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.

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.

Pennsylvania Republican launches effort to impeach state supreme court to save GOP gerrymander  —  Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.  —  In a direct attack on the rule of law, Pennsylvania state Rep. Cris Dush (R) sent a memo …

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 …

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 …

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.

‘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.

'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.

The Dating Blues?  #MeToo  —  I'm single this year for the very first time.  —  All I want is a man who's not committed a crime.  —  But that feels very unlikely in this landscape we're in,  —  much to my chagrin.  —  And so I'm going on dates,  —  And I'm truck'n along,

Trump ripped this judge as ‘hater.’ Now he'll hear environmental case on border wall.  —  WASHINGTON  —  A federal judge in California who Donald Trump once derided for his ethnicity will hear a case Friday that could determine the president's latitude to waive environmental laws, paving the way for his “big, beautiful” border wall.

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 …

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 …

Trump ambassador nominee promoted fringe conspiracy theories on Twitter  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump's nominee to be the ambassador to Barbados and several other Caribbean countries spread fringe conspiracy theories and unfounded attacks about Trump's political opponents on Twitter …

Eagles' 1st Super Bowl Win Draws 103.4M Viewers, Smallest Audience In Nine Years - Update  —  UPDATE, 1:13 PM: As late as it went and as rowdy as it got, the City of Brotherly Love made pretty swift progress this morning picking up the debris of last night's victory celebrations for the Philadelphia Eagles' first Super Bowl win ever.