New report on Russian disinformation, prepared for the Senate, shows the operation's scale and sweep  —  The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee

Giuliani Said on ABC That President Knew Cohen Pushed Trump Tower Moscow ‘Up To November 2016’  —  Rudy Giuliani claimed in an ABC interview that President Donald Trump knew that his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was working on the Trump Tower Moscow deal “all the way up to...November of 2016.”

A Shutdown Looms.  Can the G.O.P. Get Lawmakers to Show Up to Vote?  —  WASHINGTON — Just days before a deadline to avert a partial government shutdown, President Trump, Democratic leaders and the Republican-controlled Congress are at a stalemate over the president's treasured border wall.

I Have Seen the Future of a Republican Party That Is No Longer Insane  —  This week, the Niskanen Center, a libertarian-leaning Washington think tank, held a conference on the future of the Republican Party, called “Starting Over: The Center-Right After Trump.”

Texas ObamaCare Blunder  —  A judge's ruling will be overturned and could backfire on Republicans.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  No one opposes ObamaCare more than we do, and Democrats are now confirming that it was designed as a way-station to government-run health care.

More Powerful Than a Russian Troll Army: The National Enquirer  —  The most powerful print publication in America might just be The National Enquirer.  It functioned as a dirty-tricks shop for Donald J. Trump in 2016, which would have been the stuff of farce — the ultimate tabloid backs …

Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drives conservatives crazy … One can partly understand why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the hilariously ignorant young socialist recently elected to a House seat from The Bronx and Queens, has soared to the top of the Republicans' naughty list.

The police officer who arrested a president  —  Amid President Trump's mounting legal problems, TV talking heads and bar-stool philosophers from Boise to Britain have been pondering one of the great mysteries of the U.S. Constitution.  —  Can the president of the United States actually be indicted?

Hillary Clinton writes letter to 8-year-old girl who lost class president to male classmate  —  Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton penned a personal letter to an 8-year-old girl who lost her race for class president to a boy.  —  Clinton wrote to console Martha Kennedy Morales …

Iowa Poll: Trump has big fan base among Iowa Republicans, but they welcome challengers  —  President Donald Trump remains popular among Iowa Republican voters, but they want the door politely held open for GOP challengers.  —  A new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows Trump …

Voters are growing uneasy over the probes swirling around Trump, as a clear majority believe he hasn't been honest: NBC-WSJ poll  — A robust 62 percent majority say Trump has not been honest about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign, up from 56 percent in August.

The Fall of the House of Ghosn  —  Not everybody at Nissan was happy with their rock-star chairman, Carlos Ghosn.  His high-living ways gave the company ammunition to take him down.  —  The house that helped trigger the downfall of Carlos Ghosn is a rose-colored mansion in one of Beirut's most expensive neighborhoods.

They Grabbed Her Baby and Arrested Her at a Welfare Office.  Now She's Speaking Out.  —  Jazmine Headley took her baby boy to a public benefits office in Brooklyn on a recent Friday to find out why the city had abruptly stopped paying for him to go to day care while she worked cleaning offices.

Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington  —  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Mueller.  Everywhere, at any hour, it's Mueller time.  —  Special counsel Robert Swan Mueller III is the second-most famous man in Washington.

Trump's travel ban keeping mother from dying 2-year-old son  —  The Yemeni mother of a 2-year-old boy on life support in an Oakland hospital is being prevented from coming to the country to say goodbye to her son by the Trump administration ban on travel from certain Muslim countries, the child's family says.

Bob Corker on primarying Trump: “What is happening right now is not the standard Republicanism”  —  Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), nearing the end of his time in the Senate after his decision to retire, was mum on whether or not he'd support a primary challenge against President Trump in 2020 during …

Inmate who died in BCSO custody had been held since July on $300 bond  —  Janice Dotson-Stephens, 61, died Friday  —  SAN ANTONIO - Court records confirm that an inmate who died while in the custody of the Bexar County Sheriff's Office on Friday had been held in jail on a $300 bond since July.

‘Crisis level’: Republican women sound warning after election losses  —  Republicans lost the House in November as droves of female voters spurned the party, a reflection of the gaping gender gap.  The election devastated the GOP's already meager group of congresswomen.