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.

Kim Jong-un's Sister Turns on the Charm, Taking Pence's Spotlight  —  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — When the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, decided to send a large delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea this month, the world feared he might steal the show.

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.

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.

Sen. Bob Corker's second thoughts on retiring  —  John King, CNN Chief National Correspondent and Rebecca Schatz, CNN  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — CNN has learned Sen. Bob Corker is mulling over changing his mind on retirement and running for re-election  —  Washington (CNN) …

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.

Is California Starting to Circle the Drain?  —  I recently became a crime victim for one of the few times in my life.  My car was burgled while I was up in the Bay Area on my weekly sojourn to the Peoples Republic of Berkeley.  I say “burgled” rather than “broken into,” …

The Tea Party Is Officially Dead.  It Was Killed By Partisan Politics.  —  I helped make the grassroots activist movement a reality.  But now the party's over.  —  It has finally happened: The Tea Party is dead.  —  The grassroots movement that fought so hard for fiscal sanity in government over the past decade is no more.

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.

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.