As Jared Kushner's security clearance is delayed, White House hesitates to act on others with possible problems … White House Counsel Donald McGahn and other Trump administration officials have been so vexed by Jared Kushner's months-long inability to obtain a permanent security clearance …

Trump Blocks Release of Memo Rebutting Republican Claims  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump blocked on Friday the release of a classified Democratic memo rebutting Republican claims that top federal law enforcement officials had abused their surveillance powers in spying on a former Trump campaign aide …

American Spies Paid $100,000 to Russian Who Wanted to Sell Material on Trump  —  BERLIN — After months of secret negotiations, a shadowy Russian bilked American spies out of $100,000 last year, promising to deliver stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons in a deal that he insisted …

The Smearing of Woody Allen  —  Soon after Rolling Stone published a sensational — and, as it turned out, false — account of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, Richard Bradley, the editor of Worth magazine, suspected that something was amiss.

Pence upstaged by 2 Koreas' efforts to warm ties  —  Vice President Mike Pence's efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics proved to be short-lived, quickly drowned out by the images of the two Koreas marching and competing together, as the South appeared …

No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down  —  WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country's top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.

Woodward and Bernstein: Trump's Russia response ‘eerily similar’ to Nixon's leading up to Saturday Night Massacre  —  Woodward and Bernstein adapted this piece from their 1976 book, “The Final Days.”  This excerpt is appearing both in The Washington Post and on CNN.  —  (CNN)We're here again.

Rob Porter was ‘quintessential golden boy’ from Belmont now accused of abuse  —  On campus, he was known as the quintessential golden boy, the clean-cut son of a Harvard professor who would follow in his father's footsteps by earning a Rhodes scholarship and working in the White House.

Alarm bells are ringing on the federal debt  —  BY THOMAS BINION, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/09/18 03:30 PM EST THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL  —  If you're reading The Hill, chances are you've heard the scary statistics or doomsday predictions about government spending.