In a rare move, Mueller's office denies BuzzFeed report that Trump told Cohen to lie about Moscow project  —  Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's office on Friday denied an explosive report by BuzzFeed News that his investigators had gathered evidence showing President Trump directed his former lawyer …

Trump plans to make Democrats an offer to end shutdown, not declare national emergency, in Saturday speech, official says  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump plans to offer Democrats another proposal to end the shutdown when he addresses the nation from the White House on Saturday afternoon …

Why was Beto O'Rourke a national phenomenon while Stacey Abrams wasn't?  —  One was a three-term congressman known for once playing in a punk band, riding a skateboard and giving an answer about structural racism that went viral.  —  The other was the leader of her party in a Deep South state …

Justice Department's Reversal on Online Gambling Tracked Memo From Adelson Lobbyists  —  Analysis sent to Justice Department argued that 2011 opinion that helped online gambling was wrong  —  The legal reasoning behind the Justice Department's unusual reversal this week of an opinion …

The shabbiest U.S. president ever is an inexpressibly sad specimen  —  Half or a quarter of the way through this interesting experiment with an incessantly splenetic presidency, much of the nation has become accustomed to daily mortifications.  Or has lost its capacity for embarrassment, which is even worse.

“Would you like to speak to the president?”  —  PARIS — “Would you like to speak to the president?”  —  That was about the last question I expected from a stranger on a Friday night in Paris.  —  I was at a brasserie in the Latin Quarter, enjoying dinner with James McAuley, the Post's Paris correspondent.

Thousands gather for third Women's March after year of controversy  —  Thousands of women from across the country gathered in the nation's capital Saturday morning for the third annual Women's March on Washington.  —  Organizers wrote in a permit application weeks ago that they expected hundreds …

Virginia's lone black statewide official sits out Robert E. Lee tribute  —  RICHMOND — Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, only the second African American elected to statewide office in Virginia, briefly bowed out of his duties in the state Senate on Friday in protest of a tribute to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Horrifying fireball at ruptured Mexico oil pipeline kills 21  —  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A massive fireball that engulfed people scooping up fuel spilling from a pipeline ruptured by thieves in central Mexico killed 21 people and badly burned 71 others in what was a chronicle of a tragedy foretold.

Ga. lawmaker who defended Klan named to House post on eve of King Day  —  House Speaker David Ralston Friday named as one of his committee chairs a state representative who opposed the erection of a statue to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the grounds of the State Capitol and said the Ku Klux Klan made “people straighten up.”

Americans Killed in Syria Were No Strangers to War  —  The four Americans who were killed by a suicide bomber in Syria on Wednesday were no strangers to America's war zones overseas.  —  One was a top military linguist who worked closely with the National Security Agency and was on her eighth deployment.

More Americans pessimistic about Trump's presidency than any presidency in last 25 years  —  (CNN)First things first: The theme song of the week is John Tesh's “Roundball Rock” from the NBA on NBC.  —  Poll of the week: A Pew Research Center poll released this week finds that 29% of Americans …

Defiant Pelosi Begins Swimming To Afghanistan After Trump Denies Use Of Government Plane  —  Shared from Sports

Transcripts of Former Top FBI Lawyer Detail Pervasive Abnormalities in Trump Probe  —  Former top FBI attorney James Baker admitted to House lawmakers in October last year that the investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russia was riddled with abnormalities.

When Congress debated border security without having a total meltdown  —  Yes, it seems a distant memory amid all the heated rhetoric over the government shutdown.  But it wasn't so long ago that Democrats and Republicans could have a reasoned debate over funding border security.

Protect Dreamers and build the wall, and we can all win  —  The government shutdown is in its fourth week, with no end in sight because our leaders in Washington don't seem to want an end that doesn't amount to political humiliation of the opposition.  —  But imagine for a moment …

Beware the permanent exclusive  —  Bloomberg Businessweek spent more than a year reporting on an alleged breach of U.S. computer infrastructure by China — a hardware hack supposedly affecting Apple, Amazon, Supermicro and nearly 30 other companies.  That story was published on Oct. 4 under the headline …

To End the Shutdown, Try Thinking Big on Immigration  —  Both parties are to blame for this embarrassing impasse.  Yet a sensible solution may be possible.  —  As the U.S. government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, one thing has become abundantly clear: Few politicians in Washington …

Syrian girl disfigured by bomb attack refused US visa under Trump travel ban  —  Exclusive: Marwa al-Shekh Ameen, 16, was denied a visa in December after doctors in Germany encouraged her to get treatment in the US  —  A 16-year-old Syrian refugee who was disfigured in a bomb attack on her home …

50,000 Coast Guard retirees at risk of not receiving pension checks during shutdown  —  It's a shame that Congress and the president “can't see the pain and damage they're causing to thousands of people,” one Coast Guard retiree said to NBC News.  —  The 50,000 retired members of the U.S. Coast Guard …