Melania Trump Parts Ways With Adviser Amid Backlash Over Inaugural Contract  —  WASHINGTON — The first lady, Melania Trump, has parted ways with an adviser after news about the adviser's firm reaping $26 million in payments to help plan President Trump's inauguration.

Ivanka Trump's South Korea trip fuels White House tension  —  Washington (CNN)She's a policy adviser bearing sensitive new details on sanctions to the South Koreans.  She's a loyal family member who won't entertain questions about her father's purported infidelities.

The Real Russian Disaster  —  The Russian-reset steamroller: spreading hysteria, playing the media, exposing the FBI  —  Donald Trump has said a lot of silly stuff about Russia, from joking about Vladimir Putin helping to find Hillary's deleted emails, to naïve musings about the extent …

Georgia Republicans Vow to Kill Airline Tax-Cut Bill After Delta Ends N.R.A. Discount  —  The lieutenant governor in Georgia threatened on Monday to kill a proposed lucrative tax cut for Delta Air Lines after the company eliminated a discount fare program for the National Rifle Association over the weekend.

We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell's Proudest Moment  —  Remember when the Senate confirmed Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, the veteran federal appeals court judge, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly two years ago this month?

5 Things Barack Obama Said in His Weirdly Off-the-Record MIT Speech  —  On Friday, former President Barack Obama spoke for an hour to an audience of hundreds of people at a major sports policy conference at MIT, but his remarks were off-the-record and kept completely secret by virtually all attendees …

WMUR first: Levi Sanders makes it official, he's a candidate for NH's 1st District House seat  —  Bernie Sanders' son, a Claremont resident, running for Shea-Porter seat  —  HIDE TRANSCRIPT SHOW TRANSCRIPT  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. —  It's official.  An eighth Democrat has entered …

Trump said he would charge a gunman.  Here's what he's actually done in the face of danger. … President Trump's assertion that he would have run toward the Parkland, Fla., gunman had he been near the school would have been a bold claim for just about anybody to make.

“The Newsroom Feels Embarrassed”: Backfires and Explosions at The New York Times as a Possible Future Chief Re-Invents the Paper's Opinion Pages  —  A yoga-pants refusenik, a climate science skeptic, and a tech writer with a neo-Nazi pal, among other offenders, have put James Bennet in the crosshairs.

Antisemitic incidents in US soar to highest level in two decades  —  Largest year-on-year increase since 1979 comes as Trump administration is accused of failing to condemn bigotry … Antisemitic incidents in the US surged 57% in 2017, the Anti-Defamation League said on Tuesday …

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.

Housing official says she was replaced for rejecting Carson's costly office redecoration  —  Department's ex-chief administrative officer says she was replaced by a Trump appointee and told ‘$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair’ … A senior career official in the US Department of Housing …

Trevor Noah Mocks Trump's Absurd Claim That He'd Run Into a School Shooting Unarmed … “There's no one solution that will solve all mass shootings,” Trevor Noah said Monday night.  “Except for this one solution.”  —  The Daily Show host was referring to comments President Donald Trump …

CNN Poll: 6 in 10 concerned Trump isn't doing enough to protect US elections  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  — A majority (55%) say Trump has attempted to interfere with the Russia investigation, up from 51% in January  —  Washington (CNN)About 6 in 10 Americans say Donald Trump …

The Broward County sheriff is everything that's wrong with American authority  —  The sheriff is an outsized figure in the American imagination.  He is Wyatt Earp, shooting it out with outlaws at the O.K. Corral.  He is John Wayne, a lonely instrument of frontier justice.

Ryan Seacrest's E! Stylist Reveals Abuse and Harassment Allegations (EXCLUSIVE)  —  Suzie Hardy was a single mother with a preschool-age daughter when she landed a job as Ryan Seacrest's personal stylist for “E! News” in 2006.  The position provided good pay and a schedule that would allow …

Pro-Trump College Group Won't Tell the Feds What the Hell It's Doing … A political group founded by Trump supporters in college has ignored repeated efforts by federal regulators to collect information on its political activities and financial backers.  —  Students for Trump …

On Russia, Americans trust special counsel Mueller more than Trump, USA TODAY poll shows  —  WASHINGTON — When it comes to Russia, Americans have more trust in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation than they do in President Trump's denials of collusion, a new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll finds.

Eric Holder's group sues Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker over not calling special elections  —  MADISON - A group led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sued Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Monday over his refusal to call special elections to fill two open legislative seats.

JEFFERSON CITY  • In a historic decision, the Missouri House formally launched an investigation Monday that could lead to the impeachment and ouster of Gov. Eric Greitens.  —  House Speaker Todd Richardson named seven members to a special committee that will lead the unprecedented probe of a Missouri chief executive.

Trump and Obama: Who's really tougher on Russia?  —  Recently President Trump tweeted, “I have been much tougher on Russia than Obama, just look at the facts.  Total Fake News!”  —  The tweet was greeted with incredulity in some press circles.  CNN called it “simply false.”

Melania Trump calls for ‘positive habits on social media’  —  , whose husband is known for the barbs he hurls on Twitter, says adults should be “encouraging positive habits on social media” as an example for children.  —  “As I have said before, it is important that as adults we take the lead …

Respect the Flag - Trump Painting … I painted President Trump picking up a shredded and trampled flag off the football field.  He holds a wet cloth in his right hand, as he attempts to clean it.  —  I respect America.  I respect the flag, the anthem, and the President; because he doesn't back down to those who do not.

North Pole surges above freezing in the dead of winter, stunning scientists … The sun won't rise at the North Pole until March 20, and it's normally close to the coldest time of year, but an extraordinary and possibly historic thaw swelled over the tip of the planet this weekend.

Hope Hicks set to appear before House Intel Committee after month-long delay  —  One of President Trump's closest political aides is slated to appear before the House Intelligence Committee to testify behind closed doors in its ongoing investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, multiple sources say.

The Schiff Obstruction  —  Readers of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit will recall the philosopher's withering comments about “the dogmatism of mere assertion” which yields naught but an empty and deceptive feeling: self-certitude.  —  I thought about Hegel's comments this morning …

Bizarre legal brawl intensifies at Trump hotel in Panama … PANAMA CITY — Last Thursday afternoon, the majority owner of the Trump International Hotel here in Panama arrived unexpectedly in the building's swank Sky Lobby with an entourage.  —  He wanted to fire the Trump Organization …

House Democrats introduce bill prohibiting sale of semi-automatic weapons … House Democrats have introduced a bill banning semi-automatic firearms in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.  —  Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., announced Monday he is introducing the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018.