Sen. Paul vows to vote against giving Trump ‘extra-Constitutional’ power  —  The Republican Party cheerleading session that is the Southern Kentucky Lincoln Day Dinner veered slightly off course Saturday with this pronouncement by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Bowling Green: “I can't vote to give extra-Constitutional powers to the president.”

NBC News/WSJ poll: 2020 race will be uphill for Trump, but he has strong party loyalty  —  NBC News/WSJ poll finds President Trump facing headwinds on Russia investigation and border wall but bolstered by strong GOP support and a good economy.  —  WASHINGTON — A year and a half …

To Woo a Skeptical Trump, Intelligence Chiefs Talk Economics Instead of Spies  —  Intelligence officials who brief the president have warned him about Chinese espionage in bottom-line business terms.  They have used Black Sea shipping figures to demonstrate the effect of Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

Two sides of the globe, one painful lesson: Trump is debasing America  —  No matter how low your opinion may be of President Trump, he'll always find a way to lower it.  On Wednesday, he outdid himself, breaking even the laws of physics by reaching new depths in two places at once.

Over 60 Trump-related documents to be requested from WH: House Judiciary Chair  —  Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., is interviewed on “This Week.”  —  1h ago

At Gridiron dinner, Ivanka tries laughs: 'As if being Donald Trump's daughter isn't the hardest job in the world'  —  There were several crucial questions surrounding Saturday night's Gridiron dinner, that exclusive, annual white-tie gathering hosted by a club made up of Washington's most elite journalists …

CPAC Threatened to Ban Mediaite After Seb Gorka Complaint: ‘The F*cking Thinnest of F*cking Ice’  —  Conservative Political Action Conference organizers threatened to ban every Mediaite reporter after a private complaint from ex-White House official Seb Gorka, who was caught on video shoving …

A BuzzFeed Reporter Explains His Controversial Reporting on Michael Cohen and Donald Trump  —  In January, BuzzFeed published perhaps the clearest accusation against President Trump in all of the reporting about the Russia investigation.  Under the headline “President Trump Instructed …

John Bolton: 'We're not afraid to use the word Monroe Doctrine'  —  John Bolton, the U.S. national security adviser, says the Trump administration is returning to the foreign policy principle of the Monroe Doctrine.  —  Pressed on why he has chosen to pressure Venezuela under Nicolas Maduro …

Socialist Bernie Sanders is Trump's dream Democrat  —  In a single sentence in his CPAC speech on Saturday, President Trump laid out the entire 2020 campaign.  Trump couldn't have made his message more clear if he'd stood on stage and literally hugged the American flag.

Trump Just Might Have Won the 2020 Election Today  —  It's way too early to be thinking this, much less saying it, but what the hell: If Donald Trump is able to deliver the sort of performance he gave today at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual meeting …

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema breaks 13 hours, sets personal record at Ironman New Zealand  —  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema set a personal record for an Ironman race on Saturday, breaking 13 hours at Ironman New Zealand.  —  Sinema, 42, finished in 12 hours, 59 minutes, 57 seconds …

‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border  —  MCALLEN, Tex. — It was dark in the stash house where they kept her, the windows covered so no one could see inside.  At first, the smugglers had her cook for the other migrants who had recently crossed illegally into the United States.

A Bulwark of Liberal Clichés  —  In keeping with the annual custom, a progressive journalist attended this year's Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington, D.C., with the sole purpose of mocking the event.  —  The self-admitted liberal posted an ongoing Twitter screed …

Smirking media bias against GOP couldn't be clearer  —  Have you ever noticed how differently Republicans are treated in the media than Democrats?  —  Every newsroom in the country used to have what was called the “AP Stylebook” to use in writing news stories.

Andrew Cuomo's Case for 2020—No, Really  —  NEW YORK—Here's how Andrew Cuomo ends our first interview at the beginning of January, sitting in a chair in his office, after eating cookie No. 4 from the tray his staff prepared.  I put a simple question to him: “Would you like to be president?”

Texas GOP races to shore up the suburbs for 2020  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Republicans barely escaped a colossal defeat last year.  Now the party is scrambling to avoid a repeat in 2020.  —  Facing a rapidly changing voter base, anti-Trump fervor and a more motivated Democratic Party …