White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller's Obstruction Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry …

Inside the security clearance revolt  —  Several wanted to fiddle with the punctuation, some wanted to add nice things about John Brennan; others thought it would be wiser to pare them back.  —  But in 12 hours, a couple of former CIA senior aides pulled off a first in American history.

ICE Detains Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Hospital To Deliver Baby  —  SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — A newborn is without his father Friday after immigration agents detained the man as he was taking his wife to deliver the baby.  —  “I feel very bad right now,” Maria del Carmen Venegas told CBS2 News …

Trump Blasts Social Media ‘Censorship’: ‘Discriminating Against Republican/Conservative Voices’  —  “Speaking loudly and clearly for the Trump Administration, we won't let that happen,” POTUS says in Saturday tweet-storm  —  President Trump on Saturday issued a tweet-storm following the removal …

Alleged Russian Agent Marina Butina Moved to Virginia Jail, Unclear Why … Maria Butina, the Russian national accused of acting as a Kremlin agent in the United States, was abruptly moved from a jail in Washington to a lockup in Alexandria, Virginia, according to her lawyer.

The Slippery Slope of Complicity  —  When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)?  I think it's been more than a year.  At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism …

Netflix's ‘Classless’ Cancellation of Michelle Wolf's ‘The Break’ … Well, that was fast.  On Friday, Netflix quietly pulled the plug on The Break with Michelle Wolf, one of the only “late-night” shows on “television” hosted by a female comedian, just three months after it premiered.

Georgia lawmaker says he would have no problem if Trump used n-word in the past  —  (CNN)A Georgia state lawmaker said he would not have an issue if President Donald Trump used the n-word in the past and argued that holding a president accountable for mistakes made before entering office would “set a bad precedent.”

Kofi Annan, Diplomat Who Redefined the U.N., Dies at 80  —  Kofi Annan, a soft-spoken and patrician diplomat from Ghana, who became the seventh secretary general of the United Nations, projecting himself and his organization as the world's conscience and moral arbiter despite bloody debacles …

National debt jumps $500 billion in less than six months  —  The U.S. national debt has increased by more than half a trillion dollars in less than six months, amid predictions that the U.S. is on the verge of returning to another explosion in government borrowing.

Who Is Winning the War in Afghanistan?  Depends on Which One  —  Rod Nordland has been reporting on Afghanistan's travails since well before the American-led invasion that booted the Taliban from power in 2001.  For the past eight years, he has been a correspondent and then Kabul bureau chief …

Truth-Testing Trump's 250-Plus Attacks on the Russia Inquiry  —  We assessed President Trump's claims about Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the ensuing federal investigation of his campaign.  —  The federal investigation into whether Russia actively sought to help Donald J. Trump win …

Austria's far-right government ordered a raid on its own intelligence service.  Now allies are freezing the country out.  —  VIENNA — The raids came without warning, surprising even the intelligence operatives whose job is to never be caught off guard.  —  On the morning of Feb. 28 …

Cardinal in Pennsylvania withdraws from World Meeting of Families in Dublin  —  Cardinal Donald Wuerl was to give a keynote address on families at RDS on Wednesday  —  A Cardinal who was heavily criticised for his handling of child sexual abuse allegations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report …

Charter Spectrum plans to report local TV news, 24 hours a day, in Los Angeles  —  Local TV news has settled into a familiar routine: a pingpong of live shots with reporters standing near the scene of a crime, a wildfire or the wreckage of a deadly crash.  Newscasts are peppered with helicopter views …