Trump Referred to Shutdown as ‘Strike’ in Profanity-Laced Meeting With Democratic Leaders  —  The president also dropped three f-bombs and claimed Democrats wanted him impeached.  —  During Friday's meeting at the White House over the ongoing shutdown standoff, President Donald Trump …

Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House scrambles to deal with shutdown's consequences  —  Food stamps for 38 million low-income Americans face severe reductions and more than $140 billion in tax refunds are at risk of being frozen or delayed if the government shutdown stretches …

Trump claims support from past presidents for the wall: Clinton, Bush and Obama beg to differ  —  President Donald Trump claimed without evidence on Friday that past presidents have privately confided to him that they regret not building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports  —  Where can't you travel during the shutdown?  —  Washington (CNN)Hundreds of Transportation Security Administration officers, who are required to work without paychecks through …

President Trump, senior White House staff head to weekend retreat at Camp David  —  President Donald Trump and his senior staff are headed on a group vacation — all at the direction of new acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.  —  White House senior staffers will spend the weekend at Camp David in Hauvers …

Sen. David Perdue: Mitt Romney makes the same mistake that cost him the White House  —  David Perdue, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Georgia.  —  In a recent op-ed for The Post, “The president shapes the public character of the nation.  Trump's character falls short,” …

Three dead in national parks as shutdown wears on  —  Trump administration officials decided to leave the scenic parks open even as the Interior Department has halted most of its operations — a departure from previous extended shutdowns  —  Three days after most of the federal workforce …

Proud Boys Founder Gavin McInnes Can Get Back To Antifa After He Battles His Neighbors  —  McInnes is complaining that his neighbors' anti-hate yard signs are an attack on him and his family.  —  Gavin McInnes' ongoing fight against his detractors has spilled over into his tony neighborhood outside …

Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans.  Here's how much money that could raise.  —  With the help of tax experts, we produced some back-of-the-envelope estimates.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) floated a 60 to 70 percent tax rate on the richest Americans …

3 shot dead, 4 injured at Torrance bowling alley  —  Three men were fatally shot and four were injured late Friday at a Torrance bowling alley, police said, and relatives and friends wept and shouted outside as they awaited word on the victims.  —  The shooting, which was apparently preceded by a fight …

Can you admire an anti-Semite and advance the cause of women?  Maybe so.  Life is full of contradictions  —  It's been a long two years since millions converged on Washington, D.C., for the Women's March, an idea that grew out of a suggestion Teresa Shook, a Hawaii lawyer and educator, spontaneously made to some friends.

Trump using American capitalism to lift up the poor  —  President Trump's achievements for black Americans are registering in awareness in these communities.  It's a subject of enormous importance not just because of what the president is doing to the benefit of low-income Americans …

Moscow accuses Washington of detaining Russian citizen after arresting ex-U.S. Marine  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday the United States had detained a Russian citizen, days after Moscow arrested the former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan on suspicion of spying.

Former Weekly Standard staffers find new home at The Bulwark, a conservative site unafraid to take on Trump  —  New York (CNN)A handful of writers and editors who worked at The Weekly Standard, the now-defunct conservative magazine that was deeply critical of President Donald Trump until its sudden demise in December, have a new home.

The Price of Trump's Migrant Deterrence Strategy: New Chaos on the Border  —  A crisis is emerging at migrant shelters as the Trump administration focuses, as one official put it, on “how can we deter, rather than how can we handle.”  —  EL PASO — At a migrant shelter near the Mexican border …

‘The new straw poll’: 2020 candidates race to build small-donor armies  —  Five potential candidates already won backing from hundreds of thousands of online donors in 2017 and 2018.  —  Democratic presidential contenders are already locked in an important battle to showcase their viability …

Republicans are way more optimistic about the stock market than Democrats  —  Data: Survey Monkey online poll conducted Dec. 17-18, 2018, among 2,301 adults.  Total margin of error is ±3.0 percentage points; Poll methodology; Chart: Naema Ahmed/Axios

Rep. Rashida Tlaib doubles down after explicit Trump comment: ‘President has met his match’  —  Rashida Tlaib speaks exclusively with Local 4  —  WASHINGTON - Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke exclusively to Local 4 after hurling an expletive at President Donald Trump.

Transgender pride flag hung in Congress by Rep. Jennifer Wexton  —  The new congresswoman from the 10th district of Virginia said she hung it to honor trans friends and family.  —  Newly elected Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Va., started her term with a statement of transgender equality by hanging …

Children heading to Disney World in church van among 7 victims in fiery I-75 crash  —  Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in fiery crash on Interstate 75 in north Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said Friday.  —  Published Earlier Today