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 …

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.

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 …

Israel Downs Iranian Drone, Strikes Syria; Israeli F-16 Shot Down  —  One pilot in serious condition Israel attacks Syrian, Iranian targets in fresh strike Rocket sirens sound throughout northern Israel  —  An Israeli F-16 was downed Saturday morning after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria into Israeli territory.

Steve Vladeck Who is Rachel Brand, and how does her resignation affect Mueller's Russia investigation?  —  The news that Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand — the third-highest official in the Justice Department — is resigning after a little less than nine months in office to take a position …

Trump promised to deliver better pay to workers.  This chart says differently.  —  Analysts say that corporations will use just 13 percent of their tax savings on worker pay.  For manufacturing, that number's even worse.  —  President Donald Trump propelled himself to the White House …

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.

How Joy Reid of MSNBC Became a Heroine of the Resistance  —  The daughter of immigrants, she spars fiercely with supporters of President Trump, both on the air and in the Twitter ether.  —  In early January, Joy-Ann Reid invited Pastor Mark Burns to be a guest on her MSNBC show …

Railroad agency's acting chief resigns amid questions about his employment  —  The acting head of the nation's top railroad safety agency has resigned “effective immediately,” the Department of Transportation said Saturday after POLITICO raised questions about whether he had been simultaneously working …

How One Subway Closure in Queens Wrecked a Community  —  In early 2019, the L train in New York City will shut down for 15 months to repair damage caused during Hurricane Sandy.  Leading up to the closure, VICE will be providing relevant updates and policy proposals, as well as profiles …