‘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.

U.S. to end large-scale military drills with South Korea  —  The move is part of the Trump administration's effort to ease tensions with North Korea, U.S. officials said.  —  The U.S. military is preparing to announce that annual large-scale joint exercises conducted with South Korea every spring …

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 …

Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen  —  The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills.  —  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.

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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.  Everyone was in shock.

Time for Netanyahu to Go  —  Israel's prime minister increasingly resembles America's 37th president.  —  When the final chapter on Benjamin Netanyahu's political life is written — and it may be a long time from now — he is likely to go down as the Richard Nixon of Israel: politically cunning, strategically canny, toxically flawed.

CPAC 2019: Turning Point USA's Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens Are the New King and Queen of the GOP Ball  —  In years past, Breitbart and Fox News dominated the annual conservative confab.  But this year, a notoriously far-right student organization runs the show.

Bernie Sanders hires illegal immigrant to be press secretary  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders' new deputy national press secretary likely won't be eligible to vote in the 2020 election due to what she says is her status as an undocumented immigrant.  —  The hiring of Belen Sisa, an Arizona leftist activist, was announced Wednesday evening.

How a HUD official turned the Michael Cohen hearing into a reality TV audition  —  Her cameo appearance at the Michael Cohen hearing — a bit of stagecraft intended to dispel accusations of racism against President Trump — provoked an instant backlash from black politicians and the public.

Case Not Closed  —  Even if Mueller's report is a dud, Washington will freak out ANDREW MCCARTHY  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's final report is said to be close to completion and ready for submission to the Justice Department.  —  There is even conjecture that it is already finished …

Why the Mueller Report Might Disappoint Almost Everybody  —  After endless hype, special counsel Robert Mueller may be about to submit his report.  It is impossible to know what his conclusions will be.  But after so much speculation, one outcome seems likely: Mueller will disappoint just about everyone …

More than 1,000 TSA employees still owed back pay from shutdown  —  TSA employees still owed back pay 1 month after shutdown  —  Washington (CNN)More than a month after the longest government shutdown in US history ended, a significant number of Transportation Security Administration employees still …

New York City Experienced Worst Decline in Restaurant Jobs since 9/11 After $15 Minimum Wage Win  —  The Big Apple's fast-food industry, The New York Times recently reported, has long served as a laboratory for progressive politicians and the nation's labor machine.

Space Force will not be the military branch that repels an alien invasion, officials say  —  Listen up conspiracy theorists, schizophrenics, and other beloved readers: Some of you out there might have been wondering if Space Force will fight aliens.  —  Yet only a fool would pose such a question to senior defense officials.

Democrats' anti-Trump tax cut talking point just collapsed — tax refunds are up this year  —  Tax refunds are not actually a useful metric for evaluating tax burden.  But Democrats used preliminary IRS data to mislead about Trump's tax cut law.  —  CONNECT

Michael Cohen was supposed to provide ‘bombshell’ testimony.  It didn't explode.  —  Michael Cohen was supposed to provide “bombshell” testimony against President Trump.  Well, the bombshell didn't explode.  —  Not long ago, many were speculating that Cohen might have recorded conversations …

Ilhan Omar says she does not recognize Venezuelan interim president, defying Dem leadership, Western governments  —  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is under fire for previously attending a travel delegation sponsored by ‘Witness for Peace’  —  Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar said she does …

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 …