Kushner's overseas contacts raise concerns as foreign officials seek leverage … Officials in at least four countries have privately discussed ways they can manipulate Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements …

Ben Carson's HUD, Planning Cuts, Spends $31,000 on Dining Set for His Office  —  WASHINGTON — Department of Housing and Urban Development officials spent $31,000 on a new dining room set for Secretary Ben Carson's office in late 2017 — just as the White House circulated its plans …

The Professor At The Center Of The Russia-Trump Probe Boasted To His Girlfriend In Ukraine That He Was Friends With Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov  —  A Ukrainian woman named Anna says Joseph Mifsud asked her to marry him in a restaurant overlooking the Kremlin.

Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks  —  On March 17, 2017, WikiLeaks tweeted that it had never communicated with Roger Stone, a longtime confidante and informal adviser to President Donald Trump.  In his interview with the House Intelligence Committee last September, Stone …

DCCC Advised Candidates Not To Discuss Gun Control Policy Right After Vegas Shooting  —  The campaign organization said Democrats should focus on offering thoughts and prayers.  —  The morning after the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas, a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign …

U.S. intel: Russia compromised seven states prior to 2016 election  —  The U.S. intelligence community developed substantial evidence that state websites or voter registration systems in seven states were compromised by Russian-backed covert operatives prior to the 2016 election …

Shooting survivor's father admits email changes in CNN spat  —  Colton Haab's father acknowledges omitting some words from the email but says he didn't do it on purpose.  —  Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger-pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.

Supreme Court Ruling Means Immigrants Could Continue To Be Detained Indefinitely  —  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings.  —  It's a profound loss for those immigrants appealing …

NSA chief says Trump hasn't told him to confront Russian cyber threat  —  NSA chief: Need authority to stop Russian cyber threat  —  Washington (CNN)US Cyber Command chief Adm. Mike Rogers told lawmakers on Tuesday that he has not been granted the authority by President Donald Trump …

Infowars one strike away from YouTube ban  —  Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.  —  The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla. …

How Trump's 2020 campaign manager is connected to the Russia scandal  —  Parscale is linked to Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that has become a focus of the Trump-Russia investigation.  —  President Donald Trump has named Brad Parscale to be his 2020 campaign manager.

Sources: Carnage Could Have Been Far Worse In Florida School Massacre  —  PARKLAND - CBS4 News has obtained new information in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre which left 17 people dead.  —  An official briefed on the shooting investigation tells CBS4 News that the carnage could have been far worse.

A self-described sex expert says she will spill information on Trump and Russia to get out of a Thai jail … MOSCOW — A self-described sex expert whose videos highlighted the ties between one of Russia's richest men and the Kremlin has been jailed in Thailand and is calling for U.S. help …

Schools are safer than they were in the 90s, and school shootings are not more common than they used to be, researchers say  —  The deadly school shooting this month in Parkland, Florida, has ignited national outrage and calls for action on gun reform.  But while certain policies …

Mueller moves to dismiss charges against Gates  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his legal team has moved to drop charges that were brought last week in an expansive superseding indictment against Rick Gates.  The 32-count indictment issued in the Eastern District of Virginia accused Gates of tax and bank fraud.

Trump's Tax Cuts in Hand, Companies Spend More on Themselves Than on Wages  —  President Trump promised that his tax cut would encourage companies to invest in factories, workers and wages, setting off a spending spree that would reinvigorate the American economy.  —  Companies have announced plans for some of those investments.

Far-Right Troll Chuck Johnson Tried Out for ‘Survivor.’ Here's His Audition Tape.  —  CBS' mistake is the world's loss.  —  The 36th season of “Survivor,” the reality TV show that ushered America into an era of turbo-capitalized narcissism and celebrity worship that helped get Donald Trump elected president, will premiere Wednesday.

Man armed with AR-15 stops attack by neighbor in Oswego  —  Share Update: … OSWEGO, Ill. — A man armed with an AR-15 rifle stopped an attack by one of his neighbors and held him until police arrived.  —  It happened Monday at an apartment building on Harbor Drive in Oswego Township.

Xi Jinping May Be President for Life.  What Will Happen to China?  —  In the early nineteen-eighties, decades before Xi Jinping became China's President, he was a skinny young Communist at a professional crossroads.  Xi had a degree from the élite Tsinghua University and …

Aliens Exist … In no particular order, here is a list of things Tom DeLonge has consistently claimed to believe: UFOs are real, aliens are real and they visit us episodically, the U.S. government has known about alien life for decades, the U.S. government has been actively experimenting …

The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger  —  The day before Valentine's Day, social media created a bizarro-world version of me.  I have seen strange ideas about me online before, but this doppelgänger was so far from resembling me that I told friends and loved ones I didn't want to even try to rebut it.

Texas Democrats' early voting totals should ‘shock every conservative to their core,’ Abbott email says  —  AUSTIN — Early voting for the March primary is more than half over, and Democrats have outpaced Republicans at the polls on each day.  —  Through Sunday in the 15 Texas counties …

Jennifer Lawrence, a New Light … It is nearing dinnertime as I wind through the streets of Beverly Hills, passing the storied haunts Craig's and Tower Bar on my way to the home of Jennifer Lawrence.  She has offered to host, and who would turn down an invitation to hang out with this supernova?