking Over Europe  —  Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the six-inch-long marbled crayfish.  Finding specimens is easy: Dr. Lyko can buy the crayfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head with colleagues to a nearby lake.

What Trump's Speech Says About His Mental Fitness  —  As part of the discussion about Donald Trump's lack of fitness for the presidency, some have argued that his linguistic capacities have worsened, suggesting significant cognitive decline.  —  In interviews in the 1980s and 1990s …

Rick Perlstein Becomes Twitter Hero After Speaking Up For Mika  —  This was revealing.  In a segment about fake news and modern technology that can create fake videos that was actually pretty interesting, historian Rick Perlstein politely asked to hear what Mika Brzezinski was trying to say …

Hero or hired gun?  How a British former spy became a flash point in the Russia investigation. … In the fall of 2016, a little more than a month before Donald Trump was elected president, Christopher Steele had the undivided attention of the FBI.  —  For months, the British former spy …

Is Trump Serious about ‘Treasonous’ Democrats?  —  By now, we're all familiar with President Trump's remarkable gift for saying outrageous things that create controversy entirely for its own sake.  These controversies generally feature his liberal critics overreacting by many orders of magnitude …

Mayor Barry recommended city job for daughter of officer with whom she had affair  —  Nashville Mayor Megan Barry addresses the media on news of her affair Michael Schwab  —  Within months of taking office, Mayor Megan Barry recommended the adult daughter of the head of her security detail …

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump  — Adam Schiff, the ranking Democratic member of the House Intel Committee was recorded speaking to Russian pranksters who spun elaborate ‘kompromat’ tale

Trump Evangelical Adviser Says You Don't Need Flu Shots When You Have Jesus  —  “Inoculate yourself with the word of God,” says Gloria Copeland.  —  A controversial minister linked to President Donald Trump said flu shots aren't necessary when you have Jesus.

One of Congress' most prolific tweeters and frequent Trump critics tell us why he quit Twitter  — Republican Sen. Ben Sasse quit Twitter over Christmas last year, after having built himself a reputation as one of Congress' most prolific tweeters.  — Sasse said he will return to social media …

‘Shut It Down’: Trump Threatens Government Shutdown Over Border Security  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump revived his threat on Tuesday to shut down the federal government if Congress cannot agree to a spending deal that tightens the nation's immigration laws.

No One Is Silencing Katie Roiphe #MeToo has started a robust, complicated conversation — whether or not she's listening.  —  This weekend, the much-ballyhooed piece about the #MeToo movement by Katie Roiphe was finally published by Harper's, and as Irin Carmon observed on Twitter …

GOP Senate office rips Trump nominee: ‘Cynics and nuts’ will have hard time securing confirmation  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)One of President Donald Trump's nominees is drawing condemnation and mockery from a Republican senator over his past statements pushing conspiracy theories …

The Latest: Pritzker apologizes for comments on race  —  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on newly released FBI wiretaps of Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich (all times local):  —  Democratic Illinois governor candidate J.B. Pritzker is apologizing …

Tied to Trump, these two California Republican congressmen lag in poll  —  California Republicans' hopes for re-election in 2018 may rest on separating themselves from the unpopular President Trump.  A new poll shows that's not happening as the year begins, at least in two of the state's most competitive congressional districts.

All she has to do to collect a $560 million lotto jackpot is make her name public.  She refuses. … The winning numbers triple-checked and the lottery ticket signed, the New Hampshire woman knew her life was about to change in a very positive way — except for one petrifying thing.

What I Learned from Watching My iPad's Slow Death  —  My old iPad just turned five, and it's starting to die.  If it could wonder about such things, it might question this prognosis.  Its memory, after all, still retrieves information as quickly as it ever did.

Icahn: The market will one day ‘implode’ because of these wacky funds using so much leverage  —  Billionaire Carl Icahn told CNBC on Tuesday there are too many exotic, leveraged products for investors to trade and one day these funds are going to blow up the market.