Michael Steele Responds to Racial Insult Hurled by CPAC Communications Director  —  Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) communication director Ian Walters sparked controversy with a racially charged insult hurled at former RNC chair Michael Steele on Friday night.

Parkland shooting survivor's family shops doctored emails with CNN to media outlets  — The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email between Haab's father, Glenn Haab, and a CNN producer to media outlets.

Meeting That Gates Admits Lying About Matches Rohrabacher Dinner  —  Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates just admitted to lying to U.S. investigators about a March 19, 2013, meeting between his boss, Paul Manafort, and an unidentified U.S. congressman.  Public filings show a meeting …

Top Justice Dept. official alerted White House 2 weeks ago to ongoing issues in Kushner's security clearance … A top Justice Department official alerted the White House two weeks ago that significant information requiring additional investigation would further delay the security clearance process …

McMaster Gives a Belated Russian Lesson  —  It's time for Americans to add a new Russian word to their strategic lexicon.  —  In the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and ever since, thousands of English words written by Russians pretending to be Americans have infiltrated social media in the United States.

Delta and United abruptly reverse course, severs contracts with the NRA  —  Delta announced Saturday morning that they are terminating a contract with the NRA to provide discounted flights to the organization's annual convention in May.  —  The airline previously advertised discounts of two to 10 percent for NRA members.

‘This is not normal’: Glitches mar new tax law  —  The glitches in the new tax law are starting to pile up.  —  One inadvertently denies restaurants, retailers and others generous new write-offs for things like remodeling.  —  Another would allow wealthy money managers to sidestep a crackdown …

RNC started paying Trump campaign's rent at Trump Tower after it stopped covering Trump's legal bills for Russia probe  — The Republican National Committee has for months been quietly paying expenses previously covered by the Trump campaign in an arrangement that experts say is bizarre, but legal.

This Man Helped Peter Thiel Demolish Gawker  —  Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel did not come up with the idea to covertly fund lawsuits against Gawker Media.  That credit belongs to an Oxford-educated man who Thiel's inner circle calls “Mr. A.”  —  Peter Thiel's campaign …

Ken Livingstone to rejoin Labour party as suspension over Hitler remarks ends  —  Reinstatement of former London mayor likely to rekindle bitter internal row over antisemitism … Labour could lift Ken Livingstone's suspension and allow him to resume the status of a full party member within weeks …

Trump: If North Korea Doesn't Obey Me, I Might Punish the Whole World  —  On Friday, president Trump announced that his administration would be hitting North Korea with the “heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country before.”  The new penalties target dozens of ships and shipping companies that have …

A conservative Democrat in Illinois feels the ire of his liberal base  —  PALOS HILLS, Ill. — After 30 minutes of hissing and heckling — and cheers for his opponent — Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) had heard enough.  After Marie Newman, the liberal activist running against him …

Robert Mueller and his pursuit of justice  —  (CNN)In the early 1990s, Robert Mueller had just left one of the most powerful posts in America's criminal justice system: assistant attorney general for the criminal division of the Department of Justice.  Taking his experience into private practice …

Robert Mueller's military career, detailed in documents, was brief but remarkable … When Robert Swan Mueller III deployed to Vietnam as a Marine infantry platoon commander in 1968, he surely knew it would be difficult.  Mueller's regiment, the 4th Marines, had faced bloody jungle warfare for months …

Facebook and Google Struggle to Squelch ‘Crisis Actor’ Posts  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, one week after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., Facebook and YouTube vowed to crack down on the trolls.  —  Thousands of posts and videos had popped up on the sites, falsely claiming …

Ted Cruz trails Senate challenger Beto O'Rourke in six-week fundraising haul.  By a lot.  —  Updated at 9:30 p.m. with comment from Cruz spokeswoman Catherine Frazier.  —  WASHINGTON — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's fundraising lagged far behind his top Democratic challenger during the first six weeks of 2018 …

FCC chair gets ‘courage under fire’ award for overseeing net neutrality repeal  —  (CNN)The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission was awarded a handmade rifle by the National Rifle Association Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

White House Considers Protection Orders to Curb Shootings  —  Firearms could be confiscated from people found to be a threat  —  Idea is one of a range being considered after Florida massacre  —  The White House is considering the idea of using restraining orders to take firearms away …

Putin's ‘chef’ accused of trying to cover his tracks  —  Exclusive: Putin's ‘chef,’ the man behind the troll factory  —  Moscow (CNN)The oligarch whose company is linked to the Russian mercenary group believed to be behind an attack on US and allied forces in Syria earlier this month …

Lawyers for California siblings allegedly held captive by parents share recovery details  —  The California parents accused of torturing and starving their 13 children will be in court Friday for a procedural hearing.  For the first time, lawyers representing their seven adult children …

Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration ‘justifiably concerned’ about sharing intel with Trump team  —  A lawyer for President Barack Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, told Congress late Friday that the outgoing administration was fearful of sharing classified intelligence …