Trump's real plan for 2018  —  President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that Axios' Jonathan Swan calls “science fiction.”  —  It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls …

In big reversal, new Trump budget will give up on longtime Republican goal of eliminating deficit … President Trump on Monday will offer a budget plan that falls far short of eliminating the government's deficit over 10 years, conceding that huge tax cuts and new spending increases …

Pence: The United States is ready to talk with North Korea  —  Despite the mutual chilliness between U.S. and North Korean officials in South Korea last week, behind the scenes real progress was made toward a new diplomatic opening that could result in direct talks without preconditions between Washington and Pyongyang.

He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis.  Now He's Worried About An Information Apocalypse.  —  In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an alarm.  A few weeks before the 2016 election …

Exclusive: CIA Ex-Director Brennan's Perjury Peril  —  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes next plans to investigate the role former CIA Director John Brennan and other Obama intelligence officials played in promoting the salacious and unverified Steele dossier on Donald Trump …

First-class travel distinguishes Scott Pruitt's EPA tenure … Just days after helping orchestrate the United States' exit from a global climate accord last June, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt embarked on a whirlwind tour aimed at championing President Trump's agenda at home and abroad.

Trump takes ‘shackles’ off ICE, which is slapping them on immigrants who thought they were safe … A week after he won the election, President Trump promised that his administration would round up millions of immigrant gang members and drug dealers.  And after he took office …

Harvey Weinstein forced staff to manage his sexual conquests, civil rights suit says  —  Harvey Weinstein was once at the very top of Hollywood.  As accusations of his sexual predation came to light, it didn't just trigger his downfall.  It ushered in a tidal wave of exposure of sexual impropriety in the film industry.

Doubling Down: Ginsburg Blames ‘Macho Atmosphere’ & ‘Sexism’ for Clinton Loss  —  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doubled down on comments she made last year that sexism “no doubt” played a role in Hillary Clinton's 2016 election defeat.  —  During a Columbia University Women's Conference event …

Is Devin Nunes Obstructing Justice?  —  As public scrutiny exposes deep flaws in the memo from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, about alleged F.B.I. surveillance abuses, the committee's Republicans are increasingly downplaying its significance.

Duterte Draws Fire for Crude Threat to Female Rebels in Philippines  —  MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine strongman who has earned a reputation for dirty tactics and language, was criticized on Monday for having boasted that he had ordered soldiers to shoot female communist guerrillas in the genitals.

McConnell's immigration gamble  —  Mitch McConnell is taking the reins of an immigration debate that may prompt a fix for “Dreamers” — or quickly spiral out of control.  —  Usually careful with his every move, the Senate majority leader is taking a gamble this week with his pledge for a free …

I'm still a Republican, but my party needs to be fumigated: Tom Nichols  —  One day we'll be needed to recreate the GOP as a center-right party rather than a vehicle for inane populist keggers.  For now, I hope Democrats win Congress in 2018.  —  Republicans once believed in limited government …

Fast-food workers pressing for $15 minimum wage, tie fight to civil rights  —  A long campaign to raise wages for fast-food workers to $15 an hour is tying its fight to historical fights for civil rights as protesters plan to rally in Detroit and other cities nationwide on Monday — 50 years after the Memphis sanitation strike.

Trump Administration Plans To Defang Consumer Protection Watchdog  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the financial crisis to protect Americans from being ripped off by financial firms.  —  Now, President Trump's interim appointee to run the bureau Mick Mulvaney …