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.

The ‘Ivanka Trump of North Korea’ captivates people in the South at the Olympics … GANGNEUNG, South Korea — They marveled at her barely-there makeup and her lack of bling.  They commented on her plain black outfits and simple purse.  They noted the flower-shaped clip that kept her hair back in a no-nonsense style.

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.

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.

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.

Gillibrand: If Trump wants due process, we'll have hearings on allegations against him  —  on Saturday for his tweet questioning a lack of “due process” in abuse claims, saying that Congress could hold hearings about sexual misconduct allegations against him if he wanted due process.

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 …

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

White House floats an offer to keep legal immigration at 1 million per year instead of cutting it … As the Senate prepares to begin a free-wheeling debate over immigration next week, White House officials have begun floating a possible compromise idea — a pledge to maintain legal immigration …

‘Horrific murder spree’ leaves 5 dead in Kentucky: Sheriff  —  Five people, including a suspect, are dead after a string of killings Saturday in northeast Kentucky, authorities said.  —  Deputies in Johnson County, Ky., found two bodies in a home, then in the search for the suspect …

A pastor helps revive MLK's most radical campaign  —  (CNN)Most pastors say they preach the truth.  The Rev. William Barber also delivers sermons on another topic: “the trick.”  —  The trick is Barber's term for something that he describes as a weapon of mass distraction.

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: