Scoop: Rob Porter telling different story than John Kelly  —  White House Staff Secretary Rob Porter is telling associates that some senior White House officials strongly encouraged him to “stay and fight,” and claims he “never misrepresented anything” to Chief of Staff John Kelly.

Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site  —  LOS ANGELES — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, a relentless critic of the media, has found a way around the often unflattering coverage of his role in the Trump-Russia investigation — by operating his own partisan news outlet.

North Korea judged winner of diplomatic gold at Olympics  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - North Korea has emerged as the early favorite to grab one of the Winter Olympics' most important medals: the diplomatic gold.  —  That is the assessment of a former South Korean government minister …

The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a commercially run venture, NASA document shows. … The Trump administration wants to turn the International Space Station into a kind of orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry.

G.O.P. Squirms as Trump Veers Off Script With Abuse Remarks  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's approval ratings have been nudging upward and his party's political standing is improving, but the president's unceasing habit of making inflammatory and insensitive remarks is galvanizing opposition against him …

Trump Shows Us the Way  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump slipped into the Oval Office through a wormhole of confusion about the American identity.  —  We weren't winning wars anymore.  They just went on and on and on, with inexplicable and deceptive aims and so many lives and limbs and trillions lost.

Outside groups pummel vulnerable senators in early wave of television advertising  —  WASHINGTON — The midterm congressional elections are months away, but well-funded outside groups already are dominating the airwaves in what will be a multi-million dollar brawl for control of the Senate.

Why the bond market is freaking out Wall Street  —  Dow plunges 1,000 points and sinks into correction  —  1. Blame the bonds: The normally boring bond market is causing serious drama on Wall Street.  —  An avalanche of selling sent the Dow and S&P 500 careening 5% lower last week …

Senator seeking admin records on Trump's sale of Palm Beach mansion to Russian  —  (CNN)A senator is asking the Treasury Department to turn over records of a lucrative real estate sale Donald Trump made to a Russian billionaire as the Senate Finance Committee looks into Trump's ties to Russians.

I Am the Very Model of a New York Times Contrarian  —  A tragic opera.

NYT Misleads Readers: “Ballooning Deficits” Do Not Add Urgency to Republican Efforts to Cut Medicaid and Other Programs  —  The NYT should have its presses washed out with soap.  In an article about plans to impose work requirements for Medicaid it told readers: