In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments  —  During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he “love[s]” the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape

Scoop: Trump lied to RNC donors about “Tim Apple” video  —  Republican donors in attendance called it one of Trump's weirdest lies ever.  On Friday night, under a tent erected over the pool at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, President Trump claimed the media were spreading “fake news” …

Footage Contradicts U.S. Claim That Maduro Burned Aid Convoy  —  CÚCUTA, Colombia — The narrative seemed to fit Venezuela's authoritarian rule: Security forces, on the order of President Nicolás Maduro, had torched a convoy of humanitarian aid as millions in his country were suffering from illness and hunger.

Exclusive: In budget, Trump to ask Congress for $8.6 billion for border wall  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday will ask the U.S. Congress for an additional $8.6 billion to help pay for his promised wall on the U.S-Mexico border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking …

A mysterious payment to Paul Manafort's lawyer reveals a hidden chapter of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign  — Recent court filings are shedding new light on a mysterious $125,000 payment to lawyers for Paul Manafort, paid by a firm that has not been identified until now.

Katrina Pierson Responds to WH Diversity Question By Asking How Many Black Staffers Abraham Lincoln Had  —  When MSNBC host Al Sharpton confronted Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson about the lack of black staffers in Trump's West Wing, Pierson offered a jaw-dropping excuse …

Ocasio-Cortez, at SXSW, blasts FDR, Reagan and capitalism, says political moderates are ‘meh’  —  U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed political moderates at the South by Southwest Conference & Festivals in Austin, Texas, calling their views “misplaced” as she defended her progressive politics in a room full of supporters.

Trump tells RNC donors: “The Democrats hate Jewish people”  —  So leakers had to rely on their memories.  Trump entered to Lee Greenwood's “Proud to Be an American,” then launched into one of his trademark stream-of-consciousness speeches, according to three people who were there.

U.S. Airstrikes Kill Hundreds in Somalia as Shadowy Conflict Ramps Up  —  WASHINGTON — The American military has escalated a battle against the Shabab, an extremist group affiliated with Al Qaeda, in Somalia even as President Trump seeks to scale back operations against similar Islamist insurgencies elsewhere …

Yes, Trump is target of ‘presidential harassment’  —  President Trump often complains that he is the victim of “presidential harassment” — or, as he sometimes puts it, “PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!”  —  “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at the highest level in the history of our Country,” Trump tweeted on March 3.

Justin Amash is the loneliest Republican in Congress  —  Washington (CNN)For most Republicans, life in the House minority is a big change.  But for Rep. Justin Amash, in a sense, it's more of the same.  —  “It's just a different set of people doing the wrong thing,” the Michigan Republican said in an interview with CNN.

The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups  —  Li Yang, the Florida massage parlor entrepreneur who created and operated a business that sold Chinese business executives access to President Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, has yet another intriguing line of work.

Dark Money Org Gave $2 Million To Group Working With Fusion GPS, Steele  — A dark money group based in California contributed $2 million to The Democracy Integrity Project, the organization that has contracted with Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele to investigate President Donald Trump.

In Minnesota, Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments cause pain and confusion  —  In Minnesota's Twin Cities, Jews and Somali immigrants have been partners for decades.  —  When Somali refugees arrived in Minnesota starting in 1993, Jewish leaders saw echoes of their forebears who faced virulent anti-Semitism …

Fox shifting from partisanship to propaganda?  —  Jane Mayer, the author of The New Yorker's detailed look at Fox News, tells Brian Stelter that the relationship between Fox and President Trump is “incestuous.”  She also says Trump needs Fox as much as it needs him.  —  Source: CNN

Trump's massive reelection campaign has 2016 themes — and a 2020 infrastructure  —  President Trump and his advisers are launching a behemoth 2020 campaign operation combining his raw populist message from 2016 with a massive data-gathering and get-out-the-vote push aimed at dwarfing …

GOP meddles in Democratic nomination with takedown of O'Rourke  —  A prominent conservative group is thrusting itself into the Democratic primary with a TV ad assailing Beto O'Rourke — a move that comes as Republicans consider a broader campaign to meddle in the opposing party's contest to take on President Donald Trump.

Schiff says it's a ‘mistake’ for Mueller not to interview Trump  —  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was making a “mistake” by not demanding that President Trump testify as part of his investigation, which by many accounts may soon be nearing its end.

Scoop: White House crafting series of executive orders on bipartisan issues  —  Senior Trump administration officials are crafting a plan ahead of the president's re-election bid that sounds like a blend of Bill Clinton's “triangulation” and Barack Obama's “pen and a phone.”

Trump Pushes Team to Stick Up for ‘Brave’ Paul Manafort  —  Manafort is facing a tough judge, and a possible ten-year sentence.  But his perils have produced one potential advantage: the increasing sympathies of the man who could pardon him.  —  Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign chairman …

‘Blood up to your knees’: defeated IS jihadists still defiant  —  Near Baghouz (Syria) (AFP) - Defeated but unrepentant, some jihadists limping out of their besieged final bastion in eastern Syria still praise the Islamic State and promise bloody vengeance against its enemies.