Trump's National Emergency Just Got Its First Legal Challenge  —  Legal advocacy group Public Citizen filed suit on behalf of landowners in Texas and an environmental group.  More lawsuits are expected.  —  Reporting From  —  Washington, DC  —  WASHINGTON - A consumer advocacy group filed …

Special counsel prosecutors say they have communications of Stone with WikiLeaks  —  Washington (CNN)Prosecutors said for the first time that they have evidence of Roger Stone communicating with WikiLeaks, according to a new court filing from special counsel prosecutors.

Aurora mass shooting updates: 6 dead, including gunman, and 5 officers wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm  —  Six people, including a gunman, died in a shooting at a manufacturing warehouse in Aurora on Friday afternoon, and five officers were struck by gunfire, officials said.

How Dumb Is Ocasio-Cortez?  —  The two hottest commodities in the Democratic Party are Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Earlier this week, Omar exhibited stunning ignorance in her hostile questioning of Elliott Abrams.  Similarly, Ocasio-Cortez has often displayed a surprising lack …

Ex-cardinal McCarrick defrocked by Vatican for sexual abuse  —  ROME — The Vatican on Saturday said it had stripped ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick of the rights of the priesthood, leveling a historic penalty against a onetime church power broker and former archbishop of Washington who has been credibly accused of sexual abuse.

Words are a president's strongest weapon.  Trump is terrible at words.  —  The lawyers will fight over the legality and constitutionality of President Trump's national emergency declaration.  What his legal team can't salvage is the American people's assessment of his ability to do his job.

Cummings: 2 Trump attorneys may have lied about Cohen payments  —  House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings said on Friday that his panel received new documents showing that two attorneys for President Donald Trump may have lied to government ethics officials about Trump fixer Michael …

California's move to Super Tuesday hands Harris a big edge in 2020  —  Kamala Harris is building a wall around California.  —  The Democratic senator has been activating her forces on the home front since launching her White House bid last month — cornering some of the state's most prolific donors …

A quote Trump may come to regret: 'I didn't need to do this'  —  Donald Trump delivered a series of rambling comments this morning about his emergency declaration, which was then followed by a rambling press conference.  And while the president made a series of odd claims …

Russia is backing a viral video company aimed at American millennials  —  New York (CNN)Three online video channels designed to appeal to millennials have collected tens of millions of views on Facebook since September.  But the pages pushing the videos do not disclose that they are backed by the Russian government.

N.C. election officials will consider fate of congressional seat at Monday hearing  —  Investigators on Monday will begin revealing the breadth of an alleged ballot-tampering scheme in North Carolina, launching a potentially bitter and partisan battle over how to fill a congressional seat that has remained vacant since January.