Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting  —  A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump's former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign …

Donald Trump Twitter Account Video Reveals Covert U.S. Navy SEAL Deployment During Iraq Visit  —  President Donald Trump and the White House communications team revealed that a U.S. Navy SEAL team was deployed to Iraq after the president secretly traveled to the region to meet …

Giuliani calls for Mueller to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence  —  Rudy Giuliani has an unmistakable New Year's message for special counsel Robert Mueller: It is time for the chief investigator in the Russia case to be investigated in 2019.  —  In wide-ranging interviews …

Trump claims without evidence that ‘most of the people not getting paid’ in partial government shutdown are Democrats  —  President Trump on Thursday claimed that “most of the people not getting paid” in the partial government shutdown are Democrats, days after he contended that many federal workers support …

Michelle Obama Ends Hillary Clinton's Run as Most Admired  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time in 17 years, a woman other than Hillary Clinton has been named by Americans as the woman they admire most.  Former first lady Michelle Obama, who finished second to Clinton three times …

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success  —  With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump—then a floundering D-lister—as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.  —  “Expedition: Robinson,” a Swedish reality-television program …

Probe of Trump's charity could crash ‘like a Mack Truck’ into his real estate empire  —  “There seems to be entanglements in terms of people and probably in terms of money,” said Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor and NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.  —  The Trump Foundation …

One year of legal pot sales and California doesn't have the bustling industry it expected.  Here's why. … When Californians voted in 2016 to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, advocates of the move envisioned thousands of pot shops and cannabis farms obtaining state licenses …

Troops bringing Trump hats to sign may violate military rule … (CNN)President Donald Trump made his first visit to a war zone on Wednesday, receiving an enthusiastic reception from many US troops there — some of whom may have run afoul of military rules.  —  Video footage and the written report …

California Republicans fear even bigger trouble ahead for their wounded party  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the chamber after the Republican-led House approved funding for President Donald Trump's border wall in legislation that pushes the government closer …

MSNBC Beats Fox News in Weekly Cable News Ratings for First Time Since 2000  —  MSNBC ended the week of Dec. 21st with the #1 cable news ratings on television, beating Fox News for the first time in 17 years.  For the Monday through Friday leading up to the Christmas holiday …

How Trump's secret trip to Iraq became not-so-secret  —  (CNN)It was a crisp winter morning in Sheffield, England, when amateur photographer and plane enthusiast Alan Meloy looked out his kitchen window and noticed a large trail in the sky.  He didn't know he was about to accidentally help uncover …

U.S. Stocks Set to Fall After Wall Street's Record Surge  —  Stocks in Japan rise sharply, but European equities broadly drift lower  —  U.S. stocks were poised to drop on Thursday after a record-breaking rally on Wall Street, as anxiety persists about slowing economic growth and uncertain policy out of Washington.

‘What the Hell Is This?’  Officer in Viral Subway Video Didn't Know He Had Gone Viral  —  [What you need to know to start your day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]  —  On late Sunday night a scuffle broke out between a New York police officer and five homeless men at a subway station in Manhattan.

Bastard Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were.  —  Life is just a shock to the system.  —  It turns out that the man I have spent 50 years believing to be my father is not my father.  —  My mother lied to me about who my father is.  My father is Bob Adelman …

Trump's presidency has changed Washington, defied convention  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mr. Trump went to Washington.  And he changed it.  —  In his first two years in office, President Donald Trump has rewritten the rules of the presidency and the norms of the nation's capital …

Things really aren't that bad.  But we like to think they are.  —  Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana.  —  Human nature being as it is, every decade or two someone has to write a book to set us straight and cheer us up.

$800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Migrants Work for Pennies  —  Detention for migrants is big business—and a Daily Beast investigation reveals new details about just how lucrative it's become.  —  For $3 a day, Yesica works the graveyard shift in the kitchens …

Sweet Shutdown, Roll On  —  It never seems to occur to the Democrats, currently bellyaching about the largely phantom “government shutdown,” that the last people Donald Trump cares about offending are the army of Democrat-voting bureaucrats who will be the only folks inconvenienced by Senator Charles Schumer's latest temper tantrum.