Cyberattack from outside the U.S. hits newspapers across the country, preventing distribution, source says  —  A cyberattack that appears to have originated from outside the United States caused major printing and delivery disruptions at several newspapers across the country on Saturday including …

FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says  —  Federal and state investigators are scrutinizing the employment documents of immigrants without legal status who say they worked at President Trump's golf club in New Jersey, according to their attorney.

A Federalist Remembrance Of Bre Payton, Our Colleague And Friend  —  Bre Payton lived life as if she was always ready to leave it.  And she did, too early for all of the rest of us, at the age of 26.  —  I hired Bre Payton right out of college.  She was green.  She was unknown.  She had never done TV.

Taxpayers Dish Out $54,000 For Mar-a-Lago Party Tents For New Year's Eve  —  The public eats the costs of a bash at Trump's Florida resort while federal workers go without pay amid the partial government shutdown.  —  Whether or not President Donald Trump ultimately decides to party …

New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out  —  Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran.  —  Knopf had modest expectations, and printed around 1,500 copies.

Trump issues executive order freezing federal workers' pay in 2019  —  Federal workers brace for long shutdown  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump issued an executive order Friday freezing federal workers' pay for 2019, following through on a proposal he announced earlier in the year.

Trump tries to deflect blame for migrant children's deaths  —  President Donald Trump sought to deflect blame for the deaths of two Guatemalan children in U.S. custody by claiming they were “very sick” when they arrived, even though immigration authorities have said both children passed initial health checks.

Video shows migrant children dragged, pushed at since-shuttered shelter  —  Videos from a since-shuttered migrant shelter in Arizona show children being pushed and dragged by staffers, The Arizona Republic reported Friday.  —  The shelter, Hacienda Del Sol, was shut down in late October.

Putin, in New Year letter to Trump, says Moscow is open for dialogue  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a New Year letter to his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, said on Sunday that Moscow was ready for dialogue on a “wide-ranging agenda”, the Kremlin said in a statement.

Trump Lies Again About 19,000 ‘Deleted’ FBI Text Messages  —  The inspector general of the president's own Justice Department concluded the texts were missing due to technological glitches; 20,000 were recovered.  —  As President Donald Trump raged against “angry Democrats” in a tweet Saturday …

Potential 2020 candidates confront the need for campaign cash, and fewer sources of it  —  A sprawling field of potential Democratic presidential candidates is simultaneously confronting the need to raise staggering sums of money — and to do so under demands from party activists to curb …

As long as Matthew Whitaker is in place, the Russia investigation is in danger  —  FOR MORE than a month, Americans did not know whether acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker had received the advice of Justice Department ethics experts on whether he should recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

Is the Michael Cohen ‘Prague’ Story True?  —  The reporters behind it are either the new Woodward and Bernstein—or the new Judith Miller.  —  Three weeks after 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney was already trying to tie the horror to Iraq.  He floated a bogus story that earlier in 2001 …

Letter suggesting furloughed workers do chores to cover rent was posted by accident, OPM says  —  The agency that oversees the government's civilian workforce is facing scrutiny after suggesting federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown barter with their landlords …

GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition  —  (CNSNews.com) - The Internal Revenue Service had in its weapons inventory 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition as of late 2017, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office.

U.S. and China Fleshing Out Trade Deal  —  Trump administration wants to increase U.S. exports and ease Chinese regulations; president claims ‘big progress’ in talks  —  WASHINGTON—Chinese and U.S. negotiators are starting to flesh out a deal that could defuse trade tensions by boosting U.S. exports …

Trump pulled out of a massive trade deal.  Now 11 countries are going ahead without the US  —  New York (CNN)A major 11-country agreement goes into effect Sunday, reshaping trade rules among economic powerhouses like Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia — but the United States won't be a part of it.