‘I was happy to do it for you’: Matt Gaetz overheard making stunning admission to Trump about Cohen threat  —  Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has fallen under investigation for an apparent threat against Michael Cohen — which he may have made at President Donald Trump's request.

Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …

Trump learns the limits of personal power, at home and beyond  —  Analysis: It may have been one of the worst weeks of Trump's presidency, concentrated in just a few harrowing days.  —  HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump touched down in Washington a few hours ago having endured …

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House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates  —  House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.

A family couldn't pay the bills, so the city took their dog and sold it on eBay  —  The family could not pay its debts, so their German town council went looking for assets to seize.  —  Officials, armed with a search warrant, found a laptop, a coffee machine and the wheelchair of one family member …

Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’  —  Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization.  Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …

What's So Funny About Amy Klobuchar's Bad Temper?  —  Amy Klobuchar, by some accounts, is a tyrannical boss, prone to paroxysms of anger and frustration that have her hurling insults and even physical objects toward staff — a management style that has left a trail of shaken and humiliated former employees.

Labor Dept. Official Represented Steel Co. in Court While on Job  —  A Labor Department official continued to represent a business in a private lawsuit against a worker union after joining the Trump administration, raising concerns about whether he used the power of his office for leverage, Bloomberg Law has learned.

Disclosing Subpoena for Testimony, Chelsea Manning Vows to Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted in 2013 of leaking archives of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, revealed in an interview on Thursday that she had been subpoenaed …

An 11-year-old pleaded for an abortion after she was raped.  She was forced to give birth.  —  An 11-year-old rape victim gave birth in Argentina on Tuesday after she was apparently denied an abortion by authorities, infuriating women's rights advocates in the country who have fought to legalize the procedure.

‘They Created an Underground’: Inside the Chaotic Early Days of Trump's Foreign Policy  —  The day after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, White House national security adviser Susan Rice gathered her staff for a pep talk.  —  About a third of the room was crying.